Contactless payments were on the rise even before COVID-19 hit. But now, health systems should see them as essential. Consumers are increasingly wary of touching a credit card terminal that others have used, a perfect conduit for spreading germs. For consumers, text payments serve as a convenient contactless way to pay, but there are other unique benefits when this method of payment is applied in a healthcare setting.
Let’s look at how text payments can fit into a health system’s revenue
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics
to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker,
smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available.
- The new AI-driven platform will supplement the
physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical
intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients
and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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New Report Debunks Belief COVID-19 Increased Healthcare Data Breaches
What You Should
Know:
- Vectra spotlight report on healthcare discredits the
widely held belief that external threats would lead to an increase in data
breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- According to Vectra, although opportunistic attacks against healthcare were up – and some might have succeeded – external activity does not appear to have led to an internal activity normally observed in successful attacks. Healthcare organizations in general are doing a good job of mitigating
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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New Disinfection Robot Can Destroy COVID-19 Virus in 2 Minutes
What You Should
Know:
- Xenex launches
StrikeForce, a new service offering LightStrike robots and disinfection experts
to destroy the COVID-19 virus in facilities.
- Surfaces
contaminated with COVID-19 pose a grave threat to the safety of healthcare
workers, patients, frontline responders, military service members, cruise line
passengers, hotel guests and citizens everywhere.
- Deactivating
the COVID-19 virus on surfaces is a critical and necessary step to providing a
safe environment
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t
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Cedar Gate Technologies Acquires Citra Health Solutions to Expand Value-based Technology
Cedar Gate Technologies
(Cedar Gate), a Greenwich, CT-based value-based care
performance management company, today announced its acquisition
of Citra Health Solutions (Citra), a
provider of capitation management software solutions.
Expands Value-Based Care Technology Suite with Citra's Capitation
Management Solutions
By acquiring Citra, Cedar Gate expands its software and
services capabilities across the full spectrum of value-based care. By
combining Cedar Gate's existing capabilities in
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Social Distancing for Medical Devices: 5 Steps to Clinical Network Segmentation to Thwart Cyber-Attacks
Since the beginning of 2020, cyber-attacks have spiked by 300%. As members of the world's most targeted industry, healthcare organizations like hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and distributors of medical equipment are more at risk now than ever.
Even if an attack isn't directly targeted at connected medical (or, Internet of Medical Things: IoMT) devices, it can spread through a hospital’s internal network and infect equipment used to diagnose and treat patients such as IV pumps, patient
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CVS Health Launches COVID-19 Testing Solution for Companies Returning to Worksites
What You Should Know:
CVS Health today announced Return Ready™, a COVID-19
testing solution, to help return and maintain healthy populations at work.
Return Ready offers organizations clinical consultation, end-to-end testing execution, integrated reporting, and additional health and safety solutions to help reduce COVID-19 transmission.
The testing technology options include point-of-care testing with results in a few minutes or third-party lab-processed testing with results in a
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