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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 con...

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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 ve...

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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 a...

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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

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 ch...

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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 uniq...

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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 D...

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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 inf...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 adop...

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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 transformatio...

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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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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 e...

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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...

blog article

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 in...

blog article

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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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 ...

blog article

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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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 abil...

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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...

blog article

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...

blog article

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...

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Oct 01, 2019

Lead the way in digital first patient communications and meet your 10 year plan obligations by introducing video consultations as an alternative to face to face appointments.

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Oct 01, 2019

The more complex healthcare becomes, the more ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and surgical hospitals need to stay abreast of new trends—and understand how to turn them into new opportunities. To get started, here are some of the key drivers impacting the industry today. How will these driver...

blog article

Oct 01, 2019

Ubiquitous mobile technology like cell phones and smart watches play an increasingly important role in our health. You can have a checkup with your physician via the camera on your phone. If your heart rate becomes irregular, your Apple Watch will let you know (proven accuracy notwithstanding). Just...

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Sep 30, 2019

Blockchain has been making big waves across healthcare, heralded as the technology that’s going to save healthcare. The excitement is understandable. Just about every segment of healthcare is fragmented almost to the point of dysfunction. What better way to bind it together than via a digital ...

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Sep 29, 2019

The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers’ ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For example, by using machine learning, scientists are working to develop algorithms that will help...

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Sep 28, 2019

A-Medicare is the innovative path for universal healthcare; a universal health care system that creates affordable healthcare and provides programs using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology via our free platform portal where users gain credits to pay all or some of t...

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Sep 27, 2019

When health insurers and physicians are given new ways to look at data, when they see the power of this information in new light, they do extraordinary things with it. And when the data they own are augmented with nontraditional, external data sets the possibilities are truly boundless. I work with ...

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Sep 26, 2019

The results of our 2019 survey on cloud computing in healthcare are now in! The findings include information on how to build a cloud strategy, what’s driving healthcare IT departments to move to the cloud, and how IT professionals learn cloud basics. With this data, we can see opportunities an...

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Sep 26, 2019

Hear from Appian Healthcare Payer Industry Lead Cate McConnell during U.S. National Health IT Week as she discusses her experience in the healthcare industry and the future of healthcare IT.

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Sep 26, 2019

It seems that all day, every day, I care for patients who simply won’t take care of themselves.  And I sometimes think that we in emergency medicine have caused more harm than we expected. Now let me first say, I also take care of those who can’t care for themselves.  There are...

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Sep 26, 2019

As health care evolves from volume to value, the role of the health care consumer is increasingly at the center of the landscape. Deloitte can help organizations build a data-driven, fully connected patient experience that is simple and effortless, with user-friendly devices and unparalleled data ma...

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Sep 26, 2019

Global health is facing a time of political uncertainty and growing inequity, on the one hand, and great advances and innovations on the other, says David Mabey. It may come as a surprise, considering the dominant negative news narrative that grips us globally, but a survey put together by the Royal...

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Sep 26, 2019

Healthcare cybersecurity is a global growing concern. The last few years have seen an increasing rate of IT security incidents and data breaches for many healthcare ecosystems. Reports show that ransomware and other cyberattacks are on the rise – and that healthcare is one of the key targets. ...

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Sep 25, 2019

With the onset coming early and strong, emergency departments, primary care physicians, and urgent care clinics all over the country were overrun with patients waiting in line to see a doctor. While this had a negative impact on a large portion of the U.S. population, anyone involved in the on-deman...

blog article

Sep 25, 2019

We at CardioFlex Therapy in Davie, Fl, work diligently with insurance companies to ensure we are considered a priority for many circumstances, to be within network, to have the lowest deductibles possible offered to you, our patients. You will be surprised to hear many insurance companies and insura...

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Sep 25, 2019

Can robots replace our doctors? We find out what artificial intelligence can offer us when it comes to the future of healthcare.

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Sep 24, 2019

Artificial intelligence is incredibly buzzy in health care right now, and for a good reason. Other industries are already experiencing AI-enabled radical transformations, like real-time fraud monitoring and detection in banking and finance and instantaneous image recognition across the web and socia...

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Sep 23, 2019

We're invested in developing solutions that improve both patient outcomes and patient experience.

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Sep 23, 2019

As 5G wireless technology is slowly making its way across the globe, many government agencies and organizations advise that there is no reason to be alarmed about the effects of radiofrequency waves on our health. But some experts strongly disagree. The term 5G refers to the fifth generation of mobi...

