For years, healthcare organizations have faced unique barriers to technological innovation. Enterprise-wide issues of disconnected systems and data, the slow speed of application creation, implementation, and maintenance, a lack of mobile capabilities, and the challenges of ensuring security, privacy, and compliance have made it difficult to innovate quickly to improve patient outcomes.
However, this paradigm is changing. In 2020, we will see big changes as healthcare organizations embrace the
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Time’s Running Out: Why Providers Must Adopt Telehealth in 2020
Sometimes life just gets in the way. Work schedules, family obligations, and unforeseen circumstances can make going to the doctor an inconvenience rather than a helpful necessity. It’s not uncommon for patients to forget or intentionally skip appointments, cancel unexpectedly, or even put off scheduling necessary follow-up visits.
But patients don’t have to neglect their healthcare just because of a hectic work schedule or a last-minute meeting. Telehealth is emerging as a convenient
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DrChrono Launches Certified Developers Program Leveraging DrChrono’s API
- DrChrono launches its Certified Developers Program, a healthcare partner platform marketplace with new resources for physicians. - The new Certified Developers Program is creating an ecosystem where a customer can work directly with one of the qualified developers that can layer custom features on top of the DrChrono EHR platform at their request.DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, announced today a new Certified Developers Program comprised of partners that
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Despite Deployment Challenges, Healthcare Cloud Adoption Is On The Rise
- Cloud adoption in healthcare is accelerating amid deployment challenges, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by HIMSS Media in collaboration in Perficient and Red Hat. - The blinded HIMSS Technology Outlook Survey: The Outlook for Cloud finds healthcare organizations are already deploying or planning to deploy a significant share of their healthcare information technology (HIT) workload to the cloud.Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in healthcare, a fact reflected in the
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Q/A: UnitedHealthcare Executive Talks Investment in Telehealth Innovation
Are
telehealth innovations the future of care delivery? Pat Keran, vice president
of product and innovation for UnitedHealthcare shared his insights and what’s
to come from the integration of telehealth innovations in the healthcare
landscape.
It’s should be of no surprise that in today’s app-fascinated world that telehealth services are becoming increasingly popular both for consumers and employers. According to a recent report from the National Business Group on Health, 39 percent of
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Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?
- GE Healthcare’s James Hurley explains how innovations like the handheld ultrasound are inspiring the next digital breed of smarter, smaller, and seamless clinical care tools.
Wearables—once innovations that only lived in inspired minds and science fiction novels are now nearly ubiquitous. You can’t shake a stick, or a hand for that matter, without an adorning Fitbit or Apple Watch attached to it. Yet, what started as a consumer fad is now evolving well beyond it and out disrupt U.S.
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Q/A: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela Talks Data Sharing Challenges in Breast Imaging
- President and CEO Matthew Michela talk about how Life Image is creating easier access to breast imaging data while also solving some of data sharing’s biggest snags.
Interoperability—it’s the long-awaited result that evolving HIT promised
to bring with it, and yet, it still gets left behind. Disparate data is not a
problem exclusive to one data type or innovation; breast imaging, for example,
has created some of the toughest challenges. However, there is now an app for
that.
Life Image,
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HIT Governance: 7 Key Metrics For Your Quarterly Report Card
Healthcare organizations use data to support decision-making for nearly every area of operations. But what about your security and compliance strategy? What metrics are the most valuable to determine how your organization should allocate funding for health IT projects related to governance, risk, and compliance?
Top Seven Metrics to Gather For A Quarterly Report Card
With an ocean of data at your fingertips, it’s best to determine the metrics that will best support your strategy, and any budget
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5 Steps to Creating Robust M&A Transitional Service Agreements
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.”
That sage advice from an unlikely business strategist—The Hobbit wizard, Gandalf—is germane to the need to address risks of serpent-like monsters. It also applies to the peril faced by hospitals when buyers and sellers neglect to calculate data management into the timeframe of M&A transitional service agreements (TSAs). The wrong TSA timeframe threatens the success of all transactions and each company’s
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How Health IT Helped Baptist Health During Hurricane Dorian
Preparing a hospital to ride out a natural disaster is fairly straightforward when the danger is imminent. You hunker down, secure the facility, and transfer any higher-risk patients to a safer location.
But what happens if there is only a possibility that disaster might strike? That was the dilemma facing us at Baptist Health, our multi-facility health system in Jacksonville, Fla., as Hurricane Dorian approached in September 2019.
Early weather models of the (at one point)
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