Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world."

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Why AI matters Healthcare organizations are hot on the trail of digital transformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of these groundbreaking technologies. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of these groundbreaking technologies. Because AI uses machines to do tasks that traditionally require human intelligence (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." You can really envision the delivery of automated services – public health services, social services – anywhere to the person in the community.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond. What have been some of yours?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Like most other hospitals and health systems nationwide, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health has had to make some pretty big changes to the way it does business over the past few months of this ongoing pandemic. But having been hyper-focused on the public health emergency since March, Atrium has begun to expand its offering.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2020

In a previous interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr Hwang explained that IT preparedness of hospitals and healthcare providers is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19. In a previous interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr Hwang explained that IT preparedness of hospitals and healthcare providers is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. But some big questions still need ironing out, as regulations and reimbursement mechanisms are in major flux.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

SSM Health, a health system that serves Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, is always looking for ways to reduce the cost of healthcare while increasing access for the patients it serves. Telemedicine vendor Zipnosis proposed collaborating with SSM Health on a virtual visit solution. " Grady Brimley, SSM Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

As healthcare manages the twin challenges of a shrinking workforce and an expanding patient population , hospitals and health systems are faced with some fundamental challenges. And they're spending lots and lots of money to help manage them. Accenture data shows that nearly two out of every three dollars spent by U.S.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 29, 2019

Reactions to news last monththat Amazon’s voice-controlled digital assistant Alexa was to begin using NHS website information to answer health queries were many and varied. Why Amazon is moving into health Few doubt new digital technologies have roles to play in the huge challenges healthcare systems are facing.

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Enzyme Health

MAY 22, 2019

Doctors and nurse practitioners are likely to see a growing demand in the telehealth space - increasing job security and opportunities in an alternative career path that is only becoming more prevalent. Retailers, insurance providers, and software companies are fast and furiously forming partnerships in the telehealth space.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Some of the biggest and most famous tech companies are making big bets on health care. In other words, a huge opportunity. Health care is incredibly backward in its use of information and consumer technologies and there are ample opportunities to improve patient care while reducing cost. But something is happening here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. Healthcare IT News sat down with Geoffrey Boyce, CEO and cofounder of Array Behavioral Care, a telemedicine provider that specializes in behavioral health, to discuss the DEA, telepsychiatry challenges and much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 5, 2019

Weekly News Recap. PatientsLikeMe seeks a a buyer after the federal government’s foreign investment review committee demands that its majority investor, a China-base firm, divest its holdings. Amazon announces the availability of six new HIPAA-compliant Alexa healthcare skills. Best Reader Comments. Randy Bak ).

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The good news is that reimbursement is on a steady upswing and 2019 was especially positive. The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 gained significant support from more than 100 organizations, including the American Medical Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. " It's a word, he said, that "has come, and is going to disappear.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

**While Amazon and Google get lots of positive PR and media attention as major healthcare industry disruptors, don’t forget about the two big “W’s,” Walgreens and Walmart, in the healthcare innovator mix. The complications of healthcare are, today, the opportunities to develop innovations and novel on-ramps for health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. in medicine in all aspects.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Mobile Devices and Health was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. health care spending, 3 so the promise of mobile health is especially attractive.” Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., mHealth Insights. mHealth Insights. More than 40% of U.S.

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