Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

In February, a ferocious winter storm gripped the southern United States. Millions of people lost power and water, with some areas still struggling weeks later. At hospitals, workers spent the night to avoid being stranded , scrambling to care for patients in dire conditions. For people who already have trouble accessing healthcare services – due to geography, socioeconomic factors, transportation difficulties or other hurdles – a weather crisis like the freeze can spell disaster.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. Those themes are, The Year of the Pharmacist.

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KevinMD

MARCH 21, 2021

Before COVID-19, clinical research was a little-known part of health care. Despite this process being responsible for determining the safety and efficacy of all the drugs, medical devices, vaccines, and other medical therapies available, less than 5 percent of the U.S. population actually participates in clinical research. One reason why clinical research has little awareness […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2021

Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Nest can be used to monitor heart rhythms without physical contact as effectively as an electrocardiogram, according to research from the University of Washington published in Communications Biology.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 23, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sandeep Pulim, MD, chief medical officer, Bluesteam Health. Telehealth, telemedicine, and virtual care are often used interchangeably to describe remote healthcare visits. But virtual care means something much more than just telehealth or telemedicine. […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2021

After months of rumor, Amazon confirmed Wednesday that it would be expanding its Amazon Care app-based services to its employees across the United States this summer. The announcement also said that Amazon Care would be available this week to serve other companies based in Washington. Finally, Amazon Care's in-person service will expand to Washington, Baltimore and other cities in the coming months, according to the company.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. “With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S., Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2021

Healthcare AI adoption has been growing rapidly, and to date seems to have been producing worthwhile results most of the time. However, a new survey suggests that at least some healthcare leaders are a bit uncomfortable with the speed at which healthcare AI is being put in place, even if they still believe it can […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 16, 2021

The technology by Singaporean company, Breathonix can reportedly produce results within 60 seconds by detecting Volatile Organic Compounds [VOCs] in a patient’s exhaled breath. .

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HAY on FHIR

MARCH 25, 2021

In New Zealand (and other places as well I expect) we’ve had a national registry for immunizations for a number of years – the National Immunization Register or NIR. It’s currently fed by HL7 version 2 messages and there’s a User Interface for authorized users, but there was always a plan to introduce a FHIR interface to some point – something that has been accelerated by the current COVID pandemic of course.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 16, 2021

Hearing aids and music -- why is this so difficult to solve for the elderly? The pandemic isolated everyone, but it may have been even worse for the hearing-impaired. Consider the oldest -- they are aged 85 or 86, love music, enjoy getting together with others in restaurants. The man loses one of the uninsured hearing aids and has to switch to backups that emit whistles or screeches , one that also cannot hear accurate sounds from a grand piano.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. But some big questions still need ironing out, as regulations and reimbursement mechanisms are in major flux.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2021

Healthcare is full of acronyms and jargon. IT is the same. Mix them together and you have a mess that is not unlike what you get with a 2-year-old in the same room as wooden alphabet blocks. On top of this alphabet soup are the technology myths that persist – like what really causes EHR […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 5, 2021

Deprexis, an app used to help mental health, is the 11th app to be approved for medical prescription and reimbursement in Germany so far via DiGA, and MobiHealthNews learns more about the process from Julia Hagen, Health Innovation Hub.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 16, 2021

Doctor On Demand, Grand Rounds combine to form multibillion-dollar digital health company. hlandi. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 09:31.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2021

I proposed an agile approach to improving Healthcare Information Exchange. Why should we keep the current? I covered this mostly with simply "that it is functioning", but did not enumerate why this is such a big deal. Many will say that http RESTful is functioning on a global basis with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wiki, and Blogs. This is true, but these are all monolithic servers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

A new advocacy group called Moving Health Home launched on Wednesday, bringing together some heavy hitters – major health systems, care delivery services and technology vendors – who say they want to effect a shift in thinking about treating patients at home, and want to adjust reimbursement models accordingly. WHY IT MATTERS. Founding members of this coalition include Amazon Care, Ascension, Dispatch Health, Elara Caring, Intermountain Healthcare, Home Instead, Landmark Health and S

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S. have had to deal with over twelve months of quarantine and lockdown, going to school remotely from home, and distancing from friends. For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2021

The following is a guest article by Dr. Tom Hale, Chief Medical Officer, VirtuSense Technologies. There is little controversy that the cost of healthcare remains on an unsustainable trajectory. Presently there are two alternatives to this fee for service (FFS) driven economic Armageddon—significant price regulation or a shift in payment economics to value based care […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 18, 2021

As of last July, developers of digital health apps (DiGA) in Germany could no longer host sensitive personal data on American cloud servers. Dr Philipp Kircher from the Health Innovation Hub reveals what cloud providers have to say about it. .

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Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 10, 2021

Hackers reportedly breach hospital surveillance cameras, exposing the security risks of connected devices. hlandi. Wed, 03/10/2021 - 15:35.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telehealth is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Yet for some clinicians, telehealth is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started and become a telehealth provider.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

You've probably heard this one before: A major contributor to the telehealth explosion over the last year has been the decision to waive various restrictions on virtual care. But the future of those regulations remains murky – and with it, the continued widespread availability of telehealth. "It's unclear when those waivers will go away, and it's unclear what will be permanent and what won't be," said Heather Alleva, leading health systems and hospitals attorney a

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

Springtime is finally emerging on the east coast of the U.S. and my local CSA farm is on my mind. It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2021

There is a long held IT myth that adults 75 years and older are not capable of or don’t want to use the latest technology. Renown Health shattered that myth when they rolled out Epic’s MyChart for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. It turns out with proper planning and support; older adults are more than capable of […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 8, 2021

Providers will be able to have in-app live video conversations with chronic pain and movement disorder patients, as well as prescribe new settings for their neuromodulation therapies from afar.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

Industry Voices—Direct contracting with providers: An opportunity for forward-thinking employers. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 11:49.

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