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EHR & EMR

4 Keys to Modernizing Public Health Data Collection and Analysis

May 9, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

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 […]


EHR & EMR

6 Ways Health Payors Can Leverage Intelligent Document Processing for Cost Savings

April 25, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

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 […]


Innovation, Research

Flu diagnosis could significantly raise heart attack risk, new study finds

April 21, 2023

Via: Fox News

People who get influenza could be six times more susceptible to having a heart attack in the days following a flu diagnosis, a new study from the Netherlands has found. The study’s conclusions were scheduled to be presented on April […]


Regulatory

New ONC rule aims to raise trust in clinical decision support algorithms

April 12, 2023

Via: Healthcare Dive

The Biden administration has released a sweeping new rule touching on multiple aspects of health information technology in the U.S., including proposals meant to create more transparency and trust in clinical decision support software. The rule proposed Tuesday would give […]


Regulatory

HIPAA Security Policies

April 3, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

In healthcare, it is crucial to ensure the security and privacy of electronic health records and all patient data with security policies. HIPAA provides guidelines for healthcare organizations and covered entities to follow in order to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, […]


EHR & EMR

What do highly satisfied users of EHRs do differently?

March 31, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

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 […]


EHR & EMR

Remote patient monitoring devices’ major privacy concerns

March 22, 2023

Via: Medical Device Network

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 […]


Innovation, Patient Experience

Improving Telehealth Patient Care in Real Time with AI

March 21, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

Telehealth’s ease of accessibility has contributed extensively to scaling its systems over the past few years. The pandemic fueled this further, creating a requirement for extending the real-time reach of healthcare to remote locations. With the increased demand for telehealth, […]


EHR & EMR

Study Reveals EHR Data Can Identify Patients Who Are Frail

March 17, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

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 […]


Innovation, Med Tech

How Hospitals Can Safely & Effectively Continue Patient Care Amid Rising Cybersecurity Risks

March 14, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

The world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes – that’s 2,500,00,00,000 million, for perspective – are created, captured, and shared every day, […]


EHR & EMR

How To Get the Most Out of Big Data for Personalized Healthcare

March 13, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

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 […]


Innovation, Med Tech

The Market Demand for Data-Driven Tech Solutions in Healthcare

March 6, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world’s data is generated by the healthcare industry. This data is often complex and is coming from multiple different sources such as personal […]


EHR & EMR

Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling

February 28, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

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 […]


Innovation, Med Tech

HHS issues advisory on Clop data breach threat

February 27, 2023

Via: Healthcare Dive

The threat by Clop, a ransomware group that has been active since February 2019, shows how vulnerable personal health information is to cyberattacks. More than 289 hospitals may have been impacted by ransomware attacks in 2022, according to the HHS. […]


EHR & EMR

Tracking Tools and Privacy Gaps

February 20, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

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 […]


EHR & EMR

Virtual Healthcare February 2023

February 8, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

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 […]


News

Top healthcare trends of 2023

February 8, 2023

Via: Healthcare Dive

Nearly three years after its onset, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to effect providers, insurers and other stakeholders in the healthcare industry. Trends this year include rising hospital expenses as staffing shortages and a reliance on contract labor continue to plague […]


Innovation, Medical Devices

Innovation in remote patient monitoring: Leading companies in remote ocular diagnosis for the medical devices industry

February 2, 2023

Via: Medical Device Network

The medical devices industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by increased need for homecare, preventative treatments, early diagnosis, reducing patient recovery times and improving outcomes, as well as a growing importance in technologies such as […]


Innovation, Patient Experience

How Digital Health Technology Can Combat Elderly Abuse

February 1, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

One of the most difficult types of abuse to identify has always been elderly abuse. This is the segment of the population that is the most segregated because many just aren’t as mobile as they once were. So very many […]


Innovation, Med Tech

5 Must-Have Features for AI Platforms in RCM

February 1, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

A healthy, stable revenue cycle is crucial to every healthcare organization’s success. However, managing the revenue cycle takes experienced coders, complete documentation, and timely resolution of denials. Administrative processes account for about 30% of U.S. healthcare costs, which means that […]