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Study: Video telehealth, in-person diagnoses agree in 87% of cases

Mobi Health News

Specialty care was significantly more likely to result in concordant diagnoses between telehealth and in-person appointments, compared with primary care.

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Top Eight Ways to Live a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The cornerstones to avoiding and controlling cardiovascular disease are a good diet and lifestyle. It’s not as difficult as you might imagine! Remember that what matters is the general pattern of your selections. Make these heart-healthy lifestyle tips a part of your daily routine for long-term health benefits. Count your calories. To begin, determine how many calories you should consume to maintain weight.

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Innovation for all: Adapting patient-facing tools to promote digital health equity

KevinMD

More often than not, ground-breaking health care advancements are disproportionately accessible for those who already have favorable social determinants of health. Improving cost, access, and quality, but for whom? The boom of telehealth and digital health during the pandemic was a necessary shift to bridge the critical access gap while also supporting the public health.

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Celiac Disease Diet: What You Should or Shouldn’t Eat

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The small intestine is harmed by celiac disease, a chronic immunological and digestive condition. Consuming gluten-containing foods causes the condition. The illness might prevent your body from absorbing all the nutrients it needs and result in long-lasting digestive issues. (1) Here are some food tips for your celiac disease diet. Foods that You Can Eat When Managing Celiac Disease.

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The Evolution of Communication in Healthcare Settings

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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Leverage Telepsychiatry to Build an Effective MAT Program

Iris Telehealth

Access to high-quality substance-use disorder treatment has never been more important. The opioid epidemic continues to grow and impact more and more lives, families, and communities across the country. And, healthcare organizations must include some form of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for patients with substance use disorders and those seeking addiction treatment.

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Video visits as clinical touchpoints to improve older adult mental health

KevinMD

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a profound toll on older adults, isolating them physically and emotionally from their communities and families. Mental health has suffered across generations and, as a practicing geriatric psychiatrist, I have had a front-row seat to the unique conditions older adult populations are facing. Despite rising rates of depression and anxiety, Read more….

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Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford

Health Populi

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.

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Morgan Health invests $20M in home diagnostics company LetsGetChecked

Mobi Health News

LetsGetChecked, which closed a $150 million Series D funding round in 2021, made multiple acquisitions this year.

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A rural Kansas FQHC brings remote patient monitoring to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Human touch and scientific veracity are missing in health care technology       

KevinMD

Working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic has immersed physicians in technology, perhaps accelerating its integration with medical practice – but not necessarily its acceptance or authenticity. I tend to doubt the veracity of much of what I read in electronic health care records. I also question reports based on data gleaned from large medical databases.

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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Users more likely to embrace AI-enabled preventive health measures with human touch, study finds

Mobi Health News

Individuals are also less likely to trust AI-suggested interventions than those recommended by humans.

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Maryland health system conquers the digital divide with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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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The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options

AMD Telemedicine

The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options. Telemedicine is booming, and healthcare organizations neglecting these technological innovations are missing out. If their delays are rooted in hesitations around implementation challenges, however, it’s understandable — we’re already in a time of increased burnout among doctors and nurses, and no one wants to add more to their already full plates.

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Walmart + UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health + Signify — the Current Flurry of Big HealthCare

Health Populi

With today’s announcement that Walmart will partner with UnitedHealthcare in a ten-year collaboration to bring affordable health care to Mainstream Americans, we have yet another huge ripple in the evolving retail health ecosystem. The other Big Healthcare news item this week was CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Signify Health , after much speculation that Amazon and other Big and smaller bidders (including UnitedHealth Group) were keen on acquiring the home/care company over the

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VUNO transfers medical AI voice recognition product to Puzzle AI

Mobi Health News

The company will maintain its patent right for the technology.

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Mayo Clinic to use blockchain for hypertension clinical trial

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Beginning this month, Mayo Clinic will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform by Triall for a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Chaos Continues After Ransomware Hits UK’s NHS

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Itay Bochner, Director of Malware Analysis at OPSWAT. Patients can’t get their medicine, psychiatrists can’t add reports to the system and provide their professional opinion in court, and only last week was the medical helpline number 111 restored. The manual logging of patient records is resulting in piles of paper documentation, which doctors are saying could take months to input into the online system once it’s restored.

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Sensor technology can help families and short-staffed care providers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Sensor technology is increasingly useful in the care of older adults. As part of the research into the Future of Sensors and Older Adults , interviewees outlined ways sensors could be useful for mitigating fall risk. And their role tracking trips to the bathroom has been useful in detecting UTIs , identifying wanderers , alerting about sleep issues , noting whether a person has eaten.

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SAP-backed machine learning programme in India seeks to prevent blindness in premature babies

Mobi Health News

The solution screens for plus disease, which is associated with severe ROP.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CVS Health announced on September 5 that it will acquire Dallas-based Signify Health, a network of 10,000 clinicians across 50 states with more than 50 health plan clients, including CVS's Aetna division, for $8 billion. In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home.

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The Role of Technology in Remote Patient Monitoring

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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2022 Fall Conference Season Preview – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 96

Healthcare IT Today

For the 96th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the upcoming fall health IT conference season. We discuss the different conferences we’re looking forward to and speculating what attendance will be like. Next, we dive into what topics we expect to be covered in these conferences. Then we discuss whether companies and providers get more value from in-person conferences or digital conferences.

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Alert: Amazon Care To Close At 2022 Year-End

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A surprise to many stakeholders, Amazon Health announced its plan to close Amazon Care at year’s end. According to a statement made on August 25, 2022, the Amazon telehealth service. The news was announced to Amazon Care employees just one month after Amazon’s $3.9B offer to purchase One Medical. It also followed a recent report of a rollout of Amazon Care’s partnership with Ginger, a leading telehealth employer.

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Q&A: How Akili plans to make its DTx routine ADHD treatment

Mobi Health News

Matt Franklin, Akili Interactive's president and COO, explains the company's strategy for launching EndeavorRx, its video game digital therapeutic for children with ADHD.

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FTC to look into Amazon, One Medical deal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Amazon's Prime business model, and has also reviewed the tech giant's other potential deals, such as the acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios and a new deal with iRobot which makes autonomous vacuums, for anti-trust violations. That doesn't necessarily mean Amazon's recent $3.9 billion purchase of San Francisco-based One Medical , which provides membership-based telehealth and in-person care, will be challenged (as was the case w

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.

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Innovation is for Kids at Holland Bloorview

Healthcare IT Today

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations.

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Patients and the Diagnostic Journey: Finding Specialists

Society for Participatory Medicine

The journey to diagnosis for patients, particularly those living with complex health conditions remains challenging for patients, their loved ones, and their physicians. As frontline experts on the diseases and conditions affecting their lives, patients and family caregivers have many meaningful insights. Earlier this year, Rare Patient Voice LLC, a patient recruitment firm, and MediFind , a digital health platform, published a report examining the state of the diagnostic odyssey for patients wi

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Viz.ai receives FDA clearance for pulmonary embolism-related algorithm

Mobi Health News

The new tool measures the diameter of the ventricles of the heart to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle diameter compared with the left ventricle. That can help indicate pulmonary embolism severity.

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