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How proactive, predictive, AI-powered patient oversight can boost health outcomes

Healthcare It News

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. Pivot Point is a health IT consulting firm and No.

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AI-powered RPM can help address the rural neonatal care crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As hospital consolidation continues nationwide, rural areas are beginning to take a new shape – and it is not a pretty picture. Even more stunning, these newly acquired hospitals are more likely to eliminate maternity and neonatal care than those that remain independent. hospitals rose 45% from 2006 to 2015.

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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22

HIT Consultant

Health Service Equities and Big Pharma: Healthcare Service equities underperformed the S&P 500, but the outperformance of the Big Pharma and Biotech sub-sectors allowed healthcare overall to keep pace with the market. Hospital stocks dropped 32.6% in Q2 2022, with only Acadia Healthcare posting a gain in share price.

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How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare organizations have occasionally been held liable for data breaches, but technology suppliers may also bear some of the blame. IoT devices may be housed at a patient’s home rather than a hospital’s network, which adds to the confusion.

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Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Zack Tisch, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting Medical devices have long existed and added value at points in the healthcare experience. About Zack Tisch Zack Tisch is the Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting.

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Patient engagement tech evolving as consumerization transforms healthcare

Healthcare It News

As digital health and telemedicine technologies continue to explode, patients increasingly are being drawn into their care in ways unlike ever before. And hospitals and health systems know they must find ways to engage their patients to keep them healthy and satisfied.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

HIT Consultant

For instance, while 25% of the observed telemedicine companies received 10.0x Note that point estimates such as the mean or median can often be misleading on their own, as they do not convey the level of variability which can be very high such as in the Telemedicine and Population Health sectors. revenue at exit. Q2 HEADLINES.