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Why Mobility Is The Secret Sauce of A Truly Effective Urgent Care Practice

by Daniel Kivatinos, COO of drchrono 01/09/2018 Leave a Comment

Rise of the "Internet of Healthy Things"

 For urgent care clinics, efficient patient care remains the critical goal to provide the best possible care to the largest possible number of patients in the least amount of time. Imagine being able to walk from room to room in your urgent care clinic with only an iPad loaded with custom forms which can handle anything that might happen that day. This is what a truly mobile EHR looks like, and in a dynamic medical environment like an urgent care clinic, it’s more necessary than ever. If your
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Healthcare Data Tsunami: Organizing Data in the Internet of Things Age

by  David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems. 01/08/2018 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Data Tsunami: Organizing Data in the Internet of Things Age

If you’re of a certain age, you had the opportunity to experience life before the Internet – the days before email, Facebook, and online shopping. If you wanted to send a note to your old buddy from high school, you’d pen a letter, stick a 15-cent stamp on an envelope and drop it in the mail. You might make a few purchases from a mail-order catalog, but do most of your shopping at a brick-and-mortar store.The Internet allows us to find just about everything we’ve ever wanted within one or two
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The Road to Smarter Alarm Management for Hospitals in 2018 & Beyond

by Amar Setty, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Montuno Software 01/04/2018 Leave a Comment

The Road to Smarter Alarm Management in 2018 & Beyond

Alarms are meant to command your attention. They are annoying and loud by design. In a hospital, however, alarms without management can be dangerous to patients and employees. It also reduces patient and employee satisfaction.The common strategies used by hospitals to manage alarms focus primarily or exclusively on reduction. This makes sense for several reasons:- The majority of bedside alarms are not indicative of patient deterioration;- Alarm fatigue in clinical staff is a documented patient
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Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Digital Health Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma

by Jon Michaeli, EVP of Strategic Partnerships at Medisafe 01/03/2018 Leave a Comment

Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Mobile Tech Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma

Alexa is surging. An upgraded Siri and Samsung’s upcoming Bixby may soon compete in the home. Google is successfully catching up.Today’s virtual assistants make it feel like Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more pervasive than ever. And it is – with some substantial caveats. These agents are all powered by a combination of machine learning software and behavioral algorithms. Their “learning” is based on finding patterns in data, then (a) adjusting themselves by applying lessons learned to newly
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10 Trends You Can Expect from Healthcare in 2018

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc. 12/27/2017 1 Comment

10 Things you can Expect from Healthcare in 2018

With 2017 almost in the rear-view mirror, it is time to look forward to 2018 and how healthcare will evolve in this year. The last year has been an eventful one for healthcare, from the uproar in healthcare regulations to potential mega-mergers. Needless to say, it’s a time of transition, and healthcare is in a very fluid state- evolving and expanding. There are certainly going to be new ways to keep healthcare providers and health IT pros stay engaged and excited, and here are our top 10
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4 Leading Health IT Trends That Will Continue in 2018

by Gus Malezis, President & CEO of Imprivata 12/22/2017 Leave a Comment

Several notable trends from 2017 will continue to impact the health information technology (HIT) industry in the new year. Ransomware tops the list, particularly after this May’s WannaCry worldwide cyberattack, followed closely by increased awareness of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) as an “upstream solution” to battling the nation’s mounting opioid abuse crisis. Beyond the ongoing development of these two leading trends, HIT experts are also asking two key questions as
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3 Ways Engagement Can Drive Medicare Advantage Program Success

by Tom Wicka, CEO at NovuHealth 12/21/2017 Leave a Comment

3 Ways Engagement Can Drive Medicare Advantage Program Success

As the country begins open enrollment this month, many plans have ramped up their communications to members in an effort to stay top of mind for those who might be shopping for a new plan. In particular, plans are working to expand their Medicare Advantage membership because of their stability and their growth potential as more Baby Boomers retire. Since 2010, Medicare Advantage enrollment has grown 71% to cover 19.0 million beneficiaries and is expected to continue on this upward trajectory
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Can A Moneyball Approach Bring Change to Evidence-based Medicine?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 12/20/2017 Leave a Comment

How Predictive Analytics Brings a Moneyball Approach to Improve Provider Financial Performance

In the early 2000s, in preparation to write his bestseller, Moneyball, author Michael Lewis was trying to figure out how the Oakland Athletics could possibly be successful. A small-market team hemmed in by financial limitations, the A’s were regularly competitive even though their budget was dwarfed by that of teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.“… part of the answer was, the experts in judging baseball talent—the baseball scouts—made a lot of mistakes,” Lewis explained. The
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5 Reasons Why Mobile Medication Management is Critical to Your Practice in 2018

by Tom Sullivan, MD, Chief Strategic Officer at DrFirst 12/19/2017 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Enables Free Mobile Med Management Tool To Help Hurricane Harvey,Irma Victims

No one disputes that properly managing a person’s medications is key to effective treatment, including reducing adverse reactions. Unfortunately, physicians aren’t always able to take advantage of all available information when making clinical decisions because they are grappling with siloed data, disconnected workflows and incomplete information. For example, physicians often must go through tedious and time-consuming steps to log into multiple systems on their office computers in order to
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3 Key Areas An Automated Prior Authorization Solution Must Address

by Our Thought Leaders 12/18/2017 Leave a Comment

3 Key Areas An Automated Prior Authorization Solution Must Address

Editor's Note: Co-written by Scott Herbst, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Provider Solutions and Ryan Miller, Senior Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Availity.Prior authorizations may be as popular among providers as ants at a picnic, but they have become a common and necessary part of the reimbursement process. As a result, being able to manage prior authorizations efficiently is critical to maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and avoiding issues such as
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