Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Based on its initial investigation, the following information may have been accessed by hackers: name, address, birth date, email, telephone number, marital status, Aboriginal status, Medicare number, referring doctor, and type of diabetes.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

That starts, he explained, by "giving clinicians the necessary supplies and resources to provide care that helps them better manage stress levels, tackling clinician patient loads by incentivizing new professionals to join the industry, and providing easy-to-use technology at the point of care that surfaces the right patient data and insights."

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This and other insights about the patient journey are published in Inside the patient journey , a report from Deloitte that assesses three key touch points for consumer health engagement. These three patient journey milestones are searching for care, using new channels of care, and tracking and sharing health data, Deloitte maps.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Instead, we should take a step back and think about how we can better support doctors in delivering high-quality care. For example, these tools can help patients navigate to the right care, engage more effectively in their interactions with clinicians, and better manage their health, lifestyle, and treatments.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The pandemic accelerated the need for these solutions, driven by many older individuals’ preference to age gracefully at home rather than moving to assisted living facilities or nursing homes. As use of digital health technologies grows, ensuring patient privacy and data security becomes crucial.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

"Congress should urge OCR to withdraw the rule immediately," AHA said in its response to a request for information on data privacy and HIPAA. Many health systems are involved in class action lawsuits over alleged breaches of PHI. In August, Advocate Aurora Health agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $12.2

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health. As for improving health outcomes, reducing time spent with doctors, and lowering cost of care? Three-fourths of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditional treatments primarily focus on managing symptoms through medication and physical therapy, which often requires regular doctor visits and constant adjustments. This comprehensive data collection enables healthcare providers to identify subtle changes and trends in symptoms that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

In today's interview, we talk with Kwiatkowski, who holds a pharmacy doctorate, about some of the AI tools being used at the health system. He describes how he measures the success of AI-enabled initiatives, and how AI can help advance health equity. How can AI help advance health equity?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Rather than relying on gut instincts and trial-and-error processes, experts can gather robust data and make more informed conclusions. Such data-driven decisions are capable of reducing costs , improving daily experiences , and saving lives.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The latest report from Philips Future Health Index series attests to that, and to clinicians’ general recognition that telehealth has been crucial in the early phase of the crisis. Collaboration is a top priority for doctors. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, this week Google made news about how it will absorb the DeepMind AI business into the larger Google Health unit. Some analysts and privacy lawyers question how Google will handle patients’ (assumed private) health data, a volatile question for the UK’s National Health Service as I draft this post.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2022

However, it exacerbated a growing problem as more nurses opted to retire or leave the profession. As a result, many hospitals and physicians’ offices struggle to hire and retain nurses. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has raised the alarm about the ongoing nursing shortage.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2025

Close up of doctor using digital tablet with touch screen at physical recovery clinic. From artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to telemedicine and wearable devices, healthcare technology is revolutionizing the medical field, providing new tools for doctors, nurses, and patients alike.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, more than half expect to lose money due to the spike in costs including paying travel nurses during pandemic surges, increasing turnover rates, and rising labor costs. Advertise your number of qualified physicians and nurses and show healthcare consumers you’re ready to handle their care quickly and efficiently.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 7, 2022

At the heart of this transformation are frontline healthcare workersthe doctors, nurses, and care team members that work to help keep us safe and healthy. It's clear that the current crisis calls for health industry leaders to increase their focus on employee wellbeing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The EMR is that too, but now that patients interact with all sorts of tools that collect health data — not just doctors and nurses — what else ought to go into an EMR to create the most holistic, accurate, personalized medical snapshot? Historically, the EMR captured acute patient episodes with one provider.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

Many of these involved ransomware attacks that put patients’ personal health data at risk, and jeopardized the ability of practices to access systems and provide care. Requiring a doctor to click through multiple screens on a tablet takes their focus away from patients in the same way that paperwork does.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture found that 90% of consumers are willing to share health data from wearable devices with physicians and nurses, and 75% with their family.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

” They’re doctors, dietitians, environmental scientists and health specialists…people who apply the science to their work. As personalized medicine gets ever more personal, this will be so important to engage people in their health in the 2020s and beyond. Who are these “practitioners?”

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

The table from Deloitte’s report details workflows for nurses with the opportunity for automation – and time saving. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter. The report calls out the link between staffing shortages, workforce burnout, and lack of trust in leadership.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – New data from Carta Healthcare shows 83% of patients have had to provide the same health information or duplicate health information at a doctor’s office. This also can be supported with anonymized, integrated and aggregated clinical data from an unlimited number of cases.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The main goal for the HIPAA Privacy Rule (December 20, 2000) is to protect health information without infringing upon providing quality healthcare. Doctors and nurses must be able to care for their patient’s after all. Template builds on efforts by states, health systems, and individual organizations and individuals.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Stey’s Viewpoint recognizes that the drive real change in healthcare that impacts peoples’ health, it’s critically important to connect healthcare providers to the new-new innovations. Consumers-patients highly trust their doctors, their nurses, their pharmacists, above all professions in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical partner to launch vrClinicals for Nursing.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

– More Human Connection: Vital interprets signals in the EHR and communicates with patients and their family the way doctors and nurses would – if they had the time. – Secure Sharing in and Beyond the ED: Patients can securely give family members or caregivers progress updates without revealing any health data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

That leads to over one-half of health care leaders sensing a growing likelihood of staff leaving their jobs due to healthcare professionals burning out. The chart illustrates health care leaders’ perspectives on automation for bolstering staff productivity and wellness at work.

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CHQ Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Likewise, HCA Healthcare created a dashboard with color-coded warning levels that alert staff to potential surges, and Tenet Healthcare is monitoring public health data to better anticipate their patient census as COVID-19 cases rise and fall. Watch for signs of burnout and monitor provider health. Updated 12/14/21.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 7, 2022

At the heart of this transformation are frontline healthcare workersthe doctors, nurses, and care team members that work to help keep us safe and healthy. It's clear that the current crisis calls for health industry leaders to increase their focus on employee wellbeing.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If finalized, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes will require payers to participate in electronic payer-to-payer data exchange and implement automated prior authorization processes. Particularly in the era following the landmark U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2023

This allows added functionality via electronic health records (EHR) and integrations with existing systems such as nurse call, environmental controls, and meal ordering to drive patient satisfaction and operational efficiency. By leveraging a secure and advanced digital platform, patients can become more involved with their care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By better connecting entire healthcare teams, leveraging population health data, and delivering clear, actionable information to patients about their treatment plans, we’ll see better adherence and a reduced burden on entire healthcare systems. In so doing, the U.S. healthcare system (as a whole) can do more with less.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2024

In 2024 we have content creators who are doctors. Patients obviously want their data to remain private, but they also want to have a say in who they share it with. I also know that if a nurse showed up at my desk and told me I need to successfully put an IV in someone’s arm, I’m just going to skip to the computer-based training.

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