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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Curing Healthcare’s “Tapeworm Effect” with Health IT
Editor's Note: Lucia Huang, RN, is a Marketing Specialist at CipherHealth, where she integrates her previous experiences on the front lines of patient care within the broader context of the business of healthcare. The joint venture just announced between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. is anticipated to bring profound transformation to the healthcare industry. By joining forces, these three giants hope to leverage their technological, sales, and investment expertise to
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Why AI’s Impact on Healthcare Will Be Far-Reaching Beyond Cost Savings
Editor’s Note: Amit Shukla is the Associate Vice President and Head of Healthcare Consulting at Infosys, a provider of technology, consulting and outsourcing services. According to a recent report, the market for artificial intelligence in healthcare was worth over $600 million in 2014. By 2021, this figure is expected to rise by 11 times to $6.6 billion. Healthcare is widely regarded as one of the premier industries destined for AI-led transformation. The reasoning is simple: AI is widely
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