Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 12, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. Developments in technology have had a profound impact on nearly every aspect of our lives. We can hardly get through an hour without tech having an effect on what we’re doing, let alone a full day.
Geonetric
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Breaking Down Google’s BERT Algorithm The latest Google algorithm update is based on a tool created last year, the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, or BERT for short. BERT uses artificial intelligence (AI) to understand search queries by focusing on the natural language and not just choosing the main keywords. The most significant change Google […].
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American Well
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The accelerating adoption of telehealth as health systems and others realize the value it can have on transforming their organizations and improving provider and patient experiences is exciting. While software is sometimes seen as the flashier part of telehealth, telemedicine devices and carts are often the places where organizations start their journey.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Amazon Web Services has introduced a new line of business focused on tackling in on one of the most vexing day-to-day problems physicians face. The behemoth tech firm is rolling out a version of its new speech recognition technology designed to help developers integrate medical transcription functions into relevant applications like EHRs. The new offering, […].
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InTouch Health
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Surprising Facts About Telehealth and How It’s Changing Medical Care. Telehealth continues to surprise even its most adamant supporters. As more facilities and health networks adopt this technology, we continue to discover more ways in can be used. Telehealth has come a long way since it was first introduced back in the 1950s and 60s. Today, telehealth is changing the way providers administer care to their patients.
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Health Populi
DECEMBER 9, 2019
As Boomers age, they’re adopting mobile and smart technology platforms that enable people to communicate with loved ones, manage retirement investment portfolios, ask Alexa to play Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits, and manage prescription refills from the local grocery store pharmacy. Last week, the Giant Eagle grocery chain was the first pharmacy retailer to offer a new medication management skill via Alexa.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and retail giant Walmart have opened the latest location as part of a joint effort help Vets in rural areas get better access to medical services, the first location for a new telehealth pilot program. WHY IT MATTERS. The store, located in Asheboro, North Carolina, is part of a public-private affiliation whereby Walmart donated equipment and space allowing Veterans to meet with a VA provider in a private room through video technology.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 9, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Blaise Wabo, associate director, A-LIGN. As the technology industry continues to experience continuous, rapid change and advancements, other industries are faced with the challenge of incorporating these new technologies, creating rules and regulations in order to ensure the safety and privacy of consumers and businesses.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 9, 2019
tudents and teachers can effortlessly switch between VR and the real world with just one click in laboratory lessons, learning from the virtual human body and real cadavers simultaneously.
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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.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 9, 2019
There’s something like cognitive dissonance as I prepare my 2020 Health Populi TrendCast of what to expect in the health/care ecosystem in the new year. One of my key pillars for health-making is food-as-medicine, and that opportunity in this moment resonates in this holiday season with Dickens’ “Best of Times, Worst of Times” context-setting that kicks off Great Expectations.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The second year of the Summit tackled issues in town and far away. In the portfolio of the 2019 events produced by Mary Furlong and Associates , the Washington Innovations in Longevity Summit is relatively new, in its second year. But it is unique in its objectives – topics spanned the regulatory environment and included insights and innovations outside of the US.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 11, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Elevator pitch CareClinic acts as a virtual advocate that enables patients and caregivers to analyze the entire treatment experience outside the clinical setting (including meds, meals, symptoms, side effects, activities and other experiences) and analyze the resulting patterns and correlations that can help improve outcomes using AI.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 9, 2019
The employees were brought back after the company secured $5 million in emergency funding, but CNBC's report suggests that several are now looking elsewhere for work.
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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 10, 2019
ORLANDO, FLORIDA—A nationwide effort to improve and coordinate patient safety measures will strive to make a connection between workplace and patient safety.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Partners HealthCare on Thursday announced a new five-year technology initiative designed to drive digital innovation, improve clinical care and enhance the patient experience. WHY IT MATTERS. Partners officials say the program – as part of its five-year systemwide strategy and rebranding designed to position it as "health care system of the future" – will focus on digital innovations for diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, analytics and population health.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 9, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Response by Kristin Simonini, vice president of product, Applause. Healthcare has long been looked at as a laggard when it comes to adopting digital services. Part of that is due to the stringent regulations of the industry and the sensitivity surrounding personally identifiable information.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Speakers at the Healthcare Security Forum in Boston discuss the rise of connected medical devices and what that means for a security team.
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Despite the health benefits, fewer Americans have a primary care provider, according to a new study. The number of patients in the U.S. who have a primary care provider declined by 2% in a little over a decade, according to the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 12, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Nordics, Dutch are leading lights in ehealth in Europe Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Jayapal latest lawmaker to press Google on Ascension deal — Azar-Verma feud escalates
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 11, 2019
iFit has added more than 77,000 paid subscribers in the last quarter, giving the company a userbase of roughly 330,000 members.
Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist
If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 12, 2019
CVS is launching a new program aimed at boosting access to genetic testing for people with advanced cancers with the goal of expanding treatment options and getting patients treated more quickly.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Ensuring health innovation helps, not hurts, disparities in care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The following is a guest article by Dan Stevens, a member of Lenovo’s Health Care strategy team. Those of us of a certain age remember what computers used to be like. We each had a big, pale white computer tower on our desks, whirring and grinding and spewing out warm air like an overpriced space […].
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The algorithm used by the Ibex Second Read system was developed using advanced machine learning techniques and trained on data sets from Maccabi's pathology institute.
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FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 11, 2019
While the U.S. leads in aspects of health information technology, its primary care physicians still struggle to coordinate patient care and communicate with other health and social service providers, according to a new study. The study, published in Health Affairs, looks at how the United States’ primary care health system stacks up with 11 other high-income countries.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How clinical research is benefiting from digital trials Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Leslie Wainwright, PhD., chief funding and innovation officer, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI). Addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) in communities is a hot topic of conversation in healthcare. The industry has bought into the theory that 20 percent of an individual’s health is determined by clinical care and the rest by […].
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