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A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 1.6 million telehealth encounters occurred via four major vendors from January through March. #Telehealth
A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 1.6 million telehealth encounters occurred via four major vendors from January through March.
HIMSSCast: HIMSS editors weigh in on the healthcare issues at stake in the upcoming presidential election. #HealthIT #Election2020 ( via Healthcare Finance News )
HIMSS editors weigh in on the healthcare issues at stake in the upcoming presidential election.
The software glitch is the latest in a long line of tech issues to have affected the UK contact tracing app. #GovHIT
The software glitch is the latest in a long line of tech issues to have affected the UK contact tracing app.
The document describes the government's hopes for how technology goals should be prioritized over the next five years – with an emphasis on patients' access to their health data. #GovHIT
The document describes the government's hopes for how technology goals should be prioritized over the next five years – with an emphasis on patients' access to their health data.
How should providers prepare for changes to telehealth reimbursement? Healthcare lawyer Andrew Selesnick said one key will be to establish a stable, user-friendly platform that can make documentation seamless. #Telehealth
Healthcare lawyer Andrew Selesnick said one key will be to establish a stable, user-friendly platform that can make documentation seamless.
A new KLAS report found that few organizations have settled on any particular AI vendor as their choice going forward. Instead, said the report, most are using a mishmash of software and tools in order to fulfill their AI and machine learning needs. #smartHIT
A KLAS report finds that most health systems rely on a mishmash of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to meet their needs.
Providers face the challenge of delivering a seamless experience combining the digital with the physical – something akin to drive-throughs, or the new trend of "buy online, pickup in-store." #PatientEngagement
A few months ago, who would have thought that going into a hospital or clinic to meet with your doctor would be considered a high-risk experience? And yet, here we are. COVID-19 has forced the entire health care sector to adopt low-contact and contactless experiences for the safety of patients and c...
Universal Community Health used FFC funding to help the clinic transition to virtual care in response to the #COVID19 pandemic with a goal of conducting 80% of all visits using #telehealth.
The health center invested in virtual care workstations with various scopes that allow physicians to remotely guide patients through near-complete examinations.
The open question of telehealth's future is one that stakeholders have been seeking to answer for months, with reimbursement a particularly thorny issue. #Telehealth
The numbers represent a 2,632% increase compared to the same time period last year.
Seamless shared health information can support patient transitions, from hospital discharge to outpatient follow-up care, signaling yet another potential advantage of telemedicine. #HealthIT
Seamless shared health information can support patient transitions, from hospital discharge to outpatient follow-up care, signaling yet another potential advantage of telemedicine.
The success metric Norton Healthcare is most proud of is the number of opioids prescribed by providers, which has decreased by 51% since last year. #HealthIT
The Kentucky health system turned a highly manual search process entirely automatic – and is gaining some major rewards.
Data from a real-time location system, covering nearly 4.3 million square feet, offers the ability to see patients and staff who may have come into proximity with an infected person. #HealthIT
Data from a real-time location system, covering nearly 4.3 million square feet, offers the ability to see patients and staff who may have come into proximity with an infected person.
EHR vendor strategies to support staff in avoiding burnout:
👉 Maintain work/life balance
👉 Foster connectedness
👉 Effectively communicate
👉 Remember to be flexible for change
#HealthIT
In this fourth entry in our burnout feature series, key executives at seven top electronic health record companies share the steps they’re taking to ensure their employees can manage the many stressors related to COVID-19.
In their cybersecurity advisory, the agencies offer detailed insights into the potential tactics that might be used by bad actors planning fresh incursions on the U.S. healthcare system as many hospitals are overrun with new #COVID19 patients. #HITsecurity
With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.
The first provider-prescribed apps were unveiled last week after making it through the test procedure from the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), which aim to help with tinnitus and anxiety disorders. #GovHIT
Eleven months after the German federal government passed the Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), two health apps are now officially available for prescription.
Three hospitals at New York's St. Lawrence Health System were victimized by a ransomware attack. Meanwhile, Oregon-based Sky Lakes Medical Center also says its systems were compromised, as pandemic-era ransomware incursions continue nationwide. #HITsecurity
St. Lawrence Health System and Sky Lakes Medical Center both report being targeted, but officials from each say patient data doesn't appear to have been compromised.
[VIDEO] Catch up on this week's top trending #HealthIT stories: Cybercriminals renew push to target healthcare providers; Trump's claims of overreporting #COVID19 draw backlash. #HIMSSTV
The health system is working with the FBI to investigate the incident, which took down access to the MyChart Patient Portal. #HITsecurity
The health system is working with the FBI to investigate the incident, which took down access to the MyChart Patient Portal.
Almost all of the physician and nurse volunteers at Clinic of the Cascades were over 65. Here’s how the three merged technologies allowed it to stay open during #COVID19. #HealthIT
Almost all of the physician and nurse volunteers at Clinic of the Cascades were over 65. Here’s how the three merged technologies allowed it to stay open during COVID-19.
