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Dedicated to transforming healthcare through instant visual collaboration & virtual care
The Healthcare Hive was originally created in 2009 with a mission to enable care to more people, in more places, at lower cost. In 2020, we've relaunched our modern community and centralized resource center, known as The Healthcare Hive.
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Over the past three weeks, Massachusetts General Hospital has undergone a transformation. Like most US hospitals these days, a palpable tension hangs over the building. The halls are quiet and devoid of visitors, isolation wards are filling with patients, and staff are dressed in extensive protective gear. There’s an unusual stillness in the air.
The iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19 article was written by Paris Martineau and published on wired.com, written by on 04.08.2020
The iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19 article was written by Paris Martineau and published on wired.com, written by on 04.08.2020
The usual daily gaggles of doctors and residents moving from bed to bed to conduct rounds has been replaced by a lone physician, clad in protective equipment, escorting a laptop on a cart around the hospital. Doctors participate virtually through an app the hospital has configured to facilitate medical care while limiting potential exposure by staff. Some doctors join virtual rounds from a sanitized conference room down the hall where they sit 6 feet apart, others from their homes.
In the isolation wards, Covid-19 patients rest in rooms equipped with iPads mounted to IV poles using a gizmo designed to secure tablets to boats. The iPads include software that makes them virtual extensions of Mass General’s 2,000 nurses. Nurses can use the devices to check on and communicate with patients without donning masks, gloves, and other precious protective gear, and risk exposing themselves to the virus.
iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19, written by Paris Martineau on wired.com.
iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19, written by Paris Martineau on wired.com.
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Have you heard Telehealth and Medicine Today’s Partners in Digital Health Podcast Episode: Using Blockchain for Managing Medical Records in Difficult Environments with Paul Snow of Factom? Paul Snow is the founder and CEO at Factom, the creator of the first blockchain technology built from the ground up, to solve real-world business problems. “Blockchain has the potential to give you an actual identity that effectively allows you to put a password on your SSN so you’re “identity” can’t be stolen”. Medical records have long lacked an infrastructure that allows for everything healthcare professionals need: complete records, security and privacy, distribution of medical records across different providers, and the ability to import medical records from other jurisdictions so that the records can survive and be obtained when needed. Blockchain, Snow explains, may be the solution. Here's the link to the episode: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/partners-in-digital-health/e/77099360?autoplay=true
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This is the first in a 10-part series on “The Future of Retirement” that we will be posting over the next several months. If you are interested in better understanding what’s ahead – we invite you to check out our new book What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life’s Third Age.
Check out Ken Dychtwald and Bob Morison's new book: What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life's Third Age
Check out Ken Dychtwald and Bob Morison's new book: What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life's Third Age
We’ve heard a lot lately about how the Covid-19 pandemic is dramatically disrupting the retirement preparations of tens of millions of working Americans. Being furloughed from work or having your small business fail is causing people to dip into savings and interrupts putting money aside toward retirement. Those closest to retiring can be in the biggest bind, and many are choosing to delay retirement to fill their growing financial gap.
But how is the pandemic affecting folks who are already retired – or even the lifestage of retirement itself?
Head over to the Forbes article, Covid-19: Don’t Mess With My Retirement, to read the full article. Continue reading for a summary.
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Utilizing the idea of a reward system to perpetuate healthy living.
As living has now been transformed by pandemic and illness fears, a reward system will, not only motivate healthier habits, but also reinforce COVID friendly living and awareness. Through daily health tasks, users are reminded of preventative measures to strengthen their immune systems.
But one question still stands:
Even in a pandemic stricken world, do we still need rewards to make healthy decisions?
As living has now been transformed by pandemic and illness fears, a reward system will, not only motivate healthier habits, but also reinforce COVID friendly living and awareness. Through daily health tasks, users are reminded of preventative measures to strengthen their immune systems.
But one question still stands:
Even in a pandemic stricken world, do we still need rewards to make healthy decisions?
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Utilizing the idea of a reward system to perpetuate healthy living.
As living has now been transformed by pandemic and illness fears, a reward system will, not only motivate healthier habits, but also reinforce COVID friendly living and awareness. Through daily health tasks, users are reminded of preventative measures to strengthen their immune systems.
But one question still stands:
Even in a pandemic stricken world, do we still need rewards to make healthy decisions?
Read more here to learn about a rewards system in healthcare - let us talk about it. I want to hear your thoughts?
As living has now been transformed by pandemic and illness fears, a reward system will, not only motivate healthier habits, but also reinforce COVID friendly living and awareness. Through daily health tasks, users are reminded of preventative measures to strengthen their immune systems.
