The administration says it seeks to bolster the IT posture of federal agencies by making “intentional investments at the right time” as well as address cybersecurity, health disparities and public health infrastructure needs.Improving the…
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By Mark Melchionna March 08, 2023 – With the goal of enhancing healthcare delivery through telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), Masimo and Temple University Health System (Temple Health) are expanding their…
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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology saw a significant rise in adoption during the pandemic, but it hasn’t gone completely mainstream, according to a new report from analytics company Definitive Healthcare.
Just a quarter of healthcare…
A California lawmaker recently introduced legislation designed to keep the state’s small and rural hospitals from closing as they work to meet seismic safety compliance requirements.
State law has set a timeline for hospitals to…
When Dr. Jennifer Schneider, co-founder and CEO of Homeward, was growing up in Winona, Minnesota, her first job was delivering parts from her family’s auto shop to rural areas. She now believes healthcare should…
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota announced it had entered into a full-risk value-based care arrangement with hybrid startup Homeward that aims to increase access for rural Minnesotans. The insurer and the rural healthcare…
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Hall and other CalvertHealth leaders knew there was room for improvement, but amid tight budgets and competing priorities, an upgrade seemed too expensive. Instead, CalvertHealth migrated its EHR recovery site to Amazon Web Services.Recovery time is now between two and four hours, Hall says, and CalvertHealth has since conducted two failover tests without anyone noticing.
“To me, it was a no-brainer. I thought, ‘If we don’t do it now, we won’t get to do it again.’ As a stand-alone, rural-based organization, we couldn’t achieve this on our own,” she says. “It was a huge win for us, and the driving piece of…
