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Oct 01, 2020

BREAKING DOWN THE NEW TRENDS IN ONLINE EXTORTION THREATS Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing threats in cybersecurity, with damages predicted to crest $20 billion globally by 2021, up from “only” $345 million* in 2015. This paper explains the evolution of ransomware by breaking down the new tre...

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Oct 01, 2020

Why healthcare systems need scalable remote visibility, security and remediation As healthcare organizations increasingly move their data and workloads to the cloud — transforming how and where they operate to deliver critical care — remote visibility, security and remediation have become required e...

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Oct 01, 2020

A truly effective endpoint security solution requires a holistic approach. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to implement a comprehensive program because they lack the time and expertise, and the costs are too high. Recent studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of healthcare organiz...

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Feb 19, 2020

The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile. IT teams...

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Feb 19, 2020

Gone are the days of vendor-specific imaging. Today’s leaders understand that optimum performance and efficiencies depend on strategies that leverage industry standards. The drive for early diagnoses, chronic disease, and the rising age of the population resulted in a growing demand for medical imag...

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Jan 11, 2021

Healthcare marketing, for a healthcare provider, is challenging as a lot of technologies are emerging in the market. What matters is choosing the right healthcare marketing techniques and technology to market your products and services. The global digital health market size was USD 51.3 billion in 2...

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Jan 08, 2021

Prioritizing health and managing it, has become highly important because our lifestyle is continuously evolving in ways that take a toll on us mentally, physically, and emotionally. However, the major issue for the patients lies in the inaccuracy of treatment due to the lack of complete health recor...

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Dec 29, 2020

Virtual reality (VR), the new technological advancement, is set to transform practices in the healthcare industry. According to Statista, it is estimated that, by 2022, the second largest market share of VR will be from the healthcare industry. Virtual reality in healthcare operates in various divis...

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Dec 28, 2020

The recent COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the way the healthcare industry has been processing. It has transformed the healthcare sector digitally. Healthcare providers have changed services with the latest healthcare technology trends in digital and virtual platforms. Every healthcare provide...

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Dec 21, 2020

Yes, empathy has become a fad.Connecting to another human is actually something cool kids do now. If a brand doesn’t have an impact model that includes a practical social issue, consumers tend to not take that brand seriously. In this case, empathy needs to be revisited beyond the trend itself...

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Dec 15, 2020

As medical science has improved rapidly, life expectancy around the world also has risen. Still, as longevity increases, healthcare systems are facing a growing demand for advanced services, increased costs, and a struggling workforce to meet various requirements of patients. Demand is driven by man...

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Dec 15, 2020

The use of technology in hospitals has been increasing for the last decade and at present, it has reached an all-time high. However, it may be surprising to realize that the healthcare supply chain management (SCM) area of hospitals has not fully embraced technology. According to a survey conducted ...

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Dec 09, 2020

The pandemic-fueled technology adoption has enabled the healthcare industry to address the challenges, including cybersecurity, telehealth, invoicing and payment processing, patient experience, effective payment model, and big data. The responses to the unusual COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the adop...

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Dec 08, 2020

Let’s face it. It’s been one tough year with too many of us sitting idle and indulging in calorie-laden foods for way too long as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the globe. For all too many, sheltering in place has prompted unwelcome weight gain—a troublesome truth as w...

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Dec 08, 2020

Uplyft enables you to build a unique loyalty program that can be tailored to your needs. Get started right away with plug and play features or go full custom with our powerful API. You can create your branded currency or join the Miles & More network and get access to thousands of users.

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Dec 08, 2020

Many caregivers change professions due to injuries, but whether they do or not, there are several consequences.First is the pain resulting from the injury, and with that often comes the hardships and the inconveniences that accompany treating and recovering from these injuries. This can be expensive...

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Dec 08, 2020

A cruelly ironic truth is that nurses and other caregivers assisting injured and ill patients often wind up injured themselves. In fact, the caregiver profession has among the highest rates of injury, with back injuries being the most common and the most debilitating. Every year, more than 10% of ca...

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Dec 08, 2020

The one clear consensus that has emerged from this doubt and anxiety-filled time is that our society will be forever changed by COVID-19. In the recent days, we have seen a general movement toward telecommuting and digital solutions to accommodate the drastic changes caused by this global pandemic. ...

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Dec 08, 2020

Ha, ha, ha, it’s me, alcohol hangover syndrome. Oh no, it feels like I have a fire burning through my head, that cannot be put out. What a pain, the hang-over. I can't get up. My eyes are red and blurred. I feel sick and body is tired. My body aches like French fries sizzling in scalding h...

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Dec 04, 2020

Creative thinking explores the wonder world of creation. Creative thinking edit challenges and insert solutions. Thinking is not narrow minded; it is a brood minded side effect. Are you standing still , holding the sign detour? Detour signal and message “ you cannot go pass here.” This m...

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Oct 26, 2020

Do you have a difficult time explaining your mental health issues to your family and friends?If so, here are six suggestions on how to discuss your mental health issues with your friends and relatives.1. Talk to a counselor: The most important thing that you need to do is to talk to a counselor abou...

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Oct 26, 2020

Everybody deals with stress and anxiety however our anxieties can sometimes get the best of us. It’s important to know how to cope with your anxieties and fears if they get out of control.With this in mind, here are some tips that a person can use to help manage their daily stresses and anxiet...

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Oct 21, 2020

Do you know a friend or loved one who suffers from fear, anxiety, and depression and do not know what to do?It can be difficult to watch someone you know struggle with their mental health and not be able to do anything about it.As a result, here are 8 important tips on how to help the person you car...

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Oct 01, 2020

BREAKING DOWN THE NEW TRENDS IN ONLINE EXTORTION THREATS Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing threats in cybersecurity, with damages predicted to crest $20 billion globally by 2021, up from “only” $345 million* in 2015. This paper explains the evolution of ransomware by breaking down the new tre...

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Oct 01, 2020

Why healthcare systems need scalable remote visibility, security and remediation As healthcare organizations increasingly move their data and workloads to the cloud — transforming how and where they operate to deliver critical care — remote visibility, security and remediation have become required e...

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Oct 01, 2020

A truly effective endpoint security solution requires a holistic approach. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to implement a comprehensive program because they lack the time and expertise, and the costs are too high. Recent studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of healthcare organiz...

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Sep 09, 2020

© 2019 American Cranes & Transport Magazine.Night movesMoving over-sized, over-dimensional loads during the day is no easy task. Adding darkness and poor visibility to your trip adds numerous hazards that must be thoroughly identified and mitigated.When planning a specialized transportation...

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Sep 04, 2020

A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. The implementation of a digital twin is a model that mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person or other abstraction. For healthcare providers, digital twins provide an abstraction of the healthcare eco...

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Sep 03, 2020

As COVID-19 rages on, warning sirens have sounded of late amid a flurry of headlines surrounding Ultraviolet-C (UVC) light device safety issues. Rightfully so, as the current pandemic has ushered in a veritable “wild west” of UVC gadget deployments with subpar consumer safeguards, instru...

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Jul 22, 2020

What is Healthcare Digital MarketingDigital marketing is a new wave in the world of healthcare marketing strategy. Using advanced technologies that use online marketing platforms such as websites, social media channels, and SEO techniques, to reach potential clients with healthcare products and serv...

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Jul 17, 2020

The COVID-19 virus (C19) pandemic is turning out to be the event of the century. Even World War seems timid in comparison. We are in the 4th month of the virus (in non-China countries) and have gone past the lockdown in many places. Isn’t it time we re-think the approach? What if there is anot...

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Apr 22, 2020

Remember Big Hero 6's beloved Baymax? The lead character’s personal pudgy robotic healthcare companion was much loved and adored by the audience. We might not have wondered back then but the fascinating machine had actually been powered with Artificial Intelligence, programmed to scan a hu...

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Apr 21, 2020

Artificial Intelligence is here to improve our lives, by not just making things more efficient, but also increasing our lifespan. Companies across industries are experiencing the advantages that come with AI innovation, especially the healthcare space. Throughout human history, we’ve been able...

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Apr 21, 2020

While artificial intelligence (AI) offers numerous advantages across a wide range of businesses and applications, an ongoing report spreads out some convincing focuses on the different difficulties and perils of using AI in the social insurance segment. As of late, AI has been progressively consolid...

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Apr 20, 2020

Across the spectrum of healthcare delivery – payor, provider, vendor, consumer, there is a land rush underway to embrace consumer-centric care. With tools like value-based care, chronic disease management, retail services, analytics, and remote patient monitoring, healthcare organizations are ...

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Apr 20, 2020

Healthcare is top of mind as the coronavirus hits hard everywhere. The inefficiencies of the system itself are on full display during the pandemic — where testing is hard to come by, diagnoses and treatments are reactive rather than proactive, and many people do not get the care they need, whe...

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Apr 20, 2020

82% of your clients will leave if they don’t feel appreciated. With that statistics in mind let me ask you one question - when’s the last time you showed how thankful you are for those who come into your office? If it’s been awhile, I’m not calling you lazy. You have a lot on...

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Apr 16, 2020

Virtual care and telehealth are no longer seen as merely an innovative method of delivering healthcare; technology is now indispensable to protecting patients, staff, and PPE resources amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a recent Harvard Medical School blog, Lee H. Schwamm, MD, shared that “tele...

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Apr 16, 2020

The healthcare industry is experiencing rapid shifts. Some of this is due to the current pandemic, but much of this evolution was happening even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Understanding and embracing the introduction of new technology into the market will be important for healthcare professionals...

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Apr 13, 2020

With their speed and maneuverability, drones have long captured attention for their potential to deliver shopping orders and photograph the world from above. But the machines can also serve a medical purpose by shuttling drugs, defibrillators and other equipment to emergency sites or care facilities...

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Apr 13, 2020

Before we discuss the importance of telehealth and how it is changing the nursing industry in general, it is important to understand what telehealth is all about. With the advent of new-age technologies and their impact on the fast-paced, growing population, medical health is an essential department...

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Apr 11, 2020

Over the past twenty-five years most businesses have been revolutionized by the easy availability of cloud and mobile-based computing systems. These technologies have placed power and access into the hands of employees and customers, which in turn has created huge shifts in how transactions get done...

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Apr 07, 2020

Elizabeth Miller, a registered nurse and now healthcare lead at Zebra in Australia discusses the challenges in Healthcare and how technology can enable and assist medical staff in critical patient care, clinical mobility, patient ID, tracking medical equipment and more. For more details on Zebra Tec...

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Apr 07, 2020

The last time the world experienced a pandemic on the scale of COVID-19 was the Spanish flu pandemic from 1918 to 1920. All told, 500 million people were infected, and an estimated 35 million people succumbed to the virus. That’s because over a hundred years ago, the medical technology needed ...

