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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. "There is definitely distraction that will lead to (future) delays." " Fred Bazzoli is a contributing writer to Healthcare IT News.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. When you say the words ‘data quality’ to people, they interpret it differently,” said Dr. Jirjis.

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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. Video may have killed the radio star (as the Buggles once sang on MTV), but it definitely gave life to telehealth during the pandemic.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

More than 20% of healthcare organizations that suffer a cyber attack see higher mortality rates, and the majority of healthcare organizations experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past 12 months—nearly one a week—according to a September 2022 report by Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. Healthcare is hard. But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.