Category: EHR & EMR

May 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection […]

May 5, 2023

It’s a fact: More than 80% of data breaches involve a human in some way. That could involve someone falling for a spear-phishing campaign designed to solicit credentials, clicking on a malicious link, or a simple error that leaves a […]

April 28, 2023

COVID-19 was an unexpected public health crisis that put healthcare systems around the world on edge. Hospitals struggled to meet the increasing demand for healthcare. There weren’t enough hospital beds, not enough PPE, and certainly not enough staff to treat […]

April 25, 2023

The prevailing global economic conditions are negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Continuing staff shortages, endemic COVID-19, high inflation rates, and supply chain disruptions continue to drive medical costs higher, worsening what is already a persistent challenge for health insurers. To […]

March 31, 2023

What You Should Know: The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care. To that […]

March 22, 2023

The remote patient monitoring market is expected to reach $760 million by 2030, growing at a 8.9% annual rate between 2020 and 2030. The term refers to the technology that enables medical professionals to monitor the health of their patients […]

March 17, 2023

Frailty is conceptualized as decreased physiologic reserve and inability to withstand physical and psychological stressors. The goal of frailty measurement is to identify high-risk older adults and to target interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes. Despite the utility of frailty […]

March 13, 2023

Big data? It’s being collected everywhere in healthcare settings; constantly generated by smartwatches and other consumer wearables, health apps, electronic health records (EHRs), and through genomics. We already know data is gold. And, at this particular point in time, we’re […]

February 28, 2023

Telehealth Care While Traveling For consumers who received telehealth care while traveling, speed and convenience (52%) were the top factors influencing their decisions, followed by the ability to receive care from their regular care team (27%), and cost (19%). Care […]

February 20, 2023

You go to a website and begin looking around for a healthcare product. In the current times, that can mean searching for a prescription drug that is not permitted in certain states or trying to get easier access because going […]

February 9, 2023

National telehealth utilization increased 1.9% month-over-month among the privately insured population in November 2022, following a one-month period of decline, according to a new analysis from Fair Health’s monthly tracker. The increase follows a bump in COVID-19 virtual diagnoses, which […]

February 8, 2023

Summus Announces Modern Industry-Specific Methodology to Quantify Return on Investment (ROI) of Virtual Specialty Care Services Summus (@SummusGlobal), a virtual specialty care provider, unveiled an industry-first, proprietary methodology to quantify the return on investment (ROI) for organizations using virtual specialty […]

January 25, 2023

The results are from an online survey of 1,014 U.S. consumers conducted by Propeller Insights between October 13, 2022, and October 24, 2022. The survey reveals additional insights regarding data access, ownership, and security. Seventy-four percent of respondents indicate that […]

January 23, 2023

The challenges healthcare providers face in managing patient mental health are multitude. The mental health situation in America continues to trend in a concerning direction. 20% of Americans reported suffering from a mental illness in 2019 and 2020, making for […]

January 18, 2023

Thousands of times a day, at health systems throughout the US, workers manually search for patient medical charts, print them out on paper, or save them to a file—and then fax, mail, or email them to a payer or third […]

January 17, 2023

The first annual State of Interoperability report offers comprehensive insights from more than 130 executive decision-makers across the healthcare ecosystem, including health systems, EHRs, digital health organizations and diagnostic labs, to discover emerging trends and perspectives on critical issues impacting […]

January 11, 2023

Founded in 2009, Independa, Inc, is the innovator of the award-winning TV-based social engagement, education and care platform. It’s latest survey found that 71% of users accessed telehealth using their smartphones, and that 65% used their television for telehealth appointments. […]

January 10, 2023

As the year 2022 draws to a close, many will remember it as being notorious for inflation, stock drops, 7 interest rate hikes that seemed to be shaping up into a possible recession. In this period of extreme economic uncertainty, […]

January 9, 2023

Monogram is focused exclusively on managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) at home. The company partners with health plans to provide their members with an evidence-based renal care model of clinical managed services, including complex case […]

December 19, 2022

It was a busy enrollment season for Medicare. While you may have seen commercials featuring retired NFL quarterbacks talking about vision and dental benefits, what was truly remarkable is how many Medicare Advantage plans dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth […]