The Lonely Epidemic: Social Isolation and Technology
Alarming effects have been found from recent digital technologies on social connections and mental health. The Surgeon General issued a highly publicized advisory on loneliness and another on youth, both replete with evidence of the harm done by social media and the internet generally. But can digital technology also improve social connections?
While the harm done by digital media to many people has been well demonstrated, there are also people who thrive on digital connections, particularly people from marginalized groups who have trouble finding each other in physical settings). The Surgeon General advisory on youth poin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company LTPAC Caretakers Catalaize Dor Skuler Healthcare Isolation Healthcare Loneliness Healthcare Social Media Intuition Robotics mental health Sara Shanti Sheppard Mullin social isolation UCLA UCLA Lonel Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations.
To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say.
Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Andrew Harding athenahealth Brightside Health Cassie Choi Darena Solutions e4 Services Freshpaint Healthc Source Type: blogs
A Demo of the Real Time Health System with Zebra and Oneview Healthcare
A few months ago, many of you may remember our review of the new medical tablet from Zebra. It’s a great tablet that’s designed for healthcare’s unique challenges. While at the HIMSS conference, we were able to see a demo of the tablet in action at the bedside with Zebra’s partner Oneview Healthcare.
In the demo video below, Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra, shares about Zebra’s efforts to enable real time health system and that impact on patient experience. Plus, she introduces us to Steve Yerkey, Director Solutions Architecture at Oneview Healthc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Bedside Computing Solutions Bedside Infotainment Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs
Abbey Labs Secures $5.25 Million Seed Round Led by Point72 Ventures to Automate Access Management
Haystack, Essence Ventures, and Angels also Invest to Support the First Access Governance Platform Built for Engineers
Abbey Labs, an innovator in identity and access management (IAM), today announced that it raised a $5.25 million seed round to help companies secure and automate employee access to sensitive data infrastructure. The seed round was led by Point72 Ventures with participation from Haystack, Essence Ventures, and angels across the security, infrastructure, and data verticals, including Emilio Escobar, CISO at Datadog, Harold Gimenez, SVP of Engineering at Hashicorp, and Pete Soderling, Founder of Data Council....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Abbey Labs Arvil Nagpal Black Hat BSidesLV 2023 Data Council Datadog DEF CON Emilio Escobar Essence Ventures Harold Gimenez Hashicorp Haystack Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT I Source Type: blogs
Exploring Psychedelic Microdosing
Recently I’ve taken an interest in microdosing, specifically with magic mushrooms. I began learning about it a few months ago and then learned even more at the Psychedelic Science conference in June. I’ve also had some recent conversations with people I know who’ve been microdosing, all of them reporting positive long-term effects. Most use mushrooms for microdosing, although one prefers microdosing with LSD.
The point of microdosing is to take a very small amount of a psychedelic substance in order to access some neurological gains without any obvious psychedelic effects or impairments. Those gains can be both sh...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – August 19, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Helping Children With Gamified Interactive Physiotherapy. Psychiatrist Dr. Geoff Frost struggled to encourage pediatric patients with spinal muscular atrophy to do their necessary exercises. As he explained to Colin Hung, that’s why Raft Digital Therapeutics created a game called Cloud Bazaar to captures a child’s movement as a way to advance...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Cool Demos of Healthcare VR Applications with HTC VIVE
We’ve all heard about the progress VR is making in healthcare, but that was never more clear than when we stopped by the HTC VIVE booth at the HIMSS annual conference this year. While there we had a chance to talk with Dan O’Brien, GM Americas at HTC VIVE, and he introduced us to some of the healthcare partners that were developing healthcare applications for their VR and AR devices. These applications included: VR surgical models, helping the aging process, VR Therapy, a radiology reading room in VR, and immersive VR to replace anesthesia.
