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Health and Wellness Informatics News Sesame and NantHealth collaborate to introduce new virtual medical care facilities along with secure payment options for their customers. Sesame & NantHealth have taken the initiative to educate half of the uninsured U.S. adult population about direct-to-patient and virtual care. That aims to enable the providers to scale their practices at a rapid speed. NantHealth’s NaviNet is a renowned payer/provider collaboration sector that allows providers to swap vital financial, clinical, and administrative information.On the contrary, Sesame is a direct-to-patient telemedicine marketplace or organization that helps the user to search and purchase health services. These services involve…

Health and Wellness Informatics News COVID-19 has enabled the New York behavioral health provider to embrace telehealth.Since then, it is going in sync with the technology and using it to provide an improved number of services to the patients. Before the pandemic hitting, Behavioral health services in North Plattsburgh, New York not used to use telehealth. This was due to their regulatory constraints. Also, their staff considers it as some cumbersome practice.During the time of the pandemic, New York state appeared very aggressive in offering the regulations for telehealth. This is to allow the healthcare organizations to move towards care…

Health and Wellness Informatics News As per the U.S Department of Justice’s announcement, the telehealth frauds are surging. Frauds of Tampa Pharmacy owners like Smith, Scott Roix, Arun Kapoor, and Mihir Taneja are facing restitution and imprisonment for attempting the fraudulent system. The U.S Department of Justice came up with the announcement on Monday about the telehealth frauds game of one company in the telemedicine pharmacy health care. It allegedly managed to last for years. The group is charged with the conspiracy for degrading the benefit managers with the submission of $931356936 out of $174202105 for the fraudulent prescription.Derrick L.…

Health and Wellness Informatics News From the year 2018, about 380 patients in Thailand received emergency medical treatment by Siriraj Mobile Stroke Unit so far. Cisco and NTT have got into partnership with one of the biggest public hospitals in Thailand, Siriraj Hospital. They are focused on rapid treatment with telemedicine. The ambulance known as Siriraj Mobile Stroke Unit connects the responders inside the ambulance to the hospital experts. Thus, allowing the doctors to provide instant medical treatment, attention, and diagnosis to the victim while they are being transferred to the hospital. The Mobile Stroke Unit is equipped with multiple modern gadgets like…

Health and Wellness Informatics News Malaysia is expanding it’s telemedicine footprints. A leading healthcare provider announced a command center for telemedicine services. Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider, works under Sunway Conglomerate Company of Malaysia. They have launched a command center for telemedicine services at the starting of this year, along with their announcement. This command center is working from the Sunway city at Kuala Lumpur. It also has a medical center at a velocity in KL and in Singapore.The first phase of this Telemedicine Command Center came up with the first level of healthcare advisory for service for…

Health and Wellness Informatics News Telehealth is here to stay and expand!The bipartisan group in the US works as the representative of the reintroducing of the bill, which is aiming to expand the better access to Telehealth going beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The bipartisan group in the US works as the representative of the reintroducing of the bill, which is aiming to expand the better access to Telehealth going beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.The Protecting Access for the post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation came up with the introduction from the past week with Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.Johnson, on this matter,…

Health and Wellness Informatics News Experts are reportedly coming up with the prediction that telehealth is going to face major security problems. As it has imposed many health-related major issues for the patients, telehealth is focusing on the security measures for the data. Experts are continuously predicting that telehealth is going to come up with a major challenge for healthcare. This is going to be related to telehealth’s cybersecurity risk in the coming days. However, it is not enough to know about telehealth as if it is going to present an issue. The actual risk may impose while addressing the…

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the greater need for information generated by bundled payment reimbursement and the use of Health Information Exchange (HIE).

