Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Its ability to provide real-time information and automate processes has increased its adoption in the healthcare industry. This RFID tag offers advanced encryption, transforming physical products into secure digital platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly. The much-discussed "digital divide" should disabuse us of this notion.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Clinicians from Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine collaborated on this work, calling out the relatively fast adoption of HaH programs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry. This article offers a simple five-step framework for adopting AI/ML-powered customer experience solutions in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. healthcare system needs to aspire to and is working towards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Globally the response has divided and united populations and no less so in the UK, says global digital adviser and NHS clinician Dr Sam Shah. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country in the first few months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Aaron Kaufman, EVP at Carenet Health. By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Odds are good you used a digital payment method, alongside the 93% of consumers who say they’ve used tools like Venmo and Zelle over the last year.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. Adopt sound security protocols and tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. Complementing BEAD is the Digital Equity Act program that is granting $2.5

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Digital Transformation Healthcare Movement. For many years, healthcare organizations relied on paper-based files and film images, hesitant to move to onsite software systems and electronic health records (EHR) solutions. At the heart of these changes was the adoption of cloud-based solutions. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The disruption from the pandemic and its aftermath has led to the rapid acceleration of healthcare digitization and the adoption of new technology to meet facility needs. The use of RTLS asset management provides an annual savings of ~$2 million at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S. “Macy’s?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. FCC-certified wireless power has already been adopted in retail and logistics operations by some of the world’s largest brands.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. health citizens into hygiene shoppers. “H” is for hand-washing. “I” is for Italy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. " Dr. Bradley Crotty, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. " Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, CareMount Medical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Adopting FHIR standards for integrating data with a physician's daily workflow.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton. Throughout, they have been dramatically accelerating their adoption of telehealth capabilities to circumvent physical, in-person care limitations imposed by the pandemic. Some important considerations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. Digital Transformation Must Align with Quadruple Aim.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors. By providing transparency and education on the technology’s purpose and benefits, leadership and healthcare professionals are more likely to accept and adopt the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Claus Jensen, chief innovation officer at Teladoc Health, says the question isn't just about what other kinds of healthcare can be made virtual. It's also about using clinical, technical and logistical tools to help patients make the best health decisions. What happened last time I saw a mental health provider?"

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor?

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