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HEALTHCARE: BREACH PREVENTION IN REAL TIME whitepaper Oct 01, 2020 Why healthcare systems need scalable remote visibility, security and remediation As healthcare organizations increasingly move their data and workloads to the cloud — transforming how and where they operate to deliver critical care — remote visibility, security and remediation have become required e... Read More |
FALCON COMPLETE FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS whitepaper Oct 01, 2020 A truly effective endpoint security solution requires a holistic approach. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to implement a comprehensive program because they lack the time and expertise, and the costs are too high. Recent studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of healthcare organiz... Read More |
DRIVING HEALTHCARE INNOVATION WITH MICROSERVICES whitepaper Feb 19, 2020 The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile. IT teams... Read More |
YOUR GUIDE TO MEDICAL IMAGING STANDARDS AND ENSURING FUTURE COMPATIBILITY whitepaper Feb 19, 2020 Gone are the days of vendor-specific imaging. Today’s leaders understand that optimum performance and efficiencies depend on strategies that leverage industry standards. The drive for early diagnoses, chronic disease, and the rising age of the population resulted in a growing demand for medical imag... Read More |
HEALTHCARE MARKETING TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2021 article Jan 11, 2021 Healthcare marketing, for a healthcare provider, is challenging as a lot of technologies are emerging in the market. What matters is choosing the right healthcare marketing techniques and technology to market your products and services. The global digital health market size was USD 51.3 billion in 2... Read More |
BLOCKCHAIN IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY article Jan 08, 2021 Prioritizing health and managing it, has become highly important because our lifestyle is continuously evolving in ways that take a toll on us mentally, physically, and emotionally. However, the major issue for the patients lies in the inaccuracy of treatment due to the lack of complete health recor... Read More |
VIRTUAL REALITY IN HEALTHCARE: TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE article Dec 29, 2020 Virtual reality (VR), the new technological advancement, is set to transform practices in the healthcare industry. According to Statista, it is estimated that, by 2022, the second largest market share of VR will be from the healthcare industry. Virtual reality in healthcare operates in various divis... Read More |
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY IN 2021 article Dec 28, 2020 The recent COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the way the healthcare industry has been processing. It has transformed the healthcare sector digitally. Healthcare providers have changed services with the latest healthcare technology trends in digital and virtual platforms. Every healthcare provide... Read More |
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UPLYFT CONSUMERS video Dec 08, 2020 Uplyft enables you to build a unique loyalty program that can be tailored to your needs. Get started right away with plug and play features or go full custom with our powerful API. You can create your branded currency or join the Miles & More network and get access to thousands of users. Read More |
UPLYFT CAREGIVER INJURY video Dec 08, 2020 Many caregivers change professions due to injuries, but whether they do or not, there are several consequences.First is the pain resulting from the injury, and with that often comes the hardships and the inconveniences that accompany treating and recovering from these injuries. This can be expensive... Read More |
RISKS OF CAREGIVER INJURY IN PATIENT TRANSFERS article Dec 08, 2020 A cruelly ironic truth is that nurses and other caregivers assisting injured and ill patients often wind up injured themselves. In fact, the caregiver profession has among the highest rates of injury, with back injuries being the most common and the most debilitating. Every year, more than 10% of ca... Read More |
HOW COVID-19 IS IMPACTING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY AND ITS WORKERS article Dec 08, 2020 The one clear consensus that has emerged from this doubt and anxiety-filled time is that our society will be forever changed by COVID-19. In the recent days, we have seen a general movement toward telecommuting and digital solutions to accommodate the drastic changes caused by this global pandemic. ... Read More |
HANGOVER ALCOHOL SYNDROME article Dec 08, 2020 Ha, ha, ha, it’s me, alcohol hangover syndrome. Oh no, it feels like I have a fire burning through my head, that cannot be put out. What a pain, the hang-over. I can't get up. My eyes are red and blurred. I feel sick and body is tired. My body aches like French fries sizzling in scalding h... Read More |
THE DRUM BEAT OF THE MIND article Dec 04, 2020 Creative thinking explores the wonder world of creation. Creative thinking edit challenges and insert solutions. Thinking is not narrow minded; it is a brood minded side effect. Are you standing still , holding the sign detour? Detour signal and message “ you cannot go pass here.” This m... Read More |
6 TIPS ON DISCUSSING YOUR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES WITH YOUR FRIENDS article Oct 26, 2020 Do you have a difficult time explaining your mental health issues to your family and friends?If so, here are six suggestions on how to discuss your mental health issues with your friends and relatives.1. Talk to a counselor: The most important thing that you need to do is to talk to a counselor abou... Read More |
6 TIPS ON HOW TO NOT LET YOUR ANXIETIES GET THE BEST OF YOU article Oct 26, 2020 Everybody deals with stress and anxiety however our anxieties can sometimes get the best of us. It’s important to know how to cope with your anxieties and fears if they get out of control.With this in mind, here are some tips that a person can use to help manage their daily stresses and anxiet... Read More |
8 WAYS TO CONVINCE A LOVED ONE TO GET HELP FOR THEIR ANXIETIES AND FEARS article Oct 21, 2020 Do you know a friend or loved one who suffers from fear, anxiety, and depression and do not know what to do?It can be difficult to watch someone you know struggle with their mental health and not be able to do anything about it.As a result, here are 8 important tips on how to help the person you car... Read More |
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HEALTHCARE: BREACH PREVENTION IN REAL TIME whitepaper Oct 01, 2020 Why healthcare systems need scalable remote visibility, security and remediation As healthcare organizations increasingly move their data and workloads to the cloud — transforming how and where they operate to deliver critical care — remote visibility, security and remediation have become required e... Read More |
FALCON COMPLETE FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS whitepaper Oct 01, 2020 A truly effective endpoint security solution requires a holistic approach. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to implement a comprehensive program because they lack the time and expertise, and the costs are too high. Recent studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of healthcare organiz... Read More |
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INNOVATION INSIGHT FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER DIGITAL TWINS article Sep 04, 2020 A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. The implementation of a digital twin is a model that mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person or other abstraction. For healthcare providers, digital twins provide an abstraction of the healthcare eco... Read More |
9 WAYS UVC LIGHT TECH CAN SAFEGUARD STAFF & PATRON HEALTH article Sep 03, 2020 As COVID-19 rages on, warning sirens have sounded of late amid a flurry of headlines surrounding Ultraviolet-C (UVC) light device safety issues. Rightfully so, as the current pandemic has ushered in a veritable “wild west” of UVC gadget deployments with subpar consumer safeguards, instru... Read More |
TOP 10 STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE DIGITAL MARKETING article Jul 22, 2020 What is Healthcare Digital MarketingDigital marketing is a new wave in the world of healthcare marketing strategy. Using advanced technologies that use online marketing platforms such as websites, social media channels, and SEO techniques, to reach potential clients with healthcare products and serv... Read More |
COVID-19: HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS QUAGMIRE? article Jul 17, 2020 The COVID-19 virus (C19) pandemic is turning out to be the event of the century. Even World War seems timid in comparison. We are in the 4th month of the virus (in non-China countries) and have gone past the lockdown in many places. Isn’t it time we re-think the approach? What if there is anot... Read More |
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE: APPLICATIONS AND THREATS article Apr 22, 2020 Remember Big Hero 6's beloved Baymax? The lead character’s personal pudgy robotic healthcare companion was much loved and adored by the audience. We might not have wondered back then but the fascinating machine had actually been powered with Artificial Intelligence, programmed to scan a hu... Read More |
