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3 Ways to Boost Patient Confidence with Real-Time Contactless Communication

by Ford Blakely, SVP & GM, Medallia Zingle 02/22/2021 Leave a Comment

How to Boost Patient Confidence with Real-Time Contactless Communication

Although the vaccine’s rollout is slowly underway, Covid cases worldwide are continuing to reach all-time highs as new mutations make the virus even more contagious than ever before. Not surprisingly, patients’ concerns about visiting their healthcare providers in the midst of this global pandemic persist, pushing demand for telehealth solutions that allow patients and their doctors to communicate without the need for in-person visits.  In fact, a recent report from McKinsey found that
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Transitioning from Traditional to E-Fax: How Healthcare Communications are Transforming Post-COVID

by Michael Morgan, President of Updox 01/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Telehealth After COVID-19: What's Next for the Healthcare Industry?

The majority of industries have decreased or eliminated their use of the traditional fax machine over the past decade, including aviation, retail, and even finance. While the healthcare industry is at the forefront of disease research and treatment, however, it is still heavily reliant on this aging technology.  Traditional fax has become ubiquitous in healthcare. It worked for health systems for many years, but the overwhelming volume of patient data and paper documents the healthcare
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HHS Extends Compliance Dates for Information Blocking Requirements

by Fred Pennic 10/29/2020 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - HHS released an interim final rule to extend compliance dates and timeframes to meet information blocking beyond those identified in April 21, 2020, enforcement discretion announcement and establishes new future applicability dates for information blocking provisions. - The interim final rule also adopts updated standards and makes technical corrections and clarifications to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule. Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
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Bouncing Back Stronger: A Playbook for Reopening Medical Practices

by Bret Connor, Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer 10/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Bouncing Back Stronger: A Playbook for Reopening Medical Practices

It is a grim irony that the greatest health crisis of our generation separated most Americans from their healthcare providers. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most medical practices that responsibly followed social-distancing guidelines drastically limited in-person visits or were shuttered entirely. But as doctors start to open their doors to patients again, one thing should be clear: We cannot go back to the way things used to be. For even though pre-COVID surveys showed that
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup BurstIQ Nabs $5.5M for HIPAA-Compliant Blockchain Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 10/01/2019 Leave a Comment

Unified Signal, BurstIQ Expands Partnership to Offer Blockchain-based Health Data Management Layer

- BurstIQ raises $5.5M for HIPAA-compliant blockchain platform services for on-chain data management, complex data ownership, and granular consent.- The healthcare blockchain-based software company plans to aggressively expand sales, marketing, and network growth.BurstIQ, an Denver, CO-based provider of HIPAA-compliant blockchain solutions for the healthcare industry has raised $5.5M in Series A funding led by Elsewhere Partners. Elsewhere, a growth-stage venture capital firm which invests in
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MGMA Appoints Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright New President, CEO

by HITC Staff 02/23/2015 Leave a Comment

MGMA Appoints Dr. Halee S. Fischer-Wright President

  On Friday, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) appointed Dr. Halee S. Fischer-Wright, MD, MMM, FAAP as the Association’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective March 23. Dr. Fischer-Wright is a renown healthcare executive and physician leader currently serving as Chief Medical Officer at St. Anthony North Health Campus (Westminster, Colo.), which is part of the Centura Health System. Additionally, she started her own successful medical practice early in her
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