CMS to roll out 'birthing-friendly' hospital tag on Care Compare site
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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. Hospitals are not logisticians (with apologies to the materials management folks working hard out there in health systems).
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Inflation, Health, and the American Consumer – “The Devil Wears Kirkland”
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2024
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that surging hospital prices are helping to keep inflation high. Hospital costs rose 7.7% This chart from WSJ’s reporting illustrates the >2x change in the CPI for hospitals vs the overall rate of price increases. last month, the highest increase in 13 years.
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White House directs hospitals to submit COVID-19 data to HHS; telehealth helps with recovery
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 17, 2020
Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: White House directs hospitals to submit COVID-19 data to HHS; telehealth helps with recovery Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:
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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 21, 2023
RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Addressing Security and Privacy Concerns with RFID Regarding security and privacy concerns, one primary consideration is the information stored on RFID tags. However, copying or counterfeiting a unique identification code can still be a concern.
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Hospitals strive for relative normalcy; breach exposes patient data
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 12, 2020
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Shadow pharmacies playing on COVID fears; hospitals get cash injection
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 4, 2020
Primary topic: Privacy & Security Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Shadow pharmacies playing on COVID fears; hospitals get cash injection Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:
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Hospitals struggling after winter COVID-19 surge; HHS pick Becerra supports telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Primary topic: Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Hospitals struggling after winter COVID-19 surge; HHS pick Becerra supports telehealth Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:
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VIP Patients in #FHIR
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 30, 2024
The FHIR security tag `VIP` is used to indicate that a patient's health information is considered to be highly confidential and requires heightened security measures. To use the VIP security tag, simply add it to the security tag of any FHIR resource that contains the patient's health information. other content.
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Hospitals unprepared for next COVID-19 surge; VA, Philips team on tele-critical care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 10, 2020
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Hospitals unprepared for next COVID-19 surge; VA, Philips team on tele-critical care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:
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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.
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RFID: Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The following is a guest article by Jennifer Splawski, PharmD, MS, BCPS, Director of Clinical Strategy at Bluesight In the ever-evolving landscape of patient safety, a groundbreaking solution has emerged to combat medication errors and enhance operational efficiency in hospitals.
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HHS requiring hospitals to report flu data; mental health a preferred use for telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 9, 2020
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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.
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A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 22, 2020
Now, Krass said, many hospital executives are looking toward medication supply chains as other potential weak points. " One problem, he said, is the technology hospitals use to record medication use around health systems. Currently, hospitals rely on bar coding and manual counting to track drug circulation.
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S-Patch Cardio brings ECG monitoring outside the hospital
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: S-Patch Cardio brings ECG monitoring outside the hospital Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Asia Pacific
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Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 26, 2023
One might wonder – how many of those discharges included transfer of the electronic medical record data that collected in the hospital? category tags: healthcare , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care And how many discharges from post-acute facilities to home care might transfer data in a usable way?
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Four observations from AI and the Future of Care Work research
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. Virtual sitters with telehealth support are replacing the in-person in-hospital 24x7 monitoring of at-risk patients. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning
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Virtual Care: Innovations and Efficiencies for Clinicians, Patients and Administrators on the Microsoft Platform
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 27, 2020
Virtual family visits help patients in hospital stay connected. For administrators: Simplify functions and cut costs in booking appointments, scheduling and discharge planning.
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Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
News How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years In the first installment of Healthcare IT News' newest feature series, five hospital and health. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | November 01, 2021. By Bill Siwicki | October 18, 2021.
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Older Adults will benefit from AI -- sooner rather than later
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 24, 2023
Smart beds with sensors have been deployed in hospital systems. Inspiren’s Augi wall-mounted system uses video to predict falls for older adults in senior care or hospitals. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI AI-enabled cameras to detect falls and other anomalies.
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E-health in Korea: Moving care beyond the hospital
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: E-health in Korea: Moving care beyond the hospital Featured Decision Content: Sponsor: KHIDI
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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021
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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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Tweeters also expanded their use of new phrases like doom scrolling, trauma dumping, and meeting fatigue in 2019 into 2020.
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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
By Thiru Gunasegaran | September 05, 2023 News Mere digitisation of records won't cut it for a smart hospital This HIMSS23 APAC speaker will share how Taiwan’s Chang Gung Memorial Hospital transformed. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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The Nursing Home Closure Debacle – does it help anyone?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 24, 2023
You may have read this depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s the National Health System (NHS). It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix? Rant on.