AI TRENDS: AI AND MEDICINE article Apr 21, 2020 Artificial Intelligence is here to improve our lives, by not just making things more efficient, but also increasing our lifespan. Companies across industries are experiencing the advantages that come with AI innovation, especially the healthcare space. Throughout human history, we’ve been able... Read More |
WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF AI IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY article Apr 21, 2020 While artificial intelligence (AI) offers numerous advantages across a wide range of businesses and applications, an ongoing report spreads out some convincing focuses on the different difficulties and perils of using AI in the social insurance segment. As of late, AI has been progressively consolid... Read More |
ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH WITH DATA INTEROPERABILITY article Apr 20, 2020 Across the spectrum of healthcare delivery – payor, provider, vendor, consumer, there is a land rush underway to embrace consumer-centric care. With tools like value-based care, chronic disease management, retail services, analytics, and remote patient monitoring, healthcare organizations are ... Read More |
TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE FROM A ‘SERVICE’ TO A ‘PRODUCT’ article Apr 20, 2020 Healthcare is top of mind as the coronavirus hits hard everywhere. The inefficiencies of the system itself are on full display during the pandemic — where testing is hard to come by, diagnoses and treatments are reactive rather than proactive, and many people do not get the care they need, whe... Read More |
5 EASY WAYS TO SHOW PATIENT APPRECIATION video Apr 20, 2020 82% of your clients will leave if they don’t feel appreciated. With that statistics in mind let me ask you one question - when’s the last time you showed how thankful you are for those who come into your office? If it’s been awhile, I’m not calling you lazy. You have a lot on... Read More |
HOW VIRTUAL CARE AND TELEHEALTH ARE REDEFINING HEALTHCARE article Apr 16, 2020 Virtual care and telehealth are no longer seen as merely an innovative method of delivering healthcare; technology is now indispensable to protecting patients, staff, and PPE resources amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a recent Harvard Medical School blog, Lee H. Schwamm, MD, shared that “tele... Read More |
5 HEALTHCARE TECH TRENDS WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON article Apr 16, 2020 The healthcare industry is experiencing rapid shifts. Some of this is due to the current pandemic, but much of this evolution was happening even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Understanding and embracing the introduction of new technology into the market will be important for healthcare professionals... Read More |
WHY MEDICAL DRONES ARE TAKING OFF IN HEALTHCARE article Apr 13, 2020 With their speed and maneuverability, drones have long captured attention for their potential to deliver shopping orders and photograph the world from above. But the machines can also serve a medical purpose by shuttling drugs, defibrillators and other equipment to emergency sites or care facilities... Read More |
HOW TELEHEALTH IS CHANGING THE NURSING INDUSTRY article Apr 13, 2020 Before we discuss the importance of telehealth and how it is changing the nursing industry in general, it is important to understand what telehealth is all about. With the advent of new-age technologies and their impact on the fast-paced, growing population, medical health is an essential department... Read More |
CAN NEW TECHNOLOGY DRIVE HEALTH CARE’S FUTURE? article Apr 11, 2020 Over the past twenty-five years most businesses have been revolutionized by the easy availability of cloud and mobile-based computing systems. These technologies have placed power and access into the hands of employees and customers, which in turn has created huge shifts in how transactions get done... Read More |
HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES AND TECHNOLOGY video Apr 07, 2020 Elizabeth Miller, a registered nurse and now healthcare lead at Zebra in Australia discusses the challenges in Healthcare and how technology can enable and assist medical staff in critical patient care, clinical mobility, patient ID, tracking medical equipment and more. For more details on Zebra Tec... Read More |
WHY MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IS CRITICAL TO THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 article Apr 07, 2020 The last time the world experienced a pandemic on the scale of COVID-19 was the Spanish flu pandemic from 1918 to 1920. All told, 500 million people were infected, and an estimated 35 million people succumbed to the virus. That’s because over a hundred years ago, the medical technology needed ... Read More |
DEVELOPING A CORONAVIRUS DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY FOR HEALTHCARE article Apr 02, 2020 Healthcare organizations are scrambling right now to stay on top of Coronavirus while also providing world-class care to other patients with various healthcare needs. This becomes a problem for marketing teams to not only stay consistent in their messaging and marketing priorities but also in shifti... Read More |
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HEALTH IT COALITION TO USE DATA ANALYTICS IN BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 article Apr 02, 2020 Healthcare organizations, technology firms, nonprofits, and academia are banding together to use their collective expertise, data, and insights for rapid deployment of innovative, open-source solutions to the global pandemic. The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a private-sector led response, aims to ... Read More |
HEALTHCARE FRICTION REDUCTION video Apr 02, 2020 How do you improve member experience and better health outcomes? Make the journey easy to navigate through data science. Tools like Automated insights for digital evolution (AIDE) help offer medical care advantage or individual sales.Solutions like this help you become more agile and save time while... Read More |
DEVELOPING A HEALTHCARE WEB APP TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS video Apr 02, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is presenting an unprecedented challenge to the healthcare sector around the globe. As we are facing one of the most significant challenges, the big question is, what could ease the healthcare business processes? Tech experts advocate relooking at healthcare web a... Read More |
HOW COVID-19 COULD IMPACT DIGITAL HEALTH article Apr 01, 2020 As the world grapples with the tragic COVID-19 pandemic, it is tempting to imagine a post-COVID future that includes some silver linings. As terrible as the situation is today, maybe this calamity will at least lead to some lasting, positive changes, particularly in healthcare. Telemedicine has alre... Read More |
WILL HEALTHCARE EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN AFTER COVID-19? article Apr 01, 2020 The world is caught up in the dual health and economic crises of the novel coronavirus and resultant disease COVID-19. Globally, the healthcare industry has rallied around the challenge in unprecedented ways: drug companies and medical researchers are racing to find therapeutics and vaccines that ca... Read More |
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APPLYING AI IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS article Apr 01, 2020 Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested.... Read More |
SIGNAGENT - SIGN MANAGEMENT FOR HOSPITALS & HEALTHCARE FACILITIES video Mar 31, 2020 SignAgent's helps hospital facility managers plan, manage, and maintain wayfinding and other signs (including donor walls). Whether you're responsible for a single location hospital or a large, multi-floor, multi-location healthcare campus, SignAgent's cloud-based sign management softwar... Read More |
HEALTHCARE TRENDS 2020: DRIVE THE DECADE OF DATA video Mar 31, 2020 Over the past decade, a shift has occurred within the healthcare industry. Patients have become empowered as cultural changes, increasing care options, and policy adjustments enable populations to make informed decisions about their care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act ensured that patients were prote... Read More |
THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY DISRUPTION NOBODY SAW COMING article Mar 31, 2020 Almost all conversations about healthcare disruption focused on new entrants into the industry transforming parts of the traditional service model and taking market share. Politically, most of the conversation centered around whether we would dismantle the ACA, build it back up or move to Medicare f... Read More |
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HOW BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY WILL IMPROVE MOBILE HEALTHCARE article Mar 27, 2020 The key concerns of healthcare management today are data processing and data security. Patients don’t have full ownership of their medical records, and are unable to control how their information is updated. There isn’t enough transparency to the process. There are also significant conce... Read More |
SUPPORTING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY IN THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 article Mar 26, 2020 With the global spread of COVID-19 affecting our communities, colleagues, partners and customers, we are focused on doing everything we can to help those in need. Hospitals, healthcare facilities and first responders are on the front lines of this epic battle, and their ability to maximize impact is... Read More |