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Sep 23, 2019

Chat Bots have quickly made their way into nursing. But should their expansion continue or is it more harm than good?

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Sep 23, 2019

Precision medicine is slowly entering the mainstream of health and medical discourse, but is still a term in need of a concise definition to move beyond its origins in genomics to the present, where precision medicine also must encompass population health management, according to a new study from Ch...

blog article

Sep 23, 2019

Google Cloud AI to provide intelligent health analytics for improved risk awareness and cost management in healthcare. Lumiata was founded on a vision of smarter, more cost-effective healthcare, and AI plays a central role in making it a reality. We provide sophisticated machine learning application...

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Sep 20, 2019

Cognizant’s industry-leading core digital platform, TriZetto Facets, delivers on the promise of next-generation digital technology to simplify your operations and help you run your business more intelligently, efficiently and confidently than ever before. Our unmatched capabilities, investment...

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Sep 20, 2019

Meaningfully measuring adult influenza and pneumococcal vaccination is a vital public health intervention. Ninety percent of deaths from influenza occur in older adults, often those with chronic co-morbid conditions. Pneumococcal disease is also responsible for thousands of deaths annually. In adult...

blog article

Sep 20, 2019

Eventually, many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) include HAL. An acronym for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, HAL played a prominent and disconcerting role in Stanley Kubrick’s mind-bending 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, sentient computer HAL learn...

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Sep 19, 2019

What are real world data and how can they be handled responsibly?

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Sep 19, 2019

Mental health care is undoubtedly one of the most pressing challenges that our national health system faces. Years of insufficient payment, infrastructure erosion, provider deficits, and stigma have created a fragmented patchwork of weak, under-coordinated and under-reimbursed treatment capabilities...

blog article

Sep 19, 2019

Big data is hot! But for healthcare, big data is still mostly in its hype phase. People talk about it a lot, but don’t use it very often in practice. That mostly has to do with ignorance. Dan Ariely from Duke University put it nicely when he said: ‘Big data is like teenage sex: everyone ...

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Sep 18, 2019

As Medidata’s R&D organization evolves, Medidata CIO Rama Kondru will add the role of chief technical officer (CTO) to his responsibilities and oversee architecture, engineering, software quality, data science, delivery services, and information security across the entire Medidata portfoli...

blog article

Sep 18, 2019

The world of medical records in both the public and private sectors remains dominated by a push toward interoperable data, and more broadly useful health data. Like everything else in American healthcare, the effort has been only moderately successful despite a price tag in the billions. In a modern...

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Sep 18, 2019

Bert Schulze, VP SAP S/4HANA Product Management & Co-Innovation, SAP SE, introduces SAP S/4HANA 1809. In his video, he explains how intelligence is achieved in the latest release, which tools can be used, and the benefits users can take advantage of when using SAP S/4HANA 1809.

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Sep 18, 2019

Few people have the ability to connect technology, business and people with as much insight and relevance as SAP evangelist Tom Raftery. During his Innovation Talk at the SAP Festival in Brussels, Tom highlighted the impact of new technologies on our personal lives and how enterprises need to be tru...

blog article

Sep 18, 2019

My role here at SAP is IoT Evangelist. It’s my job to go around and speak about how the Internet of Things is changing the way we live, work, and run our businesses. IoT Evangelist is a job title that didn’t exist 5 or 10 years ago – mainly because the Internet of Things wasn&rsquo...

blog article

Sep 18, 2019

The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect. What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence? However, ...

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Sep 17, 2019

The shift to Value-Based Care promises to drive down costs and improve patient outcomes, and the Internet of Things in Healthcare (IoT Healthcare) will play a vital role. The ultimate goal? Greater access to high-quality care for more people around the globe. Patients today expect more personalized ...

blog article

Sep 17, 2019

The HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) Act was meant to enforce certain rules within the HIPAA Omnibus Rule. It’s important that those in healthcare IT understand the relationship between the two. The HITECH Act’s stated aim was to improve the on-boar...

blog article

Sep 16, 2019

If you’ve needed emergency care in the last few years, you probably encountered this situation: Soon after entering the emergency department, you were asked to go to a triage area in the waiting room where a doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant asked you a few questions and order...

blog article

Sep 16, 2019

Chronic inflammatory diseases are life-long debilitating illnesses with increased mortality and high healthcare costs for therapy and care. These are systemic conditions characterized by activation of either the adaptive immune system—rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis— or t...

blog article

Sep 16, 2019

According to IDC, all the data that’s being created and captured in healthcare is projected to grow by 36 percent (CAGR) more than any other industry. While managing growing volumes of data is a common challenge for many organizations across all sectors, healthcare is uniquely set apart by the...

