Some experts estimate that $200 billion is wasted each year on unnecessary or excessive medical testing and treatment. This could be up to 40% of the unnecessary spending in the system today.
Despite the extreme focus to reduce the total amount spent on healthcare, why does extensive spending on unnecessary or excessive tests or procedures continue? The easy answer is because it is often difficult to spot what is unnecessary or excessive.
There are certainly moments when overutilization of
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Accounting for Inherent Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Blockchain Adoption
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. The application of this technology will provide secure
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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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Analysis: Why EMRs Will Not Replace Enterprise Imaging IT
The growing influence and uptake of electronic medical records (EMRs) in healthcare have driven debate over the future role of specialist clinical and diagnostics software. With interoperability in the health sector still a major challenge, many health providers are looking to simplify their IT systems, consolidating to fewer software platforms and few vendor partners. With recent extensive and long-term investment in EMR systems, some healthcare providers considering the EMR as a potential
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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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WellVia Integrates with Health Gorilla’s FHIR API to Enable Clinical Data Exchange
- Health Gorilla and WellVia partner to enable new data exchange capabilities to power clinical record retrieval and lab ordering. - Through this collaboration, WellVia can control its user experience while using Health Gorilla’s APIs on the back-end to power new product functionality.Today, Health Gorilla, a provider of clinical data APIs, and WellVia, a telehealth company announced a partnership that enables new data exchange capabilities within the WellVia telehealth platform. As part of the
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Integrated Behavioral Health: Expectations vs Realities?
When patients go to the doctor, they’re putting their trust in a highly-trained professional. They trust that professional to provide them with the necessary care and attention to improve or sustain their health.
However, some underlying health issues can’t be detected with a simple blood test or CAT scan. Behavioral health problems can impact every part of a person’s life. Some can develop as a result of physical problems, and vice versa.
This is why the integration of physical and behavioral
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Amazon Textract Is Now HIPAA Eligible, Extracts Text/Data From Scanned Docs
- AWS announced that Amazon Textract, a Machine Learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible.- Amazon Textract will make it easy for customers to accurately and securely process millions of documents in a matter of hours, saving time and lowering processing costs.- Cerner, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and The American Heart Association are already exploring new ways use the power of ML to automate their current workloads
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HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security
- HP expands its healthcare portfolio of end-to-end print and PC products to address patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency, and security.
- HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference, and patient identification.
- HP Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with the Epic and Cerner EHR platform.
Today at the
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6 Health System Barriers to Digital Health Transformation
- When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the top four responses pertained to issues with sponsorship and/or leadership.- Currently, the health delivery industry as a whole is still in the earliest stages of what will prove to be a digital transformation. - 40.4% of surveyed CIOs believe enterprise EHR vendors will play the biggest role in their facility's digital health journey in the next two years. The concept of digital health information was
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