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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mobility Patient Engagement With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.

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Carrot Health Joins 2021 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Carrot Health, a leading provider of healthcare solutions powered by consumer and claims data, ranked among the top 400 fastest-growing private companies in its inaugural appearance on the 2021 Inc. 5000. The company revealed today that […]. The article Carrot Health Joins 2021 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Apple scaling back employees-only virtual care app, says Insider

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Apple is reportedly reducing a key health division project that employees could use to track fitness goals, manage blood pressure and communicate with primary care clinicians. As reported by Insider 's Blake Dodge, the app, called HealthHabit, is the biggest project to come from Apple's health clinics following their 2018 acquisition from Crossover Health.

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Remote Patient Monitoring is Building the Plane While It’s Taking Off

Healthcare IT Today

As we put together our list of top remote patient monitoring (RPM) companies, I realized that the RPM solutions and the market itself were still in the early stages. Unlike the live video telehealth which matured really quickly during COVID-19 and was already maturing prior to COVID, the RPM market is still in its early […].

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Study: Scheduling systems lead to longer wait times for Black patients

Healthcare It News

A study published earlier this month in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management found that scheduling systems that rely on machine learning to identify patients with the highest no-show risk can lead to longer wait times for Black patients. In response, researchers developed a methodology aimed at both reducing racial disparity and achieving scheduling efficiency.

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Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic”

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. If you work in healthcare, you need to read this book. It is well worth your time and shows quite effectively how one person can create and cause change that can ripple through an industry. […]. The article Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic” appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Is It Epic’s Fault or Your Health System’s?

Healthcare IT Today

In another in our ongoing series that highlights issues with the EHR vs how a health system configures the EHR comes this tweet from Stacy Hurt: In ongoing Epic/MyChart saga, tech support told me I have to fill out this proxy request form and ?? MAIL it to my dr’s office to send attachments ????? […].

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Verily teams up with Mayo Clinic to develop clinical support tool

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […]. The article Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Big Tech in Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/27 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “Big Tech in Healthcare.” After the big news last week that Google and Apple were both Scaling back Healthcare Efforts, […].

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Make Patient Data More Useful Today: Here’s How

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Just like other segments of the financial industry, insurance services providers have been severely shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. The increasing rate of unemployment in many places and the rise in claims have contributed to […]. The article Make Patient Data More Useful Today: Here’s How appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mass. community health centers conduct more than 1M telehealth visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center Telehealth Consortium announced this week that its dozens of members have conducted more than one million telehealth visits total since March 2020. The Consortium, comprising 35 community health centers, has also passed the halfway mark of its $12 million goal aimed at sustaining telehealth capacity and addressing disparities among patients served.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Meditation company Headspace merges with digital behavioral health startup Ginger

Mobi Health News

Ginger’s CEO Russel Glass will take over as CEO of Headspace Health, and Headspace CEO CeCe Morken will continue to serve as Headspace CEO and president of the combined company.

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KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B

Fierce Healthcare

KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:01.

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Dr. David Nash, Katherine Capps To Headline hc1’s 2021 Precision Health Virtual Summit

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. hc1, the leader in critical insight, analytics, and solutions for precision health, announces that Katherine Capps and David Nash, MD, MBA, will deliver the mainstage keynote addresses at its second annual Precision Health Virtual Summit. […]. The article Dr.

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Telehealth, virtual care well-suited for use in behavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care can help fill the gaps in behavioral healthcare, including the critical supply-and-demand issue – too many patients, not enough clinicians – that has been hampering care for quite some time. This was the focus of a HIMSS21 Digital discussion between Michael Hasselberg, senior director of digital health at the University of Rochester and Julie Rish, clinical psychologist and director of design and best practices at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Curebase teams up with AppliedVR on pain treatment and other digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: NeuroFlow teams up with the Independence Blue Cross Foundation and Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic to provide its mental health software to frontline healthcare workers.

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Effective patient-centered care begins with empathy, not technology

Healthcare It News

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Innovation Options For Healthcare IT leaders

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jörg Schwarz, director of strategy and solutions, Infor Interoperability The COVID-19 pandemic has served as an innovation catalyst for many healthcare delivery organizations. Within a short period of time, health systems had to find ways […].

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Kaiser Permanente gives $143K toward telehealth expansion in Hawaii

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Kaiser Permanente has donated a total of $143,000 to four safety net organizations that aim to expand virtual care to low-income and unhoused communities across Hawaii. The organization did so through the Virtual Care Innovation Network, a Kaiser Permanente-founded collaboration that aims to solve challenges associated with telehealth's implementation and sustainability.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Google pulls the plug on Streams in Google Health shutdown

Mobi Health News

The app was used by the U.K.’s National Health Service to help clinicians access patient information, but most NHS Trusts had reportedly stopped using it.

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Alphabet's Verily, Mayo Clinic team up on decision support tech for cardiovascular care

Fierce Healthcare

Alphabet's Verily, Mayo Clinic team up on decision support tech for cardiovascular care. hlandi. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 09:08.

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5 Benefits of Upgrading Your Lab Equipment

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. While technology is constantly evolving, most laboratories continue to use outdated equipment and manual processes for routine tasks. If you are using obsolete equipment, it may result in problems with precision, accuracy, and output, which […].

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Q&A with Mayo Clinic’s Mark Wehde on the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

At the recent DesignCon, an engineering conference and expo, Mark Wehde from Mayo Clinic was the keynote speaker. In his keynote he discussed the future of healthcare. Afterward, he dove into the key points of his presentation in this Q&A. We’re in the midst of a transformative era with regard to medical device innovation. What […].

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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Independent pharmacists sound the alarm on Surescripts, GoodRx partnership

Mobi Health News

The pharmacists argue the partnership will hurt independent pharmacies and hides the real issues behind high drug costs.

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Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group

Fierce Healthcare

Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group. pminemyer. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 16:29.

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More Than 350,000 Health Apps Available To Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. We, as people, have become more and more aware of the importance of taking care of our own health and wellbeing. This means that we all are looking for the best ways to monitor our […]. The article More Than 350,000 Health Apps Available To Patients appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Frequently Overlooked Forms Management and the Value of EHR Integration

Healthcare IT Today

When a CIO looks at their healthcare organization, they see hundreds of opportunities to improve their processes and better leverage technology. Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging. One example of a […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.