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 @danielkivatinosFor 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
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Healthcare Data Tsunami: Organizing Data in the Internet of Things Age
Editor's Note: David Lareau is the Chief Executive Officer of Medicomp Systems., a physician-driven provider of clinically contextual patient data solutions. Lareau joined Medicomp in 1995 and has responsibility for operations and product management, including customer relations and marketing. Prior to joining Medicomp, Lareau founded a company that installed management communication networks in large enterprises such as The World Bank, DuPont and Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. If you’re of a
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The Road to Smarter Alarm Management for Hospitals in 2018 & Beyond
Editor's Note: Amar Setty, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Montuno Software, a mobile app-based teleheath platform for hospitals and large pharmaceutical companies. He is also CEO of Anesthesiastat, an anesthesia consulting and management company operated by practicing, Board Certified Anesthesiologists. 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
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Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Digital Health Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma
Editor’s Note: Jon Michaeli is the EVP of Strategic Partnerships at Medisafe, a Boston, MA-based personalized medication adherence platform where he is responsible for consumer growth and adoption, strategic partnerships, and commercialization through industry stakeholders such as biopharma, life sciences, and consumer hardware and medication packaging companies. Alexa is surging. An upgraded Siri and Samsung’s upcoming Bixby may soon compete in the home. Google is successfully catching
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10 Trends You Can Expect from Healthcare in 2018
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.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
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4 Leading Health IT Trends That Will Continue in 2018
Editor's Note: Gus Malezis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Imprivata, a healthcare information technology security company that enables healthcare to access, communicate, and transact patient information, securely and conveniently. 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
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3 Ways Engagement Can Drive Medicare Advantage Program Success
Editor's Note: Tom Wicka, CEO and co-founder, NovuHealth, a marketing and behavior change platform, designed to enable health plans to better understand, motivate and connect with members. Leveraging clinical and behavioral best practices, rewards, incentives, and personalized communicationAs 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,
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Can A Moneyball Approach Bring Change to Evidence-based Medicine?
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
Editor's Note: Tom Sullivan, MD is the Chief Strategic Officer at DrFirst, a provider of ePrescribing and medication management solutions to improve clinical workflows, expedite secure collaboration across a patient's care team and drive better health outcomes. As the Chief Strategy Officer at DrFirst, Dr. Sullivan’s input helps DrFirst design elegantly simple and intuitive technology solutions that help doctors quickly reap the benefits of e-prescribingNo one disputes that properly managing a
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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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