Editor's Note: Juan Pablo Segura is the Co-Founder of Babyscripts, a virtual care platform created for obstetrics that allows OBGYNs to deliver better prenatal care.In a system that is straining under the pressure of an increasingly sick and aging population, the benefits of digital healthcare are indisputable. Technology has played a crucial role in the industry’s continued transition to value-based care, driving costs down while increasing access to personalized care.[1] But despite the rapid
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Using Telephonic Nurse Advice to Reduce Avoidable ED Visits
Editor's Note: Virginia Gurley, MD, is chief medical officer at AxisPoint Health. Anne VanBronkhorst is senior vice president and general manager of AxisPoint Health’s GuidePoint solution Delivering care in the right setting at the right time is a well-accepted tenet of value-based, population health management. Directing patients or members to the most clinically appropriate level of care promises not only to reduce costs but also to improve the member experience. Take, for instance, the
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6 Ways Online Medical Courses Are Impacting the Healthcare System
Editor’s Note: Boris Dzhingarov is the founder of Blogforweb.com and MonetaryLibrary.com where he writes for several sites online such as Semrush, Tweakyourbiz and Socialnomics.net.The medical field is changing, from the way people seek emergency medical care to how they find a primary care physician. These changes have had some positive effects on the healthcare system, but one of the most startling is how online education for the medical and healthcare field has caused an influx of qualified
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Why Artificial Intelligence Could Fail Healthcare Providers in 2018
Editor's Note: Paul Clark, Director of Healthcare Research at Digital Reasoning, an AI-enabled solutions that reduce risk, drive opportunity, and save lives. Previously, Paul served as Vice President of Research & Education at The Health Management Academy leading the research agenda and educational development for C-Suite executives of America’s leading health systems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to transform care delivery by automating, augmenting and amplifying
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Healthcare CRM: From Marketing to a Foundation for Value-based Care
Editor's Note: Rupen Patel is the CEO of Influence Health. In addition to overseeing the organization’s strategy and operations, he has played an integral role in shaping the vision and technology agenda for Influence Health's consumer experience platform. For many healthcare organizations, the decision to employ a customer relationship management (CRM) solution is typically driven by the marketing department. Marketers need data-driven tools that enable them to better segment and identify
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6 Ways Healthcare Organizations Could Improve Communication in 2018
Editor's Note: Boris Dzhingarov is the founder of Blogforweb.com and MonetaryLibrary.com where he writes for several sites online such as Semrush, Tweakyourbiz and Socialnomics.net.Effective communication is critical to healthcare organizations all over the world. In today's society, there is more need than ever for improved communication within healthcare organizations to improve efficiency and quality of services. Here are six potential strategies that could help improve communication in the
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Patient Misidentification: The Case Against The National Patient Identifier
Editor's Note: Anita Samarth is the CEO and co-founder of Clinovations Government + Health, a consulting firm offering strategic, clinical, and health IT advisory and management services to the government and stakeholders in the public sector, provider, interoperability, and technology domains. Anita brings extensive on-the-ground experience in implementation of EHR, HIE, PACS, and data analytics technologies in the health system, hospital, and ambulatory practice settings at over 100
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Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data
Editor's Note: Saurabh Harit is a managing security consultant at Spirent Communications’ SecurityLabs unit where he is responsible for delivering penetration testing services to Spirent clients across the globe. Hospital-acquired infections and data breaches may have vastly different causes, but they have one thing in common—they put healthcare organizations and patients at risk. The “pathogens” which cause data breaches originate both externally and internally—but practicing healthcare cyber
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DevSecOps in Healthcare: Solving the Security Issue in Digital Transformation
Editor's Note: Jason McDonald is the President, U.S. of Contino, a global transformational technical consultancy which specializes in DevOps and cloud computing,According to Forrester data, the healthcare industry is estimated to spend up to $66 billion in technology budgets in 2017. In fact, healthcare systems are expected to see the most growth in business technology application spending as the remit for software in the industry expands. While the prospect of increased investment in health IT
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Research: 6 Success Factors for Digital-Enabled Health Coaching
Editor's Note: Ralf-Gordon Jahns. Ralf is the director of research2guidance, a specialized market research and consultancy company based in Berlin. Prior to research2guidance he was a partner and member of the leadership team of Capgemini Telecom Media & Networks. Majority of mHealth app solutions are still operating outside the traditional healthcare market. App supported coaching services are more and more seen as the missing bridge between digital health startups and healthcare
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