It’s a fact. The more bandwidth-intensive connected medical devices and mobile devices our hospitals deploy, the more we are straining our health IT infrastructures. Something has to give. Many communications leaders see 5G technology’s real-time high bandwidth and lower latency access as powerful new technology features that are needed to expand healthcare applications’ capabilities and the functioning of medical devices, robotics, and mobile devices. Some say 5G will be transformative. Others
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Did EHRs Light the Physician Burnout Fuse?
According to the American Medical Association, about 50 percent of practicing doctors are experiencing burnout and EHRs are a significant driver of this problem. For every hour physicians spend on direct patient care, the report indicates that they spend two hours on EHR data entry and other administrative tasks. All of this adds up to more time spent with computers than with patients.
Organizational, regulatory, and technological factors are eroding many physicians’ passion for the profession,
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Why Coworking Spaces Are Essential for Medical Practices
Collaborative work environments remain one of the biggest trends in office space. These coworking spaces have proven to improve the happiness, productiveness, and well-being of employees. However, the use of coworking spaces remains greatly underdeveloped in a medical industry that has seen private practice rates plummet in recent years.
For many physicians, having a private practice is the optimal professional scenario. And yet, private practices are in steep decline. In 2016, less than half of
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3 Ways On-Demand Care Can Improve the Patient Experience
In the increasingly competitive healthcare space, establishing loyalty and improving the patient experience has become a priority for providers. In no area is this truer than the highly competitive, consumer-driven on-demand care space. In fact, a recent survey revealed that patients are five times more likely to select a practice because they’ve had a positive experience there rather than traditional marketing tools, highlighting a key driver of patient loyalty.
Patients are increasingly
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6 Considerations For Creating A Robust Healthcare Data Analytics Program
Healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to data analytics to solve their toughest business challenges. As information becomes less siloed, and technology systems do a better job of both generating and sharing data, organizations are seeing the need to more precisely identify patterns to predict patient needs, anticipate resources and improve processes. There is now as much emphasis on making the data work as there was on collecting data, so it can affect change.
Unfortunately,
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Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?
Personalized Analytics is becoming essential in healthcare, stemming from the movement from fee-for-service to a value-based market. The need to preempt and prevent disease on a more personal level, rather than merely reacting to symptoms, has created a significant opportunity for machine learning-based applications. This “analytics of one” approach (using advanced mathematical models and artificial intelligence techniques) is already impacting several key areas:
1. Medical imaging is utilizing
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Paperless Beyond EMRs: 3 Reasons Why Healthcare Should Switch to Online Forms
Electronic medical records (EMRs) introduced a new era of healthcare management. Should healthcare operators want to venture farther, they may need to consider digitizing their internal operations, as well.Hospitals and clinics present extremely complex environments to manage. There is little wonder that manual and piecemeal approaches to everyday operations are no longer sufficient. Many healthcare operators are therefore turning to modern technologies. They can be optimized to make healthcare
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Analysis: Philips’ Evolution to a Pure-play Healthcare Technology Vendor
The last two-to-three years we have seen Philips complete its transformation into a pure-play healthcare technology vendor. It has reduced its interest in its remaining non-healthcare business Philips Lighting/Signify (now owning only a 16.5% share), made 16 healthcare technology acquisitions since the start of 2017 and organized its internal business units into three core healthcare technology segments, Personal Health, Diagnosis & Treatment and Connected Care. A few weeks ago, several of
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How Can Providers Support Meaningful Price Transparency to Address Consumerism in Healthcare?
The word “consumerism” and its derivatives have been tossed around the broader healthcare industry for the greater part of a decade. How we define consumerism and look at consumer behavior in relation to our institutions, systems, and programs seems key to unlocking the door to better outcomes and higher margins. However, in a landscape with more disruption than ever—greater vertical integration, technology, and regulation—we still lack the answer to these fundamental questions: What do patients
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Healthcare’s Uncertain Future: 3 Data-Driven Approaches for Payers
Nine out of 10 healthcare leaders expect disruptive pressures to increase tremendously in the year ahead, according to a recent survey. However, fewer than half believe their organizations are prepared to withstand these forces.
In an era of transformation—in which traditional business models are continually being revamped in response to pressures such as consumerism, policy changes, and the market entrance of non-traditional healthcare players such as Amazon and Apple—payers face daunting
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