We’ve all experienced crises in our lives. They may be personal in nature (e.g., involving our interpersonal relationships), organizational (e.g., relating to our employment or retirement income), or nature-made (e.g., floods, tornados, or the COVID-19 pandemic). When crises hit our communities, the impacts can be widespread and far-reaching. Healthcare providers and community-based organizations (CBOs) are called upon to provide more rapid and extensive care and support to the community than is
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Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 4,347% Nationally from March 2019 to March 2020
What You Should Know: - Telehealth claim lines increased 4,347 percent nationally from 0.17 percent of medical claim lines in March 2019 to 7.52 percent in March 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. - The data represent the privately insured population, excluding Medicare and Medicaid. In an indication that the growth was related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase was even greater in the Northeast, where the pandemic hit
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4 Hospitals Leveraging Social Media to Improve Patient Engagement
Social media is an essential online marketing and outreach tool for any organization that wants to connect to the largest audience possible. However, health organizations — like hospitals — can face unique challenges in managing social media, which can make effectively leveraging these tools less straightforward. Many large hospitals have been successful in making social media work for them. As a result, they've provided a template that other healthcare
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Survey: How Healthcare Deploys Software as a Service (SaaS) Apps
The global healthcare cloud computing market was recently valued at approximately $18 billion and is expected to generate around $61 billion USD by 2025, at a CAGR of around 18.7% between 2019 and 2025. Key factors driving this growth are the adoption of IoT, wearable devices, and big data analytics.Software as a Service (SaaS) is a service model in cloud computing whereby the vendor provides a complete package of software applications over the Internet to their customers, who subscribe for this
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Infographic: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Improving Healthcare
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Accenture. AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform administrative and clinical healthcare functions. Unlike legacy technologies that are only algorithms/ tools that complement a human, health AI
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Study: Millennials Have A High-Degree of Trust When It Comes to Attitudes About Healthcare
Millennials have a high-degree of trust when it comes to attitudes about health care, while Gen Xers are the most skeptical, according to national survey released by Vitals. Separated by decades, generations are often defined by researchers in their own unique terms. Now, a Vitals Index study that surveyed Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials found that the generational divides carry over into attitudes about the doctor-patient relationship and the health care system as a whole.Millennials
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Infographic: Healthcare IT’s Transformation Journey
The need to reduce costs while caring for an aging population has led to sweeping changes in everything from how patients choose insurers to how doctors are reimbursed and medical records are stored and shared. As a result, the pressures on today’s healthcare CIOs and the data centers they manage are building. Mergers and acquisitions are packing more technology into tighter spaces, growing computational demands are creating crowded equipment racks, and staggering power and cooling requirements
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Infographic: The Rise of HIPAA Violations
Infographic created by TrueVault illustrates the rise of HIPAA violations providing a picture of the regulatory landscape along with the type of complaints, breaches and fines that occur due to HIPAA violations.
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Top 10 Most Popular Articles in July 2013
Each month we compile a list of the 10 most popular articles we published that month, based on the number of page views.
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Meaningful Use The Stats [Infographic Wednesdays]
Greenway Medical infographic provides a visual overview of Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program payments, registration, and attestations.
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