As interoperability provisions from the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) enter their enforcement phase, pharmacy leaders within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative (PHIT), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and pharmacy system vendors met recently to discuss the state of pharmacy interoperability. The group detailed various challenges and needs associated with pharmacy interoperability, information
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Enhancing Workflow Automation for Healthcare Professionals
Like employers in most industries, healthcare organizations are battling to fill open positions amid the current tight labor market. And new reports show a growing wave of nursing shortages. This widespread scarcity of healthcare workers is forcing providers to cope by having practitioners handle tasks like data entry along with their normal patient care duties. That loss of time means organizations miss out on opportunities to generate more revenue with their top talent.
Fortunately,
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7 Burning Questions from Life Sciences Companies on Using AI Agents
Each day life science companies respond to numerous medical information inquires – many of which are similar in nature or can be simply addressed. However, as we have seen in the news reports with the Great Resignation and many workers searching for new careers, the number of individuals interested in working in a medical information contact center may be waning. When you combine this with the rising volume of inquiries or medical inquiries and patient expectations for a real-time response to
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Spatial Omics: The Next Wave in the Biological Research Revolution
For decades, biomedical researchers pursued a reductionist strategy, investigating DNA, RNA, proteins and other cellular players in isolation. These studies have been critically important, providing vital parts lists to guide further exploration. Now, however, biology has entered a new age, in which scientists must adopt more contextual approaches to understand the fundamental units of life – cells.
But to truly understand how cells operate, we must explore their relationships in time
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3-Step Ransomware Recovery Strategy for Healthcare Organizations
At some point, the chances are high that ransomware will pierce the defenses you have tried to put in place at your healthcare organization. When that occurs, your healthcare organization needs a ransomware recovery strategy, which enhances your typical backup and recovery processes. Below is a three-step program for ensuring that you can recover from an attack.
Step 1 - Frequent Backups
Ransomware, unlike any other disaster, can strike anywhere. No data center is safe. It can also hit at
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Virtual Primary Care Reimagined With A Virtual First Health Plan
The promise of primary care on improved health outcomes has been proven over time. At the core of this equation is a robust and longitudinal patient-provider relationship. These positive relationships often improve patient satisfaction, yielding higher engagement and utilization of primary care services. However, recent studies suggest people are not engaging with primary care.
In fact, internal Teladoc Health data has shown that 80% of members do not have a strong relationship with a
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3 Ways Real-Time ADT Notifications Will Benefit Payers’ Businesses
Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes. What’s needed in this partnership is the standardized, fluid, real-time exchange of data to help both parties become even more efficient and effective at providing members the proper care at the
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Turning Health Data Deluge Into Actionable Healthcare Analytics
At the time, the 2009 HITECH Act and the introduction of the Meaningful Use program represented a momentous step in healthcare’s digital transformation. With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.
Over the next 10 years, as EMRs grew into a broader and
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Hidden Vulnerabilities in Clinical Workflow Put PHI at Risk
If you’re a healthcare CIO or CISO, you already know that cybercriminals are targeting protected health information (PHI). A recent report shows that stolen PHI can sell for as much as $1,000 per record on the Dark Web. The value of patient records has driven a surge of attacks targeting healthcare organizations. 2020 saw a 25% increase in healthcare data breaches, with more than 29 million records exposed. It’s no longer a question of if you will face a breach, but when.
I’ve had hundreds of
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Revenue Cycle Management Can Help Advance The Cybersecurity Mandate
Holding steady in the No. 1 spot, the healthcare industry has held the top rank in IBM’s Cost of Data Breach report for the past 11 years. It’s a lead that seems secure. In just a year from 2020-2021, the average total cost for healthcare for an event increased 29.5%, and now sits at $9.23 million.
Even amidst that threat landscape, the percentage those in the healthcare space spend on cybersecurity hasn’t climbed out of the single digits. Only 6% or less of the IT budget is typically
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