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Apr 02, 2020

Healthcare organizations are scrambling right now to stay on top of Coronavirus while also providing world-class care to other patients with various healthcare needs. This becomes a problem for marketing teams to not only stay consistent in their messaging and marketing priorities but also in shifti...

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Apr 02, 2020

The rapid advancement of technology has inspired hope in the healthcare industry, promising to employ artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based data platforms in life-altering ways. Surgery assisting robots and miraculously accurate AI-based cancer diagnosis methods are a few preliminary examples...

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Apr 02, 2020

Healthcare organizations, technology firms, nonprofits, and academia are banding together to use their collective expertise, data, and insights for rapid deployment of innovative, open-source solutions to the global pandemic. The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a private-sector led response, aims to ...

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Apr 02, 2020

How do you improve member experience and better health outcomes? Make the journey easy to navigate through data science. Tools like Automated insights for digital evolution (AIDE) help offer medical care advantage or individual sales.Solutions like this help you become more agile and save time while...

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Apr 02, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is presenting an unprecedented challenge to the healthcare sector around the globe. As we are facing one of the most significant challenges, the big question is, what could ease the healthcare business processes? Tech experts advocate relooking at healthcare web a...

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Apr 01, 2020

As the world grapples with the tragic COVID-19 pandemic, it is tempting to imagine a post-COVID future that includes some silver linings. As terrible as the situation is today, maybe this calamity will at least lead to some lasting, positive changes, particularly in healthcare. Telemedicine has alre...

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Apr 01, 2020

The world is caught up in the dual health and economic crises of the novel coronavirus and resultant disease COVID-19. Globally, the healthcare industry has rallied around the challenge in unprecedented ways: drug companies and medical researchers are racing to find therapeutics and vaccines that ca...

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Apr 01, 2020

Although it was widely reported that several ransomware threat actor groups have pledged to not target healthcare providers until the COVID-19 pandemic is over, BakerHostetler’s Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group and Healthcare Privacy and Compliance team continue to see ransomw...

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Apr 01, 2020

Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested....

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Mar 31, 2020

SignAgent's helps hospital facility managers plan, manage, and maintain wayfinding and other signs (including donor walls). Whether you're responsible for a single location hospital or a large, multi-floor, multi-location healthcare campus, SignAgent's cloud-based sign management softwar...

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Mar 31, 2020

Over the past decade, a shift has occurred within the healthcare industry. Patients have become empowered as cultural changes, increasing care options, and policy adjustments enable populations to make informed decisions about their care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act ensured that patients were prote...

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Mar 31, 2020

Almost all conversations about healthcare disruption focused on new entrants into the industry transforming parts of the traditional service model and taking market share. Politically, most of the conversation centered around whether we would dismantle the ACA, build it back up or move to Medicare f...

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Mar 29, 2020

COVID-19 related data sources are fairly easy to find. Libraries in R and Python make it super easy to come up with pretty visualizations, models, forecasts, insights and recommendations. I have seen recommendations in areas like economics, public policy, and healthcare policy from individuals who a...

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Mar 27, 2020

The key concerns of healthcare management today are data processing and data security. Patients don’t have full ownership of their medical records, and are unable to control how their information is updated. There isn’t enough transparency to the process. There are also significant conce...

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Mar 26, 2020

With the global spread of COVID-19 affecting our communities, colleagues, partners and customers, we are focused on doing everything we can to help those in need. Hospitals, healthcare facilities and first responders are on the front lines of this epic battle, and their ability to maximize impact is...

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Mar 26, 2020

The healthcare industry is evolving rapidly and distances more and more from the concept of waiting rooms every year. In this article, we want to cover the topic of healthcare mobile application development and how it changes the industry and our way of living. The global demand for 24/7 healthcare ...

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Mar 25, 2020

The new coronavirus has imminent and profound implications for health plans, benefit providers, health systems, and financial institutions. These constituents require a rapid strategic response as they brace for a landscape that is different from anything forecasts have offered to date. A digital wo...

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Mar 17, 2020

Risk Management in the healthcare market is difficult because of the many processes that a patient may be involved in; and, these processes are not logged or recorded in a central repository. Identifying a patient is also a primary focus. This brief video provides an overview on how a payer could ut...

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Mar 16, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting increasingly sophisticated day by day in its application, with enhanced efficiency and speed at a lower cost. Every single sector has been reaping benefits from AI in recent times. The Healthcare industry is no exception. Here is decoding the future trajectory...

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Mar 14, 2020

This, unfortunately, is a very real cyber threat that healthcare organizations face every single day, and most of them are not prepared for it. According to a recent report by HIMSS, significant security incidents are a near-universal experience in US healthcare organizations. Most incidents are ini...

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Mar 13, 2020

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has started to turn up everywhere you look. It powers our ever-present digital assistants; it helps recommend entertainment options and has even begun to reshape the way businesses carry out their everyday operations. As AI moves further into healthcare,...

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Mar 13, 2020

The fast and efficient flow of information is vital for the healthcare sector to offer life-critical services and patient care. Seamless communication, real-time updates, and putting the crisis response plans into action with minimum activation time are some of the key factors for successful crisis ...

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Mar 13, 2020

As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues, the federal government and commercial health insurers have taken significant steps to increase Americans’ access to treatment and testing. In the past week, the federal government and private insurers have issued a number of guidance documents expan...

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Mar 12, 2020

However, this remote monitoring, along with sophisticated imaging equipment, can lead to additional strain on the networks of businesses in the healthcare industry. This often increases congestion and slows network speeds, especially for healthcare providers that might be interfacing with dozens of ...

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Mar 11, 2020

Healthcare organizations are faced with addressing the “triple aim” of improving cost, quality and access to medical care. Telehealth has been seen as a tool to improve access with its convenience and availability with mobile apps or personal computers. Regulators are seeing the value of...

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Mar 11, 2020

For many years now, we’ve all been talking about a worldwide digital transformation in healthcare. One of the key motivations for healthcare’s digital transformation has been to enable the shift from labor-intensive, manual, in-person encounters in healthcare facilities and replace them ...

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Mar 11, 2020

Healthcare industry is currently experiencing a massive digital transformation. There has been stable progress since the introduction of technology in this sector. Tech components like Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Thing...

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Mar 10, 2020

When we imagine the future, we think about "The Jetsons" or "Back to the Future." Although we are not flying our cars or transporting instantly to any location at the push of a button, Artificial Intelligence (AI) permeates our lives. Think about the last time Netflix picked out ...

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Mar 10, 2020

Organizations regulated by the Healthcare Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA) must take special care to preserve valuable forensic artifacts at the outset of a ransomware or other cybersecurity event. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule presumes a cybersecurity incident has resulted in...

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Mar 10, 2020

The decade’s first global health crisis has placed the spotlight on the need for healthcare technology that can prevent and solve the world’s critical health challenges. This last week, Microsoft shared progress on innovations helping to meet these objectives. Today, we’re spotligh...

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Mar 09, 2020

With the announcement of the HIMSS conference cancellation the healthcare IT industry is hit hard. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the super bowl of healthcare tech. 45,000 attendees from 50 countries were scheduled to fly into Orlando and spend 5 days immersed in in...

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Mar 06, 2020

Providers, payors, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences companies are leading the next wave of healthcare innovation by utilizing connected devices. From continuous patient monitoring, to optimizing operations for manufacturers and cold-chain supply tracking for the pharmaceutical industry, the health...

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Mar 06, 2020

As worries about coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) mount daily, healthcare and health care organizations work valiantly to deliver quality healthcare. Potential exposure of health care workers to COVID-19 risks further shortages of hospital staff and clinical service providers. This presents a se...

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Mar 05, 2020

Most physician outreach now takes place digitally or indirectly. This shift in engagement has made it crucial for sales and marketing teams in healthcare and life sciences (HLS) to be aligned with a unified strategy. That’s what we discovered at League. Founded in 2014, League is on a mission ...

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Mar 05, 2020

Healthcare, more than most sectors, is heavily data-driven. This has prompted the industry to innovate using technology. The healthcare cloud computing market, for example, is expected to be valued at $55 billion by 2025. Technologies such as cloud computing, give healthcare new ways of collecting, ...

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Mar 04, 2020

Health leaders must understand the benefits of their investments in performance improvement projects and the impact on the organization. The traditional approach is most often to measure ROI (return on investment) and, while clearly measurable, is most often related to cost savings or increased reve...

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Mar 04, 2020

Healthcare is experiencing a digital transformation, shifting how the medical ecosystem operates and the way that care is delivered. And all of this change comes down to one little word: data. In 2013, the healthcare industry produced 153 exabytes of data; in 2020, that volume is estimated to increa...

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Mar 04, 2020

A promo made for Charing Cross 2020 international symposium to spark conversation about the use of AI in vascular healthcare. Do you know what the difference is between machine learning and deep learning?

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Mar 04, 2020

Ever-rising costs have forced the healthcare industry to tread a tightrope between containing costs and quality of service. In an effort to reduce costs, the healthcare industry relies on a large number of external resources. It’s not just administrative and clerical personnel such as call-cen...

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Mar 04, 2020

US health care sector is most preferred destination for financial and strategic investments. For Nursing related assignments Sourceessay knows the key points that will be a game changer in your assignments

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Mar 04, 2020

In a previous video, we went over some of the many reasons why social media is so beneficial in healthcare. Your patients are already using, so you can further educate them and reach a wider audience through these social platforms. It’s also cost-effective and while giving you a chance to show...

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Mar 04, 2020

The global market for precision medicine is projected to top more than $84.5 billion by 2024. Targeted therapies for rare, genetic diseases, cancer and chronic conditions come with the hope of a cure. Companies such as Roche, Novartis, Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer, Editas and BioMarin are among the ph...

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Mar 03, 2020

Health marketers who want to deliver personalized experiences across all channels must evolve the use of the person-level ID to balance differentiated offerings with privacy. Following Apple’s lead, Google recently announced that Chrome will start blocking third-party cookie tracking within th...

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Mar 03, 2020

From the very first day you implement EHR software, you’ll let out a sigh of relief once you realize its amazing potential and how it can transform your practice. You may experience some minor drawbacks along the way, but these are nothing compared to the many benefits you’ll achieve. Be...

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Mar 02, 2020

In the decade since the HITECH Act was passed, first-generation electronic health record systems provided a foundation for innovations such as electronic prescribing, clinical decision support and predictive analytics. While usability and productivity issues with EHRs have been well documented, ther...

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Mar 02, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) introduces some important concerns around data ownership, safety and security, and with so much at stake, meaningful regulation should be expected. The pharmaceutical, clinical treatment and medical device industries provide a precedent for how to protect data rights, pr...

