According to a digital health trends report by Simon-Kucher, healthcare providers remain cautious about adopting digital health products, despite a positive trend in the use of digital health solutions. Concerns about product effectiveness, compliance…
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According to Rich Birhanzel, Senior Managing Director at Accenture, the lack of patient access caused by the shortage of doctors and nurses is a global issue that only is resolved through technology. At HIMSS23,…
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Electronic medical record (EMR) fraud is a significant problem that costs taxpayers millions of dollars and compromises patient care. EMR software was designed to streamline patient record storage and increase diagnosis accuracy, but instead…
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The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a new tool to track changes in Medicaid enrollment during redeterminations following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic’s continuous enrollment requirement. Arizona has been the only state to…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) will extend telemedicine flexibilities around the prescription of certain controlled medications as it considers stakeholder feedback on proposed rules for post-COVID remote prescribing guardrails. The DEA received over…
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UC San Diego Health will use a $22 million donation to create a mission control center for digital medical data.
The health system notes that many systems issue constant streams of potentially useful data,…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 05, 2023 – Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have created a hand-worn wearable device containing a knitted robotic textile to assist hand edema patients.
According to the press release, hand edema is the…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 05, 2023 – LCH Health and Community Services, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Pennsylvania, has initiated an EHR implementation through vendor athenahealth to provide a cohesive patient experience across various…
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