Research & Publications Although nurses comprise the largest group of health professionals and electronic health record (EHR) user base, it is unclear how EHR use has affected nurse well-being. Oliver T Nguyen, Shivani Shah, Alexander J Gartland, Arpan Parekh, Kea Turner, Sue S Feldman, Lisa J Merlo, Factors associated with nurse well-being in relation to electronic health record use: A systematic review, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2020;, ocaa289, Download Full Paper Objective Although nurses comprise the largest group of health professionals and electronic health record (EHR) user base, it is unclear how EHR use has affected nurse well-being.…

Health and Wellness Informatics News From the past few months various COVID-19 vaccines have been approved. Ther approval is for the general and emergency usage in the Middle East and North Africa, MENA regions, which also got the approval in various other countries. For the past few months, a good number of COVID-19 vaccines got their approval. The approval is for the general or the emergency usage in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Also, the data of the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the various regional media statements of…

Health and Wellness Informatics News President Joe Biden Comes up with his special plan for the controlling of the pandemic as he starts with his administration. He has issued $20 billion for the vaccination and $50 billion for making the tests happen properly. As Joe Biden, elected as the president of the US, he was sworn in to his office today. They started with quite an aggressive agenda as a president to control the COVID- 19 pandemics. The agenda includes a number of orders for executives to make the plan for controlling the COVID-19 more effective. The first one is…

Medication adherence is a major problem in oncology, specifically regarding hormonal therapies for breast cancer (BrCa) in African American (AA) women. Design considerations for specific cultural and clinical mobile health (mHealth) features may enhance efficacy of these applications for medication adherence.

Research & Publications Patient education delivered by a health care provider increases patients’ understanding and adherence to medical instructions, which helps to improve patient health Schooley, B., Singh, A., Hikmet, N., Brookshire, R., & Patel, N. (2020). Integrated Digital Patient Education at the Bedside for Patients with Chronic Conditions: Observational Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(12), e22947 Download Full Paper BackgroundPatient education delivered by a health care provider increases patients’ understanding and adherence to medical instructions, which helps to improve patient health. Multiple challenges exist to delivering effective patient education to patients with multiple chronic conditions, including giving the necessary time, range,…

Health and Wellness Informatics News NHSX came up with an anonymous bank along with 40000 collenced scans in the pandemics. With the use of this AI database to improve the treatment for the COVID-19 patients in the UK it is going to help with more early prediction at the initial stage for the diagnosis. NHSX has opted for an anonymous bank with 40000 collected scans during the pandemic. The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database is collecting the x-rays, CT, and MRI scans to leverage the diagnosis for the disease. This initiative is to enable the clinic personals to opt for…

Health and Wellness Informatics News Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, comes up with its lesson for the first HIMSS EMRAM stage 7 for the revalidation. This got huge success after being operational from the totally virtual medium. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, which features 700 beds, is located at the Jurong East in Singapore. In November 2020, the hospital made their success in revalidating the EMRAM stage 7 achievements with HIMSS. The revalidation success was for the healthcare system of Singapore, which completed its operation totally being virtual. It took place in the APAC region. However, as the COVID-19 started,…

Health and Wellness Informatics News The mission control team CHI Franciscan AI fueled up the mission control center to meet a huge success. Along with its 8 screen video wall with 11 analytic apps it is capable of giving the real time monitoring along with the AI algorithm. The Mission Control Center has opted for creating the 1423 additional days of caring for more patients. The treatment facilities include 142 numbers of critical care patients, maintained through the 10 of reduction of bed requests. At the same time, it has enabled 561 patients to leave fast. CHI Franciscan, the Pacific…

Health and Wellness Informatics News Meditech EHR comes up with the initiative for streamlining their workflow with the covid-19 vaccination. It introduces an online tool which is free for the clients. Meditech this week has opted for unveiling a new online tool that is completely free for the clients. It is working with the goal to enable the easier and effective way of COVID-19 vaccination. Also, adding it to any menu within the records of electronic health. It is going to help the providers more for the easy administering of the vaccine to their patient. How does it matter? This…

Health and Wellness Informatics News The priorities of the health system CIO is changing due to the pandemic. The survey of CHIME reveals that the optimization service for the EHR/EMR services fall under the priorities of IT. In February of 2020, before the one month of the declaration of Covid-19, by WHO, the health system CIO participated in the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME). IT is a survey to identify the top IT priorities and barriers which are making progress. The CHIME survey revealed that the optimization of EHR/ EMR services falls under the top priorities of IT.…

Health and Wellness Informatics News ONC releases its first standard bulletin which is to work as a new tool to enhance the communication along with the SVAP to leverage the task of the health IT platform. The ONC has come up with the release of their first ONC Standards Bulletin. This is going to work as a new tool for communication that ONC is going to use for the periodic updates of the ONC Health IT standards. Also, the policy initiatives are going to get an update with the tool. Based on the recommendations of HITAC, the Bulletin is part…