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Sep 15, 2019

To commemorate the first World Health Organization (WHO)  WorldPatientSafetyDay, CAE Healthcare spoke with clinical leaders about how healthcaresimulation impacts patient safety and delivery of care.

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Sep 13, 2019

It’s no secret that one of the greatest challenges facing clinical trials today is patient recruitment and retention. Low participation rates are an industry-wide problem, often stopping a study before it’s even begun. However, there may be a fairly simple solution to this issue. Accordi...

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Sep 13, 2019

The Health Care System Is On The Verge Of Collapse. Health care expenses are a massive burden for many Americans, and for some, they can be financially devastating.

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Sep 13, 2019

Data wants to be free. Data also wants to be in free markets. A slew of newly announced initiatives points to the inexorable shift of data away from walled gardens and tightly controlled environments into the world of free markets. Consider these. A group of healthcare institutions and technology pr...

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Sep 13, 2019

Nobody would deny that digital technologies, in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics, have unprecedented potential to realise a more rapid diagnosis of diseases.They can also allow us to personalise patients’ treatment, increase health system efficiency and ultimately improve p...

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Sep 12, 2019

When I think about how hard it is to take care of our patients, and how many different people are involved in their care, it’s a wonder that anything ever gets done. We need to simplify systems, and harness the power of the information systems available to us, as well as the promise of the ele...

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Sep 12, 2019

Dental practices are using EHR systems to organize patient records digitally and improve patient visits. However, smaller dental practices may have a harder time taking advantage of EHR systems, but they can still benefit from EHR by understanding the best systems for their practice. Smaller practic...

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Sep 11, 2019

Health care that’s easy, personalized and there for you – wherever you are on your journey – is at the heart of what we do at Cambia. Hear from our Chief AI Officer Faraz Shafiq about why AI is a priority in helping us do this.

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Sep 11, 2019

The importance technology plays in radiology which is key to supporting the model and infrastructure of seamless care. Philips has aided The University of Vermont Health Network in acquiring the most sophisticated equipment in the world, allowing them to offer the best clinical service and care to t...

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Sep 11, 2019

Claims optimization continues to provide health insurers a key area of opportunity to reduce consistently high loss ratios.  In fact, the U.S. healthcare industry has a significant opportunity to deploy claims automation to save $11.1 billion annually, according to new data released in the fift...

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Sep 11, 2019

Can combining health tech “rah-rah,” health policy “blah-blah” and the “meh” of academic research accelerate the uptake of digital health innovation? AcademyHealth, the health services research policy group, is co-locating its Health Datapalooza meeting, rooted in...

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Sep 10, 2019

The intersection of economics and healthcare is heavily reflected in his work. Two of his recent pieces include: “Medicaid Expansion, HIV Testing, and HIV-related Risk Behaviors in the United States” co-authored with Babson Professor John Marthinsen, accepted by the American Journal of P...

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Sep 10, 2019

It might seem odd in today’s day and age, that any profession would choose anything over their smartphones as a communication device. When in fact, paging services still rank worldwide in healthcare communication over their cellular counterpart. A mobility survey conducted by Spok showed that ...

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Sep 10, 2019

The majority of the time I only had access to two TV channels, three on a good weather day, and I vividly remember when I first saw a color television. At this time, products and services were limited, and buyer choices were almost non-existent. Fast-forward to 2019. Not only do I have access to hun...

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Sep 10, 2019

However, with a regular commute time that consumes a couple of hours each day, I have shifted my focus to podcasts and audiobooks. One of my favorite podcasts is the Inside Sales Enablement series by Scott Santucci and Brian Lambert. In their last episode, they spent time reviewing their thoughts an...

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Sep 09, 2019

Rafael Grossman, surgeon, teacher, and healthcare futurist, shares the many ways 5G can benefit the healthcare system. 5G could help improve all aspects of healthcare from prevention, treatments, rehabilitation, and teaching with high speeds and low latency. More on New T-Mobile & 5G.

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Sep 09, 2019

In this "What is video" Healthcare professor Brecht Cardoen and Finance Professor Filip Roodhooft explain what Value-based healthcare is and what is means for the medical industry.

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Sep 09, 2019

Leveraging technology in the right ways can make or break the future of healthcare. One of the ways that healthcare will become more efficient, more affordable, and save more lives is through the use of big data. In healthcare, big data uses specific statistics from a population or an individual to ...

