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For telehealth, a hybrid future mixed with in-person care – and mobile devices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth levels peaked during the pandemic, for well-established reasons. While visits have been declining from the peak, virtual care experts predict the future will hold a mix of digital and in-person healthcare. Moving forward, mobile devices can help facilitate this hybrid telehealth world. When healthcare facilities struck down on visiting hours, providers found unique ways to adapt.

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How To Spot The Right Digital Healthcare Solutions For Your Health System

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Maggie Peña, vice president of client services, Interlace Health. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted and changed the world in countless ways, including forever altering the world of healthcare. Of these changes, one of the biggest was […]. The article How To Spot The Right Digital Healthcare Solutions For Your Health System appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Create More Business Value in Healthcare with Platformed ERP Systems

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Matthew Wilson, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Strategy at Infor. Every health system across the globe strives to consistently deliver great treatment outcomes. In pursuit of that mission, many have upgraded their clinical operations with expansive surgical suites, state-of-the-art medical devices and orchestrated treatments with advanced electronic health […].

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

In the U.S., patients have assumed the role of health care payors with growing co-payments, coinsurance amounts, and deductibles pushing peoples’ out-of-pocket costs up. This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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CB Insights report: Global telehealth investment is still on the rise

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share. The State Of Telehealth report found that much of the growth was pushed by accelerating digital transformation initiatives, as well as patient experience prioritization.

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The Outsized Impact of Digital Engagement On Patient Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Noel Felipe, revenue cycle practice leader, Firstsource. The pandemic has created a sense of urgency around improving patient engagement. Consumers accustomed to Amazon-like retail experiences are now embracing digital across personal transactions, including healthcare. […].

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Abbott receives FDA clearance for AI-powered heart imaging software

Mobi Health News

Abbott has received clearance from the FDA for its imaging software that uses artificial intelligence to provide doctors a better view of blood flow and blockages in heart vessels.

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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital fireside chat, two experts will explore tele-behavioral health's long-term potential – and how it can meet existing challenges in the industry today.

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Social Determinants of Health Shouldn’t Dictate Health Outcomes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Nikia Bergan, president, GetWellNetwork. Across the United States, persistent and growing gaps in care are driving health disparities and presenting barriers to improving overall health and health outcomes. Many health disparities stem from inherent […].

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Office of the Future and the Future of Work in Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

As we figure out what the new workplace is going to look like, today we got news that Amazon is delaying its return to the office until 2022. A number of other large tech companies have commented that they’ll likely never return to the office like they were prior to COVID. The world has changed […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Study finds Pear’s reSET-O could lower costs of treating opioid use disorder

Mobi Health News

Researchers found patients who used reSET-O along with buprenorphine and counseling lowered their healthcare costs by $2,385 per person in the six months after they started using the app, compared with the six months before.

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Asynchronous telehealth system saves Presbyterian Healthcare time and money

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Presbyterian Healthcare Services serves one third of New Mexico's residents with nine hospitals, a medical group and a health plan. THE PROBLEM. More than five years ago, the health system was facing a shortage of providers in New Mexico, widening gaps in access for primary care for patients – many of whom live in rural areas and have limited financial resources.

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Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sean Hopwood, CEO, Day Interpreting. Scheduling an appointment with your doctor is usually the first thing you do when you’re feeling a little under the weather or have some questions about your health. But […]. The article Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Epic Announces New EpicShare Site

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into the HIMSS21 Annual Conference next week, the news is already starting to come out. Healthcare IT News shared that Epic would be rolling out a new site EpicShare at HIMSS21. Well, the EpicShare site is now live and available for people to peruse. EpicShare is being billed as “a place for […].

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Doctors may be able to send patients Zoom link in the future

Mobi Health News

Zoom’s mobile browser client would allow patients to simply click a link sent from their providers to join a telehealth appointment, nixing the need to download an app.

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HIMSSCast: The future of telehealth reimbursement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Limitations and uncertainty around telehealth reimbursement have always been an impediment to adoption. During the COVID-19 emergency, that burden was eased somewhat, but now the new normal is starting to take shape. What barriers still remain to telehealth reimbursement, and how might they be overcome? To answer that question, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome McKinsey & Company partners Oleg Bestsennyy and Gunjan Khanna.