As health systems, HIEs and IT developers stay focused on a new surge in #COVID19 cases, they're thankful for the extension, but say they remain committed to API-enabled patient access. #Interoperability
As health systems, HIEs and IT developers stay focused on a new surge in COVID-19 cases, they're thankful for the extension but say they remain committed to API-enabled patient access.
EU adopts cross-border #nteroperability for contact tracing, Swiss smart #COVID19 antibody test launch and more top stories. #PatientEngagement
Also, Swiss medtech company launches COVID-19 antibody test.
Columbia Asia Hospital group has launched a #telehealth service in which patients can get the care that they need from their doctor via video call, receive medical advice and clinical management, at their own location and convenience.
Follow-up appointments for patients can also be carried out via this telehealth service, whenever appropriate.
Of the 15 cities examined, Cleveland had the highest rate of hospitals that reported the ability to find, send, receive and integrate electronic health information with sources outside their health system, according to a new report from ONC. #Interoperability
Of the 15 cities examined, Cleveland had the highest rate of hospitals that reported the ability to find, send, receive and integrate electronic health information with sources outside their health system, according to a new report from ONC.
A new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis examines the readmission patterns for patients discharged from Massachusetts acute care hospitals. #PopHealthIT
A new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis examines the readmission patterns for patients discharged from Massachusetts acute care hospitals.
The updated interim final rule, meant to offer providers and developers more flexibility as they respond to #COVID19, also pushes out health IT certification requirements. #Interoperability
The updated interim final rule, meant to offer providers and developers more flexibility as they respond to COVID-19, also pushes out health IT certification requirements.
The hospital invested in the technology with an eye toward starting with urgent care and mammography. Suddenly, #COVID19 testing was the focus. Today, use of self-scheduling has grown beyond pre-pandemic levels. #PatientEngagement
The hospital invested in the technology with an eye toward starting with urgent care and mammography. Suddenly, COVID-19 testing was the focus. Today, use of self-scheduling has grown beyond pre-pandemic levels.
More than 80 organizations led by the Alliance for Connected Care called this week for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency to implement a telemedicine special registration that would allow providers to remotely prescribe controlled substances. #GovHIT
Such a regulation would assist providers with implementing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the longer term.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware. #HITsecurity
With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.
New research released by vHealth shows that residents in the Gulf country are embracing telemedicine, with the company reporting a 500% increase in telehealth app use between March and September 2020. #Telehealth
New research released by vHealth shows that residents in the Gulf country are embracing telemedicine, with the company reporting a 500% increase in the use of its telehealth app between March and September 2020, compared to the same period last year.
The new service lets patients take a digital eye exam and get their prescriptions renewed by an eye doctor. #DigitalHealth ( via MobiHealthNews )
The new service lets patients take a digital eye exam and get their prescription renewed by an eye doctor.
Given numerous pressing workforce trends and the potential of AI, says one data industry stakeholder, healthcare organizations know the answer is to innovate while navigating difficult financial realities. #smartHIT #COVID19 #HealthcareInnovation ( via AIPoweredHealthcare )
Among all the other challenges it brings, a pandemic makes it more difficult than ever for healthcare executives to determine where and how to invest in their organization’s future. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
St. Lawrence Health System and Sky Lakes Medical Center both report being targeted, but officials from each say patient data doesn't appear to have been compromised. #HITsecurity
St. Lawrence Health System and Sky Lakes Medical Center both report being targeted, but officials from each say patient data doesn't appear to have been compromised.
A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton predicts that the explosion in virtual care offerings will change the way bad actors target health data. #HITsecurity
A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton predicts that the explosion in virtual care offerings will change the way bad actors target health data.
The not-for-profit senior living and healthcare provider is preventing more falls, decreasing mortality and morbidity, increasing frequency of consultative services, and much more. #Telehealth
The not-for-profit senior living and healthcare provider is preventing more falls, decreasing mortality and morbidity, increasing frequency of consultative services, and much more.
[VIDEO] The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto discusses telehealth's role in advance planning for end-of-life care and how empathy can be shown no matter where care is being delivered. #Telehealth #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/37O0RhP
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[VIDEO] Catch up on this week's top trending #HealthIT stories: Cybercriminals renew push to target healthcare providers; Trump's claims of overreporting #COVID19 draw backlash. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto discusses telehealth's role in advance planning for end-of-life care and how empathy can be shown no matter where care is being delivered. #Telehealth #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/37O0RhP
The pandemic has made it even harder for some underserved communities to access care. Watch how a Birmingham, Alabama FQHC builds trust and closes care gaps between physical and mental health in the latest episode of Thriving on the Frontlines: Stories of Resilience and Resolve.