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Sep 09, 2019

If you’ve ever used a medication to treat an illness, you have a clinical trial to thank for it. Every standard therapy used in medicine today once started as a clinical trial. And it is commonly understood that today’s clinical trials are shaping treatments of the future. Less understoo...

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Sep 06, 2019

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare, lifelong and debilitating autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that damages the optic nerve and spinal cord. Watch this video to learn about the science behind NMOSD, including the role of interleukin-6 in the body’s immune ...

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Sep 06, 2019

Price transparency is seen as a cornerstone for market-based health reform. More than half of states have passed price transparency legislation and the Trump administration recently released a new executive order requiring insurers to release price data for providers. Consumer advocates and free mar...

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Sep 06, 2019

Telemedicine will eventually become a more prominent part of our clinical practice, with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media and networks, and integration with precision medicine in electronic health records. As clinicians and scientists, we should be thinking about wh...

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Sep 05, 2019

UMass Memorial Health Care, the only designated Level I Trauma Center in Central Massachusetts, had a legacy telestroke program that was built using 14 different communication systems and required 21 steps to complete a consult. In an effort to simplify this program, UMass Memorial partnered with Am...

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Sep 05, 2019

Evolution of digital health continues to enforce transparency required in the healthcare industry. From patient acquisition to coordinating patient treatment to post-procedural care, digital health is becoming a driving force towards building trust between patient and provider. These tools help the ...

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Sep 05, 2019

Twelve years ago, February, Barack Obama stood in front of a freezing crowd on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, and launched his campaign for the presidency. A major theme of his campaign was the need to provide health coverage for then estimated 50 million Americans who ...

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Sep 05, 2019

As a medical director and practicing physician, I count myself fortunate to meet and engage in meaningful conversations with many health care professionals throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Recently I was both humbled and inspired when I visited with a group of primary care physicians who operat...

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Sep 04, 2019

Cloud computing in healthcare is a strategy—not technology! Many healthcare organizations are now also embracing the full potential of cloud technology. Research by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) showed

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Sep 04, 2019

There’s an abundance of data being captured and analysed as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in digital health. By 2025, market research indicates that global big data in healthcare analysis forecast will reach $68.75B by 2020. Healthcare data capture is growing at a fast pa...

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Sep 04, 2019

Back in 2015, 20 major health systems and payers pledged to convert 75% of their business to value-based arrangements by 2020. Today, more than two-thirds of payments from U.S. commercial health insurers are tied to some kind of value-based model. By 2021, the health plans expect three-quarters of t...

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Sep 03, 2019

As part of Laerdal’s mission of helping save lives, we support all healthcare providers leading the way toward reducing patient harm and creating positive patient outcomes. Our appreciation extends to the many roles in simulation, including simulation technicians, coordinators, educators, prec...

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Sep 03, 2019

Patients want to donate their health data to research, but they also want a transparent system where they are fully in control of their data. Roche data scientist David Wormser and Noga Leviner from PicnicHealth discuss why data sharing is critical to advancing research and improving the lives of pa...

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Sep 03, 2019

A patient can, under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), request a copy of her medical records in a “form and format” of her choice “if it is readily producible.” However, patient advocates have long complained about a process which is onerous, in...

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Sep 03, 2019

The integrated management and delivery of quality and safe health services to people in need, along the continuum of disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease-management, rehabilitation and palliative care services, through the different levels and sites of care within the health system, is ...

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Aug 30, 2019

E Ink digital paper displays have potential for endless applications to fulfill a need in the medical world

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Aug 30, 2019

Healthcare is emerging as a leading early adopter of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN); it’s the top vertical contender in our sales funnel. SD-WAN quickly and affordably addresses the biggest challenges of today’s digital healthcare industry – from mobile health to el...

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Aug 29, 2019

Madison Logic is excited to announce a bi-directional integration with Oracle Eloqua, combining best-in-class lead and campaign management skills with Madison Logic’s global reach and advanced targeting. Now Oracle Marketing Automation users are able to align their messaging and targeting thro...

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Aug 29, 2019

With 3M | M*Modal’s Fluency Direct, physicians have more time to provide patients with quality care. Fluency Direct is a cloud-based transcription software that integrates with your EHR. Fluency Direct integrates context and data to provide the most accurate transcription available.

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Aug 29, 2019

As the market has evolved, providers are taking a more measured approach into PHM, often using multiple solutions to fit specific needs or use cases. This has driven the market towards a best-of-breed approach with vendors offering integration with existing workflows used in the provider’s EHR...