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Mar 02, 2020

Health care is noble work – and hard work, too. Doing your job means performing some very complicated, even life-saving tasks. But what about staying safe yourself? Whether you work in a hospital or clinic, nursing home, emergency response, directly with patients or behind the scenes, it&rsquo...

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Mar 02, 2020

The information and data within any business is a valuable asset. It is now considered a key driver to business growth and success. Data is collected every second of every day, and so it is important for businesses to capture, process, and manage data correctly. The security of data must be a priori...

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Mar 02, 2020

Chronic underinvestment in cybersecurity has left many so exposed that they are unable to even detect cyberattacks when they occur, according to the report. While attacks take only seconds, discovery and mitigation can take weeks, if not months. In healthcare, complex networks and sensitive data mak...

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Feb 27, 2020

One off implementation services often take additional time to build, are more brittle and susceptible to failure, are less performant, and can impede realizing full value from your ERP investment. Productized integration means that there is ongoing coordination of the ERP application, the interface ...

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Feb 27, 2020

The CarestationTM 600 series (620/650/650c) is a suite of compact, versatile and easy to use anesthesia systems designed to help solve today’s toughest challenges. To help clinicians deliver efficient, precise and reliable anesthesia care to solve today's toughest challenges.

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Feb 27, 2020

Despite the data explosion in the past 10-15 years, this has largely been “data unrealized” – its value has not been exploited. Subsequent investments in data integration strategies, technology, and analytics have transformed a medley of free-floating data points into an integrated...

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Feb 26, 2020

Virtual Reality (VR) has already made big waves in industries from entertainment to fashion and media, but how about an industry that directly affects everyone’s well being and quality of life? While we are only beginning to grasp the full potential of VR for healthcare, the potential applicat...

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Feb 26, 2020

With the help of Cisco, we're changing healthcare for the better.

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Feb 26, 2020

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push. One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with ...

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Feb 25, 2020

Big data, analytics, cloud, and AI are just a few of the key transformational technologies creating a buzz in the healthcare industry as these innovations solve problems on a global scale all the way down to the patient level. Healthcare organizations are leveraging these tools to assist in clinical...

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Feb 25, 2020

A digital twin in healthcare is a patient’s in-silico representation, developed using the life-long data record of the individual. This data may come from disparate sources such as wearable devices and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). The variables involved in the data obtained from the phys...

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Feb 24, 2020

Software automation accelerates processes and makes them more cost-effective, accurate, scalable, and measurable. But it also lets organizations coordinate and manage a collection of disparate systems according to business rules. These benefits offer enough value that automation is becoming an indis...

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Feb 24, 2020

Technology is only as useful as the value it helps us deliver. For us to get to the next phase of this evolution, technology must fit into a patient-centric care model. When I shifted my role from a full-time practicing physician to a healthcare administrator 20 years ago, there were no national sta...

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Feb 19, 2020

Technology investment is just part of revenue cycle management, and engaging patients in the financial side of their treatment will be a key theme at HIMSS20.It contains patient engagement in their medical bills, pricing transparency when choosing treatments and medications ,organizational integrati...

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Feb 19, 2020

In healthcare, short-term efficiency means more tasks done, more patients were seen, more tests performed more revenue generated. If this were manufacturing, short-term efficiency would be a perfectly acceptable measure of success. For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartis...

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Feb 19, 2020

The term, “The Cloud,” has become so commonplace that one might ask: “What does it mean and what value can it bring to a healthcare organization’s electronic health record (EHR)?” Without getting too technical, Cloud is a model for delivering IT resources. According to ...

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Feb 19, 2020

The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile. IT teams...

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Feb 19, 2020

Gone are the days of vendor-specific imaging. Today’s leaders understand that optimum performance and efficiencies depend on strategies that leverage industry standards. The drive for early diagnoses, chronic disease, and the rising age of the population resulted in a growing demand for medical imag...

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Feb 18, 2020

With the recent announcement of a £40 million investment to reduce NHS staff login times, we asked Daniel Johnston, Imprivata Clinical Workflow Specialist, what he believes makes Imprivata’s approach to single sign-on unique and measurable benefits he’s seen customers experiencing ...

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Feb 18, 2020

Privacy concerns are on the rise. Over the last couple of years, survey after survey have clearly shown a dramatic rise in overall consumer privacy awareness and concern – driven primarily by the never-ending litany of ongoing data breaches that make the news. The healthcare industry has been ...

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Feb 18, 2020

Over the past few weeks, I have written various posts on the experiences I have had with people whom I am working with as a Nurse Advocate. Each person came with unique issues related to their health. One patient had a suspected deep vein thrombosis, one was diagnosed with a reoccurrence of lung can...

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Feb 17, 2020

Severely premature infants can face a staggering list of potential health problems. Retinopathy of prematurity abnormal retinal blood vessel development that can lead to blindness — is one of them. It’s treatable while infants weigh less than two pounds, but doctors often struggle to det...

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Feb 17, 2020

Dacadoo is a globally operating mobile health platform. They develop the technology solutions for digital health engagement and health risk quantification, partnering with insurers and health service providers. Find out how Ciklum can help your business scale.

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Feb 17, 2020

It’s clear that 2020 Healthcare will be the year of big market disruptions. With data-rich players such as Amazon and Google entering into the healthcare market space, many traditional health care systems are reviewing their own strategic plans with an eye towards staying relevant. According t...

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Feb 12, 2020

Traditional methods of delivering medicine to rural communities have not been considered the most efficient solutions. Patients in smaller areas of the Dominican Republic, for example, would often go weeks without receiving the care they needed, increasing mortality rates. A reliable and cost-effici...

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Feb 12, 2020

With medical system consolidation and increasing numbers of medical records created, the need for digital access and storage is gaining steam. Digitizing records allows clinicians to improve accuracy and decrease redundant testing and studies, as well as reduce treatment delays. Greater availability...

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Feb 11, 2020

How will Emy gain insights into her health? And what role should your company play to stay relevant for the next generation? Explore the opportunities of tomorrow!

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Feb 10, 2020

By definition, precision medicine treats the individual while public health focuses on population-level interventions. While public health and precision medicine efforts overlap, some experts argue that precision medicine advancements fall short of public health goals due to their underemphasis on s...

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Feb 10, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) – long an impactful technology in other industries – is in the midst of rapid adoption across the healthcare industry. What was once seen as having great potential is now making its way to real-world implementation, driving improvements in care through enhanc...

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Feb 10, 2020

Discover the opportunities for the healthcare industry with Atos's Azure platform.

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Feb 10, 2020

During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by manual processes, has moved squarely into the digital age. As patients, we’ve all become accustomed to seeing physicians as well as clinical staff use lapt...

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Feb 09, 2020

There are all kinds of scary scenarios like this that become possible when a hospital or other healthcare provider gets pwned. And the health industry has consistently been getting pwned as of late. In 2019, health organizations continued to get hit with data breaches and ransomware attacks, costing...

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Feb 07, 2020

This video discusses how the healthcare industry can potentially improve patient outcomes and preparedness to fight disease with faster innovation through cloud-based applications and automation.

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Feb 07, 2020

There is a misconception that the terms health and medicine are interchangeable, but they describe very different concepts and states. Health has been subject to whole series of definitions and WHO defined health in the Alma Ata declaration in 1978 as follows: “Health is a state of complete ph...

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Feb 06, 2020

Improving telehealth success with Healthcare specific devices. One of the primary challenges faced by clinicians with telehealth appointments is effectively and efficiently bringing both parties together without any breakdown in communication. Therefore, it's imperative that the hardware being u...

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Feb 06, 2020

Healthcare may soothe our physical and mental suffering, but it has long been one of the industries most burdened by stringent data privacy requirements. The personal health information (PHI) and electronic PHI (ePHI) contain the most valuable information malicious actors want to sell on the Dark We...

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Feb 05, 2020

The landscape of healthcare revenue appears bleak: costs and expenses are rising, while reimbursements decline. Traditionally, solutions focus on preventative measures, yet costly write-offs remain ever-present. This is especially true with respect to commercial claims, where denials are plentiful a...

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Feb 05, 2020

What is the best way to identify your target market and pinpoint their pain points? Understand the industry changes impacting them most. In a recent webinar, Definitive Healthcare CEO Jason Krantz reviewed the 8 healthcare industry trends he believes will be most relevant this year—both for he...

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Feb 05, 2020

The business of healthcare is an interesting beast. It has been described as miraculous, uncertain, opportunistic, a right, and even an art form. Semantics aside, healthcare is one of the most significant industries in any country worldwide, and represents almost 50% of America’s GDP. Miraculo...

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Feb 05, 2020

Definitive Healthcare CEO, Jason Krantz, recently hosted his annual healthcare trends webinar:8 Top-Of-Mind Trends for Physician and Hospital Buyers In 2020. Each year, these eight trends are developed based on conversations with our 2,500+ clients across the provider, pharmaceutical, biotechnology,...

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Feb 05, 2020

Over the last several years, medical associations began observing that these registries could also transform the way real-world clinical data can be used by the medical community beyond enabling quality reporting by physicians. As real-world data (namely electronic health record data) began to be di...

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Feb 05, 2020

Once a long-shot, the idea of universal healthcare in the U.S. is inching closer to reality, particularly as many 2020 candidates promise an expedient implementation of a national federally-run program (or some version of it). Nearly half of doctors support a “Medicare for all” model, an...

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Feb 04, 2020

When it comes to electronic medical records (EMR) software, it’s important to find the system best fit for your businesses’ needs, goals, and budget. This guide written by Software Advice, covers everything you need to know about software pricing in 2020. Compare pricing models, price ra...

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Feb 04, 2020

Healthcare supply chains tend to be high-margin, regulated businesses with strict quality requirements, such as the need for cold-chain storage and transportation. Yet they’re often ripe for improvements across the board. Inefficiencies often crop up due to the outsourcing of capability to log...

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Feb 03, 2020

Accreditation and licensure are both important in the healthcare industry. Find out why and what sets them apart.

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Feb 03, 2020

Health data is most often associated with vital signs: height, weight, blood pressure, and heart rate immediately come to mind. But in recent years, the reality of what health data encompasses has become so much broader. Today, a multitude of data is being collected on patients. This data tells the ...

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Jan 31, 2020

When confronted with rising costs and shrinking reimbursement, leaders at a respected regional hospital in California took a bold step to ensure that they could continue serving the needs of the community in a financially sustainable way. Guided by Milliman’s health experts, the Community Hosp...

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Jan 31, 2020

When artificial intelligence (AI) is built into electronic health record (EHR) software, who is responsible for the consequences? Does responsibility lie exclusively with the hospital or health system that uses the vendor’s software, or is responsibility shared with the EHR vendor? What role s...

