Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 12, 2020
The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. John Thune, R-South Dakota, and Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, and from Reps.
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2020
Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling?
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 12, 2020
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief clinical officer for Providence St. Joseph Health, talks about the use of chatbots, telemedicine and drive-thru clinics in treating the virus.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 11, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Health-tracking wearables — which include monitoring devices like Fitbits and smartwatches — have entered the mainstream. They are providing both consumers and health care professionals alike with unprecedented amounts of […].
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 12, 2020
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Eric J. Neil UW Medicine was one of the first healthcare systems on the front line of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America. His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 9, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox. Very few businesses today use fax machines, yet more than 9 billion faxes are still sent every year in healthcare, according to DirectTrust. Eighty percent of all serious medical mistakes […]. The article Are Providers Ready For The End of Fax?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 13, 2020
Orion Health released a pandemic outbreak monitoring platform to help healthcare organizations respond to the COVID-19 virus, as well as a website to help people globally understand their risk for the disease. Among the core features of the platform are remote monitoring capabilities, allowing for the engagement of patients in their homes, as well as facilitating communication between quarantined people and the healthcare service and maintaining visibility of those recently discharged.
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
Livongo Health, Hinge Health, Hello Heart, Torchlight and Whil each underwent "rigorous clinical, data security and business evaluation" for inclusion in the program.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 8, 2020
One of the things that hurt most about the cancellation of HIMSS20 was that it meant we wouldn’t be able to hold our various #HIMSS20 meetups. It’s always so educational to learn from our panel of experts and influencers and to learn from you in the audience. We have great news! We’ll be holding all […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2020
Sentinel Healthcare, a digital-healthcare vendor that specializes in remote patient-monitoring, today has launched a real-time coronavirus and flu-tracking mobile application, Sentinel Fever Tracker, for ongoing quarantine management efforts. WHY IT MATTERS. The new product is designed to support health systems, government agencies, hospitals and employers in their quarantine-management efforts.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 9, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rob Wiley, head of marketing and product strategy, Formstack. If you’re in healthcare, it’s likely because you have a passion for helping others and solving problems. Those on the IT side of the industry […]. The article Digitizing Healthcare: What It Means For The IT Professional appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2020
As a new study shows that no country has achieved gender equality, eight women in health tech tell us whether they are seeing any changes in the industry.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 10, 2020
When a family member is in the hospital and we get word they can go home, we’re relieved. But this is often followed by profound anxiety. Are we up to the task to help them recover at home? A daunting list forms as we get them dressed and packed. Around the same time, a nurse […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2020
Australian GPs using the PrimaryClinic practice management software by software provider Global Health can conduct remote video conference consultations with patients showing symptoms for COVID-19, the company recently announced. Through Global Health’s video-conferencing platform, GPs can screen clients and avoid having them present to the clinic thereby reducing the risk of contamination.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 13, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Tools4ever, one of the world’s largest providers of identity governance and administration solutions and services, is proud to announce that it has been certified for the ISO 27001 standard. This certification is issued by Brand […]. The article Tools4ever’s Information Security Systems Achieve ISO 27001 Certification appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2020
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (Ping An) launched its COVID-19 smart image-reading system on February 19, which was developed by Ping An Smart Healthcare, the smart health care team of subsidiary Ping An Smart City. The system assists doctors with efficient and accurate diagnoses by leveraging Ping An’s AI tech, which could help control the epidemic through earlier diagnoses and treatment.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 11, 2020
Hard to believe it was only 9 days ago that we first wrote about the coronavirus and Health IT (now more officially called Covid-19). Seems like much longer, but that could be due to HIMSS cancelling and the threat of coronavirus swirling over us. No doubt it’s been a tense time for everyone as we […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 9, 2020
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 10, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. If you are in need of a medical procedure or treatment, you have very likely been given a rundown of risks and side effects that can come up during a procedure as well as the […]. The article Lasers and Medicine: How New Methods are Making for Better Treatment appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the US, healthcare providers and industry experts take to Twitter to dispel myths.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 13, 2020
For many providers, obtaining a prior authorization (PA) involves manually faxing documents to a payer or sitting on hold for a long time – an inefficient and error prone process. The solution is not as easy as adopting automation. As we learned in a recent panel of experts from J2 Global, WEDI and CAQH, addressing […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 9, 2020
Relapse rates for people recovering from substance abuse are between 40% and 60% , but health IT vendors DrFirst and GoHipo are collaborating on a new approach to post-discharge care designed to help people beat the odds. The approach keeps patients connected with their treatment centers’ care teams using a mobile app for secure messaging and telehealth services.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 10, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a fact sheet with additional guidance for healthcare providers and patients about the telehealth benefits in the agency’s Medicare program. The fact sheet is part of […]. The article CMS: Telehealth Benefits In Medicare Are A Lifeline for Patients During Coronavirus Outbreak appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 13, 2020
A nation of over 200 million citizens, Pakistan is a major player in South Asia, with a large population to care for. Like many countries around the world, it is struggling to address the shortage of doctors and prevalence of chronic diseases while ensuring access to affordable medicine. But where there are challenges, there is also room for innovation.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 11, 2020
One of the most common comments we get here at Healthcare IT Today is “Why Doesn’t [Insert Big Tech Company] get into healthcare and fix healthcare?” That’s often followed by something about their favorite tech devices or application and how easy it is to use and how challenging many of the EHR and health IT […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 9, 2020
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Deploying telehealth to improve access to healthcare Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK Right Now:
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 9, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today finalized two transformative rules that will give patients unprecedented safe, secure access to their health data. Interoperability has been pursued by multiple administrations and numerous […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
The crisis is opening up new opportunities for health and tech, but it is also bringing new challenges.
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