Patient discharge delays pose threat to health outcomes, AHA warns
Healthcare Dive
DECEMBER 7, 2022
The hospital lobby is asking Congress to establish a temporary per diem Medicare payment to help ease healthcare capacity issues.
Data linkage project seeks to improve First Nations maternal and child health outcomes
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. THE LARGER TREND.
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Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Monash to tap Apollo Hospitals DB for clinical AI projects Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology has tied up with one of India's biggest hospital groups, Apollo Hospitals, to test and validate clinical AI. An initial $34 million ($22 million) was invested in ARIIA during its founding in 2021.
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Geospatial analysis is helping improve community health outcomes
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
By reducing barriers to healthy living and connecting people with primary care, one of WellAWARE's goals is to increase the use of primary care services to reduce emergency department visits and the hospitalizations of low-acuity patients.
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Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.
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How proactive, predictive, AI-powered patient oversight can boost health outcomes
Healthcare It News
JULY 26, 2023
Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend.
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St. Luke's finds success with its Hospital In Your Home program
Healthcare It News
MARCH 16, 2023
Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. Luke's Health System. The technology is designed for redundancy, reliability and ease of use.
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Southern DHB taps Inde Technology to co-design New Zealand's first digital hospital
Healthcare It News
MARCH 31, 2022
The Southern District Health Board has appointed IT specialist Inde Technology to the consortium designing the Dunedin Hospital, the first digital hospital in New Zealand. The 421-bed digital hospital in South Island's Dunedin City is the largest health infrastructure project in the country. THE LARGER TREND.
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How a Korean hospital has held its EMRAM Stage 7 validation for over a decade
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
In 2010, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital made digital health history by being the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve Stage 7 for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Special attention was drawn to this repository during the validation.
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Addressing 'techquity' at Children's National Hospital
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 1, 2024
based Children's National Hospital Telemedicine team identified a disparity in access to the internet and digital tools that disproportionately affects low-income and rural communities, causing a digital divide. With more than two decades of telemedicine experience and research, the Washington, D.C.-based
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Project to launch Vietnam's first AI virtual hospital announced
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 19, 2024
An Australian biotechnology company is building what could be the first AI-driven hospital in Vietnam. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The MedArmor AI Hospital will pursue a preventive healthcare model, emphasising early disease detection and timely interventions. It also offers a health screening tool powered by medical imaging AI.
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A Health Care Betrayal: The Ethical Crisis Surrounding Steward Health and the Demise of Community Hospitals
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
by Stephen Wood In an era where health care inequities already burden marginalized populations, the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care culminating in the closure of several hospitals in Massachusetts, represents an unconscionable ethical failure. Where was the political will to intervene and protect these critical institutions?
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Medicare Advantage seniors have better health outcomes, study finds
Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
New research from Harvard and Inovalon found MA beneficiaries had fewer hospital readmissions, fewer preventable hospitalizations and lower rates of high-risk medication use than those in traditional Medicare.
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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 25, 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. You contend CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home program needs scalability to survive. Please elaborate.
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Population Health Outcomes: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health and the Initiatives Being Implemented
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
This means there is a pretty good overlap of SDOH with population health. So today we are diving into this topic to see just how social determinants of health impact population health outcomes and what initiatives are being implemented to address these factors and reduce health disparities within communities.
In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 3, 2025
Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. You cite digital-first patient engagement as a major issue for hospitals and health systems in 2025.
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How Medicare Advantage Programs Can Address Social Risk and Improve Health Outcomes
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 23, 2024
When a new member joins, MA plans usually lack insights into beneficiaries claim history, morbidity risk, and health behaviors. Without that data, understanding social risk becomes difficult for identifying beneficiary needs, guiding interventions, and ultimately improving health outcomes.
Central Adelaide Local Health Network introduces digital 'pre-hab' for surgery patients
Healthcare It News
JULY 13, 2022
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery. The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care.
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HIMSSCast: Whole person care and data interoperability drivers
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare. Like what you hear?
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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 23, 2021
Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. They cleared the path for parity reimbursement during the public health emergency.