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Jan 30, 2020

Recent years have seen an explosion in healthcare-related technologies; connected devices, wearable sensors, patches, apps and software. This sector is expected to reach $280 billion by 20212 and global healthcare spending is predicted to reach $10 trillion by 2022. 2 Patients and healthcare practit...

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Jan 30, 2020

The Healthcare industry is changing at an unprecedented pace. Legacy technology and pressure to keep costs low combined with the demand for faster service are forcing healthcare providers to innovate. The question remains as to who will set the technology bar for healthcare experiences and expectati...

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Jan 29, 2020

Microsoft is expanding on its existing AI for Good initiative by launching the AI for Health program. AI for Health empowers researchers and organizations with AI to advance the health of people and communities around the world.

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Jan 29, 2020

As the digital revolution transforms the fields of healthcare and life sciences, organizations and individuals stand to gain from new trends that use data in innovative ways to provide better patient outcomes. To leverage these developments, organizations need to embrace a cloud data platform as par...

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Jan 29, 2020

Health systems around the world are battling with issues of accessibility and affordability of healthcare, whilst facing ever-rising levels of chronic disease and severe workforce shortages. To tackle this Babylon are working with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) to develop a new healthcare d...

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Jan 29, 2020

To close out our series of predictions for 2020 in healthcare, today we are synthesizing what experts believe we can expect to see evolve this year in technology. In the vast arena of healthcare technology topics, artificial intelligence has received a lot of recognition lately. Reportedly, 1 out of...

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Jan 29, 2020

Choosing a strong healthcare IT partner like eClinicalWorks means having someone by your side that supports your practice’s goals and future plans. From small rural practices to large urban health centers, eClinicalWorks customers represent a varied group of healthcare professionals dedicated ...

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Jan 28, 2020

Accelerate time to value with a dedicated center for AI workforce operations – we call it the Olive AlphaSite. An Olive AlphaSite ensures operational transformation, creating a 360 view of enterprise-wide opportunities for process automation and maximizing the performance of organizations with...

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Jan 28, 2020

I feel like the healthcare world just skipped over the $17.3 billion mega-merger between Centene and Wellcare, which just received final regulatory approval last Wednesday. With their powers combined, this new company will create the Thanos of government-focused health plans, hopefully without any o...

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Jan 27, 2020

What tension, you say? Oh, come on, let’s be honest — you know what I’m talking about. Clinical leadership evaluates a product that accelerates wound healing. Its evidence-based claims are well substantiated in peer review journals. Yes, it’s costly, but healing time and labo...

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Jan 25, 2020

It wasn’t long ago when healthcare technology and protecting it from harm was relatively straightforward. In most cases, landlines and desktops reigned supreme; networks existed inside an organization’s own walls. Times have changed: Technological advancements and a growing number of use...

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Jan 25, 2020

The Lown Institute recently announced its 3rd round of “Shkreli Awards”, a top ten list of the worst examples of dysfunction in healthcare, and we thought that was pretty newsworthy

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Jan 24, 2020

The supply chain has carved out a critical role for itself as the healthcare industry shifts to a value-based model. In today’s evolving business environment, a data-rich supply chain contains the fuel that will help healthcare stakeholders tackle big industry challenges, including reducing va...

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Jan 24, 2020

As industries continue to blur, traditional healthcare companies will need to break down silos to drive value across the industry ecosystem, “To compete with disruptors, healthcare companies will need to capitalize on data, maximize profitability, and innovate patient care all while managing g...

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Jan 23, 2020

Micro-trends, political strategies, technologies, discoveries in medical sciences, and societal changes are shaping the healthcare sector. What changes are on the horizon at the beginning of 2020? Here are eight remarkable transformative forces expected in the upcoming months. Healthcare is continuo...

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Jan 23, 2020

Emergency departments (EDs) are an expensive and time-consuming option for getting care, especially when you don't have an emergency. What if we could suggest other treatment options to potential patients with non-urgent conditions beforehand instead of their choosing the ED? They could probably...

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Jan 22, 2020

The field of healthcare is constantly revolutionizing. Although, there are many challenges that doctors and other medical professionals face in treating a patient. The advancement in Microsoft’s HoloLens technology has brought a huge shift in how hospitals, medical clinics and other modern hea...

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Jan 22, 2020

Pretty much every rich, developed nation on the planet has universal healthcare, EXCEPT for the U.S. Should we join them, or does our current healthcare system have advantages that we don’t want to lose?

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Jan 21, 2020

The foundation of any information security program is asset knowledge, classification and management. Without this foundation, gaps will exist, and risks will go unnoticed. Efforts will be targeted incorrectly, and funds will be wasted. Auditors will cite this as a program failure, and in the case o...

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Jan 21, 2020

Across the nation, thousands of medical providers are switching to eClinicalWorks, choosing industry-leading IT that speeds daily documentation, deepens understanding of emerging healthcare challenges, strengthens Patient Engagement, reduces the burdens on providers, and lowers practices’ cost...

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Jan 21, 2020

The recently proposed information blocking rule from the ONC and CMS has thrust interoperability into the spotlight like nothing has in recent years, making it a hot topic for media fodder, and a major concern for organizations necessitating renewed attention to data-sharing practices. The conversat...

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Jan 20, 2020

Since that time, ransomware has attacked large and small organizations, as well as individuals, across every sector. The malware’s versatility continues to make it a useful tool that requires nominal investment of time and resources. Ransomware is delivered via several different vectors to inc...

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Jan 19, 2020

With the 2020 elections looming, America's focus has turned to the many challenges that next term’s president will face. Arguably, the most important question America faces is: How are we going to fix healthcare? Nestled in this question are two, often competing, priorities: access and aff...

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Jan 17, 2020

Value-based reimbursement (VBR) models are becoming more common. Success under these models depends on showing positive improvement in key metrics, but providers often struggle to accurately report the quality of care provided. A next-generation revenue cycle that combines clinically aware artificia...

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Jan 17, 2020

Quality improvement in healthcare is a team effort1 and most effective when it includes people using services and their carers, families, and advocates. These people bring direct expertise in matters of health from their personal experience of illness as well as skills from lives beyond the healthca...

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Jan 16, 2020

The AI Era is creating a world full of opportunities.” Artificial intelligence, or AI, already is enabling a myriad of opportunities in health. This year, I believe AI will move beyond operational and clinical analytics to more advanced workloads, like diagnostics, early detection and other ad...

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Jan 16, 2020

So, without further ado, here is a summary of their projections for what we can expect in the healthcare industry for 2020. The price tag of being hospitalized is hefty, and plays a large role in increasing the U.S. healthcare expenses. On average it costs over $2,000 a day to stay in a hospital bed...

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Jan 16, 2020

Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, t...

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Jan 16, 2020

It seems like not a week goes by without some sort of headline news detailing the latest hospital or health system merger, like these or these. Health care mergers aren’t new, but they are taking place at a rapid pace. The National Institute for Healthcare Management (NIHCM) Foundation reports...

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Jan 15, 2020

How do medical specialists diagnose conditions? They look at our symptoms, use the knowledge they have built up in practice, bring tools and techniques into play, and work out what they think is wrong with us. Then they get on with treating us. Sounds simple enough, but in reality it’s often v...

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Jan 15, 2020

The application of augmented reality technology is opening up new opportunities in the healthcare industry. It’s expected that by the year 2020, the global market will reach a value of $1.5B. New AR innovations can help enhance doctors and surgeons ability to diagnose, treat, and perform surge...

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Jan 15, 2020

To address data management requirements, healthcare organizations need an architecture that can process data from various sources and route information to a wide variety of new destinations. Red Hat’s Intelligent Data-as-a-Service (iDaaS) solution can help. It provides inbound connectors, mess...

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Jan 15, 2020

By now, leadership in your medical organization is starting to conclude that there are more problems than benefits in continuing to use using paper-based records and it is time to make the switch to electronic health records. While some practices can manage to get by using old-fashioned paper, the d...

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Jan 15, 2020

After many decades of study and exposition in the medical and sociological literature, policy makers and health care providers have finally turned their attention to social determinants of health (SDoH) and their effects on health outcomes. This is a welcome development. It brings needed focus on so...

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Jan 14, 2020

The healthcare industry has been talking about the importance of addressing social determinants of health for years, but many struggle with how to collect the insights. For example, if 68% of Americans are affected by at least one SDOH, how do they even discover the one? What is the ideal way for pr...

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Jan 14, 2020

As a dentist, your online and offline marketing strategies are both important. Not only that, but analytics programs can help you to make sure that you’re promoting your business to the right people. Analytics programs for dentists will help you to analyze and understand the demographics of pe...

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Jan 13, 2020

Today, healthcare organizations are witnessing a major shift in power. The industry is realigning itself increasingly around the priorities of patients. The change is unstoppable — and healthcare companies must act swiftly to avoid getting left behind.

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Jan 13, 2020

With cutting-edge technology like serverless on AWS, Accolade connects personal health data, employer programs, and wellness tools to provide personalized health and benefits solutions for employees. Accolade moved toward a serverless approach centered on Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS Lambda@E...

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Jan 13, 2020

The biggest trend of the next decade within healthcare is the adoption of AI technology. Artificial intelligence technology is on the rise, we hear about it constantly. Right now AI technology is at a point where many people are afraid that these tools will devalue their employees’ work. That&...

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Jan 13, 2020

In 2020, the Affordable Care Act will turn 10 years old. Since it became law and ushered in sizable reforms across our industry, some aspects of health care have improved dramatically, while new problems have emerged that require remediation. In other words, health care reform has been neither the c...

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Jan 13, 2020

This includes health care and extends well beyond an organization’s public image, though. Communicating in an inclusive manner can have real-life health consequences. There is a well-documented correlation between a patient’s sense of comfort/acceptance and their willingness to be forthc...

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Jan 10, 2020

Analysis of the 2020 KPMG Healthcare and Life Sciences Investment Outlook survey sheds light on how the investment landscape will be impacted by influential disruptors, evolving market trends, and policy/regulatory developments.

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Jan 10, 2020

Healthcare is in the midst of a digital transformation, creating information security, compliance, and workflow challenges. The engagement of an increasingly decentralized workforce along with anytime anyplace healthcare and the proliferation of cloud-based applications, databases, and mobile device...

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Jan 09, 2020

The healthcare industry provides care to the general public. By marketing standards, that’s a broad audience to target with written content. Content optimization is a window of opportunity to get the most out of a compelling article or blog that you create. Through this strategy, you gain the ...

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Jan 09, 2020

Here is a list of the top 8 predictions in healthcare

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Jan 09, 2020

One of the biggest issues that healthcare organisations face when implementing new IT infrastructure solutions is that they lack the budget to properly integrate them. The annual Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Navigant survey found that 56% of respondents didn’t believe...

