Challenging the status quo is never easy. Neither is being the underdog. Startups face both of these challenges when trying to break into existing industries dominated by well-established players.
Differences in the size, speed, processes, and culture of a company make it challenging for all startups to compete, regardless of the industry. For newcomers or smaller startups in their respective industries, this competition may seem daunting and the road to funding difficult, but this
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Why We Need a Personalized Approach to COVID-19 Immunity Testing
To date, the battle against COVID-19 has been waged largely in the field of public health, using a series of binary, black-and-white thresholds to measure progress. The number of positive cases per 100,000 people, yes/no results on PCR tests, absence or presence of antibodies – these have set the benchmarks used to determine when we can open our schools and restaurants, remove our masks and resume something resembling our old routines.
While these numbers do tell us something about the
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Why Healthcare Orgs Need to Take a Practice-Centered Approach to IT
Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless clinicians who power our health systems and their patients. The Covid-19 crisis accelerated innovation and led to increased adoption of the cloud and telehealth technologies that helped organizations continue to provide care no matter where they or their patients were.
However, several shortfalls were just as apparent. The 2020 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey found that 70 percent of
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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings. In many hospitals, manual phone calls and fax machines are still some of the most relied upon methods for exchanging information.
Healthcare IT, meanwhile, has traditionally
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How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic
While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins lag well behind pre-outbreak levels—a gap even the CARES Act assistance couldn’t help bridge. To make matters worse, cash flow has been bogged down in bureaucracy, further highlighting the need for providers to ensure fiscal stability.
Yet this recent financial blow is only part of a
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Drug Diversion is Complicated: 5 Data-Related Challenges to Overcome
COVID-19 thoroughly dominated American life last year, contributing heavily to the kind of despair that drives drug overdose deaths, which soared last year as well.
This worrisome trend has intensified long-running concerns about how drugs like opioids find their way to abusers’ hands in the first place. One point of vulnerability stems from our healthcare systems, including employee diversion, a problem so big and complex only sophisticated computing can address it.
Over 81,000 drug
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Dynamic Care Demands Flexible Solutions: Filling Gaps in Acute Care
Healthcare professionals know that patient care never stands still from admission through discharge, but particularly when it comes to acute care settings. Critically ill patients are one of the most complex populations to care for, with their condition often deteriorating quickly and unpredictably. Coordinating care to safely monitor these patients across numerous care settings and facilities is a daunting task and the solutions that care teams rely on often can’t keep up. Gaps, delays, and
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How the Pandemic Underscores the Importance of Health IT in Employee & Occupational Health
“I have received more recognition, interest and support in the last year than in the previous two plus decades of my occupational health career.”
These were the words spoken to us recently by the medical director of a Fortune 500 corporation reflecting on the dramatically increased attention he was receiving from the C-suite of his organization following the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite the global turmoil that the COVID-19 pandemic has left in its wake, a revitalized focus on taking the best
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3 Lessons Learned from Pandemic-Era Clinical Development Regulatory Practices
The pandemic has given rise to new norms in drug development that will influence the future of the industry as we know it. The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. In view of this, regulators have demonstrated unprecedented flexibility and collaboration with key industry players to support the delivery of treatments to the market. As we near the other side of the pandemic, it is worth reflecting upon the adoption of non-traditional processes to
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5-Step Guide to Hiring AI Talent for Digital Health, Biotech & Life Sciences Companies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare's destiny for good. Here are five steps digital health startups can take to find the premier talent to get the job done.
Not too long ago, AI was the topic of futuristic movies. What was once a fictional draw at the Box Office is now a reality in offices worldwide. AI is everywhere and rapidly transforming the way we work. What remains scarce though is the technical talent in healthcare to see this tech revolution through.
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