Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A Surge in Ransomware Attacks The increasing complexity of healthcare IT systems, from telemedicine platforms to interconnected cloud services, has made the sector particularly susceptible to cyberattacks. Data Encryption Encrypting data both in transit and at rest helps safeguard patient information even if hackers gain access to networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

A great example of this is the ALERT study, which uses AI to identify causes for the undertreatment of minority patients with heart valve disease who may benefit from minimally invasive therapies. Telemedicine also makes healthcare more accessible by allowing remote consultations and improving communication between patients and doctors.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But another, perhaps less publicized advantage of telemedicine is the availability of specialists for patients – particularly those with chronic diseases such as cancer. She started HealthTree.org, which allows patients to aggregate their health information and connect with each other, and to find clinical trials that may be a good fit.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services and the AARP. She also feels AI can encourage telemedicine innovation and holds strong opinions on the ethics of AI in healthcare. For example, AI algorithms can predict individual health risks by analyzing patterns in a person's medical history, lifestyle and genetic information.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

Media covered “virtual queues” of patients waiting to “see” doctors via telemedicine channels in the earliest days of the coronavirus in Washington state, New York, New Jersey, and other hot spots in the early phase of the pandemic. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S., The coronavirus has only exacerbated U.S.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Data Privacy and Security: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. This can help patients take a more active role in their own healthcare and improve their overall health outcomes.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

What is Synchronous Telemedicine? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Mulcare to dig into the reversion to pre-pandemic regulations, the ethics of telemedicine across state lines, what telehealth technologies can do to increase access, and more. To take this a step further, physicians are different from lawyers, for example. It would be a shame for that to dissolve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. For example, in Florida, Avel eCARE partnered with EMS workers to help get Regeneron delivered to homebound patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2020

Rock Health assessed eight “digital health value propositions:” On-demand health care. Consumer health information. While M&A in digital health has slowed down, it’s useful to identify some of the deals conducted in the H1 2020 to see how vertical integration is scaling and shaping up.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Among the endless possibilities of application of AI in digital health is reducing the time spent in traditional healthcare facilities, thanks to remote control systems that facilitate individual healing processes, and the increasing practice of combining traditional care with telemedicine. This is where Google comes in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

In that regard, Thailand has begun development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces since March this year. Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.” It chose PadInMotion devices because they are familiar to the health system, having been used successfully in the past. There is a dedicated help line.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Another important component in Singapore’s effective approach in containing the pandemic is the Ministry of Health’s method of risk profiling through multi-agency efforts to capture data, and subsequently having tiers to provide different levels of care based on the COVID-19 patient cases’ severity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Care can start digitally but can extend into the home with a combination of hands-on support from medical professionals working alongside telemedicine providers virtually. Moving a healthcare encounter to a virtual visit can break down a host of barriers and enable success in population health initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Microsoft's Azure health cloud includes a data service that brings together clinical, imaging, medical devices, and other datasets. Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

"As we continue to battle this virus and in a post-coronavirus world, telemedicine won’t be used in isolation, but rather in tandem with these complementary technologies. " The COVID-19 crisis has been an immense challenge.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This creates challenges for telemedicine clinicians who must juggle video calls with electronic medical records, data from diagnostic devices and more, in real time, during live patient consultations. No longer does the clinician need to install or use any other software during their telemedicine session.

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GlobalMed

MAY 28, 2019

While telemedicine isn’t suitable for every medical emergency, it can bring immediate care to many patients without airlifting them to a distant hospital – reducing costs and improving outcomes. One example is the aforementioned Summit Hospital, which developed an in-house telenephrology program that saved approximately $2.76

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Samsung has worked most intensively in virtual care and wearable tech in health along with digital imaging and telemedicine. Complementing the Big Tech side of this discussion is Big Retail — where I’ve mentioned CVS Health, Walgreens, and Walmart above the digital fold in this post.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms. Mobile health. Telemedicine .

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 8, 2023

This will allow patients to access their medical records, test results, and other health information more easily, and enable healthcare providers to share information more effectively. They may also be able to communicate with their healthcare providers more easily through secure messaging and telemedicine features.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid-March, as soon as New York’s Governor issued the stay-at-home order, the institute’s leadership, clinicians, health information technology staff, clinical operations staff and communications staff worked to rapidly develop and deploy basic telehealth functionality across our organization,” Lever recalled.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, AI is particularly effective in telemedicine consultations for managing chronic conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health issues. By tracking patients’ health data over time, AI tools can predict flare-ups or complications, prompting timely intervention and personalized care.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

This graph compares consumers’ demands by digital health channels for accessing various points of care across personal health care life-flows. Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Telemedicine. Store-and-forward (asynchronous).

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AMD Telemedicine

MAY 22, 2024

That’s why understanding the available options and how best to prepare is essential to ensuring your organization is well-equipped to leverage telemedicine grants. Fortunately, numerous grants are available to support providers serving small or rural communities. Prepare for the grant application process.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2023, HIMSS will not only be working to prop up telehealth further with really strong data on how these services help patients to achieve broader reform, but will also work at the state level with licensing boards to discuss how telemedicine can reach more patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Health entities may need to reconsider their investments in this area to ensure they are designing products and services tailored to the needs of their populations. A lot of experts are saying the future of telehealth is hybrid care – the combination of telemedicine and in-person treatment.

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Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. McCleese: Yes, the Kentucky Health Information Exchange.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings.

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CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

If you need to examine your patient (for example, look at their foot, knee, etc.), If you need to share information with your patient, such as lab results or brochures, try using the screensharing and file upload feature s. . To foster a better relationship with your patient, keep your video on during the call. .

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Mend

JULY 12, 2022

They can also access their health information online, schedule appointments, and manage bills. With telemedicine solutions like Mend, providers can benefit from a seamless digital solution. For example, many utilize AI to create more efficient and accurate claims processing. Patient portals are an example of this.

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