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Jan 09, 2020

Radiation therapy is one of the most common treatments used to fight cancer in the U.S., with more than half of cancer patients receiving it either alone or in combination with other medical interventions.1 With the traditional approach to radiation therapy, the dose and schedule is tailored to the ...

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Jan 08, 2020

Healthcare organizations collect and store vast amounts of personal information, making them a major target for cyber-criminals. Healthcare breaches are especially serious because personal data can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. For example, says Carlisle, it could cause...

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Jan 08, 2020

The evolution of healthcare has unfolded year after year, advancing at what sometimes feels like warp speed. However in 2019, digital innovations appeared to be progressing at a gradual rate. Luckily experts are predicting that there will be a multitude of technological advancements coming in 2020. ...

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Jan 08, 2020

Allium Healthcare built a new, internal management system using Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows them to capture personalized details about their clients’ preferences. This change allows Allium Healthcare to deliver more client-centric, personalized care than they could before. Allium Hea...

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Jan 08, 2020

telehealth gives you a way to provide patients with medical care anytime and anywhere. Telehealth solutions like healow TeleVisits help practices like The Clark Clinic deliver quality care to patients who may have difficulty making it into the doctor’s office. Sometimes it also may be challeng...

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Jan 08, 2020

How much thought do you give to the various computer systems that have been set up to enable staff to keep track of and manage patient data as well as communicate and connect with other entities, such as insurance providers and referring physicians? While the computer setup is the main concern for y...

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Jan 07, 2020

Alicia Staley, Senior Director, Patient Engagement at Medidata Solutions, discusses the digital transformation of healthcare in our ‘Transforming Life Sciences’ podcast series.

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Jan 07, 2020

U.S. healthcare costs have skyrocketed over the last decade and show no sign of slowing down. We currently spend $3.5 trillion a year on healthcare—about $11,000 per person, more than twice the average per-person spending in other developed countries. And healthcare costs are expected to nearl...

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Jan 06, 2020

SmithGroup one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms has tapped its broad network of 1,300 interdisciplinary design professionals to offer its predictions for the trends and challenges that the design industry will face in the decade ahead. In the last couple of years, the impacts of...

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Jan 06, 2020

The idea of telehealth seems like a dream come true for patients; whenever they aren’t feeling well, instead of hopping in the car to drive to a doctor’s office, they can simply hop on their phones or computers and connect with a provider virtually. There are other benefits to telehealth...

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Jan 06, 2020

Corporate health insurance has changed a lot over the last decade and is set to continue to evolve in the face of continuing technological, economic and societal change. Demand for more tailored and cutting-edge solutions that meet their workforces and businesses changing needs is also set to grow a...

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Jan 06, 2020

With cybersecurity threats on the increase worldwide in the healthcare industry, TUH wanted to ensure all of its sensitive patient information was kept well-protected. TUH already had a VMware footprint and wanted to continue using VMware due to its reliability and good track record within healthcar...

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Jan 03, 2020

From the first artificial skin to driverless cars that navigate busy streets with ease, 2019 brought a dazzling array of artificial intelligence (AI) discovery. In 2020, the progress made toward AI-fueled collaboration will be as critical as AI innovation especially in healthcare. We’ve reache...

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Jan 02, 2020

Blockchain technology has a place in any commercial network that is strongly motivated to avoid allowing a single central party to coordinate and approve transactions within the network. While the technicality of blockchain has a steep learning curve, there is tremendous potential in blockchain&rsqu...

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Jan 02, 2020

The healthcare industry frequently struggles with data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. That’s likely because cybercriminals know the value of medical data. It’s also problematic that healthcare information often gets passed between multiple parties and organizations, some of ...

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Dec 30, 2019

For a long time, the EHR has been the focus of the healthcare IT world thanks to initiatives like meaningful use. Now EHRs have mostly been implemented nationwide, and most providers are not going to go through all the hassle and expense of putting in a different EHR. Instead, providers are looking ...

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Dec 27, 2019

To drive successful adoption and deployment of AI technologies, and ultimately desired outcomes, it is critical to have a partnership in which customers and vendors are working collaboratively. Healthcare organizations and vendors alike must share their responsibilities to divide and conquer the wor...

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Dec 27, 2019

Sometimes life just gets in the way. Work schedules, family obligations, and unforeseen circumstances can make going to the doctor an inconvenience rather than a helpful necessity. It’s not uncommon for patients to forget or intentionally skip appointments, cancel unexpectedly, or even put off...

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Dec 27, 2019

Healthcare finally made the shift–it went digital. Overdue, perhaps and maybe less rapid than the transition by other industries but nonetheless notable. The age of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has dawned, and healthcare is riding the wave. You go, healthcare! For healthcare organizat...

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Dec 26, 2019

In recent times, tech giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have made it clear that their sights are set on carving out a place in healthcare. (Yes, the latest news of Google’s healthcare ambitions came when we learned that the HHS Office for Civil Rights was investigating whether its big healt...

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Dec 25, 2019

As we near the end of the year, rather than reflect on fond memories of 2019, related to healthcare startups and innovation, here are some areas or trends that I will be following in the new decade.

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Dec 25, 2019

With the changing landscape in the healthcare industry, Infosys looks to navigate the gap between the healthcare industry and the patient. The time is right, the vision is here. Let’s build together to have a better future.

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Dec 24, 2019

Healthcare is increasingly turning to the cloud. According to research from Global Market Insights, the North American healthcare cloud-computing market surpassed $8.5 billion in 2018, and the global market could exceed $55 billion by 2025. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been turbulence ...

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Dec 23, 2019

Among all the significant transformations happening across various industries, healthcare is one such industry that is being revolutionized with the latest technologies to meet challenging demands of the time. The fundamentals of the industry are changing for better. AI along with several other tech...

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Dec 23, 2019

Iris scans, fingerprint readers and facial recognition are growing in use across healthcare settings — and they’re poised to offer even greater possibilities. With just a touch or a glance, these biometric tools can identify and authenticate patients and employees by detecting unique bio...

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Dec 22, 2019

Blockchain technology is coming, and it may solve many of the challenges providers experience in healthcare today. But where exactly will it be effective and what use cases should organizations be looking to as they move ahead? Here, there’s much debate.

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Dec 20, 2019

The course covers the role of social and monetary incentives in modifying related health behaviour, and especially prevention and health care use. It will primarily draw on theoretical frameworks from several social sciences including applied microeconomics and behavioural economics, psychology, and...

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Dec 19, 2019

Data theft within the healthcare sector continues to skyrocket, led by third-party data breaches and phishing attacks. Halfway through 2019, the number of patient records breached already exceeds the 2018 number by more than 10 million. Perhaps most concerning, many of the breaches lasted weeks or m...

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Dec 18, 2019

We’ve known for a few years that income correlates with health in a major way. From the length of life to stroke risk to self-reported health status, the more access, opportunity, and means of upward mobility a person has, the better their projected health outcomes. Waves of organizations are ...

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Dec 17, 2019

The healthcare sector is charged with preserving some of the most sensitive information of any industry. Hospitals and clinics are required to securely store data, such as social security numbers, patient medical records, insurance policy details, and credit card numbers. Although healthcare adminis...

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Dec 13, 2019

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) allows developers to build standardized browser applications that lets providers access data from any EHR. Users want the freedom to be able to access a website from any browser, on any device, and on any operating system. This same need for indep...

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Dec 12, 2019

Electronic health records are not just a speculated source of physician burnout. They’re a direct cause for about 13 percent of providers, according to University of New Mexico researchers who recently examined the effects of EHR implementation and use. The issue runs even deeper, says Dr. Phi...

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Dec 12, 2019

One can expect a smart, mobile-powered solution for enhanced patient care, high level of data security, efficient record maintenance, resourceful healthcare training and innovation, and enhanced interpersonal communication. These changes are already slow-transforming the working and developments of ...

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Dec 12, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine earning (ML) stand to transform outcomes for stakeholders across the healthcare industry more directly than nearly any other technology since the discovery of antibiotics. Able to ingest and learn from massive amounts of data including patient information, cl...

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Dec 12, 2019

Infosys has published an exclusive report that provides insights into the drivers, objectives, apprehensions, and perceived advantages by healthcare and life sciences companies when moving their legacy applications to the cloud.

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Dec 12, 2019

Staffing companies play a critical role in recruiting and onboarding talent to ensure that operations don’t skip a beat. In today’s competitive recruiting market, staffing companies need to invest in digital tools to hire and onboard the best professionals faster and more efficiently. Download this ...

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Dec 12, 2019

Healthcare is becoming much more consumer-focused as patient financial responsibility rises and technology puts healthcare information in patient hands. Healthcare organizations are focusing on meeting the needs and demands of their patients as healthcare consumerism takes hold of the industry. Exte...

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Dec 11, 2019

The Sancus Solutions Investigating Adverse Incidents In Healthcare training is a CPD Certified two day course and is available ‘in-house’ or as a ‘public course’. The course will equip delegates with the skills necessary to successfully carry out such investigations.

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Dec 11, 2019

Regardless of whether you’re a chronic patient or a casual visitor to your doctor, navigating the healthcare system is miserable. I saw this first hand recently when I and then my daughter got a simple wart on our hand. You’d think this wasn’t a big deal, but as usual we put off tr...

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Dec 11, 2019

Viruses. Spyware. Ransomware. Hacking. Intrusions. All are extremely damaging, especially when healthcare systems are involved. That's because they not only compromise sensitive and confidential financial and operational information, but they put patients' personal health information (PHI) a...

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Dec 10, 2019

Steve Chamberlain, with Sensa Analytics discusses how analytics drives operational efficiency in healthcare and helps doctors analyze diagnostics to provide better care for their patients.

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Dec 10, 2019

The adoption of EHR (Electronic Health Records) is rapidly increasing in healthcare. Dental EHR systems are being developed with advanced functionalities to cover developments in technology and to comply with new regulations. Adoption of dental EHR, however, is still lower than in other areas of hea...

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Dec 09, 2019

It is no secret that AI is an often-overhyped buzzword in healthcare. Over the last two years, KLAS has been watching the AI space closely, doing extensive research and interviewing providers to try to understand how real AI is and in which ways it is impacting healthcare. We specifically wanted to ...

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Dec 09, 2019

There is a common misconception in the healthcare field that technological innovation is opposed to the philosophy of holistic care. Tech is viewed as artificial, manufactured, and impersonal it values human experience only for the sake of developing better algorithms and treats the physical body of...

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Dec 08, 2019

Artificial intelligence is becoming progressively sophisticated at performing tasks that humans do, with more efficiently, quickly and at a lower cost. From finding new links between genetic codes to making robotic-assisted surgery, AI simplifies the lives of patients, doctors, and hospital administ...

