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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Waystar Acquires HealthPay24, Accelerating Mission to Simplify Healthcare Payments

Healthcare IT Today

.” Waystar will begin serving HealthPay24’s 2,000 healthcare provider locations and their patients, adding to Waystar’s existing reach of more than one million providers across care settings, and enabling millions of patients to benefit from modern patient financial experience software.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Improve health outcomes by ensuring adequate follow-up and better patient adherence and patient satisfaction. The first strategic plan developed in 2018 has evolved to include supporting the larger objectives of the Stony Brook Medicine Clinically Integrated Network. Accelerating adoption of the technology.

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Telemedicine: What Slows Down the Healthcare of the Future

HIT Consultant

According to CRICO’s national CBS Database, 66% of malpractice cases in telemedicine from 2014 to 2018 were connected to misdiagnosis. Undoubtedly, misdiagnosis is a serious issue that slows down recovery and can worsen a patient’s health. Patient satisfaction. Government cooperation. Misdiagnoses.

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How to Create Champions of Healthcare Compliance?? 

YouCompli

She advises doing shout-outs when a department has good audit results or positive patient satisfaction survey results in employee newsletter. In 2018, Jay became an adjunct faculty member with the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, designing and teaching healthcare compliance courses.

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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Round 2 – Battle Royale for M4All vs Medicare for All Who Want It – What It Means for Industry

Health Populi

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference. Lester Holt began with Sen. “We don’t have a health care system in the U.S.