Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In times of uncertainty it is essential that individuals, especially those in the healthcare and health policy space, recognize the disparities that exist and focus on what can be done to address them. The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are the conditions and the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, that affect a wide range of health risk and outcomes, as well as overall quality-of-life.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Southwestern Health Resources in Dallas, Texas, is a clinically integrated network with 5,500 community providers and more than 700,000 covered lives in North Texas. As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. THE PROBLEM. When the pandemic began, Southwestern was very concerned about its most at-risk members.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned many side-effects re-shaping consumers’ everyday lives. Among them, more time at home, DIY life-flows, and financial well-being are driving growth of self-care health care. An article in the latest Drug Store News talks about consumers growing more health-conscious, adopting natural, homeopathic products. “It’s about more than washing your hands,” David Salazar explains. “Fending off illness has become a state of mind for many co

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

If you're not intricately involved daily with SEO, let me explain what happened in May 2020 and why it will be a huge boost for content created by physicians. First, what is SEO? In short, it is the process of optimizing content found online in order to help it be seen by those searching for […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Although still a work in progress, the new center will reportedly help coordinate digital health projects within the agency while providing expertise to external stakeholders.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the importance of connectivity, WiFi, broadband, as a social determinant of health and living. Connecting from our homes — now our health hubs, workplaces, schools, entertainment centers, and gyms — is necessary like air and water for survival across daily life flows. Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kelly Conklin, chief clinical officer, PerfectServe. I promised myself that I wouldn’t start this post by talking about the “unprecedented times” brought on by COVID-19, and I wanted to avoid using the words “new […]. The article Connecting Throughout the Patient Journey appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Prior to her panel at the Accelerate Health digital series, Pam Hoffman shares how her team at Yale New Haven integrated telehealth into its care offerings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will be generally available on October 30, the software behemoth announced this week. The platform will include managed services designed to support healthcare organizations, such as self-service portals and applications, data analytics and care collaboration tools, clinician collaboration software, and other capabilities.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Pete Bekas, director of product consulting, MedeAnalytics. COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on our nation’s health system. In hard-hit cities like New York and Chicago, we watched makeshift hospitals open, military hospital ships […].

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

At Rock Health's annual summit, a group of panelists discusses the importance of using inclusive language in digital health companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting. THE PROBLEM. Prior to the pandemic, Ellis Medicine was conducting telehealth only informally by telephone visits.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

People in the U.S. are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ p

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Jvion helps healthcare systems prevent patient harm and associated costs by enabling clinical staff to focus attention, resources, and individualized interventions on patients whose outcomes can be improved. Jvion pinpoints the impactable patients who are […].

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To coincide with World Alzheimer’s Day, pain assessment app PainChek has published a new report on pain and dementia.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s been an interesting technology week. New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list

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Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

People in the U.S. are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. adults 18 and over to determine peoplesR

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Amazon is expanding an initiative allowing employees to access healthcare via text message or video call from the Seattle area to throughout Washington state. The service, called Amazon Care, is available via a downloadable app to office workers and to warehouse employees. It allows individuals to communicate with a provider from Care Medical – a Bellingham-based medical group specializing in urgent care, physical therapy, occupational medicine and other needs – using in-app text mes

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Also: Hospital and health system software maker Olive closes $106 million; Ready's tech-enabled on-demand home care locks up $54 million.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Particularly since the COVID-19 hurricane has hit the healthcare system, health systems are struggling to manage and validate even basic data on providers, according to a new research study looking at the impact of such inaccuracies on operational efficiency. The healthcare business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions surveyed more than 100 providers across the industry, including […].

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Aetna, U.S. News study highlights COVID-19's disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities. pminemyer. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 13:43.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Telehealth giant Teladoc has accused another player in the space, Amwell, of infringing on several of its patents. As reported by STAT News, Teladoc sent a letter to Amwell representatives this past week alleging that some of Amwell's products – including multiple telemedicine carts and peripheral devices for use with them, such as the Thinklabs One Digital Stethoscope and the Horus HD Digital Scope System – infringed on patents that Teladoc had acquired with its acquisition of I

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The overall prevalence of diabetes among U.S. veterans was 20.5% between 2013 and 2014, and it affects nearly 25% of VA patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Telehealth is one of the hottest technologies at the moment. It is dominating healthcare headlines [1] and is the topic of many discussions we have had here at Healthcare IT Today. However, I do not believe that patients are clamoring for telehealth per se, but rather are demanding care when and where it is convenient […].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Aging in place – the latest trend. Rant on. People want to age in place – just ask them, as AARP did in 2018. Of course, in the not-cited part of that survey, only 59% expected to be able to do so. Little did they know that a pandemic was coming, that visiting with aging family would become a nightmare – with people unable to see their relatives for many months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The tech company said that it will be pulling its new case and trend data from sources such as Johns Hopkins, The New York Times and Wikipedia.

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