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Dec 06, 2019

A recent survey of health system IT, informatics, business, and clinical staff revealed that less than 40% of healthcare executives believe their organizations successfully share clinical data with external health systems, payers, and other partners. When asked what steps their organizations are tak...

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Dec 05, 2019

With a wealth of information available anytime, consumers and patients take advantage of online resources both during initial research and ongoing care — researching health systems and services, reading physician reviews, and participating in online forums. This isn’t surprising, conside...

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Dec 05, 2019

One way that it could improve dental care is by improving the effectiveness of dental cleanings. Nanobots could be used to scrape a collection of bacteria off of teeth, which is known as the biofilm. This could allow patients to have a much whiter smile and have far better dental health overall. Not...

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Dec 05, 2019

Many medical organizations talk about having a roadmap to the future, but following one is hard. Adopting new healthcare IT can feel overwhelming when you’re trying to keep up with your daily patients. But overwhelming becomes manageable when a practice remembers the principles that go into a ...

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Dec 05, 2019

Robots are a rapidly growing part of the modern health care landscape. The history of robots in medicine dates back to 1985 when a robotic arm called “PUMA” assisted with surgery for the first time. The operation a neurosurgical biopsy was a complete success. Some of today’s health...

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Dec 04, 2019

The healthcare industry has made many advances over the last few decades, yet one area where innovation is severely lacking is organization-wide communications. One of the most crucial, foundational aspects of the industry that almost single-handedly allows care to happen in the first place happens ...

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Dec 04, 2019

One of the biggest issues that healthcare organisations face when implementing new IT infrastructure solutions is that they lack the budget to properly integrate them. The annual Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Navigant survey found that 56% of respondents didn’t believe...

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Dec 02, 2019

Artificial Intelligence will impact every step of Healthcare. From daily health monitoring to diagnosis of deadly disease! We can integrate Deep Learning models from health wearable to high end Equipment in hospital. AI's application will not help us to live longer but also will free us from man...

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Dec 02, 2019

The healthcare sector’s biggest challenge is how we create organisations that are governed smarter, as well as a workforce, and indeed population, that learns faster and feels able to solve the problems that they are beset by on a daily basis.” He went on to add: “Whether you work ...

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Dec 02, 2019

Medical science was taking great strides around the turn of the 20th century. An Austrian biologist had learned that humans have different blood types, researchers were discovering the existence of vitamins and a Dutch physician invented electrocardiography. The landscape looks a little different no...

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Nov 29, 2019

Technology today is nothing short of incredible. We’ve almost become immune to it by now, but if you take a second to stop and think about how different life would be without it, it’s easy to appreciate just how much of an integral part of our lives it has become. Aside from entertaining...

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Nov 29, 2019

The healthcare industry has oftentimes been synonymous with the slow uptake of new technologies. However, now this famously cumbersome sector is undergoing a profound digital transformation. Like many industries today, healthcare services are becoming increasingly data driven in a change that is onl...

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Nov 27, 2019

A confluence of factors is driving a dramatic shift in healthcare delivery from traditional sites of care such as hospitals and clinics to outpatient and retail care sites such as urgent care clinics and ambulatory surgical centers. Of course, this shift doesn’t just change things for patients...

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Nov 27, 2019

At RSNA19, we’re focused on the digital transformation of imaging and therapy to improve patient care.

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Nov 27, 2019

It is hard to think of any area of our lives that might not one day be affected by artificial intelligence, and an exponential rise in recent years has already seen it become increasingly embedded in healthcare. After an early focus on supercharging the way in which new drugs can be discovered, AI i...

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Nov 26, 2019

Most of us in the health industry want to get meaningful health products to market, and to the people who need them, as fast as possible. Yet in the growing healthtech sector, despite over $50B invested since 2011, there have been relatively few successful exits. Over the past five years, since befo...

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Nov 26, 2019

Health care systems are being flooded with a slew of digital innovations, both internally and externally sourced. The promise of remote sensors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and personal health records, together with investment from the National Institutes of Health and private investo...

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Nov 26, 2019

Mike Beddow, IBM Cloud and Analytics Sales Leader, describes his experiences with clients using historical and streaming data to improve patient care. Watch to learn how continuous intelligence technologies and strategies are changing healthcare today.

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Nov 26, 2019

From remote diagnosis to personalised treatments, data science is starting to give healthcare and Life Sciences the shot in the arm they desperately need. Healthcare has come a long way over the last couple of centuries. We’ve gone from cleaning blood with leeches and biting sticks for pain re...

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Nov 26, 2019

Today, IT within the healthcare industry is undergoing profound changes. This has been driven, in part, by the development of advanced new treatments, including robotics, analytical imaging and robust data networks, which enable the lessons learned from pioneering medical practitioners to be distrib...

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Nov 25, 2019

Medical progress in the past decade has been great, but we’ve reached a bottleneck of which many of us are unaware. Spreadsheets and relational databases that have been a mainstay over the past 30 years have reached their limits. And because they cannot cope with the vast amounts of data and t...

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Nov 24, 2019

The conversation in healthcare today is no longer about whether competition is good or bad. It’s about who’s eating your lunch and what to do about it. As more and more countries adopt market-based approaches for healthcare delivery, executive attention will continue to shift from the me...

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Nov 22, 2019

Combining immigration and healthcare leads to an uproar of opinions, with data often taking a backseat. In light of this we’re focusing on the results of a new study this week examining whether offering healthcare coverage affects rates of immigration.

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Nov 22, 2019

What could be said about quality in cinema could also be said for the world of healthcare. Volume-based care puts less focus on quality or the type of service they give to patients and more on the numbers and cost of care those who were the most successful were those who could see the greatest numbe...

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Nov 22, 2019

To tackle cyber risks in healthcare, the European Union will introduce a tightened system of rules for medical equipment in 2020. The Medical Devices Regulation will assure purchasers for healthcare institutions that any new equipment meets strict cyber security requirements, and reduce the chance o...

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Nov 21, 2019

Healthcare’s "new front door" is the first stop on a consumer’s care journey. Banging this door down means vying for a different kind of consumer relationship. This relationship starts well before the consumer’s initial primary care or doctor visit. It begins with the too...

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Nov 21, 2019

Connected healthcare is better healthcare. Patients who take part along with physicians in their healthcare will be healthier. Technology today allows personal health records to be recorded and updated by patients and a host of apps, whereby physicians can view additional data on their patients. Lea...

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Nov 21, 2019

When a data breach occurs at a private company, the loss of personally identifiable information (PII) can be inconvenient to consumers, reputation-battering for the organization, and may lead to identity theft and further account compromise. If a security incident takes place at a healthcare service...

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Nov 21, 2019

As a society, we are faced with many challenges, and it’s no secret that one of the more prevalent is that of substance abuse. Amongst the most dangerous and holistically destructive of these behaviors, affecting multiple facets of our social landscape from individual health and wellbeing to p...

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Nov 20, 2019

This whitepaper examines the financial implications of an effective CRM system, without which your organization risks. To acquire and retain patients, health systems have to connect with their customers cost-effectively. And along the way, they need to detect and measure to what extent their marketi...

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Nov 20, 2019

In our digital lives, we have become accustomed to apps and services operating almost seamlessly. If I miss a turn while following the step-by-step directions from my favorite navigation app, the system auto-corrects and presents a new route. Web apps like this are now so commonplace, most of us don...

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Nov 20, 2019

Health information is incredibly complex —there are misspellings, different ways of saying the same thing, handwritten scribbles, and faxes. Google has spent two decades on similar problems for consumers, building products such as Search, Translate and Gmail, and we believe we can adapt our te...

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Nov 20, 2019

The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey hasn’t changed since its inception in 2006. Healthcare leaders have long wanted to see it reformed. Now, hospital groups are making the case for a major HCAHPS overhaul. Here’s what they’re are ask...

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Nov 19, 2019

In today’s digitally connected world, data is everything. This is especially true within the medical field, which arguably demonstrates the best examples of how data is changing the world for the better. Though the industry is still at the forefront in its ability to use that data with emergin...

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Nov 19, 2019

Eleven Excelsior Care Group member facilities contracted with ImagineMIC to open new specialty units in New York and New Jersey. These specialty units include real-time, actionable hemodynamic information through the combination of wireless FDA-cleared Biosensor Telemetry Patches, working in tandem ...

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Nov 19, 2019

Cloud computing offers healthcare professionals instant access to patient data through secure portals and near-limitless storage and control. A physician can store information in seconds and access it just as quickly. This process eliminates the need for hard copies unless specifically requested by ...

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Nov 19, 2019

The leading reason why criminals steal data is to sell it for profit. Financial records, such as credit card information, fetch a higher price than medical data, yet cybercriminals put extensive time and resources into targeting healthcare. Stability may be the reason. People can cancel a credit car...

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Nov 18, 2019

Building on Cloudian's hyperperformant object storage technology, this new solution integrates a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) and application-specific workflows for pathology, mammography, cardiology, and more.

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Nov 18, 2019

Proposals to extend health insurance coverage and improve access to high-quality health care in the US currently prominent in national policy debates must find ways to make expansion affordable. Could more investment in social services help? Social service investments have been shown to improve heal...

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Nov 18, 2019

There has it seems, never been a better time to be in digital health. And for medtech players involved in the design and manufacture of healthtech products, there are significant opportunities on the horizon. With the NHS continuing its drive for increased innovation, the conditions are being create...

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Nov 15, 2019

MediLiVes aims to disrupt the healthcare & telemedicine industry by lowering the cost & barrier in conducting algorithmic medical examinations and making it more accessible to all mankind. MediLiVes has brought an opportune moment for a major and much-needed disruption of the current healthc...

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Nov 15, 2019

There's an old saying: "Culture trumps process." I'd like to amend this to say, "Culture trumps technology." While this is obviously a play on words, one does have to seriously consider the culture of organizations that are acquired today in the healthcare space. This is ...

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Nov 15, 2019

Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analysed for it to have value. This comment by British mathematician a...

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Nov 14, 2019

Healthcare field know how time-consuming it can be to balance providing quality service for better patient outcomes while sustaining an effective, streamlined administration for their employees. From rapidly changing compliance requirements to maintaining accurate workforce data and recruiting top-t...

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Nov 14, 2019

The sheer magnitude of hacker attention isn’t the only concern for healthcare security professionals. The job of securing the healthcare technology ecosystem is made infinitely more complicated by several factors that are unique to healthcare.

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Nov 14, 2019

Today, in a world of immediate access to information anywhere on the planet using a smartphone, consumers expect more from healthcare, which many experts say will cause a major consumer-driven transformation in care delivery models. Technology has evolved to enable what many are calling the “U...

