Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

Physical distancing and sheltering-in-place at home are becoming norms in our pandemic life-flows. We’ve seen the advent of drive-through and drive-up weddings , wakes , and high school graduation rites. And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. Postal Service, there’s always the automobile — which, in the U.S., is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gatherin

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 7, 2020

New Guidance for Secure Telehealth With the uptick in the use of telehealth, the National Security Agency (NSA) released new guidance for secure telehealth use. The guidance is meant to mitigate the risk associated with using home computers and smartphones … Read more. The post Secure Telehealth appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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InTouch Health

MAY 7, 2020

Our Recent Partnership with Sharp Healthcare Shows the Benefits of Specialty Telehealth. Many patients in the United States do not have access to specialty healthcare. When someone is referred to a specialty provider, they may not have the ability to visit the provider in person. Additionally, the patient’s primary care provider may have trouble sharing information with the specialty provider, which can delay access to care and worsen patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. It is being updated regularly with more vendors. In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. Both health and economic concerns plague consumers around the world as people “strive to adapt to a new normal,” Accenture reports. “Fear is running high as individuals contemplate what this crisis means for them…for their families and friends,

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Digital Health

MAY 4, 2020

For 20 years, advocates of telemedicine have been trying to break through to common usage. For all of modern human history, those with mental health challenges have held back from seeking treatment due to the stigma associated with doing so. And then, a Chinese bat opened the flood gates. Today we are seeing record usage […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. Some see that trend continuing even after the pandemic has eventually subsided. According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a stagge

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2020

One in 10 people in the U.S. were defined as food-insecure without consistent access to nutritious food options in 2019. The COVID pandemic has quickly and negatively impacted food insecurity in America, detailed in an assessment from NIHCM on the current state of food insecurity in America. As many as 4 in 10 U.S. households reported being food-insecure as of April 2020.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2020

The continuous remote monitor can help prevent complications driven by experimental COVID-19 treatments such as hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, according to the agency.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2020

Health systems across the country rapidly stood up virtual care programs to monitor COVID-19 patients from home and it provided to be a crucial tool during the pandemic. As the country begins to emerge from the health crisis, virtual tools have become a way of life for patients and providers, health technology experts say.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Today, 7th May 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that about 3.17 million jobs were lost in the nation in the last week. This calculated to an unemployment rate of 15.5%, an increase of 3.1% points from the previous week. Total jobs lost in the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from the utterance of the “P” word, has been in the I.S.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2020

The study enrolled 420,000, but many participants with suspected atrial fibrillation failed to follow up with a study doctor.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

While hospitals around the country are carefully moving forward opening up business such as offering elective surgeries again, don't expect them to get back to pre-COVID-19 volumes anytime soon, experts said during a recent FierceHealthcare Coronavirus Virtual Series.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2020

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GlobalMed

MAY 5, 2020

While many of us are sheltering in place to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a massive mental health pandemic is also brewing. Fears about COVID-19, the economic meltdown, and prolonged social-isolation are all taking a toll on mental health. Above all else, Americans say their mental health is suffering more than their physical and financial health due to COVID-19.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2020

The scale of healthcare misinformation is a source of frustration - Healthinote seeks to counter the threat with a verified and up-to-date information resource.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2020

As the country begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, what will the “new normal” look like? Health insurance industry experts say to expect a continued focus on telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients start to cancel appointments as they were nervous about coming in. THE PROBLEM. This became a growing concern, especially for patients with chronic illnesses such as hypertension and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

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CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In the last few months we have witnessed an unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of telehealth. To keep providers and patients safe, hospitals are shedding their initial he sitation to adopt virtual care , and are using video consultations for everything from routine visits to vir

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Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2020

As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from Health EIT, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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

MAY 7, 2020

CMS finalized a slew of regulatory changes for the ACA plans, including allowing insurers to not count copay assistance from drug companies to out-of-pocket cost sharing and deductibles.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2020

COVID-19 has affected not just hospitals and acute services treating infected patients, but the entire Italian healthcare system. In the recent HIMSS webinar ‘Italian non-acute facilities facing COVID-19 emergency,’ chair Nevio Boscariol, head of finance, services and management at ARIS, opened up the discussion to those in rehabilitative and residential care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2020

We wrote previously about how COVID-19 has shifted the Value Equation for Telehealth. Doctors previously didn’t value Telehealth since it was the same work (or slightly more) for possibly less reimbursement. Now doctors value social distancing (or at least they have no real choice but to social distance) and that revamped the value of telehealth. […].

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Mobi Health News

MAY 7, 2020

The Nigerian startup offers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions, including electronic medical records and telemedicine, as well as administration and financial management.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 5, 2020

Cybersecurity authorities in the U.S. and U.K. are warning that nation-state hackers are after intellectual property and medical research related to COVID-19 treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Moving away from one-way information flow from doctor to patient Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2020

My how the world has changed. It’s been amazing to watch and see how telehealth has been accepted by clinicians and patients thanks to COVID-19. As I outlined in that article, COVID-19 together with social distancing has changed the value equation for clinicians. The value of social distance along with the legal requirements in many […].

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