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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The first is a standard special enrollment period for those who lose Medicaid or CHIP coverage , and the second is guidance for states to apply for Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration to provide coverage to those being released from incarceration , with a key role for care coordination technology that leverages FHIR.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? Collection. Providence St.

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Health Tech Investment in the Third Wave

Redox

Of course these levels of telehealth utilization will calm down as our agoraphobia subsides, but we’ve been broken out of our old school habits and are now willing to see our providers via a video screen. Heck, even Tinder now allows users to hop on a video call.). To add fuel to the fire (or FHIR?

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

Until now most of the ‘Call a Doctor’ services have been about marketing health insurance or running rings around Primary Care and selling prescriptions cheaply to ‘Customers’ but things will now rapidly evolve. “Apple today introduced a significant update to the Health app with the iOS 11.3

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Backline is used by clinicians in hospitals, physician practices, long-term care facilities, emergency medical services, hospices and pharmacies. Vendor emocha, which offers a technology-enabled healthcare-adherence service, leverages human engagement and video check-ins for patients with chronic and infectious diseases.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game. One such example was the successful pilot care and case management project for the CMS-funded New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids program (NJ InCK).

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Covid-19 : the defining milestone for technology in healthcare

Lloyd Price

And to some extent this is true, particularly in the short term in the sweetspot subsectors of digital primary care and remote diagnostics where new ways of working should become rapidly embedded into business-as-usual. So from what we have seen, what can we expect over the next six months? Four predictions: You can’t hide forever.