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Nov 14, 2019

With doctors’ time in short supply, one area in which AI-driven tools could help transform healthcare is by increasing diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven diagnostic tools, especially in areas like cardiology, have the potential to save the healthcare system money and most importantly save lives. T...

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Nov 13, 2019

Open offices are often loud, chaotic, and full of distractions that keep your team from getting work done. That’s where we come in, with solutions that avert open office perils. Open offices are often loud, chaotic, and full of distractions that keep your team from getting work done. That&rsqu...

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Nov 13, 2019

For decades, technology has enabled better quality research, treatment, and access to healthcare. As a result, citizens around the world are increasingly empowered to focus on self-care, and people are now living longer than in previous generations. But as healthcare improves, the industry is presen...

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Nov 13, 2019

Machine learning will dramatically improve health care. There are already a myriad impactful ML health care applications from imaging to predicting readmissions to the back office. But there are also high-profile, expensive efforts that have not achieved their goals. In our collective roles as the C...

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Nov 12, 2019

As AI continues to be adopted by the healthcare industry, Dr. Kyra calls for designers and technologists to design their products to incorporate EQ.

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Nov 12, 2019

Do you remember when Apple unveiled that little voice inside your phone, Siri, almost ten years ago in 2010? Before that point, asking your phone to tell you a joke in public would’ve gotten you weird looks. Not to mention the lack of a robotic punchline. Now if you blurt out a command, a devi...

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Nov 12, 2019

For decades, artificial intelligence has continued to play a critical role in different industries. However, when the term “artificial intelligence” is mentioned within the healthcare sphere, many people imagine robots operating on human beings and rendering doctors obsolete. Far from th...

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Nov 11, 2019

It’s a well-documented trend that the rise of digital channels such as webchat, apps, FAQs, etc., has led to a change in the way contact centers handle interactions. The routine, “easy” interactions are now handled by self-service channels. Deflecting these low-value interactions h...

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Nov 11, 2019

AI is expected to vastly expand clinicians’ treatment insights, and improve physician workflows from radiology and diagnostic decision support to complex acute hospital care and busy ambulatory environments. Virtual assistants are helping to ease the burden of documentation workflows by enabli...

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Nov 11, 2019

AI the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior—is poised to transform the practice of medicine as we know it. But it is a complementary technology, designed to enhance the performance of humans including physicians, nurses and medical researchers—in doing their jobs...

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Nov 11, 2019

As a provider of clinical technology, we have recently been reflecting as to why the adoption and implementation of new technology is slower than other industries especially in the B2B space. As a healthcare professional myself, I started thinking about my approach to choosing technology solutions. ...

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Nov 10, 2019

Talking and understanding when a medical device or app falls under the purview of regulation (FDA or FTC) and when it does not. Some of the issues that separate regulation from non-regulation are subtle and are related to the words that are used to promote the technology. Watch the video to learn mo...

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Nov 08, 2019

The report provides healthcare leaders with 4 actionable strategies, supported by successful practices that combine performance improvement tactics, technology and survey of hospital and health system leaders on the state of performance improvement and cost transformation efforts within their organi...

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Nov 08, 2019

Find out how Advisory Board (Optum) uses data analytics and machine learning running on HPE’s BlueData software platform to help streamline hospital operations, cut costs, and enhance care.

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Nov 08, 2019

As healthcare is being transformed with new digital technologies, several emerging technology solutions are being developed and funded to enable successful care delivery. The digital healthcare market is seeing a decline in funds from venture capitalists[1], which likely signals their caution to inv...

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Nov 07, 2019

Managing healthcare data is a special kind of a nightmare for IT professionals. First, the industry is highly regulated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires strict attention to a complex set of rules governing access, security and privacy. A failure to follow the...

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Nov 07, 2019

It’s always my pleasure to speak with clients. Without them, we can’t be relevant. Our culture of trusted partnerships – which we celebrate at events like the Allscripts Client Experience – guide us to build solutions important to them today and tomorrow. From these partnersh...

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Nov 06, 2019

In this episode, I talk about why you won’t be able to receive care remotely without the upcoming 5G revolution. Digital health technologies swarm healthcare making patients the point-of-care. Sensors used at home, artificial intelligence-powered applications, digital health technologies, port...

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Nov 06, 2019

Oftentimes health care centers and clinics are worried about remaining HIPPA-compliant while pursuing email marketing efforts as part of their digital marketing strategy period. So you need to be aware of the technology that you're using and make sure that you have a signed with the software of ...

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Nov 06, 2019

In medicine, contrary to common belief, it is not usually enough to know the diagnosis and its best treatment or procedure. Guidelines, checklists and protocols only go so far when you are treating real people with diverse constitutions for multiple problems under a variety of circumstances. The mor...

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Nov 06, 2019

There are certainly moments when overutilization of the system for unnecessary tests can be pinpointed to a specific cause. A few years ago, for example, Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy prompted a massive spike in BRCA tests, including among a significant number of women who had a low proba...

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Nov 05, 2019

The healthcare industry is growing rapidly and at a steady pace. According to a recent survey by Deloitte, the Healthcare technology sector is expected to reach USD $280 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 15.9% between 2016-2021. Technological advancements in the healthcare industry have improved our qua...

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Nov 05, 2019

PatientKeeper's Clinical Communications Suite complements a hospital's EHR to improve care team collaboration.

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Nov 05, 2019

The industry as a whole is in need of meaningful solutions. As taxpayers, patients and key stakeholders in healthcare, we must collaborate to eliminate interruptions to our healthcare supply chain. For those invested in improving healthcare from the inside, this means working across competitive boun...

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Nov 05, 2019

Making sure that you have an improving dental practice that utilizes the latest technologies is more important than ever. New and innovative technologies make it possible for dentists to provide a standard of care that’s far beyond anything that was possible previously. If you’re not usi...

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Nov 04, 2019

Clifford Chance Tech Group members Gunnar Sachs and Stephen Reese discuss the development of digital health: What does the future of healthcare look like? Which role do intellectual property rights play when developing new digital health products? Who are the drivers of digital health solutions and ...

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Nov 04, 2019

Have you heard of telemedicine or virtual healthcare? If you haven’t, I think it’s time. In fact, I’d go so bold as to say the time is now for adoption and implementation of virtual health programs. Why? Because technology has finally caught up with our vision for the future. Consu...

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Nov 03, 2019

Healthcare is an industry that is as of now being changed utilizing the most recent technology, so it can address the difficulties it is looking in the 21st century. Technology can help healthcare associations satisfy developing need and proficiently work to convey better patient consideration. Here...

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Nov 01, 2019

For those of us who live in big cities in developed countries, it’s easy to take access to hospitals and medical specialists for granted. But many rural communities in developing countries have too few medical clinics and doctors. With only prohibitively expensive and slow options for managing...

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Oct 31, 2019

Although healthcare organizations have indeed tried to leverage modern technology, many have not looked at the transformation from a systems approach. This has left rudimentary technology still operating throughout healthcare, which points to the remaining need for digital transformation. Ideally, t...

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Oct 31, 2019

Find out how Advisory Board (Optum) uses data analytics and machine learning running on HPE’s BlueData software platform to help streamline hospital operations, cut costs, and enhance care. Learn more at hpe.com/info/bluedata

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Oct 31, 2019

Wearable technology has been a recent trend with a wide range of options from smart watches to heated clothing. While most think of the fitness industry when thinking about wearable technology, healthcare is using it to help address key issues with healthcare costs, aging generations, and the rise o...

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Oct 31, 2019

What are the requirements for generating a premium value deal for a diagnostic technology or company? How do outliers in diagnostic deals command such a big premium? One important element seems to be how the new technology will transform the current treatment paradigm. The clinical positioning of in...

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Oct 31, 2019

A seasoned health and wellness expert on both the speaking circuits and within mainstream media. He spoke at “Talks at Google”, and maintains a busy private practice in White Plains, NY.

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Oct 31, 2019

Electronic health records have gained popularity over the last few years as more practices use them to increase efficiency, reduce medical errors, and improve patient care. Regrettably, as with most new technology, numerous myths and misconceptions surround EHR and need to be debunked. If you are un...

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Oct 30, 2019

Creating Value for Everyone provides unique data, insights, and examples about how organizations are making changes in every part of the value chain. With precision medicine overturning our very conception of healthcare, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to be part of its future. Data-centric...

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Oct 30, 2019

Healthcare sector throughout the globe presents a contrasting landscape. On one hand, powered by the latest technology such as the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, diagnostic, treatment, and care solutions have improved, and on the other hand, ageing population, rise in the cost of me...

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Oct 30, 2019

Telemedicine is on the forefront of the healthcare revolution. According to a recent report, the telemedicine market within the United States will be around $65 Billion by 2025. While telemedicine has existed for several decades, it has been becoming more mainstream with mass market adoption and mor...

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Oct 29, 2019

Despite all of modern medicine’s ground-breaking achievements and our increasingly digitized world, the ability to share information between different payers and providers in a reliable and secure way remains frustratingly out of reach. Around 30% of patient data in electronic health records i...

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Oct 29, 2019

Unlock the potential of AI in healthcare and accelerate patient care with NetApp.

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Oct 29, 2019

How many steps would you estimate it takes the typical medical practice to process a faxed request from a pharmacy for a prescription refill? I can’t speak for how every practice handles this type of daily business operation, but after speaking with hundreds of physicians and healthcare office...

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Oct 29, 2019

The term social determinants of health (SDOH) is ubiquitous in health care; equally pervasive is the misuse of the term to characterize health system interventions to address non-medical factors that contribute to health. Health care industry representatives often use SDOH interchangeably with other...

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Oct 25, 2019

Health providers embrace frictionless business for better access, cost, quality and efficiency. Right service, right channel, right time.

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Oct 25, 2019

The starting point for understanding a health care system is to understand what you expect it to do for you. Initially, you may think there are only two jobs: prevent disease and treat the disease that cannot be prevented. But, because incentives work differently for different kinds of prevention, l...

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Oct 25, 2019

While the weather is warm, preventing the flu is usually not top of mind for most healthcare consumers. But for health plans, it’s never too early to start planning for the impending 2019-2020 season. Ideally, people will be vaccinated in the early fall, allowing sufficient time to build antib...

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Oct 24, 2019

5G will enable new real-time communication services, like remote touch that will enable remote movement and control in real-time. This demo showcases a doctor from a hospital, performs an ultrasound scan remotely on a patient who is in an ambulance. Watch the video to know why 5G matters for the hea...

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Oct 24, 2019

Fundamentally, value-based care requires vendors as well as providers to operate differently, but new revenue models and a new approach to hiring deserve special consideration. In this article, we’ll cover the state of value-based care, how vendors are being required to accept outcomes-based c...

