Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the VP of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.It’s no exaggeration to say that our EHR systems’ lack of interoperability is the single strongest barrier to
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5 Tips To Prepare Any Patient For Their First Virtual Clinic Visit
Editor's Note:Dr. Robert Bernstein is the VP of Clinical Affairs, Carena, Inc., a healthcare technology company that designs and operates virtual clinics for health systems. More and more hospitals and health systems are leveraging integrated, on-demand virtual care in order to improve healthcare and address patient demand for low-cost convenient care. But many consumers remain unclear about how to use virtual care, and what they can expect during their first encounter.Dialing or logging into a
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4 Improvements Data Analytics Will Bring to the Senior Care Space in 2017 & Beyond
Editor's Note: Al Baker is the co-founder and CEO of Reemo, a health technology platform designed to empower caregivers with actionable insights to improve the quality of life for seniors. Also features insights from Teradata Vice President, Strategic Ventures Peter Obringer and Vice President of Technology for New Business Development Jose Basa. We exist in a world where data is impacting nearly every aspect of our daily lives. From New York utilizing open data to critically analyze its street
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Healthcare’s Password Prognosis
Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. Passwords are everywhere. The headlines might tell us otherwise, but their death, and the exaggeration of such, means that they are and
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The Importance of Risk Stratification in Population Health Management
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.As value-based care becomes the primary focus of healthcare organizations, providers now need to broach population health management and to manage it with risk stratification with a delicate balance. It is now important for providers to focus on patients’ individual and
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Remote Physical Therapy Solutions – Mobility is Essential for Delivering Value
Editor's Note: Robert Haywood is the Senior Marketing Manager at Breg, a provider of premium, high-value sports medicine products and business solutions that advance orthopedic patient care.Game console therapy solutions were originally designed for use in skilled nursing and facility settings. Recently, their use has expanded to include pre-and post-operative therapy at home. Game console therapy involves performing exercises in front of a TV using an Xbox® or camera enabled laptop/tablet
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Why Does Clinical Health Data Exchange Remain Such A Struggle?
Editor's Note: Neil Simon is Chief Operating Officer of Aprima Medical Software, a provider of electronic health record, practice management and revenue cycle management solutions for medical practices.Though the overwhelming majority of physicians use certified electronic health records (EHR), data sharing among clinicians is still relatively uncommon. A 2015 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey found that nearly 60% of all U.S. primary care providers were unable to
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A Scientific Guide to Repeal & Replace Obamacare
“So how about it, Nash? You scared?” “Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.” (--A Beautiful Mind)Fear is now a sign that you are an intelligent, educated, open-minded and caring person. Being scared is incontestable proof that you have a beautiful heart. When it comes to your health, there is palpable terror that soon, very soon, the bad guys will take away Obamacare, which was the source of health care and life itself for many. And make no mistake the enemy is coming for
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FHIR: Summer is Coming
Editor's Note: Lori Mehen is the Co-founder of Medlio, a next-generation platform that empowers healthcare consumers to engage and manage their healthcare experience. “Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” - Tyrion Lannister, Game of ThronesTrust me. The irony is not lost on us.After years of toiling in obscurity on a set of problems repeatedly “negged” by investors and industry
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3 Things EHRs Can’t Do For You And Why
Editor's Note: Bryan Haardt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Decisio Health, Inc., an early-stage healthcare IT company behind the unique clinical intelligence platform that helps improve clinical outcomes with real-time, actionable patient information to care teams at the patient bedside.Electronic health records have been the bedrock of hospital systems for decades, providing crucial billing and patient management services. The downside is that these systems have largely remained unchanged, built
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