Check out the video demo below to learn more about the healthcare VR s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arjun Puri Chris Brickler Dan O'Brien David Wheeler Healthcare AR Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare VR HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 HTC Source Type: blogs
Helping Kids with SMA Win with a Physiotherapy Game
Physiotherapy is hard. It is even harder for children who get bored and tire quickly from the repetitive motions that doctors prescribe for them. Raft Digital Therapeutics (Raft) created an interactive video game to help children with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease – Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – to maintain their physical abilities, improve outcomes, and promote a higher quality of life. Their game has found success with children, parents, and clinicians.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Geoff Frost, CEO of Raft and practicing physiatrist, to find out about their game, their re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Cloud Bazaar Collision 2023 Collision Conference Digital Therapeutics Dr. Geoff Frost gamificia Source Type: blogs
All-in-One Medical Graphic Stations and Tablets from DT Research
At the HIMSS conference, one of the most interesting technologies we saw was the wide variety of high end, computers, tablets, and monitors that were made available. In many surgeries, they need a solution that provides them the high end graphics and computing that’s needed to ensure they can precisely see what’s happening with the surgery.
At the conference, we had a chance to learn about some of these products from Robert Droppa, General Manager, Government & Healthcare Solutions at DT Research. Along with offering purpose built tablets and monitors for healthcare, Droppa talked to us about the DT Re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops DT Research Healthcare IT Demos Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Medical Graphic Stations Medical Tablets NVIDIA Robert Source Type: blogs
MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a growing number of minor ailments. MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics.
Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare.
Pharmacies Are Already in the Community
“We are focused on helping independent pharmacies,” explained Almeida. “There’s one on every bloc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Collision 2023 Collision Conference Joella Almeida MedEssist minor ailments Pharmacies Pharmacists pharmacy health clinics Source Type: blogs
HFMA Edition – What ’ s Something More People Should be Talking About in Healthcare?
There are so many things to talk about in healthcare – both in terms of new technology and ideas as well as problems that we need to fix – but there is so little time to do so. We can’t talk about healthcare 24/7, the best we can do is pick the most important things for today and leave the rest for the future. But how do we decide which ones are the most important topics that need our attention now?
At the HFMA Annual conference we talked with our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on what more people need to be focused on in healthcare right now. All of their answers have been compi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AHIMA Amanda Devlin Automation Cedar ChartSwap Digit Source Type: blogs
A Look at the Nobi Smart Lamp
One of the cool products we saw a demo of at the HIMSS conference this year was the Nobi smart lamp. Roeland Pelgrims, CEO at Nobi, took the time to demo the smart lamp to us and tell us more about what makes the Nobi smart lamp special.
Pelgrims shared that the goal of Nobi is to empower older adults. That’s why they believed that smart technologies like the Nobi smart lamp must be hidden and designed for life. He suggested that Nobi is “Clark Kent” 99% of the time and only has to be “Superman” 1% of the time.
What helps Nobi be superman is its ability to do fall detection, fall preve...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Elderly Patients Fall Detection Fall Prevention Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Lifest Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 13, 2023 – 75% of executives thing generative AI has reached the point where it will reshape healthcare, 64% of patients would trust AI over a doctor to make a diagnosis, and more,
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration will hold listening sessions Sept. 12 and 13 to discuss allowing a “special registration” to allow physicians to remotely prescribe certain controlled substances without the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT American Telemedicine Association Ana Sirbu AssureCare ATA ATA Nexus Azure Bain CitiusTech DEA DrFirst eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Generative AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features health Source Type: blogs
Lessons from Momma: the power of being present
An excerpt from My Grief is Not Like Yours. In March of 2018, I took Momma to a women’s conference in Dallas. We didn’t get great seats, but we were in the middle section, halfway back in a group with about 2,300 other people. I was hoping there would be a monitor for captioning or
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Lessons from Momma: the power of being present originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Theo Boyd Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Fwd: You ’re a panelist for Evalu8 - Clinical Customer Conference Day 5
****************************************** Kevin S. McGrew, PhD Educational& School Psychologist Director Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP)https://www.themindhub.com ******************************************---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Neha Anand<customercare@gotowebinar.com>Date: Aug 1, 2023 at 8:39 AM -0500To: iqmcgrew@gmail.comCc: neha.anand@riversideinsights.comSubject: You ' re a panelist for Evalu8 - Clinical Customer Conference Day 5Evalu8 - Clinical Customer Conference Day 5Fri, Aug 11, 2023 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDTDear Kevin McGrew,Neha Anand (neha.anand@riversideinsights.com) has ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - August 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
