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 and certified individuals in many sectors. A recent study showed that almost 80 percent of students are learning online, and these classes are having quite an impact on how patients
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Why Artificial Intelligence Could Fail Healthcare Providers in 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to transform care delivery by automating, augmenting and amplifying human labor in repetitive cognitive tasks. Just like any tool, however, it can be leveraged with improper or incomplete strategies and create more harm than good. This harm translates not only into mistakes that can impact an organization's bottom line, but also the lives of the patients that the organization serves.As we approach the start of HIMSS 2018 we can expect to
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Healthcare CRM: From Marketing to a Foundation for Value-based Care
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 high-value consumers, leverage demographics and behavioral data to personalize messages, and measure the ROI for marketing programs.Today, the potential value of healthcare CRM extends far beyond marketing, supporting myriad use cases in both clinical and
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Patient Misidentification: The Case Against The National Patient Identifier
The healthcare IT industry is at a crossroads.On the one hand, there have been tremendous advancements made in health technology over the past decade: wide adoption of electronic health records, telehealth, remote monitoring tools, and the broadening effort to enable secure health data exchange. On the other hand, many problems lurk, including one with nationwide, massive implications: patient matching.As patient data skyrocket and the need for data sharing increases, matching patient records
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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
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 hygiene can reduce or eliminate their “infection."Patient data has high value—to others. According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, healthcare has the second highest number of breaches after
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DevSecOps in Healthcare: Solving the Security Issue in Digital Transformation
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 is exciting, data also show that 70% of digital transformation projects are expected to fail by 2018. With such a high risk for failure, how can health IT safely
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Research: 6 Success Factors for Digital-Enabled Health Coaching
Majority of mHealth app solutions are still operating outside the traditional healthcare market. App supported coaching services are more and more seen as the missing bridge between digital health startups and healthcare incumbents. Coaching services are a win/win for both sides. Best in class app supported coaching services are built around 6 success factors.App based coaching services are being offered by medical condition management apps that concentrate on a certain condition as opposed to
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Curing Healthcare’s “Tapeworm Effect” with Health IT
The joint venture just announced between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. is anticipated to bring profound transformation to the healthcare industry. By joining forces, these three giants hope to leverage their technological, sales, and investment expertise to address and resolve the many inefficiencies in the current U.S. healthcare system. The objective of this partnership is to harness their considerable scale and operational efficiency to manage healthcare’s rapidly
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Why AI’s Impact on Healthcare Will Be Far-Reaching Beyond Cost Savings
According to a recent report, the market for artificial intelligence in healthcare was worth over $600 million in 2014. By 2021, this figure is expected to rise by 11 times to $6.6 billion. Healthcare is widely regarded as one of the premier industries destined for AI-led transformation. The reasoning is simple: AI is widely prescribed as an antidote for healthcare’s high costs and an enabler for better health outcomes and experiences.However, the industry has been slow to realize the
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