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Aug 29, 2019

The 1984 Mexico City Policy is a U.S. federal policy that has prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. international family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S. funds to provide, counsel on, or refer for abortion services as a method of family planning, or adv...

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Aug 28, 2019

The issue of overriding importance to the health care enterprise and those who finance it is the rising cost of care

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Aug 28, 2019

Diabetes management went through a radical transformation in the last years due to technology: the diabetes patient community found a strong voice online, continuous glucose monitors are taking the place of finger pricks, digital patches and insulin pumps make the dosage of insulin more predictable,...

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Aug 28, 2019

Each year, the Commonwealth Fund selects an international cohort of Harkness Fellows in health care policy and practice, consisting of mid-career researchers, policy makers, and practitioners with leading positions in their countries, who come to the US to study the health care system, work with ren...

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Aug 27, 2019

Most healthcare consumers spend only a tiny fraction of their lives in the clinical world of medical appointments and procedures. Where and how they spend the rest of their time has a far bigger impact on their health and well-being. So why are some providers still relying primarily on clinical data...

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Aug 27, 2019

There are a lot of "beliefs" circulating about a wide variety of health policy issues. Luckily, these are all pretty well researched areas. Thanks to thorough investigations, we can conclude with certainty that vaccines are safe and effective, that GMOs are generally safe, and that the Aff...

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Aug 27, 2019

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is rapidly coming to terms with digital technology. With consumers demanding more convenient options for over-the-counter drugs and supplements – both of which do not require prescriptions – companies are moving quickly into the booming e-commer...

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Aug 27, 2019

Unfortunately, our health care system has not been bound by the same physical laws and mathematical relationships as other complex adaptive systems. Thus, it has not been able to implement the same mechanisms that our ecosystems and cells have in order to obtain optimization in their ability to perf...

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Aug 26, 2019

Dr. Matthew Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief of Community Health Transformation at Lurie Children’s, discusses a new report about how parents’ health and parents’ health insurance status are connected to their children’s health.

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Aug 26, 2019

The CCPA exempts nonprofit entities that handle healthcare information, as well as providers and businesses already covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law could, however, have an enormous impact on a wide range of consumer-directed healthcare organization...

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Aug 26, 2019

Imagine having to make a large purchase, but not having any insight into how much it will cost or if you will be able to access it after you have purchased it. Most consumers wouldn’t make an investment like that; they would demand information into where their money is going and what they woul...

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Aug 23, 2019

Healthcare insurance in the United States can often be a tricky matter with many not understanding the basic vocabulary and statistics behind it. Uninformed views of it can cause people to buy improper services for themselves. This infographic from United Systems and Software seeks to inform viewers...

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Aug 23, 2019

Hosptial Navigation is frustrating, using digital wayfinding and indoor mapping can help ease frustration.

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Aug 23, 2019

The conversations among program and policy experts focused on the meeting’s theme—the social determinants of health, with special attention to the relationship between health security and economic opportunity. Because economic vitality and health outcomes are intimately intertwined, spea...

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Aug 23, 2019

Breathing exercises, essential oils, and even spending ten minutes petting a furry friend can all help lessen the physiological effects of stress. Something else that can work in your favor: snacking—if you choose the right type of foods. According to food mindfulness expert Geneen Roth, when ...

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Aug 22, 2019

Are you feeling stressed, depressed, or anxious in medical school? Then we need to take a few minutes to take about your mental health!

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Aug 22, 2019

Traditional medicine, as defined by the World Health Organization, is the “knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health and in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical a...

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Aug 22, 2019

Ever-rising health care costs and significant variations in quality have made health care reform a central theme in national politics over the past decade. As we gear up for the 2020 elections, health care reform continues to take a front seat in national politics. Amongst the crowd of Democratic pr...

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Aug 22, 2019

Where does the modern traveler come from? Where is s/he going? How does s/he get there? As the world grows ever-smaller, more and more people are traveling to a growing number of places each year. Increasingly, they’re getting there by leveraging digital tools. Savvy travel and hospitality bra...

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Aug 21, 2019

Today’s brands face numerous challenges. They need to create a customized, excellent experience for each and every customer worldwide. To do that, they need to create high-quality, on-target content. They need to create that content quickly, effectively, and for audiences who speak multiple la...

