FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently calling on Congress, again, to take immediate a | With only 27 days to go before COVID-era telehealth flexibilities expire, a major health IT group along with 62 healthcare organizations are urgently (..)

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge,” I wrote in a quote on the back of Tom’s new book, Hacking Health Care: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The post Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. And the grocer is expanding its pharmacy footprint , having piloted tele-pharmacy back in 2017. If you believe in the power of virtual care, you can learn more and promote on social media using the hashtag #TelehealthAware.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. As we approach 2025, healthcare and health IT are on the cusp of transformation, driven by advancements in generative AI (GenAI). Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ben Beadle-Ryby, co-founder, AKASA.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Imagine a world where chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and hypertensionlong-standing giants of global health care burdenare intercepted before they take root. A smartwatch buzzing with a warning of an irregular heartbeat. An app gently nudging someone to take a short walk after hours of inactivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

What should C-suite executives and other health IT leaders at provider organizations be keeping their eyes on in the year ahead?

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From defibrillators and ventilators to infusion pumps and dialysis equipment, Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices significantly enhance outpatient care. Patients can record and send measurements remotely, eliminating the need for follow-up visits.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in at least 25 million cases worldwide with a continued spread in the United States, causing global disruption in every sector of society and forcing adaptation to a new normal relying increasingly on technology.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Imagine it’s early Monday morning, and you’re getting to your office. When you start up your computer to look at your schedule and bring up your first patient’s chart, you can’t get into your system. The next thing you see is a message from some hacker demanding bitcoin to release access to your data. Read more….

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I have been in health care and worked as a bedside nurse for more than 30 years now. Early in my career a surgeon said to me, “I could have made changes if I had that information sooner. I’ve had 200 people on my operating room table during this time.”

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KevinMD

APRIL 26, 2023

The health care sector stands to benefit significantly from AI and GPTs, as they offer promising solutions for improving patient care, diagnostics, and treatment. Artificial intelligence (AI) and generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) have made significant advancements in recent years, with potential applications in various industries.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2024

As a physician and digital health practitioner, I have seen firsthand the challenges of ineffective patient education and the immense potential for technology to revolutionize how we inform, engage, and empower patients in their health journeys.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 4.5 billion people do not have access to primary care.

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Digital Health

AUGUST 29, 2021

For ages I’ve been saying that the term “digital health” should be retired – that it is a bit of a lazy term that evolved around 10-12 years ago at a time when technology and healthcare rarely appeared in the same zip code, much less in the same enterprise. At that time, it was surprising […].

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more embedded in health care, the ability to accurately evaluate AI models is critical. If a health care AI tool claims to Read more Evaluating the performance of health care artificial intelligence (AI): the role of AUPRC, AUROC, and average precision originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

JULY 6, 2023

A recent Goldman Sachs report determined that artificial intelligence (AI) may wipe out 300 million jobs. Jobs that require advanced education, like mine, are particularly vulnerable. This isn’t welcome news for those of us who have invested a lifetime mastering our crafts and must work for a living.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Just imagine the following: your assistant invites in Ms. Nichols, who has a migraine, a bad cough, and feels nauseated. You sit down, start talking about the symptoms, see her throat, measure her temperature, pulse rate, inquire more about the headache. In the end, you set up a diagnosis, you write a prescription for some […].

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KevinMD

AUGUST 18, 2024

As a health care writer and patient advocate for people in pain, I spend a lot of time online on venues like Facebook, Quora, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter). I am visible.

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Health IT 460

KevinMD

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Due to rising rates of burnout and depression among health care providers, the U.S. million health care workers by 2026. is looking at a projected shortfall of over 3.2

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KevinMD

JANUARY 31, 2020

What if I told you just a few years ago that Amazon — a budding e-commerce startup — would come to disrupt the multi-billion dollar retail industry. I seriously doubt that anyone could have given it a serious thought. At least not in the magnitude that will force a slew of big-box retailers to shut […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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KevinMD

JUNE 30, 2024

Health care technology has a long history of getting it wrong. The electronic health record (EHR) boom of the late 2000s was a remarkable transformation — taking our sector from paper charts to computers in a matter of just a few years.

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KevinMD

MAY 14, 2024

Introducing OpenAI’s GPT-4o is just the beginning of a transformative journey in health care. As we look to the future, it is essential to ensure that advancements in AI, particularly in sensitive sectors like health care, are grounded in security and fairness.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I have written, or more accurately ranted, about electronic medical records (EMR) systems throughout this blog. While the systems have clearly improved since their mandatory introduction into the medical universe, they have still not delivered on many of their promises.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As we’ve listened to providers describe their reactions to this pandemic, telehealth continues to be a pervasive theme at the foundation of their response. They refer to this as a “watershed” event that will permanently change healthcare delivery.

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KevinMD

AUGUST 2, 2024

Dot phrases work like magic. Just type a few keystrokes, and poof—a full template appears! But how do you pick shortcuts that don’t interfere with your regular typing? And how do you remember all these shortcuts? Over the years, I’ve made tons of templates, each with its own shortcut.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Can you imagine if you were shopping online and placing an order took eight hours? What if your order took 26 days to arrive? Sadly, this is the current state of many Americans’ struggles to schedule their doctors’ appointments. We, as physicians, can do better.

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KevinMD

MAY 18, 2022

hospital customer for my digital health company, which enables health systems to deliver digital care journeys for patients (e.g., It was a summer day seven years ago. We had closed our first U.S. surgery, oncology, chronic care, etc.). I was ecstatic! Unfortunately, our excitement was short-lived.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 12, 2023

GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of artificial intelligence that has the unremarkable ability to generate human-like text. The program is free to use during the “research preview” time. GPT gained 1 million users in under a week of being released. Keep in mind that this technology is currently in the beta testing.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In many ways, internet of things (IoT) is a double-edged sword: connected devices are capturing huge volumes and varieties of data that can be mined for everything from potentially life-saving health care information to guidance toward peak athletic performance, but it is incredibly difficult to convert that raw data into truly meaningful and actionable (..)

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Health IT 475

KevinMD

MARCH 14, 2024

Blockchain technology may revolutionize population health management. Patients and health care practitioners face the challenge of securely accessing, managing, integrating, and sharing health records.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The administrative burden of medicine significantly contributes to physician and clinician burnout, electronic health systems, or EHR system design and workflow as a lead culprit. As such, recent EHR technology innovation tactics have focused on automating components of data entry and documentation.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

In the dynamic realm of health care, two revolutionary forces are converging to redefine patient care: artificial intelligence (AI) and personalized medicine. This synergy transforms how we understand, diagnose, and treat diseases, tailoring health care to each patient’s needs.

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Health IT 467

KevinMD

MAY 6, 2024

Emily wasn’t a health care provider or even remotely associated with the medical field. One evening, while browsing the internet, Emily stumbled upon an article titled “Why Read more… The universal impact of health care informatics originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health IT 423

KevinMD

MAY 9, 2020

We talk a lot in critical care medicine about liberating patients from ventilators. Vents are getting a lot of deserved attention for saving lives in the COVID-19 era. But the machine has downsides that get worse the longer the patient needs it. Because we’re obsessed with taking great care of our patients, we in ICU […].

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