Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI).
Payer Perspective on COVID-19
The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health. During an
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Thin-Film Electrodes Show Potential for Transforming Neurosurgery
Developers and manufacturers of medical devices are expressing interest in a new technology about to hit the neurosurgery market, thin-film polyimide electrodes. They are designed to:
- Reduce patient complications during procedures;
- Provide better signal clarity in recording brain activity; and
- Potentially lower the cost of care by decreasing the invasiveness of the electrode placement and reducing the risk of infection.
The FDA has provided clearance for these new thin-film
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Amidst the Pandemic, IT Teams Turn to the Cloud to Protect Patient Data
The challenges facing healthcare during COVID-19 are more than biological. Healthcare providers are weathering a perfect storm as hackers take advantage of the commotion and ramp up their attack frequency and sophistication.
This isn’t surprising for those familiar with the hacker playbook, as cybercriminals typically go after victims that are the right combination of vulnerable and profitable. And right now, the valuable troves of personal health data held by providers, focused on battling
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How Parkland Leverages Machine Learning, Geospatial Analytics to Reduce COVID-19 Exposure in Dallas
What You Should Know:
- How Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation developed a machine learning-driven predictive model called the COVID-19 Proximity Index for Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
- This program helps frontline workers to quickly identify which identify patients at the highest risk of exposure to COVID-19 by using geospatial analytics.
- In addition, the program helps triage patients while
improving the health and safety of hospital workers as well as the friends
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How Do We Realize Connected and Collaborative Healthcare?
For a long time, healthcare in the United States was functioning in a well-defined manner. There were some cracks, some patchwork, but we made it work.
And then COVID-19 struck.
As the pandemic swept across the U.S., the way providers care for patients evolved in a matter of days. It evolved for the people staying at home as well as patients and providers began connecting with each other virtually.
Observation: There’s still plenty of room for innovation in healthcare,
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Why Remote Medical Solutions Are More Than Just A Pandemic Response
The health industry has increasingly emphasized convenience these past few decades, with methods developed to seamlessly integrate health management into our daily routines. Gone are the days in which people needed an entire day off just to see the doctor. This same focus has taken on extra meaning as of late, with the pandemic creating a need for treatment options that work around the constraints of social distancing. As a result, a host of digital-based solutions began appearing, providing
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Raising the Bar for COVID-19 Data Integrity and Disease Surveillance
Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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How Data Silos Are Ruining the Modern Healthcare Industry
With new administrative requirements and an increasingly competitive market, the job of a healthcare professional is no longer just about providing care to patients. In fact, healthcare professionals now spend an average of 10 hours per week on paperwork and administrative tasks, according to a 2018 survey from Medscape. This can be frustrating, and it’s only compounded when healthcare workers have to enter the same exact information over and over again—a tedious reality for many healthcare
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