Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Each day, we learn of hospitals across the country shutting their doors, which leaves those communities abandoned from the local healthcare services that they sorely need. Introduce advanced medical equipment to enable monitoring and alerting services Robotic process automation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

These will be prioritized to immunize three target groups: healthcare workforce consisting of service providers, management & support workers in hospitals and social care, adults above 65, and about 45% of adults with comorbidities. hospital margins will improve from Q2 with new revenue innovation and reimbursement transformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Those challenges include the need to rapidly expand telemedicine capabilities, shifting a large portion of hospital staff to teleworking, and immediate changes in the electronic health record to support COVID-19 care. This includes an incident command dashboard of automated metrics to help assess the evolving situation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | July 25, 2023 News AI helps Mount Sinai organize and unlock largely untapped surgical data The New York hospital's vice chairman of urology and robotics operations explains how a new.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Consider that older adults remain in hospitals and rehab facilities because there are no workers to help them with care at home. See robots in manufacturing, automated floor cleaners in stores, or voice-AI order taking in drive-throughs. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The key to utility in healthcare and senior care settings will be the automated production of analytics that aid in decision-making – who fell and why? Older adults who live alone do not want to be transferred to a nursing home after hospital discharge. Or incident detection is too late to prevent injury.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

billion bid for home health company, Amedisys , part of a trend to move as much care from the hospital to home. Even hospital systems see the importance of moving treatments into the home. Caregiver support : AI can assist professional caregivers by automating administrative tasks, scheduling appointments, and coordinating care plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Andrea Fox | August 29, 2023 News HCA working with Google Cloud on clinical generative AI The healthcare giant will expand its work with Google to help automate workflows and streamline. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement The process.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Moving forward, this type of technology, often AI-enabled, is increasingly likely to be part of offerings from health insurers to improve subscriber engagement and wellbeing of health plan participants, enabling them to remain at home (and out of the hospital). Iamfine daily automated calls. Learn more at GrandPad.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This medication non-adherence (not filling prescriptions or missing dosages) is a major health issue – resulting in 10% of hospitalizations, 125,000 deaths, and costing the healthcare system up to $300 billion/year. Then there is MedMinder , an automated dispensing box that can be preloaded by the pharmacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Learn more about the survey, and the role of automation in supporting patient scheduling, communication, and engagement, in the recent Healthcare IT Today interview with Stericycle’s Matt Dickson.). DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. As he noted, despite the initiatives to automate health record data exchanges across platforms, fax still dominates – and needs to access and deliver information securely. Learn more. Learn more.

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Medicine and Technology

APRIL 16, 2013

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) aren't just being used to track hospital beds and wheelchairs. RTLS is being used to track hand washing in hospitals. The automated system collects up to 5,000 data points a day vs. 700 per year with manual observation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Understanding ASCs Regulatory Changes and Their Billing Practices Outpatient surgery centers (ASCs) perform many surgical procedures outside of hospitals. ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. They use robust billing software with regulatory guidelines, automated coding checks, and auditing functions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Nowhere is this fear more prominent than a hospital or clinic setting. Registration kiosks in hospital lobbies may soon be enabled with facial recognition software to eliminate the need for touching any surface. Remote monitoring and automated communication.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

A lot of stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem strongly believe big tech should be defending the data, helping make data more secure, tagged and categorised. In July, hackers who targeted hospitals in New Zealand's Waikato district released patient information to media outlets just as health systems struggled to come back online.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Abridge transforms conversations into automated documentation. Patients can also get automated care plans, intelligent nudges on next steps, and enhanced health literacy." Learn more. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth. Canary Speech. Learn more. . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Abridge transforms conversations into automated documentation. Patients can also get automated care plans, intelligent nudges on next steps, and enhanced health literacy." Learn more. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth. Canary Speech. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They also keep patients with less severe cases out of hospitals, so preserving precious bed space for patients with severe cases. Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Find clinics and hospitals nearby your location, request and manage appointments, view your care providers’ contact information, and communicate with them via secure messaging. The company’s GetWell Loop™ enables care teams to engage all patients before and after admission through automated daily check-ins. Learn more at BeyondVerbal.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually. Delays can result in life-threatening events, hospitalization, and/or death. Just 21% are fully electronic. Approvals can take 1-14 days, denials can take 1 day to many months.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

Right now, data about me is controlled by EHR and health app vendors, hospitals, insurance companies, government, and companies with a business model that sells data about me – not me. To be able to pull data from participating hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and personal health apps. Medication lookup engine from RXNorm.

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HIStalk Interviews

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I said, boy, there’s an awfully difficult and hard to manage supply chain for drugs inside the hospital, not to mention outside. How are hospitals using Internet of Things and RFID? You typically hear about RFID in hospitals for tracking things that you don’t want to throw away, like capital equipment and people.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the most intriguing presentations – KidsMD – a Boston Children’s Hospital ‘accelerator’ initiative begun in 2016 and is winning over the staff. We could start with Twitter, which is deleting millions of bots, trolls, and other fake accounts (often with automated software generating hundreds of tweets per day). Read more here.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

He struggles to manage COVID-19 and life outside of the hospital with his sister and mother. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. A Texas ICU nurse is hospitalized with COVID-19 after testing negative. Tagging is further search refinement. In Part 1: What Could Go Wrong? Short summary.

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