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Aug 21, 2019

Our roots began in translation but what we do today goes well beyond – from content creation to linguistics, to artificial intelligence (AI). We create global relevance, driven by humanity and amplified by technology. Connecting our customers with their communities and driving brand awareness....

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Aug 21, 2019

Artificial Intelligence could save lives. Kimberly Powell, VP of Healthcare at NVIDIA, explains.

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Aug 21, 2019

The clinical decision support systems (CDSS) market is expected to grow from $3.79B in 2018 to $6.4B in 2024, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3%, according to Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis. The new report, US Clinical Decision Support Systems Market, Forecast to 2024, ana...

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Aug 21, 2019

I was reading an article in The New York Times entitled, “The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant.” More and more people, particularly in urban settings, are using apps like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash to bring fresh, warm food directly to their doorsteps.  Mr. Lopez, the virtual re...

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Aug 21, 2019

Your localization partner is going to do a deep-dive into your business—so start by diving deep into theirs. Are they an industry-leader with 20 years of experience or a relative newcomer? Will they speak Samoan, Uzbek, or Swahili (and all your customers’ languages)? Can they deliver on-...

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Aug 21, 2019

In practice, of course, things are more complicated. Effective translation necessitates a nuanced understanding of (at least) two languages and cultures, both source and target. It requires an understanding of the original content’s goals. It mandates a fluency in tone and subtext as well as v...

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Aug 20, 2019

Lace-up your sneakers and step up to the starting line: you’re ready to reach countless customers in new markets.  You’ve secured your spot in the Global Marketplace (whether by default or design).  But before you sprint away, take a good look around you. You are not alone in t...

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Aug 20, 2019

Norton Healthcare's five hospital facilities along with Norton Cancer Institute have been named LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leaders awarded by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This marks the second year the organization's facilities received this designation and spotlights Norton Healthca...

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Aug 20, 2019

he first two years of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP) are in the books and many organizations are wondering if their strong performances will ever be met with a significant upside adjustment. Year 1 (2017) enjoyed very high participation...

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Aug 20, 2019

The impending closure of Hahnemann University Hospital is a local tragedy.  Eliminating a 170-year old institution is certain to exaggerate the daily travails of the economically disadvantaged inner-city population that Hahnemann serves as a safety-net hospital.  The closure is also a nati...

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Aug 19, 2019

Learn how Collibra helped UC Davis Health create a UC-wide medical healthcare data warehouse.

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Aug 19, 2019

The quality ratings—which reflect clinical quality data and enrollee satisfaction data—use a five-star system and will be displayed for most marketplace plans beginning on November 1, 2019 (for the 2020 open enrollment period). To date, quality rating information was only available throu...

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Aug 19, 2019

“If patients access their health data—some of which could contain family history and could be sensitive—through a smartphone, they must have a clear understanding of the potential uses of that data by app developers. Most patients will not be aware of who has access to their medica...

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Aug 19, 2019

Benzer Pharmacy Specialty Pharmacy Patient Management Program proactively works with patients in a number of chronic disease states to provide specialty pharmaceuticals and therapy management support services to obtain optimal therapeutic outcomes thus avoiding adverse drug events and unnecessary co...

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Aug 19, 2019

Big Chain Pharmacy versus Independent Pharmacy what's the difference? You will soon come to realize that the attention and care you receive when you are at an independent pharmacy compensates you for your prudent decision. “Teaming up with Uber Health is just the latest example of Benzer&r...

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Aug 19, 2019

New partnership between Benzer Pharmacy and ScriptDrop connects member pharmacies to integrated network of prescription delivery couriers.Son Nguyen is a registered pharmacist and he partnered with Benzer to open his first Pharmacy store. This is his experience opening a Benzer Pharmacy Franchise St...

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Aug 19, 2019

Like the kick-off of the NFL in the fall, the flu season may still be months away, but it’s always a good idea to circle a date on your calendar for getting up-to-date with immunizations. That, of course, goes double if you’re aged 59-or-older. It’s never comforting news to learn t...

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Aug 19, 2019

Three times a year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets to review the latest findings on the immunization front, adjusting preferred dosing schedules and making recommendations in terms of best clinical practices. In that regard, the pharmacist’s role on immunization ...

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Aug 16, 2019

IHI President and CEO Derek Feeley addresses why he feels some health care leaders might be reluctant or uncomfortable addressing health equity.

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Aug 16, 2019

In 1807, in an effort to spite the British and French for shipping interference (and forced recruitment of American citizens into military service), the United States Congress passed an Embargo Act, effectively shutting down trade with these two countries. Britain and France quickly found other trad...

