Hospitals’ telehealth adoption erupted during the pandemic, but usage rates are nowhere near as high as they were during 2020 and 2021. Now that Covid-19 infections have markedly decreased and the public health emergency…
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Artificial intelligence is an alluring—or frightening—reality, depending on your point of view.
There are those who fear their job will be eliminated by machine learning and innovative computer systems, while others hope the computer wizardry…
The pandemic compelled hospitals to quickly embrace digital health solutions as a means to keep providing safe care. The adoption of various medical technologies — such as hospital-at-home solutions and e-visit platforms — experienced…
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Most health system executives would describe the severity of the nursing shortage in their organization as critical, but many hospitals aren’t employing the right tactics for hiring and retaining nurses, according to a report…
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Few industries present as complex a dilemma when securing systems and data than healthcare. Just like an intricate puzzle with interlocking pieces, patient care and medical services demand an encompassing approach to safeguarding sensitive…
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In today’s dynamic healthcare landscape, asynchronous (“async”) care has revolutionized how patients and providers connect, enabling clinical communication without real-time interaction. As a physician who has experienced the transformative power of async care firsthand,…
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Uber Health is jumping on the food-as-medicine train. The company is adding grocery and over-the-counter delivery services to its platform, it announced Tuesday.
San Francisco-based Uber Health is the healthcare arm of transportation company Uber….
When regulators speak, we listen.
Naturally risk-averse industries like the life sciences need health authority acceptance before trying new approaches and especially before committing to wholesale operational change, even if the outcome has great potential….
One of the fastest-growing frontiers of healthcare is Digital Therapeutics (DTx), which utilizes clinically tested software to prevent, treat, and manage a growing range of medical conditions. During Covid-19, governing agencies loosened regulatory requirements…
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Health systems can reduce costs by providing their employees homegrown telemedicine services, according to new research.
Penn Medicine recently published a study in the American Journal of Managed Care on the economics of providing telemedicine…
