Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare Security and Risk predictions. As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. It's clear RPM will be playing a bigger role in healthcare than it ever has before.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves,” CNN reported from an interview with Walmart CEO , Doug McMillon, titled, “We’re in the hair color phase of panic buying,” dated 22 April 2020. In the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Poll for May 2020 released this week, four in ten U.S.

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Dot Compliance

JANUARY 4, 2022

Here are three healthcare technologies that will impact life science organizations in 2022, from design through manufacturing, supply chain to end of life. Life science organizations are embracing technological innovation at a swift and significant pace. Reaching the patient remotely. While only 43% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. The following is what they had to say. Finally, the current state of tech needs to be updated.

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Health Populi

JUNE 21, 2019

each year between 2006 and 2016, employees’ healthcare cost sharing grew 4.5%. a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. As the first chart shows, trend will grow 6% from 2019 to 2020. In the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

When it comes to healthcare costs, lines that decline over time are generally seen as good news. That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. Simply put: the impact of growing financial risk for healthcare costs will be felt by patients/consumers themselves.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

Election Night, November 3, 2020, CNN’s John King stood in front of the “Key Race Alert” screen, announcing state-by-state polling results with the oft-used headline, “Too Early To Call.” This is one of nine key trends identified the annual go-to primer on the wellness market from the Global Wellness Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

A recent survey of healthcare workers (hospitals and long-term care facilities) found: 90% had experienced (or been in close proximity to) violence from a patient or a patient’s caregiver in the past month. Through RLTS platforms, security teams can be alerted to the exact location of staff who need immediate assistance. RTLS + Staff Safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Morgan Healthcare Conference is how our healthcare industry today is addressing the mental health needs of Americans. Like much of the rest of healthcare, it is a mix of exciting innovation, contradictions, siloed approaches and the entrepreneurial Wild West. Mental Health, Virtual Care and the Healthcare System.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

healthcare system. healthcare system. Stress is part of an American patient’s struggle to pay for health care, Gallup and West Health learned in their recent poll on healthcare affordability. In 2023, consumers will continue to see prescription drugs as an unaffordable line item in household healthcare spending.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Telehealth and RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The past year has been like no other for healthcare provider organization executives. The year 2020 has been a wild ride to say the least – difficult, yet full of opportunity, because the last 10 months have reaffirmed the critical importance of agility and innovation, said Mohan of Brigham & Women's Hospital. Nicholas J.

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Hall Render

MAY 5, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care? acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care?

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Hall Render

JANUARY 21, 2022

3 Population Health Trends to Watch in 2022. Amazon signals expanded healthcare push, but extent of its reach unclear. CMS healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination mandate enforceable nationwide after Texas suit dismissed. COVID-19 positive, asymptomatic healthcare workers return amid staffing shortages.

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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? Now hospitals are charging them.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

NATIONAL 9 health systems working with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple 293 hospitals at immediate risk of closure AHA chair-elect participates in CEO roundtable on rural health care crisis AHA report demonstrates benefits of 340B program AHA Urges OCR to Suspend or Amend Online Tracking Guidance AMA and others launch collective call for health equity in Rise (..)

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