WHY MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IS FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE article Mar 26, 2020 The healthcare industry is evolving rapidly and distances more and more from the concept of waiting rooms every year. In this article, we want to cover the topic of healthcare mobile application development and how it changes the industry and our way of living. The global demand for 24/7 healthcare ... Read More |
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON HEALTH AND FINANCE article Mar 25, 2020 The new coronavirus has imminent and profound implications for health plans, benefit providers, health systems, and financial institutions. These constituents require a rapid strategic response as they brace for a landscape that is different from anything forecasts have offered to date. A digital wo... Read More |
HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE SOLUTIONS video Mar 17, 2020 Risk Management in the healthcare market is difficult because of the many processes that a patient may be involved in; and, these processes are not logged or recorded in a central repository. Identifying a patient is also a primary focus. This brief video provides an overview on how a payer could ut... Read More |
DECODING THE FUTURE TRAJECTORY OF HEALTHCARE WITH AI article Mar 16, 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting increasingly sophisticated day by day in its application, with enhanced efficiency and speed at a lower cost. Every single sector has been reaping benefits from AI in recent times. The Healthcare industry is no exception. Here is decoding the future trajectory... Read More |
2 REASONS WHY THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY NEEDS SECURITY OPERATION CENTERS article Mar 14, 2020 This, unfortunately, is a very real cyber threat that healthcare organizations face every single day, and most of them are not prepared for it. According to a recent report by HIMSS, significant security incidents are a near-universal experience in US healthcare organizations. Most incidents are ini... Read More |
AI MOVING INTO HEALTHCARE, REGULATORY CHALLENGES AWAIT article Mar 13, 2020 In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has started to turn up everywhere you look. It powers our ever-present digital assistants; it helps recommend entertainment options and has even begun to reshape the way businesses carry out their everyday operations. As AI moves further into healthcare,... Read More |
CRITICAL INFORMATION SHARING FOR HEALTHCARE article Mar 13, 2020 The fast and efficient flow of information is vital for the healthcare sector to offer life-critical services and patient care. Seamless communication, real-time updates, and putting the crisis response plans into action with minimum activation time are some of the key factors for successful crisis ... Read More |
6 CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) CONSIDERATIONS FOR TELEHEALTH PROVIDERS article Mar 13, 2020 As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues, the federal government and commercial health insurers have taken significant steps to increase Americans’ access to treatment and testing. In the past week, the federal government and private insurers have issued a number of guidance documents expan... Read More |
THE TOP FIVE BENEFITS OF 5G IN HEALTHCARE video Mar 12, 2020 However, this remote monitoring, along with sophisticated imaging equipment, can lead to additional strain on the networks of businesses in the healthcare industry. This often increases congestion and slows network speeds, especially for healthcare providers that might be interfacing with dozens of ... Read More |
TELEHEALTH EMERGES AS ACCESS TOOL IN HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION article Mar 11, 2020 Healthcare organizations are faced with addressing the “triple aim” of improving cost, quality and access to medical care. Telehealth has been seen as a tool to improve access with its convenience and availability with mobile apps or personal computers. Regulators are seeing the value of... Read More |
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HOW TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY article Mar 11, 2020 Healthcare industry is currently experiencing a massive digital transformation. There has been stable progress since the introduction of technology in this sector. Tech components like Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Thing... Read More |
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HEALTHCARE article Mar 10, 2020 When we imagine the future, we think about "The Jetsons" or "Back to the Future." Although we are not flying our cars or transporting instantly to any location at the push of a button, Artificial Intelligence (AI) permeates our lives. Think about the last time Netflix picked out ... Read More |
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THE INNOVATIONS BRIDGING HEALTH SCIENCES AND BUSINESS IN 2020 article Mar 10, 2020 The decade’s first global health crisis has placed the spotlight on the need for healthcare technology that can prevent and solve the world’s critical health challenges. This last week, Microsoft shared progress on innovations helping to meet these objectives. Today, we’re spotligh... Read More |
HIMSS CANCELED AMID CORONAVIRUS – WHAT CAN HEALTHCARE IT TAKE AWAY? article Mar 09, 2020 With the announcement of the HIMSS conference cancellation the healthcare IT industry is hit hard. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the super bowl of healthcare tech. 45,000 attendees from 50 countries were scheduled to fly into Orlando and spend 5 days immersed in in... Read More |
REIMAGINING HEALTHCARE WITH AZURE IOT article Mar 06, 2020 Providers, payors, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences companies are leading the next wave of healthcare innovation by utilizing connected devices. From continuous patient monitoring, to optimizing operations for manufacturers and cold-chain supply tracking for the pharmaceutical industry, the health... Read More |
IDENTITY + RBAC TIGHTEN SECURITY IN HEALTHCARE article Mar 06, 2020 As worries about coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) mount daily, healthcare and health care organizations work valiantly to deliver quality healthcare. Potential exposure of health care workers to COVID-19 risks further shortages of hospital staff and clinical service providers. This presents a se... Read More |
HOW TO DEVELOP AN ABM STRATEGY FOR HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES article Mar 05, 2020 Most physician outreach now takes place digitally or indirectly. This shift in engagement has made it crucial for sales and marketing teams in healthcare and life sciences (HLS) to be aligned with a unified strategy. That’s what we discovered at League. Founded in 2014, League is on a mission ... Read More |
GUIDE TO THE BEST MANAGED SERVICES FOR HEALTHCARE article Mar 05, 2020 Healthcare, more than most sectors, is heavily data-driven. This has prompted the industry to innovate using technology. The healthcare cloud computing market, for example, is expected to be valued at $55 billion by 2025. Technologies such as cloud computing, give healthcare new ways of collecting, ... Read More |
RETHINKING INDICATORS OF PROJECT SUCCESS IN HEALTHCARE whitepaper Mar 04, 2020 Health leaders must understand the benefits of their investments in performance improvement projects and the impact on the organization. The traditional approach is most often to measure ROI (return on investment) and, while clearly measurable, is most often related to cost savings or increased reve... Read More |
THE DATA BEHIND: HELPING HEALTHCARE GET BETTER article Mar 04, 2020 Healthcare is experiencing a digital transformation, shifting how the medical ecosystem operates and the way that care is delivered. And all of this change comes down to one little word: data. In 2013, the healthcare industry produced 153 exabytes of data; in 2020, that volume is estimated to increa... Read More |
AI IN VASCULAR HEALTHCARE video Mar 04, 2020 A promo made for Charing Cross 2020 international symposium to spark conversation about the use of AI in vascular healthcare. Do you know what the difference is between machine learning and deep learning? Read More |
HIPAA, RISK, & HYPER-OUTSOURCING HEALTHCARE article Mar 04, 2020 Ever-rising costs have forced the healthcare industry to tread a tightrope between containing costs and quality of service. In an effort to reduce costs, the healthcare industry relies on a large number of external resources. It’s not just administrative and clerical personnel such as call-cen... Read More |
USA HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY video Mar 04, 2020 US health care sector is most preferred destination for financial and strategic investments. For Nursing related assignments Sourceessay knows the key points that will be a game changer in your assignments Read More |
WHAT TO CONSIDER BEFORE USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN HEALTHCARE video Mar 04, 2020 In a previous video, we went over some of the many reasons why social media is so beneficial in healthcare. Your patients are already using, so you can further educate them and reach a wider audience through these social platforms. It’s also cost-effective and while giving you a chance to show... Read More |
