Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

While healthcare needs technology to drive heightened patient experiences, technology can be a hinderance to the clinician experience. This is because of increased administrative burden and a lack of interoperability between electronic health records themselves and with other forms of health IT. In fact, more than half of clinicians feel overwhelmed by administrative burden and frustrated by the challenges of accessing a patient's clinical information.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Although the U.S. is entering a post-COVID era, many factors straining the healthcare industry will continue and more risk factors will kick in, argues Syed Kaptan of cybersecurity intelligence company ThreatQuotient.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By Donrich Thaldar. No one domain of the law holds exclusive sway over human genomic data. Instead, genomic data have a multidimensional legal nature , meaning that multiple legal domains — including property law, privacy law, contract law, and intellectual property law — are all applicable. This opens the door for different persons to have rights originating in different legal domains with respect to the same genomic data.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith Algozzine, PA-C, CEO, UCM Digital Health An essential part of being a healthcare provider, in any capacity, is understanding population health management. This discipline offers a window into the health of a selected […]. The article Digital Solutions Key To Enhanced Population Health Strategies and Improved Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinician

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The longtime proponent of universal healthcare is set to become chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is in line to be the committee’s ranking member.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Aparajita Lath. The Truth Pill , authored by Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy , is a monumental work that convincingly shows that drug regulation is but a myth in India. In their investigative style, the authors explain drug regulation in India through the lens of history, both Indian and global. The book’s combination of history and contemporary issues makes for an immersive and compelling read.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Guilherme Macagnan, CEO, AMX Healthcare If we could go back in time three years and take a look around, it would be easy to point out all of the circumstances that have shifted, grown […]. The article Five Practical Tips for Attracting and Onboarding Healthcare Personnel appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Patients with mild cognitive impairment being treated at Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute practices in New York and Connecticut, as well as their caregivers, have access to a new virtual neurological specialty care support program. WHY IT MATTERS. MCI is an early stage of memory loss or other cognition problems, such as difficulty with language and thinking.

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NEJM

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Among school districts in the greater Boston area, the lifting of masking requirements was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid-19 cases per 1000 students and staff during the 15 weeks after a statewide masking policy was rescinded.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Changi General Hospital in Singapore is now developing and validating AI algorithms to predict the likelihood of patient deterioration as part of its smart remote health monitoring system. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The hospital has been collaborating with A*STAR medtech spinoff Respiree to develop a remote patient monitoring (RPM) system. It is one of the projects that CGH, Respiree and A*STAR are working on, backed with SG$1.35 million (over $950,000) in funding from the National Research Foundation

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The projected revenue growth comes after the Department of Justice announced this month it would appeal a federal judge’s decision that allowed UnitedHealth’s $13 billion purchase of Change Healthcare to close.

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The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

By Sarah Gabriele. In June 2022, after almost two years of debate over a potential COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, the World Trade Organization adopted the Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (“WTO Decision”), which provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights. More specifically, the WTO Decision waived patent rights on vaccines and allowed for the use of protected clinical trial data for regulatory approval of vaccines.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software engineering, Lyniate. As healthcare providers manage market shifts such as value-based care, increased consumer expectations, staffing shortages, changing reimbursement models, and competition from non-traditional healthcare players including Alphabet, […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remote biometric monitoring technology company Biotricity recently announced securing National Institutes of Health funding from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute with plans to launch a study of its Bioflux-AI technology. Bioflux-AI combines an FDA-approved, high-precision, small mobile cardiac telemetry device with AI-driven algorithms specifically trained for the prediction of stroke in stage 4 and stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Most clinicians agree that technology will continue to play a critical role in care delivery – and physicians who can use data-driven insights at the point of care will be better positioned to meet patients’ ongoing needs. Clinical decision support tools can help patient care teams improve diagnosis quality, leading to more cost-effective care.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a secondary concern and must become incorporated into every organization’s core business model, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By Gianluca Ceci and Sarah Gabriele. In 2021, the total revenue of Italian pharmacies dropped by 4% compared to 2015, despite Italy being the fifth largest country in the EU for pharmaceutical expenditures. The main reasons: the reabsorption of demand and small pharmacy size, as well as the failure to innovate the current business model. Contrary to what one might expect, given the pandemic, the health emergency, and the rush to ensure health supplies, in 2021 the total revenue of Italian pharma

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The number of connected devices being used in hospitals continues to grow and while these devices can improve efficiency, safety, and patient outcomes, they have also substantially increased the attack surface, and many of these devices either lack appropriate security features or are not correctly configured. According to a recent Microsoft-sponsored study by the Ponemon Institute into the current state of IoT/OT cybersecurity, 65% of organizations said their IoT/OT devices were one of the leas

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No hospital or health system is immune from the challenges of the nationwide nursing shortage. As organizations look for ways to reduce the administrative burden on nurses and improve engagement and satisfaction, virtual nursing is one consideration. Many tasks performed by nurses in the inpatient setting are repetitive – a virtual nursing unit allows nurses to manage these tasks remotely.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Patients interact with different organizations in the patient care continuum, from when they discover they are ill to when they receive care and follow-up. Only through positive, personalized experiences across these touchpoints can an otherwise emotional and overwhelming experience be made easier. Health data within these touchpoints is siloed, locked across members of the healthcare value chain.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Staffing shortages were the top reason nurses cited for planning to leave their jobs, followed by the need for better work-life balance, according to staffing agency ConnectRN.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.