Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The attack kept Change Healthcare’s systems down for three weeks, even prompting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deploy accelerated payments and loan programs for healthcare organizations affected by the attack, akin to the support deployed during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As was the case with many healthcare organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a significant increase in telehealth visits for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – especially in outpatient clinics. Higginson, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. With the right tools, extending care outside the hospital is not only feasible, but in many cases preferred.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care setting that needs to be well integrated into the care continuum. What are the challenges for effective hospital-at-home coordination?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2022

Healthcare organizations each faced an average of 109 cyberattacks per week last year, by far the most of any industry. Patients who are monitored or managed at home using a health system's technology likely do not have such strict safeguards in place. Why are cybercriminals targeting patients at home?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

No doubt it’s the biggest risk to a healthcare organization and the attackers only need a slight opening in your security defenses to wreak havoc. I’ll admit that I’d almost forgotten how many breaches occured on mobile devices. The speakers shared that 45% of breaches were occuring on mobile devices.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Ardy and the team call Seqster “the operating system for health care,” a trademarked phrase. Second, add into the mix: Ardy’s parents are both cancer survivors and as he describes himself, he’s the “poster child” for family health issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"Geisinger will be able to accelerate our vision and continue to invest in new and existing capabilities and facilities, while charting a path for the future of American health care, through Risant Health," said Dr. Jaewon Ryu , president and CEO of Geisinger Health, said in Wednesday's announcement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. Providers, payers, and pharma comprise the bulk of revenue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2024

Heart failure hospitalizations are a leading cause of admissions for those 65 and older, totaling hundreds of billions in costs. Sean Brady, CEO and cofounder of Ventric Health, is doing his part to turn this problem around. Please describe your newly FDA-cleared cardiac device for heart failure and discuss how it works.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to push patients away from in-person care, many health systems have ramped up their remote patient monitoring ecosystems. " Domas notes that one misconception she often encounters is the idea that patient monitoring devices are below hackers' notice. " Domas said with a laugh.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 19, 2023

Use of artificial intelligence technology efficiently identifies eligible patient candidates for pivotal clinical trial; program launched at The Christ Health Network SANTA CLARA, Calif. & a medical device company developing a novel transcatheter device-based therapy to address heart failure (HF), and egnite, Inc. ,

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The following is a guest article by Wes Wright , Chief Healthcare Officer at Ordr The number of connected devices in a healthcare facility has increased dramatically in the past few years. Real-time visibility allows organizations to understand potential security risks and address issues before they become problems.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 5, 2023

Initially focused on exercise markers, these devices now include measurements relevant to physiology and healthcare. The public is eager to adopt these devices, believing they can help identify and monitor cardiovascular disease. Consequently, clinicians often encounter health app data accompanied by diverse concerns and queries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these systems were not planned in great detail, and not planned with a great deal of permanence in mind. During the last two years, U.S. Why is this?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jatin (JT) Thakkar, General Manager for Global Services and Solutions at Carestream Every day patients trust their health to the care of medical providers. They also place their personal health information (PHI) in their care. The radiology department at St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 17, 2022

The current cyber environment means that it's often not enough for healthcare delivery organizations to secure their own boundaries – as noted in a Cloud Security Alliance report this week. Health systems must also ensure vendor partners are compliant with privacy and security best practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2020

Community-healthcare-systems vendor CPSI has launched TalkWithYourDoc.com, designed to be an effective alternative to face-to-face medical visits for patients and doctors amidst the COVID-19 crisis. CPSI is offering the product for free for the remainder of 2020 to help healthcare-provider organizations during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Telemedicine in these areas provides chronic patients, for example, with access to medical specialists without traveling an extended distance, and can allow providers to identify particular social determinants of health such as lack of access to food. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced a collaboration with OSF HealthCare, an integrated health system caring for patients throughout Illinois and Michigan, and Pointcore, Inc., The agreement is the result of extensive collaboration between OSF HealthCare, Pointcore (and its predecessor, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

However, with billions of connected devices, the security of IoT devices in the healthcare industry has become a major concern, as cyber threats like data breaches and ransomware attacks can compromise sensitive medical information. End-users also play an important role in securing their IoT devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

United Health Services Hospitals is a health system serving South Central New York and based in Vestal, New York. Britton, system program manager, UHS virtual healthcare and digital transformation. Britton, United Health Services Hospitals. " Dr. John Giannone, United Health Services Hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

Luke’s is a Duluth, Minnesota-based health system that serves the communities of northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. "In addition, we appreciated the two-way video and versatile configurations of room devices, which enable a wide range of virtual care advances," she noted.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

The following is a guest article by Narinder Singh , Co-Founder and CEO at LookDeep Health In 2016, attackers gained unauthorized access to Banner Health’s systems through the payment processing system used in the organization’s food and beverage outlets and used it as a gateway to access patient information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Health systems in hard-hit states such as Louisiana, New York and Ohio have been approved for a total of $3.23 Here's how hospitals can apply. The first round of winners are: Grady Memorial Hospital – Atlanta. Mount Sinai Health System – New York City. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who has written about health IT and EHR for 18 years, I like to think there’s nothing about health IT that I haven’t written about. There’s nothing worse for a nurse or doctor than to have to search for a charged device to be able to help the patient. The Lock Socket can help you save on those costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. Healthcare organizations, however, should not wait until these government mandates come into play.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

Nashville-based Ardent Health Services says it will roll out a new remote care platform from Cadence to help its providers better manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. WHY IT MATTERS. It also addresses deeper issues dragging down patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, has been having a problem with digital health inequities. Uncontrolled chronic disease is another issue, said Dr. Robert Fields, executive vice president and chief population health officer. " Dr. Robert Fields, Mount Sinai Health System. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years. Yet, despite the stakes, many healthcare organizations aren’t as well-protected as they could be.

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Xealth

APRIL 3, 2023

David Schoolcraft, General Counsel The healthcare industry’s focus on remote patient monitoring (RPM) to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes raises several legal questions among health systems and vendors. Think of RPM liability as similar to the potential liability for any medical device used to treat patients in the hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Growth-stage funding will power the company’s expansion as demand soars for MIC’s FDA-cleared platform, Sickbay™, which unlocks waveform data from the patient’s bedside to help hospitals rapidly scale bed and staff capacity, stratify risk and deliver patient-centered, data-driven care. . Medical Informatics Corp. CEO and co-founder of MIC.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The virtual nursing program is the latest step in a series of digital health innovation programs at Mary Washington Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

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. However, it is usually piecemealed. Having prioritized, aligned goals is an important first step to making progress.

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