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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Fred Bazzoli is a contributing writer to Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth

Healthcare IT Today

The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Watch the interview with Sameer Khanna to learn: How hospital IT leaders can prepare for the 4x increase in the number of connected medical devices that is expected over the next 5 years.

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$2M e-ICU project to be launched in regional Korea

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Based on a media release, at the core of this network is an integrated control centre for monitoring the status and condition of patients in ICUs in small and medium hospitals. It will feature an alarm system to rapidly detect patient deterioration or worsening conditions.

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Telemedicine racks up big cost savings and enhanced care for Nebraska hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" This forced Chase to retain patients longer than normal, requiring a higher level of care not typically seen in the critical access hospital. "As large health systems became overwhelmed and unable to accept new patients, transferring patients to other facilities became increasingly difficult."

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Cofactor AI Launches Platform to Help Hospitals Fight Tidal Wave of Claims Denials and Announces $4 Million Seed Round

Healthcare IT Today

For hospitals, it costs $181 on average to appeal a single claim. Further, many incorrect denials go unappealed by hospitals due to the time and energy required to appeal them.

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HIMSSCast: A pro checks in on the status of the health IT stock market

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? What is the market looking at now? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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