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How UVA Health's Medicine HOME program reduces hospitalizations and readmissions
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.
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5G will power the next evolutionary stage of healthcare in APAC
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? Remote patient monitoring and connected ambulances cannot be done with Wi-Fi."
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Emory Healthcare and DrFirst partner on medication adherence
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
WHY IT MATTERS Patients at Emory Healthcare could have less chance of adverse drug events and know what they will pay for prescriptions at the pharmacy before they leave the doctor's office or hospital with AI-driven insights. Cameron Deemer, CEO of DrFirst, said in the announcement.
Arizona agency's omnichannel approach to home health includes telehealth and RPM
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2024
As the population ages and life expectancy increases, delivering high-quality care that achieves optimal health outcomes, enhances patient experiences, and reduces costs is essential for the future of healthcare in the U.S. Such engagement translates into better health outcomes and reduced hospitalizations.
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Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. It asks questions about their health status and care progression and can also capture biometric readings from devices.
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Samsung Medical Center tops global health systems in HIMSS Digital Health Indicator
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 2, 2023
Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. The hospital scored 365/400 for the DHI. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.
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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.
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Apollo flexes connected care capability throughout India
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country.
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APAC still faces immense challenges to data, AI, predictive analytics adoption: report
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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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
"Transporting a resident to the hospital can be a very traumatic and stressful experience," said Powell. But even before the crisis, several skilled nursing facilities used virtual care technology to keep patients in place , reduce hospitalizations and improve care. Saved organizational resources. Improved access to care.
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De-identified trove of peer-to-peer ALS data added to MGH clinical trials database
Healthcare It News
MAY 19, 2023
A dataset dating back to 2005, containing contributions from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients will be added to the Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials, or PRO-ACT database at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Singapore's iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovation
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
WHY IT MATTERS Through its latest collaboration with Accenture and Google Cloud, iHiS ultimately seeks to drive innovation for improving patient experience, staff productivity, and population health outcomes. The agency is taking an "API-first" approach to facilitate data capture across healthcare systems.
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India's insurance scheme shifts to value-based care performance measure
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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Improving the health of healthcare: Charting the path to patient-centered communications
Healthcare It News
JUNE 4, 2024
Without central data unification, hospitals missed out on the force multiplier of consolidated analytics to inform communications between patients and care providers. Via self-service functionality, hospitals can allow patients to interact with their providers when and how they want across channels and modalities. Patient engagement 2.0:
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How virtual-first can improve outcomes and make care more affordable
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. Payvider in this context not to be confused with payvider meaning large health systems that handle both care delivery and claims processing, such as UPMC, Kaiser and Geisinger.)
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Intel, ConsenSys Health combine blockchain and AI for clinical trials management
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Matching patients to clinical trials they are eligible for has been a major challenge for everyone from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals. Finding the right matches based on certain health records and demographic eligibility is difficult and time-consuming. THE PROBLEM.
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MA enrollees have fewer hospitalizations, Harvard study finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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How Hospitals Can Use Their Historical Data To Their Advantage
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 9, 2023
Hospitals routinely collect vast amounts of data, including information about patients’ health, care delivery, and organizational performance. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ophir Ronen, CEO, CalmWave.
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Patient engagement tech evolving as consumerization transforms healthcare
Healthcare It News
APRIL 18, 2023
As digital health and telemedicine technologies continue to explode, patients increasingly are being drawn into their care in ways unlike ever before. And hospitals and health systems know they must find ways to engage their patients to keep them healthy and satisfied.
Emoji Laws in Health Care ????
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Public Health Awareness First, hospitals might try to reach patients through engaging ads that deploy emojis. Engaging content can improve top of mind awareness and increase the likelihood a patient will consider the hospital when they need care. Hospitals should also consider the AMA code of ethics when making ads.
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Home Monitoring Programs: Extending Care Beyond the Hospital
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Vinay Vaidya, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Phoenix Children’s Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have been firmly established in every health setting for more than a decade, yet they continue to be a source of frustration for most users.
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ONC launches SDOH interoperability pilot
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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HHS finalizes 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy
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.
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