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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

In that quarter-century since Negroponte made that prescient observation, we come to better understand that being a Digital Society has its upsides and downfalls, alike. Misuse of personal data is the top driver of distrust in the tech industry around the world, among 64% of global citizens. He said that in 1995.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 19, 2023

With the increasing reliance on technology in the healthcare industry, the risk of cyberattacks on healthcare organizations is a growing concern. According to a report from the Ponemon Institute/IBM Security, healthcare data breaches are rising, with the average data breach cost now totaling $6.45

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Regulatory Considerations for Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : What to Expect at HIMSS24.

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Why AI matters Healthcare organizations are hot on the trail of digital transformation. data analysis), it empowers providers to be smarter, faster, and more efficient in their care delivery. Currently, the healthcare industry generates 30% of the world’s data volume. enabling telehealth visits).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jon Zimmerman , CEO at Holon Solutions In today’s healthcare landscape, clinical information systems are valuable tools for coordinating care and improving outcomes. This situation is fundamentally unacceptable; the healthcare system can do better for its workers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The fax machine is the technology that everyone in healthcare loves to hate – but 75% of patient information is still exchanged via fax.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telehealth encounters have the potential to save $250 billion in healthcare expenditures annually across covered populations, a McKinsey & Company analysis has found. You've said that creating true value from virtual care demands that healthcare providers and health plans design their digital trajectory with intention.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The use of technology to remotely monitor patients has revolutionized the healthcare industry, allowing healthcare professionals to provide better care for their patients from anywhere. In this article, we will discuss five of the best remote patient monitoring devices available to healthcare professionals.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

The technology behemoth is preparing a move into the healthcare market, but critics fear profit will come before patients and privacy. Critics saw it as a sign of creeping privatisation and a data-protection disaster in waiting. Yet the company’s move into healthcare raises some fundamental questions.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2018

By expanding access to medical expertise and addressing bottlenecks in the Chinese healthcare system using technology, WeDoctor is giving the world a glimpse of what the future of medicine might look like. That is why I set up WeDoctor in 2010. For patients, it means all-time access to quality healthcare.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The UK’s Department of Health & Social Care has issued a fascinating Policy Paper on The future of healthcare: our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care. Or we could use robotics and voice assistants to support people and their carers in rehabilitation, dementia support or medication management.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Patients are the ultimate stakeholder in healthcare – the ones with the most at stake in how well the system achieves its purpose, which is to care for people in need. To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. . She had to sign paper forms and pay fees for printed records.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

The core of the criminal action was something inevitable: the tension between better health and better profit. The company was doing well, but there was always pressure to find more revenue. We had a small team that worked closely with pharmaceutical companies and generated revenue from these relationships.

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Redox

APRIL 29, 2019

Data sharing versus data protecting. Whichever side of the industry you’re on, chances are you’re feeling frustrated with IT in healthcare, where the pace of innovation is slow and the memories of painful transitions are vivid. Dissonance and expectation gaps. Culture lags.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though?

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. The API stipulates how software components should interact. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. The API stipulates how software components should interact. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Troy Yoder, global healthcare leader at Cisco, leads healthcare innovation at the company and has helped healthcare provider organization clients double down in the last year – especially in virtual care. How will this affect healthcare delivery and the future of telehealth?

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Taiwan Excellence is presenting Taiwan’s best tech brands in addressing the growing demand for rising medical issues. You will find the newest tech solutions, including 5G, AIoT technique, VR, AI healthcare solutions and intelligent indoor positioning system. Cashing in on Industrial Data: Data Exchanges, Brokering and Analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want. A Tribute to Casey Quinlan – Advocate and Renaissance Woman.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They will fuel improvements across the healthcare value chain, starting with a better understanding of physiology and disease, to efficiencies in disease management, treatment protocols, and even billing and reimbursement. A recent survey found that more than half of healthcare professionals don’t believe AI is ready for medical use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 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

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. Over the last few years, the healthcare industry has seen a significant increase in cybersecurity attacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Peter Newton, Senior Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet Personal medical and financial data is incredibly valuable, which is why healthcare organizations are high-value targets for cybercriminals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Realtime location systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in popularity and importance: addressing staff safety and duress. This is one of the reasons why more healthcare organizations are considering an RTLS solution. RTLS + Staff Safety.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm. However, the order doesn’t go far enough to protect patient safety.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 28, 2015

I am very encouraged by all the efforts in Healthcare on Privacy. The problem with defining Privacy, even in Healthcare, is that there really isn't a single definition of Privacy. This is why Privacy is often described in terms of Privacy Principles. The reason is that Privacy has multiple dimensions. 93579; 5 U.S.C.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. TETHERED PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS VERSUS PATIENT PORTALS A tethered PHR, as defined by the ONC, is an online interface tied to an EHR with which patients may view and sometimes interact with their health data. These are called tethered PHRs or connected PHRs.

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Waracle

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

My simplest explanation of ledger technology is that it is a data structure, instead of resting with a single provider, shared among a distributed network of computers. This lets the owner commission users on to the network and write the rules when it comes to how the network operates and data is processed. . Blockchain.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 5, 2019

Amazon announces the availability of six new HIPAA-compliant Alexa healthcare skills. Walgreens says it will accelerate digitalization of the company, make executive team changes, cut costs, and redesign stores following poor quarterly results that sent shares down sharply. The patient does not own the data. Data owner ).

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Several provider organizations develop Health Record Request Wizard, an online tool that walks patients through submitting a request to providers for electronic copies of their medical records. Creating a network of social services that includes the healthcare system is our only hope. Lauren McDevitt ). Lafsky, MD ).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. Representation through data is the key to practically enabling health equity. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Here’s a look at what can payers and providers can expect to occur, why each change is occurring, and how payers and providers can prepare for each change: 1.

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