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Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. That goes well beyond the lights and tones of the past.

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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. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Department of Health and Human Services published the long-awaited interoperability final rules from CMS and ONC.

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. Instead, their case managers partner with community institutions to help patients. They use AI and NLP and work with clients to create effective auto-responders to patient inquiries.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Click here to read the first feature, on AI and machine learning, and click here to read the second feature, on interoperability. During the course of the pandemic, 1,400 caregivers have been trained and have performed some manner of virtual visit. Investing in consolidation. Currently, 10% of ambulatory visits are video-based.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations. One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30). Sagility employs SDoH to help manage the total cost of care.