By Jacqueline LaPointe
March 21, 2024 – OCR recently released updated HIPAA guidance for covered entities and business associates who use online tracking technologies that exchange protected health information (PHI).
The guidance addresses the increasing use of…
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Background: Patient engagement attrition in mobile health (mHealth) remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs decreases program benefits. Systemic disparities lead to inequities in RPM adoption and use. There is an urgent need to understand patients’…
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By Hannah Nelson
March 20, 2024 – Epic and athenahealth have the greatest EHR mindshare for potential purchasing decisions across independent ambulatory practices, according to the 2024 KLAS Ambulatory EHR/PM Mindshare report.
To collect mindshare data, KLAS…
Beverley Bryant the joint chief digital information officer across Guys and St Thomas’s and Kings College hospital trusts is to step down from the end of August.As CDIO at GSST and Kings Bryant led…
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The hospital at home concept integrates key digital medicine technologies and concepts in a single platform approach, with telemedicine, wearables, and sensors. It could bring benefits to patients, who face lower risks from hospital…
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UnitedHealth Group reports in a March 18 status update that it has begun releasing medical claims preparation software as a part of Change Healthcare’s system restoration process. It expects the changes to be…
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Phil Hagerman, Chairman and CEO at Forum Health, a nationwide provider of personalized, innovative and transformative health care services and clinics designed to help patients achieve their health goals joins eHealth Radio and the Health…
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Robert Slepin has a very interesting job, as emeritus CIO advisor at electronic health record giant Epic. There are only a dozen or so of these contractors, who are available on demand to Epic…
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Alexandra V. Aglieco, APRN, FNP-BC, Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
An Atlanta mother gave birth to a baby boy who was unintentionally decapitated during delivery in late 2023. Within hours of this unimaginable tragedy, the doctor performing the autopsy had posted photos of…
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By Anuja Vaidya
March 19, 2024 – Using telehealth to provide palliative care support to rural family caregivers is a low-cost and feasible strategy for transitioning patients from hospital to home-based care, new research reveals.
Conducted by…
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