Mark Ferlatte is CTO of Truss
Once a long-shot, the idea of universal healthcare in the U.S. is inching closer to reality, particularly as many 2020 candidates promise an expedient implementation of a national federally-run program (or some version of it). Nearly half of doctors support a “Medicare for all” model, and while this won’t change the practice of medicine, it will greatly affect how those providers use technology to run their businesses.
This is particularly true for small- and
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4 Digital Health Tools for Combating Opioid Addiction in 2020 & Beyond
The human and economic statistics surrounding the opioid epidemic are staggering. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 11.4 million people have misused prescription opioids, and more than 130 people die daily from opioid-related drug overdoses.Moreover, the Society of Actuaries found that the total economic burden of the opioid crisis in the United States from 2015 to 2018 was at least $631 billion. The organization attributed nearly one-third of that cost to extra
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10 Factors Radiologists Should Consider When Selecting AI Vendors
Dr. Sanjay M. Parekh Ph.D., Sr Market Analyst at Signify Research Ltd.
With over 150 independent software vendors developing machine learning solutions for medical imaging, sorting through the plethora of options to select vendors is a challenge. Here are 10 factors radiologists should consider (and questions they should ask) before partnering with vendors providing AI solutions for medical imaging.
1. Clinical Relevancy
The foremost consideration for healthcare providers adopting AI
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RCM: Getting the Most from Your State’s All-Payer Claims Database
Samir Panchal, Consultant, Freed Associates
This past year, California became the latest (and largest) state to legislatively mandate an all-payer claims database (APCD). As the name implies, an APCD is a statewide repository of all claims information from a state’s health care payers, including both commercial and government.
The intent of an APCD is to help policymakers and others better understand the drivers of health care use and costs and spot usage trends across networks,
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Five Lessons Learned From Building A CRM for Pharma
Thom Doyle, President, Human Care Systems
We all know the pleasure of interacting with technology that does exactly what it’s designed to do. Whether it’s getting to your destination via Waze, reserving dinner through OpenTable or making an electronic payment through Venmo, applications that work have one important thing in common: they are designed with a purpose and are the true experts in getting exactly that thing done seamlessly.
But professional industry software, especially when it
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Accounting for Inherent Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Blockchain Adoption
Rich Herrington EVP, Client Success Team Leader at SoftServe
In the digital economy, every industry runs on data. In the healthcare industry, there is no greater need than to have total view and capitalization of data. But this need inherits others—the need for security, transparency, and interoperability.
In an industry rife with inefficiencies and systemic vulnerabilities (e.g. counterfeit prescription drugs), the benefits of using blockchain to address these needs cannot be ignored.
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3 Myths About Robotic Process Automation in Healthcare, Debunked
Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, UiPath
Patients’ wellbeing should be the central focus of healthcare. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Studies show that doctors spend almost half their time on data entry and more than half of their workdays managing records instead of caring for patients. Add this lost time to the fact that healthcare in the United States is already understaffed – averaging 2.5 healthcare practitioners to every
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Jumping to Lightspeed – Consolidating Patient Monitoring Devices
Guy Meger, CTO and VP of Research & Development and Israel GM at EarlySense
In the early summer of 2005, Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premiered worldwide. Diehard fans flocked to the theaters to see Anakin Skywalker embrace the dark side of the force, battle Obi Wan Kinobi and transform into the infamous Darth Vader.
While audiences were enthralled by vivid battle scenes and cool effects, I was intrigued by a less popular scene, where Padmea, mother of Luke and Leia
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care
Dr. Ryan Vega, Executive Director at VHA Innovation Ecosystem
Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans.
Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes
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Actiste’s Unified IoT Diabetes Care Device Awarded CE Mark
- Actiste, the world’s first unified diabetes care device with eSIM technology for monitoring and treating insulin-dependent diabetes, has received two CE marks.
- The EC certifications allow the company to move forward with its ongoing market entry and sales activities in the company's primary target markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and opens up for future sales in over 30 European countries, where Sweden is most imminent.
- The development of the Actiste device was
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