Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. In a recent survey, 86% of healthcare providers said that they use a clinical messaging app. Zinc: Zinc is a clinical messaging app that is specifically designed for use in hospitals.

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Mobile Health Matters

MAY 7, 2018

As nurses increasingly play a bolder role in healthcare, health IT vendors and hospital leadership have a responsibility to help foster growth and success for nurses. Both parties need to remember that maintaining nursing satisfaction is as important as improving efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

For example, surgeons might notice their care team takes longer to respond to patient messages than their partner's care team does. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital. Can they change their habits to address that lag time?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

For example, the Brigham Home Hospital program leveraged Biofourmis’ AI-based technology to improve outcomes while lowering costs by 38%, the company reported. Patients answer survey questions and enter requested measurements to enable the care team’s assessment.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. For example, what happens when you tell Siri or Google Assistant you can’t breathe?

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