Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on Internet of Things security – an important topic as medical devices grow in importance and abundance. Supply chain attacks, social engineering, and over-reliance on legacy EHRs leaves healthcare organizations vulnerable , according to Imperva’s Terry Ray.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Real-time communications and enterprise visibility into topics such as the location of mobile medical equipment and when rounds last occurred keep operations running smoothly with high productivity and satisfaction. Without adequate visibility, healthcare systems struggled to properly assess need and allocate supplies as appropriate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"At Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the country, our leaders have always recognized the importance and the power of data, but the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the meaningful benefits of investing in the resources and infrastructure needed for a strong data analytics department," she said.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Consolidation includes both human and material resource consolidation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

One moment no one is talking about something, the next it is the hottest topic of the year. Or reversely, one moment we’re all talking about one topic, and the next we’ve left that topic in the dust as we all moved on to something new. That staff shortage is through the entire supply chain in the hospital for talent.

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HAY on FHIR

MARCH 25, 2021

But – it is a big topic, so let’s leave that out for now. Before getting too far into the API design, let’s think about the ‘data model’ that we’re going to need – at the FHIR resource level. Our data model becomes a ‘resource model’ – showing these interconnections. Here’s the list of candidate resources. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

" Early in the pandemic, Yale New Haven Health, like the rest of the nation, faced significant shortages of essentials including PPE, negative pressure rooms and testing supplies. PPE was in short supply. Clinicians were anxious for the safety of the patient, themselves and their families. " Ambulatory video visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

We asked members of the Healthcare IT Today community attending this year’s HFMA conference to weigh in on this always-popular topic. MCHD’s Shawn Henners said having automation technology in place laid a foundation for centralized recordkeeping and resource coordination during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hospitals that once relied on inpatient services must now pivot to accommodate fast-paced, outpatient surgery, which means administrators need to supply flip rooms, equipment and staff so surgeons can rapidly churn outpatient cases. I think that’s because we’ve underinvested in and under-resourced our pediatricians.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

With legislation currently being drafted for nurses to receive the same reimbursement doctors and physicians do, this will likely become a top-of-mind topic in 2024. The recent Humana/Cigna news will be the first of many health plan mergers in 2024 as payers seek to align strategies and optimize resources.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

And we didn’t have a sales team, we had no operations or supply chain. On the flip side, as a startup you’re always short on resources. So it gave us an area to be broad in and yet ways to narrow the focus because we don’t have unlimited resources. It’s always about resources I think. We sourced stuff globally.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

And we didn’t have a sales team, we had no operations or supply chain. On the flip side, as a startup you’re always short on resources. So it gave us an area to be broad in and yet ways to narrow the focus because we don’t have unlimited resources. It’s always about resources I think.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fidelity Investments recently explored this topic. That supply-side response will be very welcomed by consumers who have begun to view the grocery store as a partner in their and their families’ health and well-being. Over one-half of U.S. In 2023, 2 in 3 U.S. One in ten people are shopping at farmers’ markets for organics.

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