As part of the growing awareness about chronic disease, it’s important to understand the relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an asymptomatic condition characterized by elevated levels of fat in the liver, and diabetes. As a common complication of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, NAFLD can be overlooked comorbidity.
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. One in 10 Americans have diabetes – more than 30 million people – and
Read More
Physicians | Health IT Impact for Physicians | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare platform Solve.Care has announced the launch of the Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), a first-of-its-kind landmark deployment of blockchain and digital currency aimed at tackling the challenges facing the global healthcare system today.
- The GTHE, a decentralized care network, removes the physical and geographical barriers associated with accessing healthcare services while also providing administrative, payment, and care coordination for
Read More
Tackling COVID-19 with Telemedicine on an FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases expanding by the day, those in healthcare are accelerating their search for any available tools or medications that could stem the outbreak.
Modern medical organizations have used technology to track and treat viruses in the outbreaks that have occurred over the last few decades. The current COVID-19 crisis makes innovative virtual care solutions an indispensable tool as the virus spreads across communities.
The Rise of Virtual Care During the
Read More
FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
Read More
Mount Sinai Researchers Develops AI Algorithm to Detect COVID-19 from CT Scans
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers develop a unique artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect COVID-19 based on CT scans and patient data.
- The Mount Sinai team integrated data from those CT scans with the clinical information to develop an AI algorithm. It mimics the workflow a physician uses to diagnose COVID-19 and gives a final prediction of positive or negative diagnosis.
Mount Sinai researchers
are the first in the country to use
Read More
Amazon Transcribe Medical Enhances Speech-to-Text Accuracy of COVID-19-Related Terms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
is now helping accurately assess, consume and analyze information related to
COVID-19 by enhancing speech-to-text accuracy of COVID-19-related
terms with Amazon
Transcribe Medical, a machine learning service that makes it easy
to quickly create accurate transcriptions from medical consultations
between patients and physicians.
These medical speech-recognition capabilities can now help
efficiently and accurately transcribe video and audio
Read More
Why Now’s the Time to Use Connected Health Devices for Diabetes Prevention
It’s no secret that chronic disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, taking up 90 percent of healthcare spending in the United States. For the last several years, there has been a rise in discussions and research around the promise of connected health devices helping manage and prevent chronic conditions as well as healthcare spending. However, today a number of factors are coming together to make that promise a reality. This includes the improvement of real-world data insights
Read More
Banner Health Launches Virtual Waiting Room Across Network
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health deploys a first-of-its-kind virtual waiting room using LifeLink’s mobile chatbot technology to interact with Banner patients for both in-person and telehealth appointments.
- Conversational mobile technology supports COVID-19 social distancing guidelines and allows patients to safely access care across a network of 1500 physicians.
Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country, today announced the successful
Read More
COVID-19 and Its Global Impact on Primary Care Virtual Consultations
Last week saw Teladoc Health release its 1Q20 financial results giving the US telehealth industry a first glimpse of how COVID-19 is impacting the ambulatory virtual care market. Discussion around the crisis and its impact on telehealth has been rife since early March and the data published by Teladoc Health highlights that this was justified.
The company reported that the number of virtual care consults in the quarter had passed the 2 million mark, up approximately 60% from the 1.24M
Read More
Digital Defense Offer $1M in Free Ransomware Vulnerability Assessments During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare organizations not currently served by Digital Defense can sign-up to receive a free assessment over the next 60 days. Ransomware assessments will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis or until the $1 million offer is exhausted whichever comes first.
Digital Defense, Inc. today announced a free, $1 million dollar offer to help healthcare organizations prevent ransomware attacks and maintain focus on important, life-saving
Read More
