October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mammography screenings help detect cancer early when it is most treatable. It is recommended women aged 40 and older have mammograms every one to two years. Yet, there’s a disparity in how women use mammography in various neighborhoods throughout the country. Here is a look at 15 U.S cities out of the Top 500 where disparity among the city's neighborhoods in mammography use is the lowest (0.29) and the highest (3.27) created by healthcare
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Survey: How Healthcare Deploys Software as a Service (SaaS) Apps
The global healthcare cloud computing market was recently valued at approximately $18 billion and is expected to generate around $61 billion USD by 2025, at a CAGR of around 18.7% between 2019 and 2025. Key factors driving this growth are the adoption of IoT, wearable devices, and big data analytics.Software as a Service (SaaS) is a service model in cloud computing whereby the vendor provides a complete package of software applications over the Internet to their customers, who subscribe for this
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Blockchain Technology: A Hopeful Secure Solution for Healthcare?
An electronic health record, or EHR, contains the patient’s name, date of birth, and social security number. It also contains the names of the patient’s employers, dependents, and more. Considering the increasing number of healthcare data breaches, blockchain technology that enables patient-mediated health data exchange provides a potential security solution opportunity.Infographic created by Duquesne University School of Nursing illustrates the promising potential of utilizing blockchain
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Infographic: Connecting the Dots in the Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT)
Healthcare will benefit massively from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which could help to optimize care, give patients more tailored treatment, and reduce readmission rates, but there are significant barriers to its adoption that have yet to be resolved. This infographic created by PodM2M sets out how to illustrate how IoT connectivity could benefit the healthcare sector and explores the issues that stand in the way of full adoption.
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Infographic: Using Social Determinants of Health Data to Generate Value
Up until somewhat recently, socioeconomic data wasn’t part of the conversation on how best to improve health outcomes. Where people live, learn, work and play – commonly known as social determinants of health (SDOH), are today, considered essential factors for gaining a more complete picture of members – revealing how members’ daily lives impact their mental and physical health.Take Larry and Bill for example, on the surface they appear equal, they are the same age, live in a similar area, both
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Patient of the Future: 8 Digital Health Transformation Trends to Watch
Infographic created by Site Santé Médecine illustrates eight digital health transformation trends to watch
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Infographic: 10 Things You Should Know About BYOD in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations around the U.S. continue to wrestle with whether staff are allowed to use their personal mobile devices for work. Spok, a provider of clinical communications solutions recently surveyed more than 350 healthcare leaders to understand more about ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) policies and assess the current trends.The survey finds participation in BYOD policies continues to vary by role, correlating to staff needs and preferences. For example, a majority of physicians
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Infographic: The Rise of Medical Data Sharing & Privacy Concerns
With the push for achieving health IT interoperability, healthcare organizations are increasing sharing more medical data; however, privacy concerns still exists. The following infographic created by Privacy Analytics, a providers of risk-based de-identification & anonymization solutions compliant with HIPAA and other global regulations illustrates the current trends and concerns associated with sharing medical data for secondary uses.
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Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap
Adverse drug events (ADEs) cost up to $5.6 million each year per hospital, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The same agency estimates that anywhere from 28 percent to 95 percent of ADEs can be prevented by reducing medication errors through computerized monitoring systems.With inpatient medication errors costing hospitals $16.4 billion each year, hospital leaders have turned their attention to identifying proven technologies and processes to help reduce the risk of
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Infographic: Patient Data In The Age of Technology
Effective data management provides a practical way to improve the performance of healthcare systems. Professionals in the healthcare sector can identify and correct problem areas in various ways. They need to collect, conduct a thorough analysis, interpret and respond to specific performance measures.The following infographic created by Duquesne University’s Online Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program illustrates how patient data is collected in the new of technology
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