HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Lindsay Oberleitner, PhD, Education Director at SimplePractice In the current digital landscape, the impact of social media on youth mental health is becoming an increasingly pressing concern. In joining my personal interest in these issues and my professional experience, I hope to provide a multifaceted perspective to this topic.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The digital health economic, clinical, regulatory, and political landscapes have changed significantly since then. In fact, Can Moneyball Become Moneycare: How Predictive Informatics Can Make mHealth (digital health) a Success the first post, discussed artificial intelligence as it might relate to healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Before HLTH 2022 kicks off next week in Las Vegas, we asked 17 digital health executives for their predictions and major themes to expect at HLTH. A recent study indicated that it would require a PCP 26.7 Big tech and healthcare companies are paying attention, as indicated by the recent moves of Amazon, CVS and Walgreens.

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Dossier

APRIL 25, 2023

Contributor: Ryan Owens PharmD, Editorial Director, Special Publishing American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) What we can do to reduce adverse drug events and medical errors. Despite advancements in healthcare technology and medication safeguards, medical errors continue to occur at a high rate within health systems.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What You Should Know: – As COVID-19 accelerated demand for more advanced digital health and patient engagement technologies, hospital and health system IT departments shouldered these expectations – rolling out new capabilities in record time, while still balancing daily operational support responsibilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. According to Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science, mPulse Mobile is always listening for a potential mental health concern or an indication that the patient is isolated.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

The US health system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. For example, throughout 2023 about one in three Americans were affected by health-related data breaches. Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 13, 2023

The stakes are high, with an organization’s financial health, reputation, and overall legitimacy on the line. Let’s dive into a few survival strategies for inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Surviving an OSHA inspection is serious business. OSHA Healthcare Inspections What are OSHA Inspections?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

The sector has long had a reputation for lagging behind other industries when it comes to embracing digital transformation. Failing to train staff properly: Research shows employees’ lack of training is a leading cause of digital transformation not being successful. While frontline workers represent  over 70%  of the U.S.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Just last week, five organizations were officially recognized as QualIfied Health Information Networks (QHINs) and HHS announced TEFCA as officially operational. Last week ONC finalized the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing ( HTI-1 ) rule.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Let’s explore some of these key questions with two of Dell Technologies’ subject matter experts in these topics, Romina Elias, Healthcare Chief Nursing Information Officer and Jeff Kenkel, Global Chief Technology Officer, Life Sciences and Edge. Would you like to share any final thoughts on this topic?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

MEDITECH and Google Health Partner on Integrated Solution. MEDITECH announced a new collaboration with Google Health that will embed Google’s search and summarization capabilities within the Expanse EHR. Samsung Advances Smart Hospital Experience with New Connected TV and Mobile Digital Health Solutions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

assume the role of payor when they are enrolled in high-deductible health plans. People are also the payor when dealing with paying greater co-payments for prescription drugs, especially as new therapeutic innovations come out of pipelines into commercial markets bearing six-digit prices for oncology and other categories.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

And since the conference was virtual, what better topic to start us off today than a consideration of the new Virtual-First trend that surfaced in 2021. We’ll follow that with a dive onto the couch to consider the conference’s mental health offerings and where the behavioral health sector is heading. Babylon entered the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

8 digital health and life sciences executives share their hot takes and insights from the recent annual JPM Healthcare Conference 2024 Virgil Bretz, co-founder and CEO of MacroHealth “The annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is still one of the most efficient ways to meet with capital partners. Charlie Lougheed, CEO of Axuall, Inc.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The products had been improperly regularized in ANVISA as cosmetics since they are indicated for injectable use, a form that is not authorized for this category of product. After receiving complaints, ANVSA performed joint inspections with local health surveillance agencies.

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Hall Render

JUNE 29, 2023

While it is important for entities that engage in human subject research to review and understand the Draft Guidance adopted by the FDA given that it reflects the FDA’s current thinking on this topic, such entities should remember that guidance documents do not establish any rights and are not binding on the FDA or the public. The post U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. " MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

. “We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 1, 2023

Both Colleen and Brad have decades of experience in FDA regulation, but we have different impressions on that topic, so we decided to inform the debate with a systematic look at the data. Parenthetically, you will note that we typically round to two significant digits. MDRs do not indicate the need for a recall.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Part 1 is an overview of challenges many health care leaders face with shifting reimbursement. Additional articles will focus on various specific areas, such as data analytics, and key performance indicators (KPIs). The government is reforming healthcare into a new health ecosystem. The result?

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

2022 was a year with high and low points for the health care real estate industry. To subscribe to our weekly health care real estate briefing, click here. By mid-year, those topics disappeared from the front page for the first time since early 2020. health care companies now have a speculative credit rating.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

An investigation by The Markup and Stat has uncovered a tracking tool used by 33 of the country’s top 100 hospitals that collects patients’ protected health information (PHI) and sends it to Facebook—including details about medical conditions, prescriptions, and physician appointments.

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SQA

JANUARY 25, 2021

Zerbaxa (ceftolozane/tazobactam) is indicated for the treatment of the following infections in adults: complicated intra-abdominal infections, acute pyelonephritis, complicated urinary tract infections, and hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), including Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP). European Medicines Agency (EMA).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts of the bills, and introduces Imprivata digital identity technology, which has been used in health care for such purposes for many years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut is a five-hospital, seven-campus health system that includes a large physician practice, numerous ambulatory centers and a home care agency. All Yale New Haven Health entities are on a single instance of the Epic EHR that spans Connecticut into western Rhode Island and Westchester County, New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Cassie Choi, Co-founder and chief health equity & people officer at Pair Team 1. Community health workers will become a pillar of the healthcare community. Digital health will be critical for advancing health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

As he explained to Colin Hung, that’s why Raft Digital Therapeutics created a game called Cloud Bazaar to captures a child’s movement as a way to advance the main character through the game. Read more… Transforming Pharmacies into Health Clinics. Read more… Unpacking Use Cases for VR in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Digital Transformation is a huge buzz word in the world of healthcare at the moment. With the pandemic, we had to scramble to find a digital way to do many things in order to stay safe. For some organizations, being rushed to find a digital solution has left certain areas unsupported. Angie Franks, CEO at ABOUT Healthcare.

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