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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Its ability to provide real-time information and automate processes has increased its adoption in the healthcare industry. This RFID tag offers advanced encryption, transforming physical products into secure digital platforms.

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Consider the potential for AI technology in Senior Living

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Follow the money – it might be in claims processing. Assisting with care work , it includes observation of resident trips to-from-bathroom or detecting other wandering, automating repetitive paperwork tasks, noticing falls or fall potential. You can read about AI’s trust issues in Harvard Business Review. (My

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

Non-health insurers and life sciences companies also recognize the value of clinical data and are requiring greater levels of access to power their applications and processes. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged.

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RFID: Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies

Healthcare IT Today

Error-Prone Tedium Traditionally, this process has been plagued by the potential for human error. Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers.

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Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

AI-software automates and helps guide the telehealth tasks required to build, strengthen, and expand the patient-provider relationship. Automation allows providers—without any additional staff resources and without sacrificing physician control—to give patients better service by streamlining a host of capabilities: Appointment scheduling.

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Unlike a weather event or a shooting, our response to COVID-19 is a continuously evolving process that has no endpoint and requires us to adapt by the hour," said Dr. Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes. Be sure that points of contact and processes will work for this situation.

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