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Aug 16, 2019

Medicare Advantage (MA) brings private-sector innovation to Medicare, and it offers valuable lessons for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to apply to other models of care in traditional Medicare. Predictable capitated payments allow MA plans to make investments in care delivery a...

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Aug 14, 2019

How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have, but that’s probably far from the truth. If we pull levers that incentivize the right care at the r...

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Aug 14, 2019

Although most transactions in our modern world are electronic and automated, many health care professionals still exchange patient information through inefficient manual processes. In much of the US, health information exchange (HIE) requires a complex series of handwritten signatures and faxed requ...

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Aug 14, 2019

This is a video explainer of the difference between Content Marketing, Branded Content and Native Advertising - with examples to help put it all into context.Accompanying video that tried to separate signal from noise on the different approaches of content in the business.

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Aug 14, 2019

This is the third in a series of articles on creating, maintaining, and optimizing great customer experiences in the context of mounting concerns about privacy and increasingly strict regulations governing data processing. We address topics such as consent strategies, the role of trust, the elements...

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Aug 14, 2019

What character appears in the most films and television programs? Dracula? God? Santa Claus?  All of those make the top ten list, but none is the correct answer. Satan (or The Devil) is a character is more than 840 projects – more than any other character. If you limit the list to mortals...

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Aug 14, 2019

If you want some insights into where the content marketing industry may be headed, it might just help to take a look at where it’s been. As we pointed out when CMI shared its History of Content Marketing infographic in 2012, brands have been telling their stories to audiences for hundreds of y...

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Aug 14, 2019

Content—and how brands use it to interact with buyers at all stages of the engagement journey—has fundamentally reshaped every business’ go-to-market strategy. This shift has been particularly challenging for “top-of-the-funnel” demand generation marketers, most of who ...

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Aug 13, 2019

This video will give you an idea of how CareFusion works in partnership with healthcare providers all over the world to improve patient safety and lower the cost of healthcare for generations to come.

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Aug 13, 2019

CMS says it wants to cut red tape, and players across the healthcare industry are weighing in with a plethora of suggestions. The agency received roughly 440 comments in response to its Patients over Paperwork initiative in which provider, payer and pharma groups lobbied to reduce the individual reg...

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Aug 13, 2019

What is the relationship between social spending and health care spending, particularly in high-income countries? A new study, being released ahead of print by Health Affairs, evaluated data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on 35 OECD member states spanning the p...

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Aug 12, 2019

In this essay, we will look in the rear-view mirror to see how HIPAA has provided substantial protections for personal clinical data but with boundaries. We’ll also take a look out the windshield  the Wild West of unprotected health data.

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Aug 12, 2019

Every day Americans walk into hospitals, outpatient clinics, and surgical centers thinking they have good health insurance. They’ve done their research, picked the right plan, paid their premiums, and checked whether the facility was in-network. It’s only after they receive care that the...

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Aug 09, 2019

Our health is influenced by where we live, learn, work, and play. The economic, political, structural, and cultural factors that interact in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities influence food security, safety, employment, physical activity, and family and community support. In resource-r...

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Aug 09, 2019

Leave your bias aside and take a look into the healthcare future with me. No, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence and machine learning will not replace the radiologist. This is an important accelerant to where we are going, economic hardship, because it will destroy most radiology A...

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Aug 08, 2019

Hear from Morris, the CEO of Ambra Health - a digital healthcare company - as he shares his thoughts on the value of being in the APN as a startup and why the industry experience of the AWS teams he's worked with has been so helpful.

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Aug 08, 2019

The potential for AI to improve the review of medical images, facilitate large-scale data analysis and otherwise make healthcare more efficient and effective has led to predictions the technology will transform the industry. Yet funding for startups driving any transformation has slowed, falling fro...

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Aug 06, 2019

The push for digitalization in the healthcare industry is all about the patient, as well as the doctors and nurses who work to bring the best possible care they can. Presenting accurate information throughout the care continuum is extremely critical.

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Aug 06, 2019

Will digital assistants prescribe medication, will smart algorithms diagnose patients with malignant lesions based on CT scans, while robot surgeons do the dirty work in the OR 20 years from now, ousting doctors completely?

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Aug 06, 2019

An injection has helped reduce body weight and glucose levels in patients with diabetes and obesity in four weeks. The findings came from a small study in which patients lost on average 4.4kg and the treatment led to substantial improvements to their blood glucose, with some patients reducing to nea...