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Oct 23, 2019

If you’re like me, one of the first things you do when you leave the house in the morning is put on your headset. I may be joining a meeting, calling a friend, getting coffee – sometimes all three – before I even set foot in the office. When I get to work, I’m collaborating w...

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Oct 23, 2019

The concept of “value-based care” was a common focal point at the 2019 Healthcare & Medical Properties Conference stressed during the beginning discussion surrounding operational trends that independent physicians and larger health networks both face. Recent mergers in the New Jersey...

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Oct 23, 2019

The financial risk to health systems has never been higher. Decades of reimbursement reductions coupled with operating cost increases have left health systems executives no choice other than innovation. The traditional methods are no longer enough. For something to be transformational, it must under...

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Oct 23, 2019

The backbone of a great health care system is its primary care task force. From Singapore to France, elite health care systems rely on these cerebral doctors to provide preventive, urgent, and acute care along with chronic disease management. Primary care doctors have a broad-ranging impact from hea...

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Oct 22, 2019

It seems like every photo shown of a business in action these days features a bunch of people in a huddle room, looking productive – just like our own Poly beauty shot below. But the technology that is IN the room really matters most to the people who are joining remotely – the people NO...

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Oct 22, 2019

Venky Ananth, SVP and Head, Healthcare, Infosys elaborates on the UIUC-Infosys Partnership and how Precision Medicine works and could change the complete delivery in healthcare industry.

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Oct 22, 2019

Smart devices and 3D printing are likely to play an important role in improving dental practice, and they’re likely to become increasingly important in the future. Not only do these technologies play a role when it comes to dental care that’s used in offices, but they’re also begin...

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Oct 22, 2019

Healthcare systems of the future will integrate those data points to make care more personal and collaborative. Remote monitoring and blockchain will shape where patients receive care, and how providers help keep those details

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Oct 22, 2019

How can we possibly get to standardization in medicine? And is that a good thing? Standardized checklists save lives; rigid procedures for sterilization of equipment saves lives; universal compliance with recommended beneficial treatments saves lives. And while it’s sometimes a wonderful thing...

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Oct 18, 2019

In recent years, we have seen medtech investments rise to new heights. In 2017, venture capitalists reportedly poured US $ 9 billion into space, an increase of 60 percent over the previous year. While more money is devoted to innovation in this sector, there are still very few companies that have di...

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Oct 17, 2019

Leading healthcare organizations are transforming the industry, using new digital tools such as wearable sensors, AV systems, telemedicine and mobile apps to create lower-cost services that are smarter and more patient-centered. In this emerging data-driven world, now is the time for healthcare prov...

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Oct 17, 2019

Around the world, researchers are increasingly thinking smaller to solve some of the biggest problems in medicine. Though most biological processes happen at the nano level, it wasn’t until recently that new technological advancements helped in opening up the possibility of nanomedicine to hea...

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Oct 17, 2019

U.S. healthcare Is undergoing a tremendous change. In 2016, Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, providing among many things a mandate to end the cycle of patient data being trapped in silos, virtually impossible to share, and keeping the dream or coordinated care out of reach. With the Cures...

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Oct 17, 2019

Discover the benefits of cloud in healthcare. Healthcare organizations are coming to the cloud for a multitude of reasons. Some are attracted by the broad range of cloud-based offerings, while others are interested in a specific cloud-enabled solution. Those organizations that begin their cloud jour...

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Oct 17, 2019

Data breaches involving phishing and other email-related compromises persist as a top challenge for healthcare providers. So, what are some of the top trends emerging from these incidents? Phishing attacks are the primary vector in many of the largest health data breaches being reported to the Depar...

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Oct 17, 2019

Not so long in the past, you had to wait in long queues at the hospital or clinic before your turn arrived. The documentation process was long, and people felt the pain, as they survived the wait that tired them more than the issues they were facing. Healthcare was unavailable in the rural areas, an...

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Oct 16, 2019

When you think of the cloud, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of the apps on your smartphone? Perhaps some of those apps are associated with your facility’s electronic medical record system? If so, your healthcare organization is already leveraging the power of the cloud to connect staff, p...

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Oct 16, 2019

The healthcare sector in recent times has witnessed more technological innovations such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotic Surgery, among others. As, in one side, big data is very significant in the healthcare and enabling patient information more shareable safely and precisely, on the ot...

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Oct 16, 2019

The healthcare industry has come a long way in its appreciation of non-clinical factors impacting a patient’s overall well-being, such as social determinants of health (SDoH). However, the industry has made less progress when it comes to gathering information on individual patients’ soci...

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Oct 15, 2019

As we live longer, the risk of contracting chronic diseases rises. Explore how you can prepare not only for a longer life but a healthier one in our FutureRisks report with AXA.

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Oct 15, 2019

Modern technology can be seen as a blessing and a curse, especially when it comes to the technology used in healthcare. Some of the medical technological advancements seen today are astonishing. They are there to improve our quality of life and to make us live longer, healthier lives, but everything...

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Oct 15, 2019

Pop health is still a pretty manual process. Having a dedicated solution, let alone a dedicated analytics platform, to address pop health is not as widespread as one might think.” — Brendan FitzGerald, research director, HIMSS Analystics When I first heard this line, a number of thoughts...

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Oct 15, 2019

The DHTN uses InTouch Health as one of it’s telehealth partners because of their willingness to partner in developing and implementing clinic specific software and devices. Additionally, providers appreciated InTouch Health’s simplicity and ease of use.

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Oct 15, 2019

From improved operational efficiencies to better patient outcomes and more affordable care, digital transformation in the healthcare industry has enhanced the experience for everyone involved—patients, medical professionals, and service providers. The typical healthcare journey no longer begin...

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Oct 15, 2019

The article’s primary finding of a positive relationship between health spending and social service spending is perhaps unexpected. Based on data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the study challenges the conventional wisdom that countries that spend more o...

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Oct 15, 2019

Telehealth utilization is on track to explode due to consumer demand, reimbursement alignment and an improved regulatory environment. But for health systems to reap telehealth’s financial and clinical benefits, organizational leaders must demonstrate strong leadership, provide relevant educati...

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Oct 14, 2019

While technology advancements are changing every industry, the field of healthcare is experiencing rapid developments.

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Oct 14, 2019

Today, Roche creates innovative medicines and diagnostic tests that help millions of patients globally. Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines...

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Oct 14, 2019

Here’s some good news for a change about cancer: Cancer mortality the rate of death from cancer has fallen substantially over the last four decades. There is also, however, some not-so-good news: Cancer incidence the rate of cancer diagnoses has been rising. This doesn’t reflect increasi...

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Oct 14, 2019

However, some underlying health issues can’t be detected with a simple blood test or CAT scan. Behavioral health problems can impact every part of a person’s life. Some can develop as a result of physical problems, and vice versa. When patients go to the doctor, they’re putting the...

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Oct 11, 2019

Mobile devices are playing a hugely significant role in the digital transformation of the healthcare sector. They are being used to revolutionize many aspects of healthcare from patient communications to professional training. This guide investigates some of the ways in which mobile health, or mHeal...

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Oct 11, 2019

Cancer is an umbrella term for a large group of diseases caused when abnormal cells divide rapidly, and spread to other tissue and organs. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. In a healthy body, the trillions of cells it’s made of grow and divide, as the body needs them t...

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Oct 11, 2019

A Parade and Cleveland Clinic survey looks at how Americans are getting virtual medical services.

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Oct 10, 2019

This post is offered as a concise overview of important advances in artificial intelligence that will soon impact the way mental health care is practiced in day to day clinical settings. The result will be more individualized treatment incorporating both conventional and evidence-based complementary...

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Oct 10, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that can replicate human cognitive functions. Like in other fields, it is bringing a rapid transformation in healthcare due to the huge influx of healthcare data, advancements in analytics techniques, and innovation in clinical research and big data analy...

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Oct 09, 2019

Toluna used their global influencer community and QuickSurveys platform to survey more than 1000 consumers in the United States. View the full infographic to see what we found.

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Oct 09, 2019

Is the future of healthcare preventive medicine? Lab100 at Mount Sinai uses precision diagnostics to empower patients and help scientists advance our understanding of human health. In this episode of Mount Sinai Spotlight, Sarah Pesce, Clinical Director of Operations at Lab100, discusses how Lab100 ...

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Oct 09, 2019

Digital transformation is a top priority across every sector of the dramatically changing healthcare industry. Rapidly emerging digital technologies are being used by healthcare organizations and healthcare-related businesses to improve patient care, compete more effectively, comply with regulations...

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Oct 09, 2019

Robust exchange of health information is absolutely critical to improving health care quality and lowering costs. In the last few months, government leaders at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have advanced ambitious policies to make interoperability a reality. Overall, this is a...

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Oct 09, 2019

Yet the healthcare space has been slow to learn that lesson. Far from functioning as a team focused on a single goal, healthcare stakeholders operate on a fractured playing field, each one trying to get to the goal on their own. From that perspective, everyone becomes a competitor and the ability to...

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Oct 08, 2019

Price quoting for medical devices and pharmaceuticals is as sophisticated as it is complex. Download this e-book to learn how Salesforce Quote-to-Cash (QTC) can help life sciences companies address the industry’s unique sales challenges.

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Oct 08, 2019

Break down machine learning in healthcare: what works, what doesn't, and how to keep your information safe, secure, and private.

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Oct 04, 2019

Doctor Anywhere is a regional tech-led health and wellness company, on a mission to improve healthcare delivery. We harness the power of technology and connectivity to combine a full range of health and wellness services into a single, integrated platform. You can consult a licensed practicing docto...

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Oct 04, 2019

Cloud technology application in healthcare is not new. Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. And now in 2019, we see that we were right. Let us see what as changed in this area with tim...

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Oct 03, 2019

If you are looking to run a successful healthcare business, be it a small office or a clinic, you need to ensure your patients always receive high-quality services. To be able to deliver the best possible care services to your patients, you will have to create the appropriate environment and focus o...

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Oct 03, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly expanded in the medical and health arena. New innovations include connected remote monitoring devices, patient engagement tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based automated detection and diagnosis, and smart operating rooms. Seeking to keep pace with the spe...

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Oct 03, 2019

The concept of digital health information was introduced in the 1970s when professionals began moving away from problem-oriented medical records and making the transition to electronic health records (EHR). At the time, many facilities didn’t have the technology on hand to utilize digital heal...

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Oct 02, 2019

Most of today’s primary care is, in retail terms, a loss leader a well-oiled doorway to the wildly expensive sick care system. For decades, practitioners have been forced into production factories, seeing as many patients, ordering as many tests, and sending as many referrals as possible to sp...