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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. My own thought-patterns have begun to organize and assess the economic impacts of this historic adverse event on the U.S.

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

Consumer eHealth Engagement

We felt it would be valuable to extend TapCloud to our general oncology patients because we had seen such a positive response using it for those with high symptom burden and advance disease. We believe many patients and caregivers will benefit from having this tool available to use” Patient Experience.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

That context puts this year’s NurseHack4Health event all the more essential and impactful. ” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also demonstrated the power and utility of increasingly powerful yet affordable connected health devices, which could be distributed to populations who need them most as important sentinel surveillance tools. Department of Health and Human Services published the long-awaited interoperability final rules from CMS and ONC.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

time to appointment and median travel time to provider) as well as equitable care (say, the percent of patients who delay care due to access barriers like lack of broadband, out-of-pocket costs, and percent of patients who lack the language to communicate with providers). Access to care, covering both availability (e.g.,