Healthcare IT professionals have long faced data challenges - from sorting out storage issues during the Big Data age to complying with HL7 standards to adapting infrastructure amidst a rapid shift to telehealth. While these advancements have all improved information sharing across the industry and ultimately the patient experience, it’s also created mountains of data. In fact, RBC Capital reports that the healthcare industry generates 30% of the world’s data with that number expected to grow to
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Why Companies Need Healthcare Commercial Intelligence
Let’s face it - the healthcare industry has become increasingly difficult to navigate and breeds stiff competition. Faced with a global pandemic, an aging population and increased spending on healthcare, everyone from small startups to tech giants wants a slice of the market. However, each organization entering the healthcare market has unique problems that need solving to be successful.
Enter healthcare commercial intelligence. Healthcare commercial intelligence is a new
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Health Data Privacy Protection Requires Cultural Changes and A Holistic Approach
While practitioners tend to think about electronic health records (EHRs) as a modern convenience or necessity following centuries of hand-written and typed charts, the switch from pens and typewriters to computers also transformed scattered medical notes into data – personal information that forms a collectively valuable and powerful body. Data has become a critical asset for health care providers, arguably equivalent to currency, and in the digital age, failing to adequately protect patient
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Rethinking Patient Access: 4 Key Actions for Health Systems
As we learn to equilibrate with COVID-19, we are collectively learning how to modulate our acceptance of risk in order to re-emerge and engage with the world around us. It has at times over the course of the pandemic been a necessary choice, oftentimes in the name of risk, to forgo routine healthcare. Our avoidance of more routine prevention and health maintenance activities to minimize exposure and taxation of health systems has unfortunately increased other health risks, particularly risks
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Children’s COVID-19 Vaccine: A Key to Protecting Pediatric Asthma Patients
What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds?
With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “comorbidities” has entered our daily vernacular, mostly in reference to adults’ chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but with pediatric
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How IVAs are Helping Care Providers and Patients Deal with Delta Variant
Communicating clearly and effectively with patients is a hallmark of good patient care. However, as the Delta Variant defines the next phase of COVID, many healthcare organizations are experiencing a massive surge in patient communication volume. Not only do they need to communicate important updates about the virus, testing, appointments, and vaccinations; but they are also still dealing with a swell of inbound questions from patients needing answers to ongoing healthcare concerns they may have
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5 Steps for Providers When Selecting a Healthcare Technology Vendor
Healthcare providers typically rely on a multitude of vendors to help them deliver care to patients. Some partnerships flourish seamlessly, while others are burdensome and take more resources to maintain. Depending on time and interests, physicians themselves may or may not work directly with revenue cycle management vendors; however, healthcare administrators communicate with vendor representatives more frequently — weekly or even daily.
For administrators, a robust reporting dashboard can
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An Inside Look at Payer Compliance with CMS’ Patient Access API Rule
The healthcare industry is now closer than ever to its quest for true interoperable data exchange. July 1, 2021 was the enforcement date for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access final rule. The rule requires that all healthcare payer organizations participating in a CMS program allow members to download and share their data using API’s (Application Programming Interface). This
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Information Blocking Rule: 6 Key Takeaways Since Meaningful Use
Information exchange and data availability are now a cost of doing business but establishing a robust strategy for that exchange and compliance with the new regulation from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology takes careful planning. Healthcare organizations can achieve and maintain compliance by following these six takeaways:
1. Understand what constitutes “Electronic Health Information”
“Electronic Health Information,” ONC’s new term for the data
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Artificial Intelligence: Healthcare’s Most Powerful Weapon
The Advent of the ‘Digital CRISPR.’
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace has transformed how healthcare professionals and organizations conduct daily operations. It has also brought significant improvements in patient care and outcomes while moving the needle forward in the prevention and treatment of diseases.
In short, AI makes it possible to crawl through massive amounts of data in minutes to make more informed decisions and keep healthcare organizations consistently ahead of
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