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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond

HIT Consultant

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro HealthTelemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. Today, worldwide digital interconnectivity is growing, enabling telehealth to advance health equity, bring access to care for underserved regions and meet the urgent, primary and behavioral healthcare needs of an exploding global population.It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine. Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model…

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IncludeHealth Secures $11M for Virtual Musculoskeletal Platform

IncludeHealth Secures $11M for Virtual Musculoskeletal Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know:– IncludeHealth, a provider of musculoskeletal technology solutions raises $11 million in a recent financing round led by CincyTech, with participation from Tamarind Hill and other investors.– The company plans to use the funding to further expand MSK-OS™, the Company’s remote care platform powered by computer vision.AI-Powered Virtual Physical TherapyIncludeHealth partners with musculoskeletal providers to extend their reach beyond the clinic and unlock hybrid care models. The MSK-OS platform improves the delivery of musculoskeletal care by leveraging computer vision to deliver personalized, measured care through patients’ own devices without the need for wearable sensors, additional hardware, or even…

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Ensuring digital health solutions help, not harm

Ensuring digital health solutions help, not harm

MobiHealthNews

A healthcare risk prediction algorithm used on more than 200 million people across the country was found to demonstrate racial bias.One-third of the top 100 hospitals in the U.S. were found to be using a tracking tool called Meta Pixel to collect and send patients’ personal health information to Facebook without their consent.
Pulse oximeters – digital products that use infrared light beams to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood – have transformed the way we care for people with conditions from heart failure to COVID, but are inaccurate for people with dark skin.
How do these egregious practices pass through…

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Morning Headlines 2/16/23

Morning Headlines 2/16/23

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February 15, 2023 Headlines No Comments CPSI Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
CPSI reports Q4 results: revenue up 12%, adjusted EPS $0.61 versus $0.58, beating analyst expectations for both.
Cyber attack exposes personal data of approximately 1 million Community Health Systems patients
Hospital management company Community Health Systems (TN) begins notifying patients of a cyberattack on its third-party cybersecurity vendor Fortra, which may have exposed patient information.
CommonSpirit Health Releases FY2023 Q2 Financial Results
CommonSpirit Health reports a $474 million Q2 operating loss, some of which it attributes to the October ransomware attack that took its systems offline for nearly a…

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Veradigm, Healthverity Uses Registry Data for Chronic Disease Research

Veradigm, Healthverity Uses Registry Data for Chronic Disease Research

DistilINFO Hospital IT

February 14, 2023 – Health IT vendor Veradigm, formerly Allscripts, announced a collaboration with healthcare data ecosystem HealthVerity that will leverage registry data to advance chronic disease research. The partnership will bridge Veradigm’s cardiology and metabolic registries with consumer data collected by HealthVerity, offering clinical researchers access to research-ready data. The Veradigm Cardiology Registry boasts over 102 million patient records representing more than 19.9 million unique patients, making it one of the largest outpatient cardiovascular quality improvement registries. The registry follows cardiac patients over time, monitoring essential measures such as demographics, plan of care, cardiac events and comorbidities, exams, procedures, lab…

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3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow Optimization

3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow Optimization

DistilINFO Hospital IT

– With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization. FAMILY CLINIC MOVES TO ECLINICALWORKS SYSTEM FOR SCALABILITY Care Choice Family Clinic, PLLC in Plano, TX, will implement a health IT system from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks’ to customize workflows and improve operational efficiency. The implementation is set to allow the new family practice to deliver comprehensive patient care and scale as needed. Care Choice Family Clinic cares for patients two years old and up, focusing on primary care, sick visits, and minor urgent care. “I had experience with eClinicalWorks at…

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Several Louisiana hospitals face online tracking lawsuits

Several Louisiana hospitals face online tracking lawsuits

Healthcare IT news

The class action lawsuits filed by Herman Herman & Katz allege Meta Pixel code potentially analyzed, gathered and shared the sensitive medical data of hundreds of thousands of patients across the LCMC Health Systems and Willis-Knighton Health System networks.WHY IT MATTERS
Pixel technology uses a Java tracking script to send an organization’s data to the technology owner, which in this case, is Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Tracked data could be shared with network marketing partners who target individuals with offers and advertisements.
The new class action lawsuit alleges that visitors to the health system websites may have had their protected…

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

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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5 Biggest Healthcare MVP Challenges

5 Biggest Healthcare MVP Challenges

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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