[VIDEO] Dr. Danielle Hairston tells Iris Frye that virtual care isn't perfect, but its accessibility is an advantage. #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/3kr34TQ
[VIDEO] Dr. Bridget Duffy, CMO at Vocera, discusses burnout during #COVID19, how to protect the physical and emotional safety of the healthcare workforce, and how technology can help and hurt. #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/3jT0BRU
[VIDEO] Catch up on what's trending in #HealthIT: racial bias is making it more difficult for communities of color to combat COVID-19; hospital admissions are down 10.5%. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] Howard University College of Medicine's Michael Crawford explains early findings from the 1867 Health Innovations Project about virtual care and telemedicine, as well as what's to come in remote patient monitoring. #HealthEquity #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/35ix51X
Advocates, lawmakers and HIMSS Global Health Equity Network leaders outline the disparities in maternal mortality and access to care among Black women, as well as the actions they're taking to address these social determinants of health. #PopHealthIT #HealthEquity #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In this week's top trending #HealthIT stories: Cue awarded $481M for coronavirus testing; public hospitals compounding #COVID19 budget risks for urban counties.
[VIDEO] Dr. Nada Elbuluk, Director of Clinical Impact at VisualDx, shares how challenges for #healthequity impact dermatological care and how that represents wider health disparity issues in healthcare. #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/3doMsJO
When the pandemic struck, Dr. Niel Rasmussen of Headland Family Medicine had two goals: care for his rural patients, and avoid laying off staff. See how he adapted to change in Episode 2 of Thriving on the Frontlines: Stories of Resilience and Resolve.
[VIDEO] In this week's top #HealthIT stories: HHS is requiring hospitals to report flu information in addition to #COVID19, while Americans want mental healthcare via #telehealth but worry about data security. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In this week's trending #HealthIT stories: cyberattack hits Universal Health Services; Anthem reaches $40M settlement in 2015 breach. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In a new #HIMSSTV series, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden highlighted the importance of safeguarding access to telemedicine for mental health services and supporting telehealth with a sustained national strategy. #Telehealth https://bit.ly/3kSRKzy
In the age of COVID-19, medical practices have had to adapt on the fly. Introducing Thriving on the Frontlines: Stories of Resilience and Resolve from athenahealth. In Episode 1, Garza Medical Group develops new ways to remain sustainable. Share and tag a healthcare worker you know.
In today's top trending #HealthIT stories: Ginsburg's absence on Supreme Court throws future of ACA into question; femtech companies call out Facebook. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In this week's trending #HealthIT news: Apple partners with VA to offer veterans #telehealth services - and updates Apple Watch. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In this week's top trending #HealthIT stories: former ZocDoc CEO files lawsuit; #telehealth likely to be the biggest threat to #cybersecurity. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] The increased adoption of technology such as telemedicine has helped open up innovation opportunities, says Piotr Orzechowski, CEO at Infermedica. #Telehealth #HIMSSEurope20 #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/2ZmjZOU
[VIDEO] The top trending #HealthIT stories of the week: California passes law mandating 45-day supply of PPE; digital company GoodRx files to go public. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] Telehealth is on the rise, but is it really patient-centric? John Sharp, Director of Thought Advisory at HIMSS, discusses telehealth and the patient experience with patient advocates Grace Cordovano and Jen Horonjeff. #HIMSSTV #Telehealth https://bit.ly/2EzksGk
[VIDEO] In today's top trending #HealthIT stories: VA healthcare is slated for modernization; nursing homes now required to test staff for #COVID19. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] HIMSS Thought Advisory Director John Sharp describes the challenge of achieving sustained behavior change and concepts to consider when designing a digital product. #HIMSSTV
In today's top #HealthIT stories: larger hospital systems feeling #COVID19 pinch; ICD-10 codes may miss COVID-19-related symptoms. #HIMSSTV
[VIDEO] In this week's trending #HealthIT stories: HIEs can expect a monetary boost from ONC; M&A activity is down precipitously. #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/3kHZt4h
In this week's round-up: #COVID19 reporting requirements causing hospitals headaches; contact tracing app leaves door open, and more. #HIMSSTV https://bit.ly/3jDJG6f
Here's the latest in this week's trending #healthIT stories: The American Hospital Association urges its hospital members to submit data to HHS as requested, while digital health startup Movano has its eyes on glucose testing. #HIMSSTV
Catch up with this week's top #healthIT stories: HHS will be whittling down vaccine candidates over the next several months; in the meantime, there’s always remote care. #HIMSSTV
Kate Milliken, “Beneath the Surface” co-producer and #HIMSSTV host, tells how the online community she started for other folks living with #multiplesclerosis grew into her new short film. Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/2N9GJeH.
Catch up with this week's top #healthIT stories: CMS has given hospitals guidance in their efforts to reopen ailing service lines; meanwhile, an app glitch exposed video of patient consultations. #HIMSSTV
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