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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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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this installment, you will share in expertise from: Andy Crowder, chief information and analytics officer at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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4 reasons why the healthcare industry is vulnerable to cyber attacks

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Doctors and nurses rely on these machines to monitor patient health and to serve as a partner in diagnosis. In the already overstretched world of hospitals, it is no wonder that cyber security is not top of mind for most workers. But it also makes this data an increasingly attractive target for the cybercriminals.

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Clinical Messaging Apps: What is the right business model?

Lloyd Price

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. Enhanced collaboration: Clinical messaging apps can help to improve collaboration between different healthcare providers, such as doctors, nurses, and specialists. Subscribe today!

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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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

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. eCareCompanion is a telehealth application that patients access on a secure tablet at home and use to share health information with their care team. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.