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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. This information was used to arrange for proper transportation during the evacuation.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. Alongside 3M, Sectra, and Abbadox, we designed, built, tested, documented and validated a fully functional Diagnostic Imaging network (RIS, PACS, Reporting) in 20 days. phone call, 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) immediately made a team of engineers available to us.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " Dr. Paul Testa, NYU Langone Health. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

THE LONG LEAD-UP Before we address the impact Haven will almost certainly have on the health sector at large, let’s examine how we got to this point. From there, you could potentially make a patient’s relevant personal health information available to that individual — “a portfolio of data,” Shehata calls it. “It

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient education material in the form of images, documents and videos is pushed to patients through the app, as well. eCareCompanion is a telehealth application that patients access on a secure tablet at home and use to share health information with their care team.

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Avizia CEO Mike Baird on Numbers Narrative Podcast

American Well

We have that documentation built into our platform for various ailments and specialties, whether that’s dermatology or behavioral help psychology, whether that’s language translation services, et cetera. If you think about HIPAA Compliance or HITECH compliance, these are strict rules governing patient health information, PHI.