A SNAPSHOT OF THE PRECISION MEDICINE LANDSCAPE article Mar 04, 2020 The global market for precision medicine is projected to top more than $84.5 billion by 2024. Targeted therapies for rare, genetic diseases, cancer and chronic conditions come with the hope of a cure. Companies such as Roche, Novartis, Spark Therapeutics, Pfizer, Editas and BioMarin are among the ph... Read More |
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TOP 4 BENEFITS EHR SOFTWARE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED PRACTICES article Mar 03, 2020 From the very first day you implement EHR software, you’ll let out a sigh of relief once you realize its amazing potential and how it can transform your practice. You may experience some minor drawbacks along the way, but these are nothing compared to the many benefits you’ll achieve. Be... Read More |
REIMAGINING HEALTHCARE IT FOR THE NEXT DECADE whitepaper Mar 02, 2020 In the decade since the HITECH Act was passed, first-generation electronic health record systems provided a foundation for innovations such as electronic prescribing, clinical decision support and predictive analytics. While usability and productivity issues with EHRs have been well documented, ther... Read More |
WILL REGULATION LIMIT THE IMPACT IN HEALTH CARE? article Mar 02, 2020 Artificial intelligence (AI) introduces some important concerns around data ownership, safety and security, and with so much at stake, meaningful regulation should be expected. The pharmaceutical, clinical treatment and medical device industries provide a precedent for how to protect data rights, pr... Read More |
HEALTHCARE BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN SAFETY video Mar 02, 2020 Health care is noble work – and hard work, too. Doing your job means performing some very complicated, even life-saving tasks. But what about staying safe yourself? Whether you work in a hospital or clinic, nursing home, emergency response, directly with patients or behind the scenes, it&rsquo... Read More |
DATA PRIVACY IN HEALTHCARE article Mar 02, 2020 The information and data within any business is a valuable asset. It is now considered a key driver to business growth and success. Data is collected every second of every day, and so it is important for businesses to capture, process, and manage data correctly. The security of data must be a priori... Read More |
CURING YOUR COMPLEX HEALTHCARE NETWORK ILLS WITH MICROSEGMENTATION article Mar 02, 2020 Chronic underinvestment in cybersecurity has left many so exposed that they are unable to even detect cyberattacks when they occur, according to the report. While attacks take only seconds, discovery and mitigation can take weeks, if not months. In healthcare, complex networks and sensitive data mak... Read More |
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CHANGING THE PHARMA AND HEALTHCARE LANDSCAPE article Feb 27, 2020 Despite the data explosion in the past 10-15 years, this has largely been “data unrealized” – its value has not been exploited. Subsequent investments in data integration strategies, technology, and analytics have transformed a medley of free-floating data points into an integrated... Read More |
4 WAYS VIRTUAL REALITY IS IMPACTING HEALTHCARE article Feb 26, 2020 Virtual Reality (VR) has already made big waves in industries from entertainment to fashion and media, but how about an industry that directly affects everyone’s well being and quality of life? While we are only beginning to grasp the full potential of VR for healthcare, the potential applicat... Read More |
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CAN EHRS STAND UP MARKETPLACES FOR INNOVATION? article Feb 26, 2020 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push. One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with ... Read More |
BUILDING A BETTER HEALTHCARE FUTURE article Feb 25, 2020 Big data, analytics, cloud, and AI are just a few of the key transformational technologies creating a buzz in the healthcare industry as these innovations solve problems on a global scale all the way down to the patient level. Healthcare organizations are leveraging these tools to assist in clinical... Read More |
ENSURING VIABILITY OF THE DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE video Feb 25, 2020 A digital twin in healthcare is a patient’s in-silico representation, developed using the life-long data record of the individual. This data may come from disparate sources such as wearable devices and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). The variables involved in the data obtained from the phys... Read More |
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN LIGHT OF AUTOMATION article Feb 24, 2020 Software automation accelerates processes and makes them more cost-effective, accurate, scalable, and measurable. But it also lets organizations coordinate and manage a collection of disparate systems according to business rules. These benefits offer enough value that automation is becoming an indis... Read More |
EMBRACING HEALTHCARE’S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 2.0 article Feb 24, 2020 Technology is only as useful as the value it helps us deliver. For us to get to the next phase of this evolution, technology must fit into a patient-centric care model. When I shifted my role from a full-time practicing physician to a healthcare administrator 20 years ago, there were no national sta... Read More |
OPTIMIZING THE REVENUE CYCLE: 5 STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS whitepaper Feb 19, 2020 Technology investment is just part of revenue cycle management, and engaging patients in the financial side of their treatment will be a key theme at HIMSS20.It contains patient engagement in their medical bills, pricing transparency when choosing treatments and medications ,organizational integrati... Read More |
HOW DO WE MAKE DIGNITY THE ANIMATING PRINCIPLE IN HEALTHCARE? article Feb 19, 2020 In healthcare, short-term efficiency means more tasks done, more patients were seen, more tests performed more revenue generated. If this were manufacturing, short-term efficiency would be a perfectly acceptable measure of success. For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartis... Read More |
THE VALUE OF AN EHR CLOUD SOLUTION article Feb 19, 2020 The term, “The Cloud,” has become so commonplace that one might ask: “What does it mean and what value can it bring to a healthcare organization’s electronic health record (EHR)?” Without getting too technical, Cloud is a model for delivering IT resources. According to ... Read More |
DRIVING HEALTHCARE INNOVATION WITH MICROSERVICES whitepaper Feb 19, 2020 The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile. IT teams... Read More |
YOUR GUIDE TO MEDICAL IMAGING STANDARDS AND ENSURING FUTURE COMPATIBILITY whitepaper Feb 19, 2020 Gone are the days of vendor-specific imaging. Today’s leaders understand that optimum performance and efficiencies depend on strategies that leverage industry standards. The drive for early diagnoses, chronic disease, and the rising age of the population resulted in a growing demand for medical imag... Read More |
THE VALUE OF IMPRIVATA FOR HEALTHCARE. video Feb 18, 2020 With the recent announcement of a £40 million investment to reduce NHS staff login times, we asked Daniel Johnston, Imprivata Clinical Workflow Specialist, what he believes makes Imprivata’s approach to single sign-on unique and measurable benefits he’s seen customers experiencing ... Read More |
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SETTING EXPECTATIONS IN A COMPLEX HEALTHCARE SYSTEM article Feb 18, 2020 Over the past few weeks, I have written various posts on the experiences I have had with people whom I am working with as a Nurse Advocate. Each person came with unique issues related to their health. One patient had a suspected deep vein thrombosis, one was diagnosed with a reoccurrence of lung can... Read More |
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DELIVERING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE video Feb 12, 2020 Traditional methods of delivering medicine to rural communities have not been considered the most efficient solutions. Patients in smaller areas of the Dominican Republic, for example, would often go weeks without receiving the care they needed, increasing mortality rates. A reliable and cost-effici... Read More |
3 KEY CONSIDERATIONS IN CLOUD SECURITY FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS article Feb 12, 2020 With medical system consolidation and increasing numbers of medical records created, the need for digital access and storage is gaining steam. Digitizing records allows clinicians to improve accuracy and decrease redundant testing and studies, as well as reduce treatment delays. Greater availability... Read More |
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION IN HEALTHCARE article Feb 10, 2020 Artificial intelligence (AI) – long an impactful technology in other industries – is in the midst of rapid adoption across the healthcare industry. What was once seen as having great potential is now making its way to real-world implementation, driving improvements in care through enhanc... Read More |
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ADVANCED HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAINS: WHY IT’S ALL IN THE DATA article Feb 10, 2020 During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by manual processes, has moved squarely into the digital age. As patients, we’ve all become accustomed to seeing physicians as well as clinical staff use lapt... Read More |
