Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 11, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Julie A. Pursley, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA, director of health information management excellence, AHIMA. Reading news articles about vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 has been heartbreaking. My organization, the American Health Information Management […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 13, 2020
Three-quarters of patients who obtained healthcare virtually during the pandemic said they want it to be a standard part of care in the future. The result lends weight to the ongoing conversation around telehealth. A Kyruus survey of 1,000 patients found that more than 75% said they were very or completely satisfied with the virtual care they'd received, and 96% said it was somewhat, very or extremely easy to arrange a visit.
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Health Populi
JULY 20, 2020
Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020.
Mobi Health News
JULY 15, 2020
Dr. Matthew Fradkin, a pediatrician at Swedish Primary Care and Providence St. Joseph, discusses his work implementing an ambient scribe in his workflow at HIMSS20 Digital.
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 31, 2020
As we reported previously, the HIMSS 2021 conference is officially being moved to August. It will still be held in Las Vegas at the Sands EXPO Center, but now shifted to the summer – August 9-13, 2021. In a press briefing today, Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS mentioned that they have secured additional space to […].
HealthStream
JULY 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the need for healthcare organizations to have an automated solution that can quickly identify which of their nurses can most easily be cross-trained for roles that are sorely needed and then determine how much training was necessary.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 1, 2020
When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. By April, that response included virtual urgent care, remote patient-monitoring, continuous virtual monitoring for in-unit patients and a shift in ambulatory care services.
Health Populi
JULY 16, 2020
The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. FAIR Health based these numbers on private insurance claims associated with COVID-19 diagnoses, evaluating patient demographics (age, gender, geography), hospital charges and estimated allowed amounts, and patient comorbidities
Mobi Health News
JULY 20, 2020
Former U.S. Medicaid CMO Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky outlines how tech entrepreneurs, investors and digital-transformation leaders can impact a legislative fix and enable long-term telehealth access.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 31, 2020
The following is a guest article by Dr. Bob Monteverdi – Global Healthcare Solutions Leader, Lenovo. Want to know what’s top of mind for Healthcare IT leaders today? Of course, the global pandemic, but even in the midst of COVID-19, IT leaders are evaluating the impacts of new virtual technology on day-to-day operations, evaluating the […].
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HealthStream
JULY 28, 2020
For Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) who are new to the profession or even seasoned MSPs who are not regularly involved in privileging processes and are interested in a brief refresher, the following blog post details some privileging basics.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 14, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Mike Pietig, vice president of healthcare experience, Avtex. Communication is core to delivering exceptional patient experiences every day. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, and as patients and their providers slowly move forward, […]. The article Communication Is Key To Patient Experience During and After CVOID appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 14, 2020
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate challenge for Baltimore-based Kennedy Krieger Institute was shifting an almost-100% on-site outpatient workforce to an almost entirely remote one. (Its hospital has remained open, serving inpatients throughout the pandemic.). THE PROBLEM. Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years.
Health Populi
JULY 15, 2020
CVS stopped selling tobacco on October 1, 2014. In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S. public health history, a wave that has continued to grow over the past six years to this moment, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemi
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Mobi Health News
JULY 31, 2020
Dexcom president and CEO Kevin Sayer is “incredibly proud” of what the company is calling “resilient growth” in the second quarter of 2020, according to an earnings call on Tuesday. Despite having some uncertainty in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dexcom was able to produce significant year-over-year growth in Q2 2020. Sayer attributes much of the growth to a steady increase in knowledge of the company’s continuous glucose monitor (CGM), the Dexcom G6, among patients.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 29, 2020
The following is a guest article by Brian Russell, Solution Architect at Atos. Because of the shelter-in-place protocols that have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote visits to the doctor’s office have transformed from a rarely-used novelty to a necessity in many cases. Telehealth providers are seeing a significant increase in demand […].
CMS.gov
JULY 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on Americans across the country, whether in lives lost or economic impacts, and it has particularly affected our fellow citizens who have the most vulnerabilities, including the elderly and communities of color. We’ve been forced to adjust and adapt our daily lives in innumerable ways, while significant public health resources have had to be redirected to help us meet and beat this unprecedented pandemic.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 17, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. At Electronic Health Reporter, we take innovations from healthcare companies very seriously. For nearly a decade, we’ve featured their work, products, news and thought leaders in an effort to bring our readers the best, most […]. The article Healthcare’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020: Mieron VR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 28, 2020
With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. Just as telehealth has never been more important, it’s never been more important for healthcare provider organizations to make sure their telemedicine technology is finely tuned, so th
Health Populi
JULY 23, 2020
In the U.S., the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives.
Mobi Health News
JULY 6, 2020
Digital health applications are starting to make their way into regular healthcare provision. But how should they be regulated? Digital health technology assessments (HTA) are increasingly recognised as an important pillar on the way towards universal reimbursement as detailed in the latest issue of HIMSS Insights, COVID-19 and Beyond.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 10, 2020
Understatement of the Day: COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare. Turns out that this is a reality regardless of whether your healthcare organization has been hit by an influx of COVID-19 patients or not. The overwhelming feeling applies regardless of where you work in healthcare as well. I don’t know of any healthcare department that hasn’t had […].
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CMS.gov
JULY 21, 2020
Genetic testing has revolutionized health care, opening new windows on prevention and new doors to the treatment of disease. Approximately ten new genetic tests enter the market every day, including those for prenatal screening, detecting hereditary traits linked to cancer, and selecting appropriate medications.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 29, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. COVID-19 has changed the medical world. As the amount of cases continues to rise with more hospitalizations and deaths than ever before, the medical community is scrambling to keep up. How […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 1, 2020
Henry J. Austin Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Trenton, New Jersey, was having problems with payment options. THE PROBLEM. Regulations had been passed in New Jersey requiring reimbursement for telemedicine services. But the major payer sources, while aware of the new regs, had not made any changes in their reimbursement process to pay for services provided through telemedicine.
Health Populi
JULY 1, 2020
U.S. health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. according to the American Hospital Association’s report, Hospitals and Health Systems Continue to Face Unprecedented Financial Challenges Due to COVID-19.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 8, 2020
CVS Pharmacy has announced Spoken Rx, a new feature to its app that can read a specific prescription label out loud for patients with visual impairments or who cannot read standard print labels. CVS plans to add RFID labels to its prescriptions at 1,500 pharmacy locations by the end of 2020. These smart labels can be scanned by the Spoken Rx feature in the app and then read out loud in either English or Spanish.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 28, 2020
After our extremely popular virtual meetup on “How Healthcare Organizations are Integrating Virtual Chronic Care Solutions to Adjust to the Next Normal,” we decided we needed to do a follow up conversation with our panelists to cover areas of virtual care we weren’t able to get to in our first discussion. In the first discussion, […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 27, 2020
The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM. These digital health solutions include an array of modalities that reflect the wide-ranging needs of patients: synchronous, real-time video telemedicine (including outpatient
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 9, 2020
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that businesses and universities with religious or moral objections to providing employees with insurance coverage for contraception can deny that coverage. In their dissent, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the judgment means between 70,500 and 126,400 women will lose access to no-cost birth control.
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