Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer of NextGen Healthcare
Only weeks ago, American doctors’ waiting rooms were bustling with patients of all ages. This was no surprise as it is estimated that in an average year the U.S. healthcare system provided an estimated 278 office-based physician visits per 100 persons, for a total of approximately 883 million visits per year. Chronic conditions were the major reason for 37% of all office-based physician visits, and visits for chronic
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Scripps Launches App-Based Study Using Wearable Data to Predict Virus Outbreaks
What You Should Know:
- The Scripps Research Translational Institute launched DETECT, an app-based research study that will analyze wearable data shared by users with the goal of being able to more quickly detect fast-spreading viral illnesses, like flu and coronavirus.
- Early detection is critical for effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks and for improving treatments. DETECT connects with smartwatches and activity trackers, including Fitbit devices,
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COVID-19: Is Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Ready for Coronavirus?
Chances are good the face mask you’re wearing or have on hand (just in case) was made outside the United States, maybe in China.
In calmer times, that wouldn’t matter much. But when Chinese officials are trying to stem a global pandemic that started in a Chinese city, how likely is it that the country will continue to export face masks at the same rate?
This isn’t a hypothetical. With the spread of COVID-19, aka, coronavirus, we know the answer is not very, and that it impacts a great deal
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Patients Need to Control Their Own Data
Jeff Gala, Managing Partner of Sales and Marketing at HealthChampion
We’re in throes of a global pandemic. Healthcare providers must focus on fighting COVID-19, but we can’t afford to ignore the reason we’re going into this fight blind. Our best weapon is our own healthcare data. We are going to learn many things from this pandemic, not least of which is that the way we thought about data ownership over the previous decade needs to change.
Pandemics represent a system-wide attack on
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COVID-19: Why Limited HIPAA Waivers from HHS Don’t Do Enough To Address Telehealth
What You Need to Know:
- HHS issued some very limited HIPAA waivers to combat COVID-19999, but experts say it leaves out some very key guidance when it comes to telehealth.
- Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney says the HHS is likely going to have to revisit this issue given the limited waivers issued this week.
The main thing I am hearing from my health care provider clients is that they are seeking HIPAA-related guidance
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IBM Watson Health, EBSCO Information Services Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You to Need to Know:
IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Health Resources will
announce the merging of their respective platforms – DynaMed and IBM Micromedex
– into a single, high-value global solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson.
By combining the real-world evidence available on these
platforms, with AI and natural language processing, this new solution will
enable care providers to easily access information to inform both diagnostic
and operational decisions.
IBM
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Rimidi Launches COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure
What You Need to Know:
- To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations.
- The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment.
Rimidi, a cloud-based
software platform, today
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know:
- Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise.
- Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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AMA, Nuance to Pilot Innovations to Reduce Physician Documentation Overload
- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload.
- This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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DrChrono EHR, Cognition IP Partner to Process 5 Machine Learning-based Patents
- DrChrono partners with Cognition IP to draft and file 5 new patent applications related to the company’s core technologies on machine learning.
- DrChrono patents aimed at helping physicians interact with data via machine learning algorithms in its open healthcare platform.
DrChrono Inc., the company developing the
essential platform and services for modern medical practices to make care more
informed, more interactive, and more personalized, partnered with Cognition
IP, a law firm
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