WHY IS THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY STILL SO BAD AT CYBERSECURITY? article Feb 09, 2020 There are all kinds of scary scenarios like this that become possible when a hospital or other healthcare provider gets pwned. And the health industry has consistently been getting pwned as of late. In 2019, health organizations continued to get hit with data breaches and ransomware attacks, costing... Read More |
HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION ON CLOUD video Feb 07, 2020 This video discusses how the healthcare industry can potentially improve patient outcomes and preparedness to fight disease with faster innovation through cloud-based applications and automation. Read More |
INTEROPERABILITY? YES, FOR VALUE’S SAKE! article Feb 07, 2020 There is a misconception that the terms health and medicine are interchangeable, but they describe very different concepts and states. Health has been subject to whole series of definitions and WHO defined health in the Alma Ata declaration in 1978 as follows: “Health is a state of complete ph... Read More |
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DATA ACCESS GOVERNANCE FOR HEALTHCARE PRIVACY COMPLIANCE article Feb 06, 2020 Healthcare may soothe our physical and mental suffering, but it has long been one of the industries most burdened by stringent data privacy requirements. The personal health information (PHI) and electronic PHI (ePHI) contain the most valuable information malicious actors want to sell on the Dark We... Read More |
HOW HEALTH SYSTEMS CAN RECOVER MILLIONS IN LOST REVENUE whitepaper Feb 05, 2020 The landscape of healthcare revenue appears bleak: costs and expenses are rising, while reimbursements decline. Traditionally, solutions focus on preventative measures, yet costly write-offs remain ever-present. This is especially true with respect to commercial claims, where denials are plentiful a... Read More |
8 HEALTHCARE TRENDS FOR 2020 AND BEYOND infographic Feb 05, 2020 What is the best way to identify your target market and pinpoint their pain points? Understand the industry changes impacting them most. In a recent webinar, Definitive Healthcare CEO Jason Krantz reviewed the 8 healthcare industry trends he believes will be most relevant this year—both for he... Read More |
THE BUSINESS OF HEALTHCARE article Feb 05, 2020 The business of healthcare is an interesting beast. It has been described as miraculous, uncertain, opportunistic, a right, and even an art form. Semantics aside, healthcare is one of the most significant industries in any country worldwide, and represents almost 50% of America’s GDP. Miraculo... Read More |
TOP 8 HEALTHCARE TRENDS IN 2020 article Feb 05, 2020 Definitive Healthcare CEO, Jason Krantz, recently hosted his annual healthcare trends webinar:8 Top-Of-Mind Trends for Physician and Hospital Buyers In 2020. Each year, these eight trends are developed based on conversations with our 2,500+ clients across the provider, pharmaceutical, biotechnology,... Read More |
ACCELERATING HEALTHCARE INNOVATION WITH REAL WORLD EVIDENCE article Feb 05, 2020 Over the last several years, medical associations began observing that these registries could also transform the way real-world clinical data can be used by the medical community beyond enabling quality reporting by physicians. As real-world data (namely electronic health record data) began to be di... Read More |
3 WAYS HEALTHCARE IT DEPTS CAN START PREPPING FOR “MEDICARE FOR ALL” article Feb 05, 2020 Once a long-shot, the idea of universal healthcare in the U.S. is inching closer to reality, particularly as many 2020 candidates promise an expedient implementation of a national federally-run program (or some version of it). Nearly half of doctors support a “Medicare for all” model, an... Read More |
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (EMR) SOFTWARE: 2020 PRICING GUIDE whitepaper Feb 04, 2020 When it comes to electronic medical records (EMR) software, it’s important to find the system best fit for your businesses’ needs, goals, and budget. This guide written by Software Advice, covers everything you need to know about software pricing in 2020. Compare pricing models, price ra... Read More |
FIVE TIPS FOR OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAINS article Feb 04, 2020 Healthcare supply chains tend to be high-margin, regulated businesses with strict quality requirements, such as the need for cold-chain storage and transportation. Yet they’re often ripe for improvements across the board. Inefficiencies often crop up due to the outsourcing of capability to log... Read More |
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ASPIRE HEALTH PLAN: HOW MONTEREY IS REINVENTING HEALTHCARE video Jan 31, 2020 When confronted with rising costs and shrinking reimbursement, leaders at a respected regional hospital in California took a bold step to ensure that they could continue serving the needs of the community in a financially sustainable way. Guided by Milliman’s health experts, the Community Hosp... Read More |
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ADOPTION OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY: A UNIQUE DILEMMA article Jan 30, 2020 Recent years have seen an explosion in healthcare-related technologies; connected devices, wearable sensors, patches, apps and software. This sector is expected to reach $280 billion by 20212 and global healthcare spending is predicted to reach $10 trillion by 2022. 2 Patients and healthcare practit... Read More |
HOW AMAZON’S LATEST TRADEMARK RAISES THE BAR article Jan 30, 2020 The Healthcare industry is changing at an unprecedented pace. Legacy technology and pressure to keep costs low combined with the demand for faster service are forcing healthcare providers to innovate. The question remains as to who will set the technology bar for healthcare experiences and expectati... Read More |
AI FOR HEALTH PROGRAM article Jan 29, 2020 Microsoft is expanding on its existing AI for Good initiative by launching the AI for Health program. AI for Health empowers researchers and organizations with AI to advance the health of people and communities around the world. Read More |
4 TRENDS THAT ARE CHANGING HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES article Jan 29, 2020 As the digital revolution transforms the fields of healthcare and life sciences, organizations and individuals stand to gain from new trends that use data in innovative ways to provide better patient outcomes. To leverage these developments, organizations need to embrace a cloud data platform as par... Read More |
JOINING UP YOUR HEALTHCARE video Jan 29, 2020 Health systems around the world are battling with issues of accessibility and affordability of healthcare, whilst facing ever-rising levels of chronic disease and severe workforce shortages. To tackle this Babylon are working with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) to develop a new healthcare d... Read More |
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5 INNOVATIVE WAYS PROVIDERS ARE UTILIZING THEIR EHR article Jan 29, 2020 Choosing a strong healthcare IT partner like eClinicalWorks means having someone by your side that supports your practice’s goals and future plans. From small rural practices to large urban health centers, eClinicalWorks customers represent a varied group of healthcare professionals dedicated ... Read More |
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE AI video Jan 28, 2020 Accelerate time to value with a dedicated center for AI workforce operations – we call it the Olive AlphaSite. An Olive AlphaSite ensures operational transformation, creating a 360 view of enterprise-wide opportunities for process automation and maximizing the performance of organizations with... Read More |
WHY THE CENTENE AND WELLCARE MERGER IS THE BIGGEST DEAL IN 2020 article Jan 28, 2020 I feel like the healthcare world just skipped over the $17.3 billion mega-merger between Centene and Wellcare, which just received final regulatory approval last Wednesday. With their powers combined, this new company will create the Thanos of government-focused health plans, hopefully without any o... Read More |
RESOLVING THAT TENSION BETWEEN CLINICAL AND FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP article Jan 27, 2020 What tension, you say? Oh, come on, let’s be honest — you know what I’m talking about. Clinical leadership evaluates a product that accelerates wound healing. Its evidence-based claims are well substantiated in peer review journals. Yes, it’s costly, but healing time and labo... Read More |
WHAT MAKES IOMT DEVICES SO DIFFICULT TO SECURE? article Jan 25, 2020 It wasn’t long ago when healthcare technology and protecting it from harm was relatively straightforward. In most cases, landlines and desktops reigned supreme; networks existed inside an organization’s own walls. Times have changed: Technological advancements and a growing number of use... Read More |
10 EXAMPLES OF DYSFUNCTION IN HEALTHCARE video Jan 25, 2020 The Lown Institute recently announced its 3rd round of “Shkreli Awards”, a top ten list of the worst examples of dysfunction in healthcare, and we thought that was pretty newsworthy Read More |
