Due to the pandemic, recent FDA guidance acknowledges that companies conducting trials may require to put new processes in place regarding their current protocols considering virtual patients, data management, and usability. This raises the question: How to ensure and optimize user experience (UX) for patients and doctors with faster digital health adoption?
We recently spoke with Facundo Navarro, Engagement Manager at intive, a digital transformation firm
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Why Labor Management Systems Are a Resource Healthcare Can Rely On
In 2021, the role of advanced technology solutions across the healthcare sector can – and should -- be expanded. They already have been applied in such areas as billing, administrative work, in prescription management and some staff position scheduling. But with the ongoing advances in digital capability and automated intelligence, now is the time to consider a more holistic approach for how to integrate digital systems and solutions.
The rate of employment in healthcare has been on a
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Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions
Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as a serious threat, and the pressure to protect data is expected to grow this year, as more criminals target healthcare providers.
Protecting patient data from unauthorized access has long been a regulatory prerequisite for healthcare organizations. But increasingly, cybercriminals see profit potential in attacking and crippling their networks,
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Health Plans Must Go Beyond the ONC Mandate and Prioritize Member Experience
We are all frustrated when there’s a glitch with our online banking, or if bandwidth problems interfere with streaming the movie we want to watch. Imagine how individuals will react when the results of a cancer screening don’t find their way into Apple Health or Google Health, where such information is supposed to be easy to find. Or worse, if an individual is given the wrong information about a cancer diagnosis.
An individual’s first call about missing health data or claims is going to
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NexHealth Acquires Paperless Digital Forms Company Enlive
What You Should Know:
- NexHealth acquires integrated paperless forms company Enlive to expand its patient experience platform, making patient data collection easy and secure.
- Paperless forms solve long-standing difficulties that healthcare practices have faced with paper-based forms, including data entry, filing, shredding, and scanning patient paperwork. Enlive offers HIPAA-compliant online forms that seamlessly integrate with EHR systems such as Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Practice
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Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach
The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers that are all crucial to patient healthcare diagnosis and outcome. When it comes to research, data can be useful in creating emerging healthcare technological innovations, pharmaceutical discoveries, as well as other advances in the market but it also is accompanied by strong regulatory compliance, like stringent HIPAA laws, that dictate that this data is kept
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NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral
health integration platform, led by Magellan Health.
- NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based tools
simplify remote patient monitoring, enable risk stratification, and facilitate
collaborative care. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally
bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes
and reduce the cost of care.
NeuroFlow, a
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Intraprise Health Acquires Compliance Solution HIPAA One – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Intraprise Health acquires HIPAA One to create comprehensive integrated security risk management and compliance platform for healthcare.
Intraprise Health, a provider of cybersecurity services and solutions and the Protect™ risk management software platform, today announced that it has acquired HIPAA One, a provider of HIPAA compliance automation software. The merger allows Intraprise Health to offer an integrated set of cybersecurity and
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Withings, Redox Partner to Make Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Integrated With All EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Withings partners with healthcare IT integration
company Redox, which will make its remote patient monitoring solution, Withings
MED·PRO CARE, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals,
and medical institutions.
- Through the partnership, physicians can now order and
ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their
patients through their EHR.
- As patients use their Withings devices, which are
designed to be
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12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021 Roundup
Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer of GoHealth
Telehealth is Here to Stay in 2021
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was a limited ad-hoc service with geographic and provider restrictions. However, with both the pandemic restrictions on face to face interactions and a relaxation of governmental regulations, telehealth utilization has significantly increased from thousands of visits in a week to well over a million in the Medicare population. What we’ve learned is that telehealth allows
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