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Aug 05, 2019

Many people know by now that the United States spends much more on health care than any other country, and that health outcomes are not a lot better (and in many instances worse). That raises the question: Is our health care spending actually worth it?

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Aug 02, 2019

Social determinants of health SDOH include factors such as socioeconomic status, education, physical environment, employment, social support networks, and access to healthcare. Low income and indigent people with limited job security and less education are likely living in more dangerous neighbourho...

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Aug 01, 2019

Accentures Niamh McKenna gives her take on the technology trends that will be more applicable in healthcare.

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Aug 01, 2019

Health is determined by more than just medical care. Research shows that the social determinants of health the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age are of even greater importance. Including factors such as education level, socioeconomic status, food availability, language, c...

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Jul 31, 2019

From hospitals and ambulatory care centers, to senior living facilities, physician networks, clinics and labs, a full spectrum of healthcare industry participants benefited immensely from new technological advancements in both the administration and documentation of care.

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Jul 31, 2019

Universal health care is a system the federal government provides that offers quality health care to all citizens regardless of their ability to pay.

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Jul 31, 2019

The infographic examines the state of healthcare data security in the cloud, how healthcare organizations plan to strengthen cloud security data as well as cloud security budgeting and other trends.

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Jul 30, 2019

Furthermore, from the past few years, the potential of AI (artificial intelligence) to revolutionize healthcare systems has been realized.

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Jul 30, 2019

Planning your health plan in retirement is essential- Will you be using the NHS, or do you see the benefit to opting for private treatment? In this blog, we will be covering the options available to you and what to expect.

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Jul 30, 2019

In health care, AI is responsible for some particularly impressive trends. The technology opened new possibilities for how doctors treat and diagnose illnesses, resulting in a higher quality of care for the patients that need it. AI assists in both emergencies and ongoing care improvements.

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Jul 30, 2019

There are various opinions surrounding healthcare spending in the US. According to Health Economist Irene Papanicolas, the theories behind high spending - over-utilization, lack of social spending, number of primary care physicians - are also accompanied by real data.

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Jul 29, 2019

Learn how the Olympus Customer Solutions Group and partner Mill5 are developing robust platforms for managing situational awareness in the operating room.

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Jul 29, 2019

Although artificial intelligence in healthcare is an area of intense interest, exploring the topic is akin to peeling an onion each layer revealing a new set of opportunities and obstacles.

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Jul 26, 2019

Compliant, obedient, and unknowledgeable. Thats how the patient landscape used to look to HCPs. Patients were wholly reliant on HCPs to provide them with the correct diagnosis and the most appropriate medication to improve their health.

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Jul 25, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide.

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Jul 25, 2019

Rural healthcare providers also demonstrated strong interest in technologies that have the potential to increase patient engagement, such as mobile apps and patient responsibility estimation tools.

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Jul 25, 2019

With the firing of Planned Parenthood's former president, Leana Wen, their true intentions are extremely clear.

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Jul 25, 2019

This year's effort to boost cost transparency in healthcare started as a series of proposals that were rolled into one bill.

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Jul 25, 2019

As definitions of marketing continue to change, some healthcare companies are taking the idea of brands as entertainers to especially ambitious levels. According to one of the judges at the recent Cannes Lions, what makes these efforts successful is, firstly, clarity and courage on the part of brand...

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Jul 24, 2019

The infographic shares recommendations for states, health plans, and providers seeking to partner to advance greater physical-behavioral health integration.

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Jul 24, 2019

In our profoundly connected world where billions of people use technology to share, collaborate, and solve incredibly complex problems, GE Healthcare helps remove limitations by uniting separate, isolated tools into an efficient, intelligent, and fully connected imaging solution for your entire ente...

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Jul 23, 2019

Improving outcomes and reducing cost for the treatment of sepsis patients while enhancing your Antimicrobial Stewardship Program is a challenge. Faster antimicrobial susceptibility results can improve patient outcomes and quality measures.

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Jul 23, 2019

Did you know that some people have problems with the ligaments that hold their head on? These patients often become like a pinball in the great arcade game of medical specialists, going from one to the other without a diagnosis. They can sometimes find a diagnosis if they meet a doctor who knows whi...

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Jul 23, 2019

The health care sector is growing rapidly and shows no signs of slowing down. Over the past two years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved more than 90 novel therapies which may potentially drive industry growth for years to come.

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Jul 23, 2019

As a participant in the Health and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Joint Cybersecurity Work Group, Clearwater fully supports the 405(d) Task Group’s “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (HICP)” recommendations.