Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dr. Shah comes to Abridge as one of the leading experts in issues facing America’s physicians, nurses and broader clinical workforce for over a decade. Her work has included operationalizing strategies to address clinician burnout, rapidly standing up digital health solutions for clinicians during the pandemic, and shaping U.S.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Consolidation will continue industry wide. More healthcare entities will continue to merge together.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As health/care goes omni-channel enabling patients-as-consumers to express their service demands across a platform of virtual and in-person front-doors, so the pharmacy will be embedded in these work- and life-flows. Welcome to the growing digitization of the consumer’s health-journey.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Industries such as travel and food delivery have changed dramatically over the years — all thanks to going virtual. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s Telehome Monitoring Program also has patients sending in their data with a home monitor, and a cardiac nurse reviews the data daily and follows up as needed.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

Why it matters: As health systems push more care outside hospital walls, they’re charging extra “facility fees” for common services like blood tests, X-rays and, in some cases, even telehealth visits. Critics say the practice drives up health care costs while padding hospital profits and incentivizing more consolidation.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

However, a plethora of service-industry jobs can’t be done remotely, leading to job-loss or furloughs. The jobs least likely to be able to work from home, these Bureau of Labor Statistics demonstrate , including childcare workers, retail employees, cleaning staff, cooks and food servers, and nursing aides. poverty rate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Reenita Das Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. This article was co-authored with Chandni Mathur, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Our clinicians — nurses, physicians and pharmacists — continue to be the most-trusted honest and ethical professions in the overall U.S. economy, not just in the health care economy.

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American Well

MAY 16, 2017

In the world of telehealth, licensing and credentialing issues are amongst the initial concerns many health systems have when considering integrating telemedicine into their system. There is a nursing compact for RNs interested in streamlining the licensing process as well. What is Credentialing?

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American Well

MAY 16, 2017

In the world of telehealth, licensing and credentialing issues are amongst the initial concerns many health systems have when considering integrating telemedicine into their system. There is a nursing compact for RNs interested in streamlining the licensing process as well. What is Credentialing?

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis. They believe that users can be easily identified.

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Mobile Health Health Data Digital Health Nursing 282

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. They include a report that says the US could see a deficit of 200,000 to 450,000 registered nurses by 2025.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem. CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More seniors will be cared for in homes and/or in PACE programs versus skilled nursing facilities. So those of us who work in education will need to train medical, nursing, and other students for a healthcare future that looks quite different from the healthcare present and takes place in settings we couldn’t imagine 10 years ago.

Primary Care 41

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Furthermore, Genentech added health care providers into the study subject mix: they polled 403 HCPs covering physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants.

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Public Health Nursing Healthcare Improvement Health Policy 170

Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

On a per-person basis, the state lags most others in nurses and hospital rooms designed to isolate patients with infectious, airborne diseases, according to a nationwide index of health-security measures. The nurse did not want to be named for fear of reprisal by Swedish. The nurse is now on medical leave.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 1, 2020

In the past, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could do so. CMS is also now requiring nursing homes to inform residents, their families, and representatives of COVID-19 outbreaks in their facilities.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. I had been skeptical of telemedicine going in. Despite her physical remoteness, she connected with him, and he opened up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

To help ensure you don’t get left behind, we’ve assembled the top six challenges the industry will face in 2019. Physician and nurse shortages will continue to intensify in 2019, creating significant operational and financial challenges for healthcare organizations. Shifting the focus from payment reform to delivery reform.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. This has yet to be demonstrated (in healthcare or any other industry).

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

When providers avoid treating Medicaid patients on a large scale, the medical industry is effectively assigning care based on income and social class. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. But there’s another repercussion people don’t always like to talk about.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The impact of connected health technology had limitations due to three key challenges that every new device or healthcare technology face.

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Connected Health Telehealth Medicare Health Technology 52

Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

Test samples will be sent to whichever private laboratories have capacity, patients will be transferred from overloaded hospitals to less-crowded locations and physicians and nurses will make greater use of telemedicine. Emergency rooms will be slammed with visits from the worried well and the dangerously sick alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Understanding a patient’s healthcare journey is crucial for improving outcomes, yet the ability to access treatments is often hindered by inefficient, disconnected processes inherent within the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

By pairing our team’s clinical knowledge with the right artificial intelligence model, our goal is to elevate the industry standards for the speed and accuracy of chart abstraction. Sarah collaborates with several teams at ReMedi , including leadership, data migration, chronic care management, and health policy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

The Great Resignation has had real, material impacts in health systems the world over. the growing use of traveling nurses, for example, has led to greater labor costs, eroding financial operating margins and some hospitals’ fiscal viability. In the U.S., For a comprehensive look at staff shortages of clinicians in the U.S.,

Public Health 170

Public Health Nursing Mental health Interoperability 170

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

More virtual care could include nurses offering guidance on day-to-day health issues and physicians monitoring and visiting virtually with chronically ill patients at home. “As Wiggins said providers should think like a product manager in industrial America who is responsible for the entire value chain.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. All these factors contribute to the massive administrative waste in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Our industry has put 100 million Americans in debt and causes 40% of bankruptcies. Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science at mPulse Mobile , introduced me to the term “techquity,” which means ensuring health equity in technology and tailoring interventions to the person. One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I laud these programs initiated by private sector businesses and health care stakeholders. Health consumers absolutely want to engage across all industry segments for health, we learned from the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer back in 2010 (shown in the bar chart here taken from my book HealthConsuming ).

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

Using geospatial modeling and lots of data analysis via Cerner’s trove of information, the health system was able to identify a cluster around an African-American church. This inspired a partnership between the health care organization, the church, and nurses who were also part of that community.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

7 – Nurse claims North Texas Hospital fired her because she wanted to wear a medical mask (discussed above). #6 The post The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Three health care professions rank in the top four of the most honest and ethical rankings in Gallup’s annual poll on honesty and ethics in professions. And nurses are at the top of the list for the 20th year in a row. million nursing professionals. and other countries’) health care systems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2023

the good news for the human capital of health care is that nurses, physicians and pharmacists continue to lead Americans’ ratings across professions in first, second, and third place respectively. Now, to the more nuanced finding this year that Americans’ trust in our front-line health care staff has ticked downward.

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