An introduction to asynchronous, or store-and-forward, as a modality of telehealth
As our healthcare system continues to innovate in order to meet demands and improve the delivery of value, various telehealth solutions have emerged and been implemented to increase efficiency, access to, and quality of care. Telehealth is a broad term encompassing “a collection of technology-based means or methods to enhance healthcare delivery and education.” As defined by the National Telehealth
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Electronic Health Record
HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden
- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers.
- The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations.
As part of the
ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their
doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued
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Taxi App Curb Integrates with Ride Health’s Patient Transportation Platform
- Curb and Ride Health partner to coordinate smarter transportation for every patient need, to power non-emergency medical transportation via licensed taxis.
- Uber and Lyft provide healthcare organizations with patient transportation services, but hospitals and health plans will soon be able to tap licensed taxis across the country to transport patients to and from medical appointments.
Curb, a New-York City-based leading mobility platform for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North
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Norton Healthcare Fights Opioid Epidemic with PDMP Integration in Epic EHR
- Norton Healthcare, a health system serving patients in Kentucky and southern Indiana, is now deploying Appriss Health technology to integrate its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) with its Epic electronic health record (EHR). - The solutions enable Norton Healthcare providers to share PDMP information across state lines and provide advanced analytic insights to improve opioid stewardship and help identify, prevent and manage substance use disorder in patients. - This is helping to
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Brainlab Acquires Patient-Centered Outcomes Platform VisionTree
- Brainlab acquires VisionTree Software Inc., a San Diego, CA-based provider of modular, cloud-based, patient-centered outcomes platform for specialty patient care, engagement and research. - The established ePRO solution will complement the Brainlab cloud-based infrastructure and registry solution aiming to deliver patient engagement and even more comprehensive quality reporting.- Brainlab will continue to invest in the VTOC platform aiming to facilitate data collection across all available
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UChicago Medicine Selects Life Image’s Breast Health Data Tool
- UChicago Medicine working with Mammosphere by Life Image to allow patients easy, secure access to their breast imaging and to support the WISDOM Study to establish screening guidelines. - Mammosphere was developed to support women throughout their entire breast health journey, including contributing to scientific research. By offering patients this digital tool, patients in the WISDOM Study will have additional tools to support their long-term commitment to the research.Life Image, the world’s
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SCI Solutions Acquires Mobile Patient Data Collection & Payments Platform Tonic Health
- SCI Solutions (SCI) acquires patient data collection and payments platform Tonic Health to meaningfully engage consumers at every step in their digital healthcare journey. - The acquisition will allow SCI to offer a comprehensive suite of patient self-service technologies to deliver maximum value to their combined client base. SCI Solutions (SCI), a Seattle, WA-based EHR-agnostic online care coordination marketplace, today announced it has acquired Tonic Health, a leading SaaS-based digital
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How Software Solutions Can Help ASCs Maximize the Revenue Cycle in 2020
In the modern health care environment, health care executives must be careful custodians of precious resources. Yet in December 2018, 26 percent of hospitals still lacked an effective healthcare revenue cycle solution. Other research has found that over 60 percent of hospitals and health systems are not realizing optimal value from their electronic health record (EHR ) system, causing the organizations to collaborate with other vendors and outsourcing companies to improve revenue cycle
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Cleveland Clinic Appoints Inaugural Chief Research Information Officer
- Lara Jehi, M.D., has been appointed the inaugural Chief Research Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic.
- As part of her role as Chief Research Information Officer at Cleveland, Dr. Jehi will work closely with information technology, research, finance, and other key departments to optimize the enterprise’s digital infrastructure to support research activities and accelerate new treatments for patients.
Lara Jehi, M.D., has been appointed the inaugural Chief Research Information
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3 Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2020
The healthcare industry frequently struggles with data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. That's likely because cybercriminals know the value of medical data. It's also problematic that healthcare information often gets passed between multiple parties and organizations, some of which may have insufficient security practices.
Attacks from malicious actors aren't ceasing, which means healthcare cybersecurity must remain a priority in 2020. But, what, specifically, should parties
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