Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Patient and provider telehealth use has skyrocketed since the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States – and analysts point to a " tsunami of growth " as virtual care, after years of frustrated promise, becomes the new normal. The challenge now, says Dr. Joe Kvedar, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, will be integrating in-person care back into these reshaped clinical workflows.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Fallon, chairman & CEO, eVideon “Innovate or die” has taken on a whole new meaning in the last month thanks to COVID-19. From building ventilators with car parts to hospitals repurposing video conferencing […]. The article The Patient Will See You Now: A Rebirth of Healthcare Post-COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned. There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

A recent report analyzing claims data identified virtual-care use cases estimates that could comprise roughly 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid and commercial spend across outpatient, office and home health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians. Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. The report , jointly issued by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the UCLA Health Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, notes that relying on telehealth during

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 4, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Donna Martin, senior vice president, Healthcare Business Development, HGS. Hospitals and health plans are competing ever more fiercely to gain and retain patient/member relationships. This means changing with the times to bring differentiators that […].

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S. revealed many weakness in the American health care system, one of which has been health inequities faced by millions of people — especially black Americans, who have sustained higher rates morbidity and mortality

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has given the OK for what it's calling a "sweeping set of adjustments" to 40 of the measures used for HEDIS scores, given the new realities of widespread and scaled-up telehealth use. WHY IT MATTERS. The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures, widely used in quality-improvement efforts, have been updated by NCQA as more health plans, clinicians and patients embrace telehealth services in a major way during the coronav

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 2, 2020

A recent sample of 50 worldwide COVID-19 apps published in Nature Medicine highlights found only 16 that promisted to anonymize, encrypt and secure the data they collect.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 2, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kathy Sucich, healthcare industry expert, Dimensional Insight According to a new survey fielded by Definitive Healthcare and sponsored by Dimensional Insight, 90% of hospitals and health systems use the analytics component of their electronic […].

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: still embattled with the coronavirus, the nation also continues to shed jobs with the

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2020

It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another. However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 1, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dave Stubenvoll, CEO, Wowza Media Services. The scale of the coronavirus pandemic is impacting every facet of daily life. As COVID-19 continues its global spread, authorities are restricting large gatherings of people and enforcing […]. The article Improving First Responder Calls and Patient Monitoring One Live Stream at a Time appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 3, 2020

Created in collaboration with the Swiss technology company, the Fine Guard face masks offer “five levels of protection against human coronavirus 229E,” and “holds promise in the fight against COVID 19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

A collaboration between clinic-management specialists Savience Limited and healthcare IT solution firm HSL Telehealth has created a new secure virtual clinic service. By integrating the virtual clinic module from Savience’s Clarity system with HSL’s shared conferencing and collaboration network, the service allows clinicians to organise a remote outpatient’s consultation by clicking on a screen icon.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2020

There’s nothing in healthcare people like more than change. Ok, that was a joke. No one likes change and healthcare is included. Although, ironically, the one constant in healthcare is change. Whether it’s changing government regulations, new technologies like an EMR or telehealth, or a pandemic which literally turns things upside down, change is just […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Susan Kohler, chief compliance officer, Greenway Health The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law in March, has provided a lifeline for many businesses — including healthcare organizations. Amid the grim […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

Roundtrip, the University of Pennsylvania, Lyft and Contra Costa Health services are joining forces to conduct the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

In January and February, telemedicine technology vendor Doxy.me hosted about 250,000 video sessions a month, according to founder Brandon Welch. By May, Welch said, the service was hosting a million sessions per day. The upswing of interest in telehealth and virtual care, combined with the federal focus on interoperability , has highlighted the importance across the industry of keeping patient data secure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2020

A new report tracking data breaches has found that as with other industries, the bulk of healthcare attacks were perpetrated by external actors. It also concluded that the number of attacks targeting healthcare organizations continues to grow. To compile this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which covers 16 different industries, researchers analyzed 3,950 data […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anne Dabrow Woods, critical care nurse practitioner, Chester County Hospital These are the days we never thought we’d see – unimagined times, pushing our nurses and healthcare workers to the brink with the demands […]. The article The Nursing Experience Divide and Technology: What Hospitals Need to Know appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

Also Sieren grabs $11.8 million for its diabetic-foot-detecting socks, and Ezra raises $18 million for its AI oncology platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2020

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 5, 2020

As I was researching to create our list of live video telehealth companies, it became clear to me that telehealth meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people and companies. The two largest areas of telehealth for healthcare delivery organizations was live video telehealth and chronic care management/remote patient monitoring (Our […].

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