KevinMD

MAY 28, 2021

For the last decade, physicians across the United States and in all specialties and settings have been bombarded with fancy presentations, promises of ease of use and integration, and unfounded “data-based” assurances of future improved patient outcomes, workflow efficiencies, and practice cost savings.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As I pull into clinic, my intention is always the same: be fully present with each patient. By the time I’m two patients in, the reality is always different.

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Health IT 419

KevinMD

JULY 9, 2022

Challenges present before the pandemic weren’t solved during the all-hands-on-deck mentality during wave after wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Two years after the global pandemic totally rewrote the health care playbook, hospitals, health systems, facilities, and providers are still striving to find some semblance of normalcy.

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KevinMD

MARCH 11, 2019

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology attending turns to the gathered medical students who are just starting their first clinical (..)

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It takes roughly seven patients presenting after an abnormal pulse alert to establish one clinically actionable cardiovascular diagnosis, according to the researchers' chart review.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

CommonPass allows travelers to document their COVID-19 status electronically and present it when they board a plane or cross a border.

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Digital Health 357

Mobi Health News

MARCH 17, 2022

During HIMSS22, presenters discussed how an open source model of sharing ideas and innovation could help solve access inequities in digital health.

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Digital Health 349

Mobi Health News

JUNE 7, 2024

The feature allows users to obtain real-time CGM data on their Watch without an iPhone present.

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KevinMD

JUNE 13, 2022

In fact, eating disorders are varied in how they present in a person, and they certainly do not ‘look’ a certain way. “When people think of eating disorders, the image is often of an emaciated, white teenage girl in the hospital hooked up to feeding tubes.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 27, 2021

Jeffrey Vergales, a pediatric cardiologist at UVA Children’s, will be presenting at HIMSS21 on Aug.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Breathonix’s breath analysis technology works by detecting Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) present in a person’s exhaled breath.

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KevinMD

JULY 26, 2023

Imagine being able to cross a chasm between a digital world and a physical world in an operative environment.

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Medical Technology 363

Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a preview of their HIMSS22 presentation, Robert Jarrin, managing partner at the Omega Concern, and Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel at the Connected Health Initiative, explain the current digital health reimbursement landscape.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2020

At a HIMSS Digital presentation, former ONC Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts and Connected Health Initiative Senior Counsel Brian Scarpelli discussed some common misconceptions about the law.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When determining approval for Breakthrough Device designation, the FDA will consider whether the device addresses present health inequities.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 23, 2020

Hans Henri Kluge, the World Health Organization’s director for Europe, presented on digital tools during the FutureMed conference this afternoon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2025

The company's AI technology was presented as an innovative means of helping to reduce the time clinicians spend doing session notes, helping improve compliance and enabling staff to better focus on client care. Finding a solution that would help address all of that didn't seem realistic, but AI technology promised to do just that."

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

As IoT morphs into the Intelligence of Things in a world of 5G communications, it splits between “Critical IoT” and “Massive IoT” shown in the chart from CTA’s presentation. AI can make healthcare more human and smarter based on data it feeds on from a variety of sources generated from many “things” in the IoT for health.

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KevinMD

JUNE 7, 2021

Beyond the 8,000+ and climbing signatories to the Change.org petition asking for a change to JAMA leadership, the data on microaggressions and their contributions to physician burnout published in a recent study in JAMA Surgery presents clear. Read more…. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Learn more.

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LeanIX

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Enterprise architects need the right digital tools to empower their work, just like any other profession. See your enterprise architecture function revolutionize your organization in 2025 with the SAP LeanIX toolset.

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KevinMD

APRIL 26, 2024

This suite is designed to function directly on personal devices like iPhones, presenting new opportunities for medical practitioners to leverage advanced AI tools in their day-to-day operations. Read more… Apple’s OpenGL and iOS 18: Shaping the future of health care technology originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Internet-facing devices with known exploitable vulnerabilities present a significant risk. The Weak Link: Internet-Facing Devices with KEVs The proliferation of CPS devices, including medical and IoT systems, has expanded the attack surface for healthcare organizations.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 15, 2024

The Energy and Commerce Committee released telehealth extension legislation today that will be voted on during a health subcommittee markup Thursday. | The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee will hold a markup May 16 that includes a different two-year telehealth extension proposal than the Ways and Means Committee passed last week.

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KevinMD

MAY 28, 2024

“The patient is a 59-year-old male presenting with fatigue on exertion, pallor, and mild numbness and tingling in both feet. No family history of anemia or diabetes, but I still want to rule them out with a blood test. Does that sound reasonable?”

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KevinMD

MARCH 23, 2022

On March 10, I had the distinct privilege of presenting to the ONC Health IT Advisory Committee at their meeting titled “Health Equity by Design.”

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 8, 2021

At present, experts are investing a lot of resources into this industry for its overall improvement. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Online consultation is a big part of the electronic healthcare (E-Health) industry. Digital health technology is currently going […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With the new year soon upon us, there’s no time like the present to start establishing some beneficial goals and resolutions that you can set to make 2022 the most enjoyable year yet. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. One area […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

If the patient presents later with a worsening infection, staff do not have to guess anymore if the infection worsened because they were not taking their antibiotics, or because the antibiotic they were on truly failed and they need a different antibiotic, or maybe they need a surgical procedure, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This technology, combined with the rising adoption of virtual care delivery , presents opportunities to transform care access and delivery. The integration of AI in behavioral health care presents compelling opportunities for improved care delivery and patient outcomes. AI’s full potential doesn’t replace clinical judgment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We heard first-hand from one of the nurse-hacker-presenters that she herself was attacked by a patient — her experience being all-too-“normal” in 2023. This leads to a range of mental health, clinical, and economic impacts — moral distress up, job satisfaction down in the case of the employee scenario.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

What challenges does the current manual technique for epidurals present? The technique is widely used for pain relief, including local regional anaesthesia and epidurals during childbirth. Additionally, it is used to implant spinal cord stimulators for chronic back pain. Despite its widespread use, the current technique is completely manual.

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Digital Health 167

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2024

"In addition, many items presented in e-Check In were not configured to meet department requirements prior to the integration of telemedicine ," he continued. "However, completion remained strong given that all items were presented ahead of the visit in the same environment the video visit would be launched from."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 15, 2025

In February, 2024, a progress report was presented to Congress on implementing the 2022 strategy to support caregivers. Also in 2024, AARP and others advocated for congress to pass a bill for reimbursement of caregiver expenses through the proposed Credit for Caring Act.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 11, 2024

By Usman Choudhary, general manager, VIPRE Security Email remains a cornerstone communication tool for healthcare entities, yet the communication channel also presents formidable cybersecurity hurdles. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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KevinMD

JULY 14, 2023

However, these capabilities also present unique challenges, including the generation of ‘hallucination’ results. The advances of AI, specifically models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, have given rise to powerful tools capable of generating human-like text responses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The agency invited those interested in presenting to reach out with information about potential safeguards. He said in the "run of show" on day two that the DEA chose 30 presentations per day from the more than 1,000 inquiries.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Philips presented more granular data for each of the five countries studied. Over one-half of doctors said there were conflicts between different data sets and quality of data, presenting barriers to the most effective use of data in the crisis. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.

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