5 TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE POISED TO DISRUPT THE HEALTHCARE SUPPLY CHAIN article Jan 24, 2020 The supply chain has carved out a critical role for itself as the healthcare industry shifts to a value-based model. In today’s evolving business environment, a data-rich supply chain contains the fuel that will help healthcare stakeholders tackle big industry challenges, including reducing va... Read More |
WHAT’S CHANGING? HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY DISRUPTORS AND TRENDS TO WATCH article Jan 24, 2020 As industries continue to blur, traditional healthcare companies will need to break down silos to drive value across the industry ecosystem, “To compete with disruptors, healthcare companies will need to capitalize on data, maximize profitability, and innovate patient care all while managing g... Read More |
WHY IS 2020 A TURNING POINT FOR HEALTHCARE? article Jan 23, 2020 Micro-trends, political strategies, technologies, discoveries in medical sciences, and societal changes are shaping the healthcare sector. What changes are on the horizon at the beginning of 2020? Here are eight remarkable transformative forces expected in the upcoming months. Healthcare is continuo... Read More |
INTERPRETABILITY AND THE PROMISE OF HEALTHCARE AI article Jan 23, 2020 Emergency departments (EDs) are an expensive and time-consuming option for getting care, especially when you don't have an emergency. What if we could suggest other treatment options to potential patients with non-urgent conditions beforehand instead of their choosing the ED? They could probably... Read More |
HOW MIXED REALITY BRINGS THE VIRTUAL HOSPITAL TO YOU article Jan 22, 2020 The field of healthcare is constantly revolutionizing. Although, there are many challenges that doctors and other medical professionals face in treating a patient. The advancement in Microsoft’s HoloLens technology has brought a huge shift in how hospitals, medical clinics and other modern hea... Read More |
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HEALTHCARE AND DATA SECURITY—THE DOS AND DON’TS article Jan 21, 2020 The foundation of any information security program is asset knowledge, classification and management. Without this foundation, gaps will exist, and risks will go unnoticed. Efforts will be targeted incorrectly, and funds will be wasted. Auditors will cite this as a program failure, and in the case o... Read More |
ECLINICALWORKS: LEADING THE WAY TO THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
BEYOND HEALTHCARE DATA; SHIFTING THE FOCUS TO NON-HEALTHCARE DATA article Jan 21, 2020 The recently proposed information blocking rule from the ONC and CMS has thrust interoperability into the spotlight like nothing has in recent years, making it a hot topic for media fodder, and a major concern for organizations necessitating renewed attention to data-sharing practices. The conversat... Read More |
RANSOMWARE IN 2020 article Jan 20, 2020 Since that time, ransomware has attacked large and small organizations, as well as individuals, across every sector. The malware’s versatility continues to make it a useful tool that requires nominal investment of time and resources. Ransomware is delivered via several different vectors to inc... Read More |
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SUCCEEDING IN VALUE-BASED CARE WITH A NEXT-GEN REVENUE CYCLE whitepaper Jan 17, 2020 Value-based reimbursement (VBR) models are becoming more common. Success under these models depends on showing positive improvement in key metrics, but providers often struggle to accurately report the quality of care provided. A next-generation revenue cycle that combines clinically aware artificia... Read More |
ABOUT BUILDING BETTER HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
2020 HEALTH TRENDS AND PREDICTIONS article 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... Read More |
TOP 8 HEALTHCARE PREDICTIONS IN 2020 article 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... Read More |
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FOUR BEST PRACTICES TO COMMUNICATE A HEALTH CARE MERGER article 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... Read More |
HOW AI CAN IMPROVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS article 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... Read More |
WHAT IS AR IN HEALTHCARE? video 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... Read More |
RED HAT'S INTELLIGENT DATA-AS-A-SERVICE SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
5 REASONS WHY ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS ARE BETTER THAN PAPER RECORDS article 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... Read More |
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HOW SHOULD PROVIDERS SCREEN FOR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH? article 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... Read More |
DENTAL PRACTICES CAN IMPROVE BY USING BIG DATA ANALYTICS article 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... Read More |
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ACCOLADE: SECURITY AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
20 2020 HEALTHCARE TRENDS video 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&... Read More |
FIVE HEALTH CARE TRENDS FOR 2020 article 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... Read More |
HOW TO MAKE HEALTHCARE MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MORE INCLUSIVE article 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... Read More |
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TOP 3 MYTHS ABOUT DIGITAL IDENTITY IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
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PERSONALIZING RADIOTHERAPY IN ONCOLOGY: THE EVOLUTION OF TREATMENT whitepaper 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 ... Read More |
HACKING HEALTHCARE – A SENSITIVE INDUSTRY UNDER ATTACK infographic Jan 08, 2020 Healthcare organizations collect and store vast amounts of personal information, making them a major target for cyber-criminals. Healthcare breaches are especially serious because personal data can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. For example, says Carlisle, it could cause... Read More |
5 PREDICTIONS FOR DIGITAL HEALTHCARE IN 2020 article 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. ... Read More |
ALLIUM HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
THE STATE OF TELEHEALTH IN 2020 article Jan 08, 2020 telehealth gives you a way to provide patients with medical care anytime and anywhere. Telehealth solutions like healow TeleVisits help practices like The Clark Clinic deliver quality care to patients who may have difficulty making it into the doctor’s office. Sometimes it also may be challeng... Read More |
5 BENEFITS OF INTEROPERABILITY IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
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7 TRENDS IMPACTING THE DESIGN OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS IN 2020 article 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... Read More |
CURRENT AND POTENTIAL CHALLENGES OF TELEHEALTH article 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... Read More |
SEVEN TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE CORPORATE HEALTH INSURANCE IN 2020 article 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... Read More |
COMBATTING POTENTIAL CYBER-ATTACKS WITHIN HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
MOVING BEYOND DAZZLE TO HIGH-IMPACT COLLABORATION article 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... Read More |
KEY TRENDS OF BLOCKCHAIN IN HEALTHCARE IN 2020 article 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... Read More |
3 HEALTHCARE CYBERSECURITY TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2020 article 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 ... Read More |
CHOOSING THE RIGHT FIT FOR YOUR ERP IMPLEMENTATION article 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 ... Read More |
DRIVING SUCCESS IN HEALTHCARE AI article 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... Read More |
WHY PROVIDERS MUST ADOPT TELEHEALTH IN 2020 article 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... Read More |
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ONE DOCTOR’S THOUGHTS ON WHY BIG TECH WON’T REALLY DISRUPT HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
4 WAYS HEALTHCARE IS BEING TRANSFORMED BY THE CLOUD article 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 ... Read More |
WHAT ARE THE UPCOMING TRENDS IN AI IN HEALTHCARE FOR 2020? article 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... Read More |
HOW BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVE HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS article Dec 23, 2019 Iris scans, fingerprint readers and facial recognition are growing in use across healthcare settings — and they’re poised to offer even greater possibilities. With just a touch or a glance, these biometric tools can identify and authenticate patients and employees by detecting unique bio... Read More |
4 WAYS OF BLOCKCHAIN HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
BEHAVIOURAL INCENTIVE DESIGN IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE video 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... Read More |
ADDRESSING HEALTHCARE’S IT SECURITY OVERSIGHT CHALLENGES article 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... Read More |
CAN DIGITAL HEALTH BRIDGE THE LOW-INCOME GAP? article 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 ... Read More |
