Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The previously unbreakable "Iron Triangle of Healthcare" where the constraints are healthcare systems' top priorities – Cost, Quality and Access – can now be broken with the advent of digital innovations that increase healthcare access and quality without increasing cost or even lowering cost. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

What You Should Know – As Americans set their sights on a healthier 2024, a new survey by DrFirst’s iPrescribe app reveals some interesting trends in health priorities and concerns. New Generation Weight Loss Drugs Spark Hope While only 13% currently take prescription weight loss medication, the future seems brighter.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2023

As health care is one of the top industries for AI, the forthcoming AI Convention will have important implications for the protection of health and patients. It goes on to flag common human rights issues associated with medical AI and then touches upon the most important health rights implications of the current text of the AI Convention.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in several ways, according to Chief Medical Officer Hari Nallapaneni, M.D. Despite the importance of technology, Nallapaneni stresses that “the crux of health care is the doctor-patient relationship.” Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

All these digital health companies bring in expert doctors, nurses, or other clinical staff to help them design products and interact with potential customers. Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth , describes the main job of the clinician at a digital IT company as bringing together two cultures.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients. The lawsuit – John Doe v.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement found that while 59% of health systems named health equity as a top priority in 2021, 38% of those health systems pointed to inconsistent data collection as a top barrier to achieving that goal.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to comply with these regulations, organizations that operate globally must ensure that medical information is fully protected when it is transmitted electronically and access controls are in place to ensure that only authorized individuals can view that information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this article I interview three high-level executives who made the transition from the clinical IT setting—running hospitals—to digital IT settings that develop health apps and services. Gensiger said that as an internal medicine doctor, he could expect to touch 30 to 40 thousand lives during his career.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2019

UnitedHealthcare launched a new app this week that enables its millions of members to access on-demand virtual doctor visits on their smartphones, computers and other devices. There are more than 27 million people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare health benefit plans that are eligible to use the app. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Next up is Katheron Intson , Founder and CEO at Varient , an app that tracks rare disease treatment and connects genetically similar patients to know which treatments have worked and which haven’t worked. Families could then take this information to their doctors to evaluate treatments that could help them. Chronically Simple.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtual Neurology Clinic Connecting You with Top Doctors in Neurology and Headache Medicine. The app includes a powerful headache tracker, insights on personal triggers, and unlimited access to a dedicated care team, with a near-instant ability to hold video visits with board-certified neurologists specializing in headache medicine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines. Providers using Epic®’s EHR system can search and request Sunoh.ai

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Health Populi

MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2023

What You Should Know: Patient violence is a top safety concern for healthcare workers, according to recent Motorola Healthcare Worker Safety report. Overall, the data shows that healthcare workers feel safe in their respective medical environments, but are grappling with safety issues that have dominated headlines in recent years.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S. The pandemic drove U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2023

The app has supported more than 200,000 individuals to date, with exciting plans for expansion and new offerings. What You Should Know: Mighty Health , the first all-in-one daily health program designed for adults ages 50 and up, today announced $7.6M in new financing co-led by Will Ventures and GFT Ventures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2019

These visits present patients with several barriers to care, however, including the inconvenience of travel and time off from work or school to visit their doctor. So the center decided to launch a telemedicine program, with the help of MediSprout, a telehealth technology vendor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

The information flowing through the pipes includes prescriptions, prior authorization requests, eligibility requests and patient medication history, and is largely based on FDB data. They then have to call their doctor to discuss more affordable options. How does your e-prescribing network work?

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The growth segment for telemedicine was for live video, with a decline in live phone, texting, email, picture/video, and health app/website. Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Smartphone apps, artificial intelligence solutions, biomedical sensors, and wearable fitness trackers are coming together in telemedicine, health education, disease prediction and management, etc. The following is a guest article by Subhro Mallik, SVP and Head of Life Sciences business unit at Infosys. By analyzing more than 1.6

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

to patients not seeking medical services due to cost. The latter, Boomers (who are older people), had greater interest in staying safe at home versus seeking care in a doctor’s office. To gauge Americans changing perspectives on personal health, HealthLine conducted surveys among 1,533 U.S. and 1,577 consumers in December 2020.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

During the three-month term, company representatives collaborate with doctors, researchers and administrators to understand how their products and solutions work in a real-world environment to benefit patients, clinicians and hospitals. “As one of the nation’s top-ranked hospitals, Cedars-Sinai recognizes the importance of innovation.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This can be swiftly done with medical billing outsourcing services. From doctors, nurses, and other clinicians to the medical billing and coding team and front office workers, everyone has a job to do. Patients can find it simple to pay their bills thanks to the skilled medical professionals involved in the procedure.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. All other plans landed at 73.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This year, transparency and health literacy challenges top the findings. When the three in ten folks do shop, four in ten people used the internet or mobile apps to do so — a dramatic increase from 2012. Only one in ten people always know how much their medicines will cost while still at the doctor’s.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Specifically, 50% of health consumers search to see their providers are in-network, to avoid surprise medical bills. Convenience is top-of-mind: 46% look for convenient locations, and 32% seek convenient hours and accessibility. Trust works in the other direction, too — as sources of medical information.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Furthermore, American workers’ rank top in the world for feeling burnout from and overworked on the job. Spending on mental health apps, in particular, spiked up in the COVID-19 pandemic reaching at least $500 million according to Deloitte’s analysis. . Start with the health/wealth chasm.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. Headspace, the fast-growing mobile health app focused on mental health, which I’ve described as the pandemic that will last long after “the” pandemic; and, Peloton, the connected fitness cycle.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. The company notes the top three features and services that older people seek in a mobile phone are emergency notifications, voice assistance, and access to telehealth.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

What You Should Know: – Rush University System for Health (RUSH) announced a partnership with Transcarent , a new and different health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families led by Glen Tullman, to provide 9,000 RUSH employees with a new way to access high-quality medical care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). The top factors supporting adoption were improving efficiency, safety, and diagnostic ability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 22, 2023

Most retail clinics are owned by large retail chains, illustrated in the first pie-circle chart, dominated by CVS Health’s MinuteClinic (with two-thirds of the market share), Kroger’s brand The Little Clinic *with 12%), and Walgreens’ co-owned Village Medical (comprising 8% of the retail clinic share). One-half of U.S.

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