Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The draft , which ASTP released in March for public comment, followed a comprehensive and collaborative effort with more than 25 federal agencies central to the advancement of health IT, HHS said. Then in July – after the Change Healthcare and Ascension cyberattacks – U.S. Warner, D-Virginia.,

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

"Wi-Fi is still a local network – it is only [usable] within the hospital itself regardless of how fast [the speed]. " Do digitally native hospitals have an edge over traditional hospitals when adopting 5G? "We [the government] need to set up regulation infrastructures [for 5G adoption].

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nearly nine in 10 respondents trust the use of predictive analytics in clinical settings, acknowledging its positive impact on patient and staff experiences and health outcomes. In addition, the report also noted that close to a quarter of respondents are set to extend care delivery beyond the hospital. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The National Health Authority of India will now incentivise hospitals for providing valuable service through a new initiative. According to a press release, AB PM-JAY-linked hospitals will be paid and rewarded based on five performance indicators: Beneficiary satisfaction. Hospital readmission rate. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes," according to Argentieri, Meklir and Henry.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – how is the integration of digital health tools, telemedicine, and mobile health applications contributing to the enhancement of population health management, and what challenges exist in ensuring equitable access to these technologies across diverse communities?

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

How has Google evaluated Med-PaLM 2 for this risk and what steps has Google taken to mitigate inadvertent privacy leaks of sensitive health information? What documentation did Google provide hospitals, such as Mayo Clinic, about Med-PaLM 2? How many hospitals is Med-PaLM 2 currently being used at?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

On Monday, OBHPN announced a new partnership with Alera to build a clinically integrated network to expand access to care, improve health outcomes and lower costs, according to an announcement from the population health management company.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government. At Bamboo Health, were committed to transforming physical and behavioral health through innovative technology solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. It will also monitor health outcomes, providing data to support future clinical trials and the development of new medical technology. THE LARGER CONTEXT. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

health care system today: namely, Managing patient violence Inadequate patient handoffs– but in this case, related to patient transport #5 and #9 in the list 10 years later identify care coordination challenges, which continue to mar health care quality in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Despite significant obstacles, including data security, data governance, and the high costs of scaling AI in a compliant way, healthcare’s adoption of AI is outpacing other industries. This includes setting robust data governance policies to meet privacy regulations set forth by HIPAA and GDPR. She is based in Silicon Valley.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. Virtual-first primary care has been shown to improve health outcomes by increasing access, he reported.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A new survey report in India has gauged the stances of healthcare leaders on their use of technology in an effort to yield operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery, and improve health outcomes. Hospitals and health facilities are easy targets for hackers as they have been under immense strain due to the global pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

Capacity Planning: AI tools help hospitals predict admission surges, ensuring adequate staffing and resources during peak demand periods. These improvements span internal and customer-facing operations at payers, care delivery organizations, and government entities such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and public hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2025

A recent report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted telehealth as an option for addressing limited provider accessibility in rural areas. The report noted that rural residents tend to have more significant healthcare needs than their urban counterparts due to their increased age and worse health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. Hospital telehealth solutions for the ICU and telehealth solutions to connect caregivers and patients at home. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Population health and precision medicine defined. When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

Healthcare costs are rising and it is not tenable in the long-run to keep building hospitals. One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how AI-driven predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms are being employed to streamline hospital operations, optimize resource allocations, and improve overall healthcare system efficiency. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

hospitals – and explored opportunities and barriers to growth. We interviewed Wolf to better understand his views on the state of telemedicine and regulation, and to discuss his belief that when payers and providers are incentivized to promote health outcomes for patients, leveraging technology to expand access can make economic sense.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 18, 2022

What You Should Know: – The 32BJ Health Fund, a self-insured fund that provides care for 32BJ SEIU members and their dependents, today released a report that lays bare the stark price disparities between Medicare and private hospitals, and outlines solutions to both reins in prices and holds hospital systems accountable for these practices.

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Verisys

MARCH 6, 2025

All parties must adhere to both federal and state laws, including those set by governing bodies, and follow ethical standards that safeguard the well-being of patients. The primary governing bodies that set healthcare compliance standards include: The U.S.

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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.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For individuals with chronic illnesses exacerbated by extreme temperatures, these reductions in temperature are crucial for improving health outcomes. The findings show that, as a result, respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes improve among those living in weatherized homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology companies facilitating this push into AI-powered health services know that strengthening their footholds in the health sector could mean a significant windfall. To its credit, the healthcare industry has digitized at a remarkable rate: 96% of hospitals in the United States use electronic health records (EHR).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"The ability to utilize telehealth during the pandemic improved access to specialized health care, whether for COVID-19-related concerns or routine medical needs that posed greater threats when hospitals and health care facilities began treating COVID-19 patients," it continued. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2024

That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. It encompasses Erie County Medical Center, one of only five public hospitals in New York State and the region's only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center. "50% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Concerns related to security risks and the IT organization’s ability to respond to them are significant, particularly in hospitals. That said, wearables contain and transmit significant amounts of protected valuable health information. To address this, network visibility into all IT activity, including IoT is crucial.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

" The example of telehealth highlights the importance of advocacy at multiple levels of government to simplify the complex regulations that make it such a challenge to use the technologies that are prevalent in so many other fields of business, he insisted. Moving to connected health and telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – symplr , a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. out of the Great Recession.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 17, 2023

Create governance groups and conduct regular meetings to steer efforts and ensure program advancement. About LifeBridge Health LifeBridge Health is one of the largest, most comprehensive providers of health services in Maryland. Ensure data was primary-source validated as a NCQA Data Aggregator Validation Partner.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable positive outcomes (such as lower readmission rates) and reduced spending.

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