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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologiesHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home.It's important to understand that home health technologies are leveraged in home health settings by clinicians for home health patients, and at-home or home-based health technologies are diagnostic and/or screening tools that can be used in non-clinical settings for the purpose of understanding overall health conditions. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. This includes tools like blood...
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Which Moves Should Providers Watch From Amazon, CVS & Walgreens This Year?MedCity News - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Primary care has been historically dominated by traditional providers that deliver care via fee-for-service models, but retail companies have been amping up their efforts to disrupt the space in recent years. Over the next decade, it will become increasingly difficult for hospitals and other traditional healthcare providers to ignore these disruptors, according to a recent report from the American Hospital Association. The report cited a Bain & Company analysis that predicted disruptors could own as much as 30% of the $260 billion primary care market by 2030. So what moves by Amazon, Walmart and CVS will the industry need to watch to...
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5 Biggest Healthcare MVP ChallengesThe Healthcare Guys - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ The Healthcare Guys | |
 | The healthcare industry currently faces many challenges, from meeting ever-changing patient demands to dealing with cyberattacks. The demand for efficient and secure IT solutions has never been greater. Healthcare MVPs are becoming increasingly popular as they offer a cost-effective way to bring innovative solutions to the market. However, they come with their own set of challenges to overcome.Healthcare organizations need to develop products that meet the needs of their patients while providing a safe environment. We know that MVP is a great way to start because it gives you the opportunity to validate your idea fast, test the market...
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HIMSS23 Europe: From Portugal to the World | |
 | Connect with government and industry leaders developing the best digital and sustainable solutions in Portugal at HIMSS23 Europe. The region’s most influential healthcare event opens in Lisbon. Discover how Portuguese healthcare has been able to innovate in digital health, data and value-based care to become a technological and quality benchmark across international markets.Join us at #HIMSS23Europe: https://www.himss.org/event-himss-europe...
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CIO Podcast – Episode 49: Frictionless Billing with Joanne MizellHealthcare IT Today - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Healthcare IT Today/ Videos | |
 | For the 49th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Joanne Mizell, Chief Operating Officer at Banner|Aetna to talk about Frictionless Billing, an initiative to improve the patient billing process. Mizell shares with us some of the financial and revenue pressures that healthcare organizations are facing today and her answer may surprise you. Plus, she shares how being a "payvider" (provider and payer) provides a great opportunity to address problems like the Frictionless Billing effort they rolled out to improve the billing experience for patients. We also ask Mizell how technology has helped and...
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Singapore’s iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovationHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore's national healthcare technology agency, has collaborated with Google Cloud and Accenture to promote the development of data-driven applications to "deliver more high-quality and digital-first healthcare experiences."Accenture is helping deploy Apigee, Google Cloud's API management platform, which will provide third-party developers access to data and services across iHiS's managed systems to create new applications and capabilities. The resulting flexible API-based architecture from this collaboration will serve as a "connective tissue across data sources and applications," as per iHiS assistant chief executive Alan Goh. Google Cloud has also built security features into the Apigee platform to provide iHiS full visibility over...
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Indian healthcare chiefs doubt their cybersecurity capability: reportHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | A new survey report in India has gauged the stances of healthcare leaders on their use of technology in an effort to yield operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery, and improve health outcomes. More than 50 respondents, who are mostly chief executives of multi-site hospitals based in metropolitan cities, were polled by Grant Thornton Bharat and the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) in the said report titled "Technology transformation for future-ready healthcare." FINDINGS The survey revealed that around eight in 10 respondents are increasing their digital and technology budget in the next 12 months. One major area of investment is 5G technology, which is noted for...
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How Healthcare Organizations Can Enhance Patient Experience & Trust During the Winter SurgeHIT Consultant - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | Toni Land, Head of Clinical Healthcare Experience at MedalliaIt’s well known that the winter season typically creates spikes in illness and, consequently, a surge in healthcare visits. What might not be so obvious is that this time of increased demand is also the ideal opportunity for healthcare organizations to prioritize building trust and improving experiences for patients, clinicians and team members. Just as science grows more sophisticated each year, allowing practitioners to better treat a greater number of medical ailments, so should patient and team member experience efforts within the healthcare sector. That’s all the more true as the country now navigates...
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NIST Provides Much-Needed AI GuardrailsDigital Health Frontier - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - AI/ Daily Reads/ Digital Health Frontier | |
 | By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato — The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently published a framework that will help health care providers assess AI trustworthiness, explainability, and bias. The post NIST Provides Much-Needed AI Guardrails appeared first on Mayo Clinic Platform....
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Few Managed Care Plans Have Current Contact Info for Medicaid Members as Redeterminations LoomMedCity News - (Wednesday February 15, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Just about one-third of managed care plans have verified or current contact information for between 76% and 100% of their Medicaid members, a recent survey found. The news comes as the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision is set to expire March 31 due to the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The requirement was part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and banned states from disenrolling people from Medicaid during the public health emergency (although the Consolidated Appropriations Act separated the requirement from the PHE, which will end in May). Starting April 1, states can resume disenrollments and Medicaid enrollees will have to undergo the...
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