Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Digital health companies garnered $5.4 billion in the first half of the year, record-setting according to Rock Health. Underneath this number were very big deals, shown by the size of the blue bubbles in the first graphic from the report.

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JULY 5, 2020

Telehealth Reform: US Congress Heeds Public Outcry Telehealth reform has advanced on two fronts this week. In response to public demand, representatives of the senate and house are concurrently introducing bipartisan legislation to support the permanent expansion of telehealth. TREATS … Read more. The post Telehealth Reform: US Congress Heeds Public Outcry appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 6, 2020

Digital health applications are starting to make their way into regular healthcare provision. But how should they be regulated? Digital health technology assessments (HTA) are increasingly recognised as an important pillar on the way towards universal reimbursement as detailed in the latest issue of HIMSS Insights, COVID-19 and Beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. The new telehealth-eligible eCQMs are for any eligible professionals or eligible clinicians participating in CMS quality reporting programs for performance period 2020, including the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models, Comprehensive Primar

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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2020

The co-packaged product, which will be launched in Europe this year, combines Propeller's sensor tech and Novartis' new medication.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 10, 2020

Hospitals struggle with PPE shortages amid new COVID-19 surges. rking. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 12:01.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2020

End-of-life care can be challenging even in the most ideal circumstances, given our frequent societal reluctance to discuss medical plans around dying and death. But the coronavirus pandemic means it's more important than ever to communicate with patients and families honestly about what to expect – particularly given that social-distancing protocols may mean these conversations are not happening in person.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 8, 2020

CVS Pharmacy has announced Spoken Rx, a new feature to its app that can read a specific prescription label out loud for patients with visual impairments or who cannot read standard print labels. CVS plans to add RFID labels to its prescriptions at 1,500 pharmacy locations by the end of 2020. These smart labels can be scanned by the Spoken Rx feature in the app and then read out loud in either English or Spanish.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S., health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 9, 2020

Biden-Sanders task force health platform pushes for public option, a free COVID-19 vaccine. pminemyer. Thu, 07/09/2020 - 11:44.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. THE PROBLEM. But the health system needed to rapidly ramp up ambulatory support to address challenges brought on by the COVID-19 health crisis. It immediately recognized a need for virtual employee-health-screening to clear staff for work each day and minimize spread of the coronavirus.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 9, 2020

AliveCor released today KardiaCare, a digital subscription service for managing heart health at home. The service offers a suite of features that helps users interpret their heart data, monitor risk factors, identify symptom triggers and measure the impact of lifestyle changes. It will expand upon the features already provided with the company’s other ECG products, KardiaMobile and KardiaMobile 6L.

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Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. But wait — there’s more, asserts the Lown Institute in their approach to ranking America’s Best Hospitals in 2020. The Institute’s methodology for assessing what’s “best” addresses ten pillars. Several of these are the “stick-to-the-knitting” components of the Webster Dictionary definition of hospital work: patient outcomes, clinical outcomes, avoiding ove

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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

JULY 10, 2020

Allscripts, Microsoft strike 5-year cloud partnership to enhance EHR software. hlandi. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 17:57.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2020

One of the greatest challenges facing the military health system is finding consistent, effective ways to communicate a warfighter’s health information as he or she moves from point-of-injury to a military treatment facility (MTF). Erik Buice, Vice President of Civil and Health at Northrop Grumman Corporation, said many MTFs operate with older, legacy systems in a “low-to-no” communications environment.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2020

RapidAI, a health tech company specializing in stroke imaging, has received clearance from the FDA for its Rapid ASPECTS neuroimaging analysis device. The product was designed to improve physicians’ interpretations of Non-Contrast CT (NCCT) scans using the automated ASPECT score, according to the company. It uses the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Scoring (ASPECTS) and machine learning to come up with an ASPECTS score for certain regions of the brain that have early signs of brain infarction.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2020

Understatement of the Day: COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare. Turns out that this is a reality regardless of whether your healthcare organization has been hit by an influx of COVID-19 patients or not. The overwhelming feeling applies regardless of where you work in healthcare as well. I don’t know of any healthcare department that hasn’t had […].

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 8, 2020

VA inks 10-year, $100M deal with Philips for remote critical care services. hlandi. Wed, 07/08/2020 - 16:37.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that businesses and universities with religious or moral objections to providing employees with insurance coverage for contraception can deny that coverage. In their dissent, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the judgment means between 70,500 and 126,400 women will lose access to no-cost birth control.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 10, 2020

SJF Ventures' Stephanie Nieman gives a breakdown of the growing list of digital mental health tools available to this populations, and the various ways to deploy them.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/10 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Colin Hung (@colin_hung) on the topic of “Blending Marketing and Health IT Solutions“. Most healthcare IT solutions use a variety of techniques to accomplish their goals. […].

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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is transforming healthcare by enabling providers to track patient health outside traditional clinical settings. This blog explores the role of technology in RPM, including wearable devices, mobile apps, and connected medical tools that collect and share real-time data. Discover how RPM expands care access, improves outcomes, enhances patient engagement, and reduces costs by shifting from reactive to proactive care.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 10, 2020

CVS rolls out 'talking' prescription labels for visually impaired patients. hlandi. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 11:01.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2020

The success of any military mission — be it conducted by the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines – relies upon “readiness.” The United States Department of Defense (DoD) defines readiness as “the ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.” 1 The Armed Forces maintain such readiness with the combination of training, maintenance, and vital communication streams between the different branches and supporting entities.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 10, 2020

Although most deals are undisclosed and some are partial asset acquisitions, the numbers undeniably show a busy year for the space.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2020

The following is a guest article by Dikla Ranen Co-founder and COO from Odoro. Can we learn anything about running medical practices, and taking great care of our patients, from the biology of the coronavirus? The answer is yes. The coronavirus is a targeting machine, deviously brilliant in the way it attacks high-risk populations by […].

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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

JULY 7, 2020

Verma: COVID-19 proving the need for greater interoperability. pminemyer. Tue, 07/07/2020 - 13:33.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2020

Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts, has used NextGen as its electronic health records system for several years, and had to quickly pivot to telemedicine appointments when it became apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic would not allow for in-person appointments. THE PROBLEM. The health center did not have a telehealth platform or workflow in place since it had not been providing telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 9, 2020

Providers can tap into the tool for resources and collaboration.

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