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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. This is a story worth watching.

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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon

Health Populi

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally. Whether working in rural America, urban Britain, central Mumbai or suburban Auckland, the nursing profession s in a world of hurt.

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. Some states allow nurse practitioners to practice independently without physician oversight, while other states require physician oversight for NP practice, prescribing, or both.

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

The future of immune health. Resetting events with wellness. I’ll focus on #1, although mindfulness and mental health play into every single one of the eight other trends in the GWI line-up. Spiritual and numinous moments in architecture. Just breathe! The self-care renaissance. Money out loud (on financial wellness).

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). For two consecutive years, the health system was named among the Best Places to Work in Illinois.