Editor’s Note: Daniel Kivatinos is the COO and cofounder of drchrono, an integrated EHR platform that connects doctors, patients and health data to improve patient care. Daniel drives direction, brand vision, and business strategy for drchrono. Follow him on Twitter @danielkivatinosThere is a lot of buzz around Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency as a new kind of payment technology and how it can change our future. I am going to take a different spin on what is really interesting about
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Why Medicaid Needs to Lead the Charge in Remote Patient Monitoring
Editor's Note: Juan Pablo Segura is the Co-Founder of Babyscripts, a virtual care platform created for obstetrics that allows OBGYNs to deliver better prenatal care.In a system that is straining under the pressure of an increasingly sick and aging population, the benefits of digital healthcare are indisputable. Technology has played a crucial role in the industry’s continued transition to value-based care, driving costs down while increasing access to personalized care.[1] But despite the rapid
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Using Telephonic Nurse Advice to Reduce Avoidable ED Visits
Editor's Note: Virginia Gurley, MD, is chief medical officer at AxisPoint Health. Anne VanBronkhorst is senior vice president and general manager of AxisPoint Health’s GuidePoint solution Delivering care in the right setting at the right time is a well-accepted tenet of value-based, population health management. Directing patients or members to the most clinically appropriate level of care promises not only to reduce costs but also to improve the member experience. Take, for instance, the
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6 Ways Online Medical Courses Are Impacting the Healthcare System
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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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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Will HIMSS18 Recognize The Disruption of the Traditional Office Visit?
Healthcare is evolving quickly and HIMSS 18 offers a broad range of healthcare issues to explore, but will it recognize the disruption of the traditional office visit?New requirements for implementing HIT systems are changing as new health IT priorities and procedures emerge. Convergence in the health care sector is accelerating the need for interoperability, not just for EHRs, but also across clinical, financial, and operational systems. This need is also challenging and changing one of the
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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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