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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. These can cover us head-to-toe, inside and outside as the drawing from RAND’s report on IoB illustrates.

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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

As of 2017, nearly nine in 10 office-based physicians had implemented an electronic health record (EHR). Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics.

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UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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On California’s Big Sur Island, the Cloud Proves Critical to Patient Care

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The disastrous winter of 2016 to 2017 made Big Sur Health Center leaders appreciate just how important having a cloud-based EHR was

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. In researching the thorny privacy issues for HealthConsuming, I learned the phrase “a concerned embrace of technology” from Deloitte’s 2017 survey of U.S. mobile consumers.

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Feds Demand Additional Compliance Efforts from eClinicalWorks (eCW)

Healthcare IT Today

Back in mid-2017, EHR maker eClinicalWorks agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of a broad list of violations. In addition to paying the fine, eCW was required to sign a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) essentially requiring the vendor to keep its nose clean on several levels.

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Open Table for Health: Patients Are Online For Health Search and Physician Reviews

Health Populi

Telehealth adoption also grew from 2017 to 2018. Live video use roughly doubled, from 19% in 2017 to 34% in 2018. Rock Health analysts expect that wearable tech use will continue to grow with more use cases for remote health monitoring coupled with consumers and patients being incentivized to continue their use.

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