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WHAT’S FHIR AND HOW WILL IT DRIVE HEALTHCARE INTEROPERABILITY? article 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... Read More |
3 WAYS ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE IN 2020 article Dec 12, 2019 Electronic health records are not just a speculated source of physician burnout. They’re a direct cause for about 13 percent of providers, according to University of New Mexico researchers who recently examined the effects of EHR implementation and use. The issue runs even deeper, says Dr. Phi... Read More |
HOW MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES ARE CHANGING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR article 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 ... Read More |
AI IN HEALTHCARE article Dec 12, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine earning (ML) stand to transform outcomes for stakeholders across the healthcare industry more directly than nearly any other technology since the discovery of antibiotics. Able to ingest and learn from massive amounts of data including patient information, cl... Read More |
INTELLIGENT HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES video 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. Read More |
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CREATING A PATIENT-FOCUSED HEALTHCARE REVENUE CYCLE whitepaper 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... Read More |
INVESTIGATING ADVERSE INCIDENTS IN HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
NAVIGATING THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS MISERABLE – CAN AI BOTS HELP? article 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... Read More |
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM SECURITY article 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... Read More |
DRIVING ANALYTICS FRONTIERS IN HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
4 REASONS TO UTILIZE DENTAL EHR article 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... Read More |
LEVERAGING AI IN HEALTHCARE article 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 ... Read More |
THE INTERSECTION OF TECH AND HOLISTIC HEALTH article 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... Read More |
HOW AI AND ROBOTICS IN HEALTHCARE ARE EXCELLING BEYOND SCIENCE FICTION article 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... Read More |
5 REASONS WHY A SINGLE, INTEGRATED EHR WILL NOT SOLVE INTEROPERABILITY article 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... Read More |
DEBUNKING 10 COMMON DIGITAL MARKETING MYTHS IN HEALTHCARE infographic 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... Read More |
NANOTECHNOLOGY COULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE FIELD OF DENTISTRY article 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... Read More |
SUCCEEDING WITH DATA-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE article 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 ... Read More |
THE GROWING EMERGENCE OF ROBOTS IN HEALTHCARE article Dec 05, 2019 Robots are a rapidly growing part of the modern health care landscape. The history of robots in medicine dates back to 1985 when a robotic arm called “PUMA” assisted with surgery for the first time. The operation a neurosurgical biopsy was a complete success. Some of today’s health... Read More |
NEW SURVEY CONFIRMS BROKEN STATE OF HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS infographic Dec 04, 2019 The healthcare industry has made many advances over the last few decades, yet one area where innovation is severely lacking is organization-wide communications. One of the most crucial, foundational aspects of the industry that almost single-handedly allows care to happen in the first place happens ... Read More |
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH AI video 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... Read More |
COLLABORATION WILL ENABLE HEALTHTECH SECTOR TO THRIVE article 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 ... Read More |
3 PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS article 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... Read More |
HOW TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCES THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY article 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... Read More |
DRIVING THE HEALTHTECH REVOLUTION WITH BUSINESS-DRIVEN NETWORKS article 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... Read More |
THE CHANGING FACE OF HEALTHCARE DELIVERY article 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... Read More |
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HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS EMPOWERING HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
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A ROADMAP TO WELCOMING HEALTH CARE INNOVATION article 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... Read More |
CONTINUOUS INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
5 WAYS DATA SCIENCE IS TRANSFORMING MODERN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
HOW DIGITALISATION IS DRIVING DRAMATIC IT CHANGES IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
HOW CONNECTING DATA WILL LEAD TO FASTER MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS article 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... Read More |
COMPETITIVENESS IN HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
DOES HEALTHCARE COVERAGE LEAD TO INCREASED IMMIGRATION? video 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. Read More |
SHIFTING TO VALUE-BASED MEDICINE article Nov 22, 2019 What could be said about quality in cinema could also be said for the world of healthcare. Volume-based care puts less focus on quality or the type of service they give to patients and more on the numbers and cost of care those who were the most successful were those who could see the greatest numbe... Read More |
EIGHT STEPS TOWARDS BETTER CYBERSECURITY IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
HEALTHCARE’S SIX NEW FRONT DOORS infographic 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... Read More |
AI-ASSISTED HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
THE LATEST HEALTHCARE DATA BREACHES IN 2019 article 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... Read More |
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THE COST OF NOT HAVING HEALTHCARE CRM whitepaper 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... Read More |
DEFRAGMENTING HEALTHCARE WITH FHIR article 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... Read More |
GOOGLE HEALTH - TOOLS TO HELP HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS DELIVER BETTER CARE video 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... Read More |
WHY HCAPHS IS ARCHAIC IN HEALTHCARE TODAY article 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... Read More |
DOCTOR DATA AND THE FUTURE OF AI IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
THE NEXT LEVEL IN HEALTHCARE!!! video 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 ... Read More |
5 TRENDS IN HEALTHCARE CLOUD COMPUTING FOR 2020 article 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 ... Read More |
THE URGENT IMPORTANCE OF CYBERSECURITY IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
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WHY THE TIME IS NOW FOR DIGITAL HEALTH article 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... Read More |
INTRODUCING MEDILIVES GLOBAL HEALTHCARE APP. video 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... Read More |
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WHY HEALTH DATA IS THE NEXT IN BIG DATA ANALYTICS article 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... Read More |
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT TOOLS BENEFITTING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY infographic 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... Read More |
SHIELDING HEALTHCARE FROM CYBERTHREATS whitepaper 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. Read More |
THE UBERIZATION OF HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’S NEED FOR HEALTH DATA article 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... Read More |
PERILS OF THE OPEN OFFICE infographic 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... Read More |
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
3 MYTHS ABOUT MACHINE LEARNING IN HEALTH CARE article 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... Read More |
AI AND EQ IN HEALTH TECH video 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. Read More |
CHATBOTS IN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT article 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... Read More |
POLY HELPS EMPOWER CONTACT CENTER WORKERS article 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... Read More |
AN EYE ON FUTURE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES article 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... Read More |
DOES AI HAVE A PLACE IN MEDICINE? article 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... Read More |
CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE HEALTH-TECH INDUSTRY article 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. ... Read More |
UNDERSTANDING REGULATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES video 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... Read More |
