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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"There is definitely distraction that will lead to (future) delays." "The most impacted are in the area of clinical informatics, such as chief medical information officers and chief nursing information officers – they are being overwhelmed with the need to take care of the present need."

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Digital Diabetes Management in the Hot Seat

Digital Health Wire

The report’s reliance on predictive models rather than actual cost studies overlooks real-world evidence, particularly concerning products like Dario, which has independent studies demonstrating reductions in both costs and hospitalizations. The post Digital Diabetes Management in the Hot Seat appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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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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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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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Good Quality Data According to Dr. Jirjis, before healthcare leaders can be convinced to invest in data quality, everyone must agree to a common definition of what that is. With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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Critics noted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service still has a strict definition for “rural,” and it limits what telehealth services can be provided to rural sites. Those provisions were met with approval, and also some disappointment.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

These types of vulnerable clinical systems also add another pathway for launching a ransomware attack on a hospital. It is not hard to imagine the magnitude of impact if malicious actors obtain control over medical systems and remove them from operation at a hospital with hundreds of beds.