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9 Reasons Why Social Workers Are Essential For A Thriving Community

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. All humans need some extra support sometimes in their lives, whether it’s someone suffering from a physical ailment or having emotional problems. No person is an island. But, who are these people who dedicate their […]. The article 9 Reasons Why Social Workers Are Essential For A Thriving Community appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Insurance in Aisle 3: Why a Grocery Chain is Working on Medicare

Health Populi

“You can trust us to help you find the right Medicare coverage for you and your lifestyle,” the tagline reads. What kind of organization would be behind this campaign: a healthcare navigator company, an insurance company, or a social services agency? In fact, it’s a grocery store called Hy-Vee, which launched the “Medicare Aisle” to help consumers living in the eight states in which the chain’s 240+ stores operate to sort through the daunting labyrinth of Medi

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Contributed: How tech-driven tools can change senior care

Mobi Health News

Public feedback reveals innovations and market opportunities for improved chronic disease care management in the older adult patient population.

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The 'giant sucking sound' of digital health consolidation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Paddy Padmanabhan Ross Perot may have popularized the term during his unsuccessful presidential bid in the nineties as a reference to the adverse effects of NAFTA on American jobs, but " giant sucking sound " may be an apt metaphor today for the rapid consolidation of digital healt

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How To Improve The Healthcare Patient Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeremy Dadzie, digital health strategist, Anexinet. The healthcare industry has one of the worst reputations when it comes to customer experience. A recent Salesforce study revealed that nearly half of consumers are unhappy with […]. The article How To Improve The Healthcare Patient Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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TEFCA and Widely Used Healthcare Interoperability Standards

Healthcare IT Today

Claudia Williams, Former Senior Advisor to the White House CTO and current CEO of Manifest MedEx, recently commented about one of the ideas she took from the TEFCA webinar and strong reliance on the IHE spefications: In the TEFCA webinar… what are the pluses/minuses of such a strong reliance on IHE specifications? Let me just […].

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish.

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Intermountain expands reach, broadens offerings of hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Intermountain Healthcare announced this week that it is expanding the scope and services of its hospital at home program, more than a year since it was first launched in May 2020. WHY IT MATTERS. The initiative now serves patients at 12 hospitals across Utah, with new locations soon to come. Remote care clinicians have also broadened the treatments they offer, to include COVID-19 and other acute and chronic conditions, according to officials at the Salt Lake City-based health system.

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How To Improve Leadership Skills As A Nurse

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. During the coronavirus pandemic, nurses all over the world emerged as frontline soldiers to combat this disease. But the onslaught of COVID-19 soon made everyone realize that merely having clinical skills was not enough for […]. The article How To Improve Leadership Skills As A Nurse appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Wearables could unlock secrets to understanding circadian rhythms

Mobi Health News

The researchers created a statistical method that extracts a person's circadian rhythm based on heart rate data provided by their smartwatch.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Power of Peers: Creating Belief

Healthcare IT Today

I sat in awe listening to how an individual with multiple health conditions and schizophrenia had gone from being a frequent ER visitor who would then be admitted due to his mental health condition down to almost no (as in zero) ER visits. What was the amazing intervention, process, or treatment that made such a […].

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Thailand closely monitors COVID-19 patients via telemedicine platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. Government agencies involved in its creation include the Digital Government Development Agency, the National Science and Technology Development Agency, the National Health Security Office, the Bangkok Health Bureau, and the state-owned National Telecommunications Company.

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U.S. ranks last among 10 other countries in new study on healthcare systems

Fierce Healthcare

U.S. ranks last among 10 other countries in new study on healthcare systems. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 08/04/2021 - 10:27.

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Dubai’s GluCare first outside of US to secure URAC RPM accreditation

Mobi Health News

Earlier this year, the specialist diabetes centre released its first report that indicated that patients using its Remote Patient Monitoring plan achieved an average HbA1c reduction of 1.7% points over 90 days.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.