THE STATE OF HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT whitepaper 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... Read More |
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USING INNOVATION CENTERS TO REDUCE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION RISK article 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... Read More |
SOLVING HEALTHCARE’S DATA CHALLENGES WITH STORAGE-AS-A-SERVICE article 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... Read More |
A LOOK INTO THE NEXT DECADE OF HEALTHCARE IT article 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... Read More |
5G: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
EMAIL MARKETING FOR HEALTHCARE video 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 ... Read More |
CLINICAL DEPTH: THE POWER OF KNOWING MORE THAN THE MINIMUM article 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... Read More |
IS AI THE REAL ANSWER TO REDUCING OVERUTILIZATION? article 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... Read More |
5 TRENDS THAT ARE CHANGING THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY article 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... Read More |
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THE UNTOLD REALITY OF MEDICAL DEVICE SHORTAGES IN THE U.S. article 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... Read More |
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DIGITAL HEALTH video 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 ... Read More |
HEALTHCARE GONE VIRTUAL article 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... Read More |
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AI IS HELPING RURAL PATIENTS GET CRUCIAL MEDICAL CARE article 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... Read More |
TAKING A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO EXPERIENCE TRUE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION whitepaper 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... Read More |
DELIVERING DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS FOR HEALTHCARE video 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 Read More |
TAKE YOUR HEALTH ON THE GO article 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... Read More |
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TOP 4 MYTHS ON EHR DEBUNKED article 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... Read More |
PRECISION MEDICINE: HOW FAR WE’VE COME article 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... Read More |
TOP 10 CHALLENGES HEALTHCARE COMPANIES FACE TODAY video 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... Read More |
WHY YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT TELEMEDICINE article Oct 30, 2019 Telemedicine is on the forefront of the healthcare revolution. According to a recent report, the telemedicine market within the United States will be around $65 Billion by 2025. While telemedicine has existed for several decades, it has been becoming more mainstream with mass market adoption and mor... Read More |
TOP 5 BENEFITS OF HEALTHCARE INTEROPERABILITY article 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... Read More |
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CLOUD FAXING CAN OPTIMIZE THESE SIX COMMON HEALTHCARE WORKFLOWS article 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... Read More |
WHEN TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, PRECISION MATTERS article 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... Read More |
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A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS article 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... Read More |
HOW TO BUILD A TECH-ENABLED FLU IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM THAT WORKS article 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... Read More |
WHY 5G MATTERS FOR HEALTHCARE SECTOR video 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... Read More |
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THE FACILITY IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN HEALTHCARE article 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... Read More |
4 INNOVATIVE WAYS TO CONTAIN HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL LEAKAGE article Oct 23, 2019 The financial risk to health systems has never been higher. Decades of reimbursement reductions coupled with operating cost increases have left health systems executives no choice other than innovation. The traditional methods are no longer enough. For something to be transformational, it must under... Read More |
MORAL INJURY FROM A PRIMARY CARE PERSPECTIVE article 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... Read More |
POLY STUDIO IS NOW CERTIFIED FOR MICROSOFT TEAMS article 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... Read More |
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SMART DEVICES AND 3D PRINTING ARE REVOLUTIONIZING DENTISTRY article 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... Read More |
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WHY ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS SHOULD BE STANDARDIZED article 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... Read More |
3 QUANTUM LEAPS THAT WILL CHANGE HEALTHCARE BY 2030 article 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... Read More |
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IT whitepaper 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... Read More |
THE FUTURE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE infographic 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... Read More |
A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN U.S. HEALTHCARE video 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... Read More |
4 REASONS HEALTHCARE IS MOVING TO THE CLOUD video 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... Read More |
A GROWING HEALTHCARE CHALLENGE article 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... Read More |
REASONS FOR STARTUPS TO FOCUS ON MOBILE HEALTH APP DEVELOPMENT 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... Read More |
5 USE CASES FOR CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR article 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... Read More |
TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE WITH BIG DATA, 5G AND SURGICAL ROBOTS 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... Read More |
WHY SDOH DATA IS KEY FOR DEVELOPING POPULATION HEALTH STRATEGIES article 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... Read More |
FUTURE RISKS: HEALTHCARE video 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. Read More |
6 MOST PRECARIOUS DEVELOPING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES article 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... Read More |
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THE BENEFITS OF TELESPECIALTY CLINICS whitepaper 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. Read More |
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE whitepaper 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... Read More |
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICE SPENDING 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... Read More |
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PERSONALISED HEALTHCARE TALKS | WOULD YOU SHARE YOUR DATA? video 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... Read More |
THE IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE OF EARLY CANCER DETECTION 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 increasi... Read More |
INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: EXPECTATIONS VS REALITIES? 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... Read More |
THE USE OF MOBILE DEVICES IN HEALTHCARE infographic 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... Read More |
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER? 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... Read More |
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE article 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... Read More |
AI IN MEDICINE: ON THE WAY TO GROWTH 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... Read More |
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IS THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE? video 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 ... Read More |
THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN HEALTHCARE 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... Read More |
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THE GRAVEYARD OF DIGITAL HEALTH, AND HOW TO STAY OUT OF IT 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 ability to... Read More |
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5 TIPS FOR DELIVERING FIRST-RATE HEALTHCARE SERVICES 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... Read More |
AI, INTERNET OF THINGS, AND THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY video 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... Read More |
6 HEALTH SYSTEM BARRIERS TO DIGITAL HEALTH TRANSFORMATION article 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... Read More |
PRIMARY CARE IS AT THE CENTER OF A HEALTH REVOLUTION article 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... |