Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We’re working on a full article about this, but most of you have probably seen that Judy Faulkner and her company, Epic, have asked their customers to send a letter to HHS asking for them to stop the health data blocking rule that’s about to be finalized. There’s a lot of nuance to this discussion […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

Health care (and cancer care in particular) is a team sport and takes a proverbial village to surround the patient, so Jasper, like Walgreens, has been building out its own family of alliances. The graphic here comes from data presented in the report on the volume of estimated missed screenings in the U.S.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

By enabling remote monitoring and seamless communication, DrKumo RPM empowers patients to actively participate in their care while facilitating collaboration with healthcare providers. High levels of patient compliance contribute to better treatment outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and improved overall patient satisfaction.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2022

The previous articles in this series described what it’s like to try to get home treatments for COVID-19, and how it would ideally work. This final article looks at particular changes that regulators and health IT practitioners could do to help cope with the next health crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2021

The following is a guest article by Bevey Miner, Chief Marketing Officer for Consensus. As COVID-19 escalated, New York City Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest safety-net health delivery system, was inundated with cases. How about a positive healthcare story from the pandemic in 2020?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

The following is a guest article by Josh Coleman , Managing Partner at Treacy & Company by Cherry Bekaert Healthcare has undergone massive changes over the past few years. In this article, we look closely at how AI is being used in healthcare and the innovations in store for the near future.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Of these patients, 43% followed up with a medical professional – and 82% had their self-diagnosis confirmed. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2021

The following is a guest article by Robin Gaster, CEO of Incumetrics. For 100 years, retailers have segmented the broad marketplace into groups – soccer moms, or Millennials, or New Yorkers, or readers… pretty much every retailer uses target segments like those. But Amazon has never been interested.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

This article provides an in-depth exploration of CMS’s involvement in RPM, its significance, challenges, and future prospects. The agency has established specific billing codes and reimbursement rates for RPM-related services, making it financially feasible for providers to offer these services to eligible patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The following is a guest article by Stephanie Maharjan, Director of Operations at WellReceived. While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. So, it’s essential providers have a secure system to manage it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

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… Seeing How Patients Experience RCM. John also asked the experts what RCM looks like to patients. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

While the Amazon Halo has some innovative features, it has also faced criticism and concerns regarding privacy and data security. The device collects a significant amount of personal health data, which raises privacy concerns among users. Amazon Care Amazon Care is a healthcare service provided by Amazon for its employees.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. That’s what patient portals promise – a simple, digital way to access medical records, book appointments, and chat with doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2021

The following is a guest article by Mike Linnert, Chief Executive Officer & Founder at SymphonyRM. March is National Kidney Month, which highlights the 37 million people in the U.S. more than 1 in 7 adults – who suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD). What’s even more alarming: Approximately 90% of those with CKD […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” ” was quite interesting. I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2021

The following is the guest article by Michele Kratz, Vice President of Operations at HGS AxisPoint Health. Our overall health is determined not only by the health of our physical systems, but also by our mental […]. Humans are complex systems, but we’re no more than the sum of our parts — all of our parts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This article focuses on revenue, because I and other writers frequently cover impacts of televisits on access and care plans. ” Remote patient monitoring. The premise of this article embraces an irony. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

The following is a guest article by Andrea Tait, VP of Client Value, Orion Health. Patient-Generated Data’s Place in Patient Care Today, health systems have increasingly recognized the need to be patient-centered, with a focus on empowering and engaging patients to assist them in maintaining their own health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Mike Linnert, Chief Executive Officer & Founder at SymphonyRM. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in our healthcare system, but also illuminated opportunities for clinics and systems to build deeper relationships with existing and new patients and drive lifetime value.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” Here’s Ascension’s press release on the collaboration , described in the title as “healthcare transformation.”

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Disclaimer: This article, “Unveiling the Transformative Power: Benefits of AI in Healthcare,” serves as informational and educational content only and does not constitute medical advice. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach patient care, diagnostics, and treatment plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The following is a guest article by Blake Walker, CEO at Inbox Health. The dreaded healthcare bill: patients’ anxiety rises the second it lands in their mailbox or inbox, and practices find the process of managing patient billing arduous. Practices and billing teams have the ability to set the terms (e.g.,

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), on the other hand, refers to the use of medical devices and technology to collect and transmit health data from patients in their homes to healthcare providers for monitoring and interpretation. This data is then transmitted to healthcare providers for monitoring and interpretation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The following is a guest article by Cliff Frank, Executive Director, Shore Quality Partners Data infrastructure plays an important role in healthcare networks’ ability to navigate evolving care delivery and payment models.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Bruce Bassi, Advisory Board Member at CharmHealth Most patients have almost certainly received an invitation to join their electronic medical record communication system, or portal for their particular doctor’s office.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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care innovations

AUGUST 22, 2018

The report notes the contrast between traditional care’s “costly in-person visits” and the power of RPM to “ passively and continuously collect and transmit patient-generated health data (PGHD) from in-home medical devices to providers and care teams” — data that can offer: Better insight into current lifestyle choices and past health history.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. For years, patient portals have been considered the most efficient tool for patient engagement. But the problem is that, in many cases, they were created just to tick a box, without a focus on patients’ actual needs. Summing up.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 25, 2024

By continuously monitoring vital signs, symptoms, and adherence to treatment plans, DrKumo’s Patient Monitoring System aims to provide early detection of health complications, personalized care interventions, and enhanced patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Michael Armstrong, Chief Technology Officer at Authenticx. From disease detection and treatment management to patient communications, AI plays an ever increasing role in the healthcare industry. Will healthcare organizations sacrifice data privacy as they implement and rely more on AI?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. People are sick of being sick, the New York Times tells us. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data. You can read the full article here. Read Bryan’s full article here. Luke's Health Systems in helping drive better outcomes with the use or our RPM solution and services.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Up to 70% of clinical decisions are influenced by laboratory results 1 and approximately 30% of patient encounters result in a provider ordering a lab test 2. Secure digital access to diagnostic results is essential for a seamless patient experience. making it easy for authorized users to get a complete view of their patients.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Becoming a patient is not something we asked for or chose; yet we try to find ways to make the best of the situation and hopefully improve our care, lower our cost, and help those trying to care for us. To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. . Unconscionable.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The following is a guest article by Chad Anguilm, Vice President of Growth at Medical Advantage. Patient engagement is the next frontier in healthcare and single-platform patient portals created the digital foundation for this ongoing transformation. Removal of Barriers to Patient Data. Remote Patient Monitoring .

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