Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Most likely, in one of the few lucid moments you have in your hectic, even chaotic schedule you contemplate healthcare’s greatest problems, its most pressing questions in need of solving, obstacles and the most important hurdles that must be overcome. And how solving these problems might alleviate many of your woes.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. At the bottom of the list for honesty and ethics in 2018, Gallup points to U.S. Congressional representatives, “Mad Men” and Women of advertising, telemarketers, and folks who sell autos. Congress-folk and car salespeople have ranked at the low-trust bottom for many years in this Gallup poll.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

I would like to apologize to the readers of this site for the long hiatus. I have been spending time as cardiologist, consultant, and caregiver for a seriously ill family member. My goal is to continue writing as it is something I truly love to do. I hope and believe that all of the above roles I engage in add to the quality of this blog. A good definition of blockchain is: “A blockchain , [1] [2] [3] originally block chain , [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called block

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Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in

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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

The HeartGuide watch uses a flexible synthetic band to inflate and maintain its shape to comfortably take an oscillometric wrist blood pressure on the fly.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Relatient is passionate about assisting healthcare organizations with patient-centered engagement. Elevator pitch By helping organizations automate patient-centered outreach and messaging, Relatient helps practices, hospitals and health systems facilitate more compliant, and ultimately healthier, patient populations.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 14, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rahul Patel, EVP of digital products and services, Persistent Systems. There is a growing interest among healthcare organizations to leverage actionable analytics solutions to derive valuable insights from data. Advanced, AI-driven predictive modeling is working to build healthier populations that meet the demands of value-based care, and new digital experiences are reaching providers and […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Pauline Farris, who speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian. She is a voting member of the American Translators Association and an active participant of the Leadership Council of its Portuguese Language Division. Technological advancements always happen so our lives can become a lot easier.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robert Barras, vice president of health solutions, CTG Inc. There’s nothing like a good bandwagon to get everyone excited. Whether it’s the success of your favorite sports team, or a hot new restaurant in town, or a movie that’s breaking box office records, once something gets hot it seems everyone wants a piece of […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sudhir Singh, Coding Institute. Payers don’t accept deleted CPT codes, so your claims can’t succeed if your medical procedure codes are out of date. But do you know how often you need to update your CPT code set? It may be more often than you think. Here are some pointers to keep in mind to give your claims […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Marcus Chung, CEO, BoldCloud. Every person, from the newest employee to the CEO, can either strengthen or weaken an organization’s security posture. For this reason, healthcare companies need to help their employees take precautions against the latest ransomware scams, otherwise their organization may be the next ransomware victim.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Karim Babay, CEO, HealthSapiens. Healthcare is a major expense worldwide and is estimated to account for $3 trillion in spending in the United States, and $6 trillion globally. Combined healthcare spending in the five major world regions is expected to reach 8.7 trillion by 2020, up from $7 trillion in 2015.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. While telehealth has been around for years, virtual care technology is emerging as a powerful tool that goes beyond the traditional telehealth model. What will it take to reach the tipping point of virtual care adoption? To become the “next generation” of telehealth, virtual care will need to improve access, […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sean Otto, vice president of business development, Cyient. The approval of electrocardiogram’s (EKG) through the FDA that enables atrial fibrillation detection right from a patient’s watch band is just one example of how the digitization of medical devices, a part of the Internet of Things movement, is leading product development and innovation in medicine.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Joel Syder, business analyst, Academic Brits. There are many uses of information technology in healthcare. In the previous years, these implementations have developed more than anyone could anticipate. They boost efficiency, improve the quality of care and security and control costs.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tim Mullahy, executive vice president, Liberty Center One. Remote monitoring. Smart sensors. Better communication and overall patient care. The internet of things has some incredible applications for the health industry — assuming we can overcome the security challenges it brings with it.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

American consumers are now viewing their phones an average of 52 times daily, with 39 percent of consumers believing they use their smartphones too much. In fact, 60 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds admit to smartphone overuse, the highest level of any age group. However, 63 percent of the respondents reported trying to limit their smartphone usage, roughly half succeeding in cutting back.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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

Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Marie Fincher, content director, TrustMyPaper. It began in the 1980s with those wonderful word processors. Electric typewriters bit the dust, and health records could be entered and saved on floppy discs. This was only the beginning. We’ve come along way, baby. As technology came to disrupt every sector of the economy, healthcare was no […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Elevator pitch Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Somatix derives physical and emotional symptoms from simple hand gestures, utilizing sensors built into a range of wearables to remotely detect, […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Zingbox, provider of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform, announced new research demonstrating that hackers are leveraging error messages from connected medical devices — including radiology, X-ray and other imaging systems — to gain valuable insights. These insights are then used to refine the attacks, increasing the chance of successful hack.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Leslie Sanchez, clinical educator, Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Active shooter training was initially seen as cumbersome and just “more training” to complete in our emergency department. However, after staff received the active shooter education which included statistics, active shooter profiles, videos of active shooters in action, and recorded interviews with victims and […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Claire Whittaker, CEO, Artificially Intelligent Claire. In today’s world, we have access to more data than ever before. Analysis of big data is allowing us to solve ever more complicated problems at scale in a way that was not previously possible. It’s a revolution. Now it’s time to use the revolution of artificial intelligence in medicine. […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. If you ask doctors, you’ll hear that electronic health records (EHR) have been both the best thing and worst thing to happen to medicine in the past 40 years. Having real-time information at your fingertips is an incredible advancement, but it’s only helpful if you can see what you need to diagnose and treat your […].

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

While overall adoption of meditation and yoga in the U.S. substantially grew between 2012 and 2017, many more women than men use these holistic medicine approaches. In 2017, 14.3% of American adults 18 and over did yoga, 14.2% meditated, and 10.3% saw a chiropractor. Use of meditation grew over 300% over the five years, and use of yoga by 50%. Using a chiropractor marginally rose by 10%.

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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.