Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare. "All interventions and patient outcomes are thoroughly tracked and analyzed," he added.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Now, as the pressures of delivering care during the pandemic prompt one out of five healthcare workers to leave the profession – and with primary care physician retirement rates set to increase dramatically by 2026 – the future of care delivery, patient experience and health outcomes will increasingly depend on automated support.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

"[Technologies] such as remote patient monitoring and health apps have shown great promise in their ability to improve the lives of underserved populations by connecting them with solutions that address the social determinants of health," he said.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Proactive MD's mission is to offer high-quality, low-cost primary and preventive care directly to employers in onsite and near-site clinics. More than 200 hours saved processing and analyzing membership data each month. The new platform improved the overall patient experience, like check-in and checkout.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That’s why we call on the industry as a whole to shift their perspective of digital health ROI and to view it through a holistic lens that encompasses not only financial returns but also improvements in patient outcomes, operational efficiencies, and clinician well-being over longer timeframes.

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Twistle

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This expanded access to digital healthcare has the potential to improve the patient experience in five important ways. Healthcare provided in a virtual setting eliminates the need for a patient to leave their home and saves them significant time involved with traveling to a medical appointment and waiting to see a provider.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2025

Addressing Healthcare Disengagement Navigating the complex healthcare landscape can be overwhelming for many individuals, leading to disengagement and missed opportunities for preventative care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

What fuels that transformation is data and the insights the right data can generate. And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. Swiss Re, as a re-insurer, is in the business of managing risk.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2023

Now, ungoverned data comes with massive costs: The 2018 Black Book survey found that duplicate medical records could cost an average of $1950 per patient per inpatient stay and more than $800 per ED visit. As digital transformation accelerates, healthcare must take action against data mismanagement before it becomes too late.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them. consumers would be willing to share their health data were Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.

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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 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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Etactics

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act also known as HIPAA is a prime example. HIPAA requires healthcare providers to protect patient health data. Providers must use encrypted systems and follow strict security steps to prevent fraud and data breaches.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Wellsky announced the acquisition of TapCloud , a virtual, interoperable, and AI-driven patient engagement platform that allows patients to share symptoms and other health data with providers via virtual visit technology, secure messaging, and remote symptom screening protocols.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

Three factors could, together, foster self-care that’s safe, effective, and cost-impactful: Foster payment systems that support self-care through new channels like telehealth, preventive screenings at home, and lower-cost sites for care.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart. ” I added the bold emphasis here on the issue of personal health data.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Given the range of signals covered by the devices, the insights could uncover issues into heart health, sleep health, nutrition, and fitness… which would further evolve with new sensors and devices added into the Withings health data ecosystem.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

Whether for drug discovery, preventing hospital readmissions, making sound human resource decisions, or addressing population health challenges, Big Data are flowing into more cognitive systems to mine information and inform clinicians’ decisions at the point of care and researchers’ ongoing search for better treatments.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The preliminary vision for HATco has five core principles outlined, and I quote: “A true alignment of stakeholder interests” (think: incentives designed to bolster access, outcomes, and prevention). This includes their popular smart scales (the Body Pro) and blood-pressure monitor (the BPM Connect Pro).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Consider Elsevier’s five Future Clinician personae as you consider how clinicians in your sphere of work, influence, and community are faring in the “present:” these are, The Future Clinician… as a Partner for Health, working collaboratively with patients who are empowered members of their own care team as a Total Health Clinician, (..)

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Another issue is that it could be complicated to use FHIR extensions and profiles, which are necessary to deal with specialty health data, due to their need for deep domain knowledge. Furthermore, migration between FHIR versions can be complex as there is no backward compatibility for older versions up to v3.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There is some truth that patients can struggle if they must record their own vital data (temperature or blood pressure). And it is not fair to strictly rely on community-based nurses who may visit a recovering patient for a few minutes, possibly twice or three times a day.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.” Another relevant announcement this week came from Doordash, which has delivered over six million meals through its Project DASH during the pandemic — feeling families dealing with food insecurity.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

T talks about the promise of AI to enhance doctors’ ability to diagnose conditions “with patterns” and without patterns, along with detecting and supporting patients’ mental health.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Inspire your audience into action with unique and engaging campaigns that promote things like preventive care or address your most frequently asked questions. Healthcare businesses must reevaluate their doctor-access strategies and communication tools to improve patient experience, protect patient volume, and differentiate themselves.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. The digital health ecosystem is experiencing a transformation from one focused on user acquisition to one set on demonstrating performance through sustainable margins.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2024

. – With these devices, LifeMD is setting a new standard in virtual care by providing clinicians with near real-time and actionable patient data that can drive compliance, enhance clinical decision-making, encourage preventive healthcare, and, most importantly, improve long-term outcomes. ”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

. – This data reveals the direct impacts of inefficient data collection within the healthcare system on patients as doctors are spending too much time inputting duplicate data, and less time providing care. Glaring Obstacles in Patient Experience Improvement.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It makes it faster and easie r to provide more efficient care and helps customers support end-to-end security, compliance, and interoperability of health data. At Providence, our vision of health for a better world drives us to continuously innovate on behalf of our caregivers and patients.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

By leveraging these digital technologies and patients’ growing comfort with telehealth, health systems can achieve a significant competitive advantage. Here are the 5 key benefits of remote patient monitoring in driving greater engagement and a better patient experience. . Greater Patient Accountability.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That’s all well and good, and when designed for clinicians’ and patients’/consumers’ best interests, values, and work-flows, the outcomes can be efficient, effective, and aligned for all stakeholders. However, there remain several key barriers preventing the full use of digital health, the PHTI group identified.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 26, 2023

billion agreement designed to provide optimized productivity and expanded analytics capabilities that ultimately contribute to a high-quality and consistent patient experience. The average patient dropout rate in clinical trials is 30%, a stat that can impact the outcome and quality of a study.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

The strategic partnership will connect Georgia patients with community-based services, proactively screen patients for social needs, refer patients to social care providers, and maximize Unite Us’ coordinated care network, Unite Georgia.

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