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The AI opportunity – more and better services
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 4, 2023
With the rise of hospital-at-home programs , you guessed it, more will be AI-enabled. Furthermore, post-hospital care will increasingly be tech-enabled , including use of voice based chatbots like Sensely’s Molly. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , AI and machine learning , AgeTech , healthcare
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Five examples of use of AI in the care of older adults
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 30, 2023
" The HearO™ uses the patient’s speech to create a patient-specific and adaptive model, detecting differences which are characteristic of the target disorder and can lead to hospitalization/ deterioration. Learn more at Cordio.
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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2022
From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience Speakers at HIMSS22's Patient Experience Forum discuss the future of the caregiver and patient.
Beginning a Look at The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023
Aging in Place Technology Watch
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Hospitals are turning to AI and chatbots to save money – interactions are expected. Beginning a new report -- The Future of AI and Older Adults - thoughts welcome] category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , baby boomers In Scotland, a conversational AI tool, FitChat , has been developed to encourage older adults to exercise.
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The cost of long-term care -- could technology help lower it?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Searching, one finds little mention of technology for care outside of the hospital. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring. Note that Medicaid pays between 45-65% of nursing home costs in most states.
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In the senior care market, Aging 2.0 has become a very big deal
Aging in Place Technology Watch
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Hospitals in the USA are struggling with lack of timely availability of the proper non-emergency patients (NEPTS) transportation. Hippo Mobility with its medically trained drives and staff offers clean, hygienic, safe, hassle-free, cost-effective, and immediate (within 15 minutes turn around time) discharge transportation from hospitals."
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COVID-19 and digital transformation
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 21, 2020
Similar progress has been made in secondary care, with widespread moves towards digital-first outpatient appointments and some hospitals supplying iPads to enable loved ones to ‘visit’ their relatives who have been hospitalised with coronavirus, without risk of infection. It's not all plain sailing, of course.
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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O”
Health Populi
AUGUST 11, 2020
I found a vintage hotel key sticker (the Hotel Continental) which echoes theme-wise with the red key on the right, perpendicularly placed with the United States Lines tag for a cabin class cruise ship stateroom — an allusion to the cruise ships that had been super-spreaders for the coronavirus. O is for outbreak.
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Where IT leaders should focus their energies in 2022
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 28, 2022
This platform can include offering deeper dives into population health management, accurate cost of patient care, CMS and social data, supply chain optimization (especially when we are having issues with the supply chain on a global scale) and, most importantly, insight to bring more efficiencies in your daily hospital operations.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The shortage is keeping people in the hospital for longer than their health status warrants. You know the long hall – it’s where the hospital room or apartment of your family member was situated – all the way at the end. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers.
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Monitoring at home will be the norm for older adults
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 26, 2022
Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass. This will be the only way older adults will be able to remain at home.
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Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 22, 2022
Hospital at home programs are pretty popular in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The hospital at home has seen a boost in popularity, but the models have been hampered by physician uncertainty and piecemeal reimbursement arrangements. Region Tag: Global Edition. Healthcare at your doorstep.
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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023
Health Populi
APRIL 17, 2023
” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.
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AI and the Internet of Caring Things
Aging in Place Technology Watch
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
There are not enough people to provide care in hospitals that have aging populations and stagnant investment (see Britain). category tags: Generative AI , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , AgeTech The future Internet of AI-enabled Caregiving is mandatory. See Canada’s emergency rooms.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 15, 2019
The HandsFree Health executive team brings more than 150 years of healthcare experience to make managing health more convenient for consumers, employers, health plans and hospital systems.” Each tag contains a unique QR code and matching alphanumeric code. Learn more at HandsFree Health. Learn more at eTagz.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 2, 2024
category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking Medicaid Home Care Services.
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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19
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. Its rapid response underscored the importance of preparing to address unique IT challenges associated with viral outbreaks.
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AARP's AgeTech Collaborative -- mobility offerings 2023
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
It is also one of the leading causes of falls and hospitalizations, with the management of freezing episodes considered to be a significant pain point. category tags: AgeTech , vision and vision technology , robotics , fall prevention, fall detection Learn more at RightHear.
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