Tue.Oct 25, 2022

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Irrational Exuberance for Hospital-To-Home? Care About the Caregivers, the House, the Fridge.

Health Populi

Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . It depends, I hedge in my latest essay for Medecision. In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Consider, The caregivers for the folks heading home from hospital.

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3 wearable health projects in Australia score federal funding

Mobi Health News

They will try out wearable technologies to improve health monitoring.

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HIMSS promotes key policies on telehealth expansion, maternal health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations. As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. The first is focused on protecting access to care via the telehealth flexibilities that have enabled broad expansion and uptake of virtual care since the start of the C

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Fertility startup AIVF buys lab management software company ART Compass

Mobi Health News

This summer, AIVF announced it had raised $25 million in Series A funding.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing?

Healthcare IT Today

This week I read an essay by Health Futures President Jeff Goldsmith which made a case for moving beyond a much-beloved way of thinking about innovation and growth. In his essay, which appeared in The Health Care Blog , author Goldsmith argues that the concept of disruption as having “passed its sell-by date” after mass adoption by those who see it as gospel.

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Greenway Incorporating Health Equity Features into its EHR

Healthcare IT Today

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. This means, for example, offering treatment and medication options that are suited to the patient’s current situation (socioeconomic status, transportation availability, location, etc.). The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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Are Hospitals the Next Blockbuster Video? 10 Digital Health Strategy Must-Haves

Xealth

Mike McSherry, CEO and Co-founder. The innovator’s dilemma: Can health systems afford a digital health future? Can they afford not to? When it comes to digital health strategies, few large health systems are implementing them effectively and at scale. While many are aspirational, we often see them stuck in analysis paralysis and unable to actuate real changes across their organization. .

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How the Digital Health Partnership Award is changing how we implement technology to support patients

Digital Leaders HealthTech

We know that delivering digital health solutions to support patients and improve outcomes is a focus of many NHS organisations across the country. The management and delivery of these projects, however, can often prove challenging. It was with this in mind that we launched the Digital Health Partnership Award. As the name suggests, the award focuses on how a partnership approach to the development and delivery of digital projects can help unblock the barriers in implementing technology solution

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IHE FHIR Privacy Consent IG

Healthcare Exchange Standards

IHE IT-Infrastructure has agreed to start a new work item on the topic of Privacy Consent, using FHIR. This minimally would be a re-evaluation of the use-cases in BPPC for use with FHIR Consent, but likely will go beyond that scope simply because of modern needs, modern toolings, and ease at which the FHIR Consent can support them. I really don't want to call this new IHE-Profile "BPPCm", the BPPC acronym is hard enough to say without tacking on an 'm'.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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What is the Hybrid Healthcare System & How Does It Work?

Mend

The Hybrid Healthcare System has become more popular since the adoption of telehealth, but how does it sync with your in-person treatment? Learn more here. A hybrid healthcare system combines the best aspects of in-person and virtual visits. This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience.

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Nextech Announces Acquisition of TouchMD, Enhancing Specialty Practice Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Nextech , the market leader providing a single, comprehensive specialty practice solution including Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) functionality, is pleased to announce its acquisition of TouchMD , a visual consultation, marketing, and imaging software platform for plastic surgery, medspa, dermatology, and ophthalmology practices.

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The intersection of remote patient monitoring and AI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Robin Farmanfarmaian is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur working in technology and artificial intelligence. She has been involved with more than 20 early-stage biotech and healthcare startups, including ones working on medical devices and digital health. With more than 180 speaking engagements in 15 countries, she has educated audiences on many aspects of technology intersecting healthcare, including artificial intelligence and the shift in healthcare delivery to the patient's home.

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