What You Should Know:
- Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a leading provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions shares 4 predictions for the new realities of rural healthcare in 2022 and how IT solutions can help them rise to the challenges.
- Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system is in a precarious position as labor shortages and ever-increasing cyberattacks threaten hospitals’ recovery from COVID-19. However, there are
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Archives for 2021
Healthcare Labor Shortages and the Potential of the Digital Workforce
It remains to be seen when COVID-19 will finally be in the rearview mirror. Each day there are fresh headlines about new waves of infections popping up around the world. My physician said he expects vaccine boosters to become a permanent part of the annual flu shot regimen.
The healthcare industry has been under nonstop pressure since February 2020. What began as an explosion of patient demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection
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Blockchain Privacy Innovations Can Let Healthcare Focus On What Matters
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the major impact that data has on our lives, especially when it comes to healthcare. From track-and-trace systems to digital Covid vaccination passports, to patient data, to the medical supply chain, there has been a huge increase in data collected by governments and healthcare providers. This massive increase in healthcare-related data collection brings with it significant privacy concerns. Now, more than ever, data protection must be front and center in
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Using Real-World Evidence (RWE) & AI to Enable Better Clinical Care
During the prescribing process, a physician’s ability to accurately and reliably match the most appropriate therapy option with the patient at hand is limited by the amount and quality of clinical information that is available. While randomized clinical trials are considered the gold standard for establishing the safety and efficacy of prescription medications, and the clinical findings verified from the trial inform the label on the approved therapy, the overall utility of such trials is
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COVID-19: As Omicron Variant Spreads, Let’s Not Repeat Rookie Mistakes
No one should be surprised there’s another COVID variant on the loose, and yet seemingly, everyone is. The variant, named Omicron (the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet), was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) by South Africa on November 24th. Unlike its name would suggest, Omicron is the seventh COVID-19 variant of concern—but a pandemic-fatigued global public could be forgiven for thinking it’s the twentieth.
Governments across the developed world have pushed
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Femtech: 5 Important Women’s Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2022
The next year will be a critical one for women’s healthcare, according to Elizabeth Ruzzo, PhD and CEO and Founder of adyn. Ruzzo knows firsthand how important it is to choose the right birth control. After becoming severely depressed and having suicidal thoughts on the pill, she consulted with a doctor, only to experience medical gaslighting about her symptoms.
Below are five important predictions Ruzzo sees in women’s healthcare (femtech) in 2022.
1. Women’s reproductive rights
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Quidel Corporation Acquires Ortho Clinical Diagnostics for $6B
What You Should Know:
- Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEL) (“Quidel”) and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Holdings plc (NASDAQ: OCDX) (“Ortho”) jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which Quidel will acquire Ortho.
- The acquisition will create a global leader in diagnostics, bringing together two highly complementary portfolios with world-class technologies and platforms spanning high-throughput systems to near-patient and at-home testing.
Financial Terms of
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Understanding an Individual’s Uniquely Personal Health Beliefs & Behaviors to Drive Better Outcomes
When it comes to health and wellness, everyone has an approach as unique as they are. What’s more, is that an individual’s approach to their health can – and most likely will – evolve over the course of their lifetime.
A decade ago, people weren’t dabbling in CBD to ease their stress, having Zoom calls with their doctors or riding a cycle with thousands of other people from the comfort of their living room. People’s health behaviors, including diet, exercise, and wellness visits, continue to
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The Value of an Enterprise Active Data Archive Begins with Patient Safety
Patient safety is only possible with accurate and comprehensive medical records, and this includes those records available in the active archive. Despite the urgency, one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today is maintaining Longitudinal Records – one record per patient over time, across HIS systems, and among various facilities and treatments. That challenge is made even harder when old records are scattered and inaccessible.
Remember Paper Files?
Twenty years ago, seeing the
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Why Digital Pathology Platform Adoption Will Fail Without Interoperability
The global pandemic has cast a spotlight on the impact of digital transformation in healthcare. From ensuring access to care with telemedicine to accelerating vaccine development, technology has rapidly unlocked new sources of value for patients, providers, and researchers alike. While much of this has played out before our very eyes, other advancements have been less visible but equally as significant.
Consider the rise of digital pathology. Pathology sits at the core of disease diagnosis;
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