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Community Health Systems reports $2B loss for Q4 and plans to continue to sell hospitals

FierceHealthIT

Community Health Systems reported a $2 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2017, and while it continues to sell hospitals, it has provided few details for its future beyond more such sales.

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Secure Your Hospital’s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security

Healthcare IT Today

As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs), particularly regarding potential security risks associated with medical devices and other hardware.

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Ping An Good Doctor launches One Minute Clinics offering preliminary diagnosis by cloud computing Doctors

Lloyd Price

Presently, Ping An Good Doctor has already hired a large volume of highly qualified physicians from the top three hospitals. In December 2017, the Company completed the pre-IPO financing from Softbank Vision Fund, during which it raised US$400 million. At the same time, it gives the patient more humane care.

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Oncology Patients experience a personalized journey with interventions and education for better care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

The National Cancer Institute reports 2017 U.S. ” Address Patient Needs with Right Resource: When patients are not in the Clinic or Hospital, it is important to understand what they need. cancer care expenditures were $147+ billion, with anticipated increases from our aging population.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. Amazon’s healthcare dabbling stretches back to at least 2016.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. As a 73-bed acute care hospital, Bailey Medical Center was recognized with Ardent Healthcare’s Ardent Cup as an outstanding facility in four times from 2012 to 2017, and it earned a five-star CMS rating in 2017.

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“It’s 2018, and We Still Have No Idea If Mobile Healthcare Apps Work”

mHealth Insight

Meanwhile, the mHealth Economics 2017 study states that major app stores feature around 325,000 unique health apps. “Usage of mobile devices in healthcare is basically what mHealth is” Incorrect. This collection identified only six systematic reviews with 23 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Evaluations.

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