But one question still stands:
Even in a pandemic stricken world, do we still need rewards to make healthy decisions?
Read more here to learn about a rewards system in healthcare - let us talk about it. I want to hear your thoughts?
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Utilizing the idea of a reward system to perpetuate healthy living. As living has now been transformed by pandemic and illness fears, a reward system will, not only motivate healthier habits, but also reinforce COVID friendly living and awareness. Through daily health tasks, users are reminded of preventative measures to strengthen their immune systems.
But one question still stands: Even in a pandemic stricken world, do we still need rewards to make healthy decisions?
Read more here: Monitor Symptoms From Home: Raise Awareness And Prevention
Read more here: Monitor Symptoms From Home: Raise Awareness And Prevention
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Zoom from home using Portal from Facebook, Amazon Echo Show, and Google Nest Hub Max - Click here to read full Zoom article
Working from home just got simpler. You’ll soon be able to use Zoom at home on your smart display as part of our Zoom for Home program, making interactive video meetings as easy as the touch of a button or the sound of your voice.
Zoom on Portal will be available in September; Zoom on Amazon Echo Show and Zoom on Nest Hub Max will be available late fall 2020.
My daughter started school yesterday . . . and guess what she us using? Zoom of course!
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What can the Healthcare Hive do for you?
Please let us know what you want to see here?
We are working on a list of virtual events & video series to produce and share.
Do you want to host your own event?
Want to create a specific channel [on the left sidebar]? You can create a public or private space.
Please comment below on what features you want to see here!
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Please let us know what you want to see here?
We are working on a list of virtual events & video series to produce and share.
Do you want to host your own event?
Want to create a specific channel [on the left sidebar]? You can create a public or private space.
Please comment below on what features you want to see here!
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As we all navigate this period of social distancing, remote work, limited office hours, and widespread building closures, reliable video communications will continue to be important for helping people stay connected, especially in healthcare.
Zoom Support During The COVID-19
Zoom's Telehealth solutions have been critically important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare professionals all over the world are using zoom video communication so they can:
- Conduct online consultations, remotely diagnose patients, and provide treatment for routine checkups and non-life-threatening illnesses
- Remotely screen symptomatic patients before allowing them to visit an ER, clinic, or other testing sites
- Mass-train mental health therapists to prepare them for psychological consultations with doctors, patients, and their families that might be affected by the virus
- Assess supply inventories, equipment shortages, and coordinate deliveries
Additionally, U.S. congressional leaders have agreed on a massive funding bill to address the coronavirus outbreak that authorizes Medicare to waive geographic restrictions on telehealth. It also loosens restrictions on the use of a telephone to deliver care, as long as the phone has audio-visual capabilities.
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How has Zoom’s #HIPAA compliance given your healthcare practice a second chance? Let's talk about it in our community
Some of Zoom's comprehensive compliance and security simplifies routine checkups, prescription refills, and general care. It makes a simple routine checkup possible. Healthcare organizations using Zoom get access to:
- Secure video, audio, and content sharing across desktop, mobile, and conference room devices
- Support for HIPAA and PIPEDA/PHIPA compliance, including AES 256-bit encryption of all meeting data and chat messages
- Patient privacy features like Waiting Rooms
- Zoom API access for integration with your important healthcare applications, including Epic, Strmr, IntakeQ, and Practice Better
- Integrations for diagnostic cameras and other point-of-care devices, including digital stethoscopes
- Reliability and quality: HD video and audio that provides exceptional clarity and quality, so doctors can effectively assess the patient.
- Simple deployments for IT and end users: Busy healthcare IT departments require solutions that are easy to use and that they can deploy easily. Simple user management and single sign-on are essential for less tech-savvy patients and doctors.
- Compliance and security: Comprehensive compliance and security protections ensure that users and administrators feel safe using a solution. A video-based telehealth solution must enable HIPAA compliance through 256-bit AES encryption for data in transit and at rest, and without accessing protected health information.
- Integration with business-critical systems: Seamless integration with EHR and EMR systems, particularly Epic, will enable your teams to launch a video visit directly from Epic telehealth workflows and update charts and telehealth records in real time.
Additionally, U.S. congressional leaders have agreed on a massive funding bill to address the coronavirus outbreak that authorizes Medicare to waive geographic restrictions on telehealth. It also loosens restrictions on the use of a telephone to deliver care, as long as the phone has audio-visual capabilities.
I'd love to hear about how Zoom’s #HIPAA compliance has given your healthcare practice a second chance? Let's talk about it.