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Four tenets of a successful telehealth program implementation
Implementing a successful telehealth program can be a challenge. Health IT experts from Mass General share four key steps to ensuring a telehealth initiative will be successful. Continue Reading
Q&A: The main reason healthcare organizations violate HIPAA
The second round of HIPAA audits have commenced, and most likely some healthcare organizations will be found to violate HIPAA. A health IT expert discusses common mistakes. Continue Reading
Chief Innovation Officer discusses implementing CRM in healthcare
A CIO discusses how his healthcare organization is using CRM in healthcare. He believes more and more healthcare organizations will begin to use CRM to improve patient care. Continue Reading
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Wearable activity tracker helps health IT analyst train for marathons
After trading in a budget wellness band for a high-tech Fitbit, a health IT analyst finds the new wearable helps him train more efficiently for marathons. Continue Reading
Zipnosis uses virtual care technology to boost provider efficiency
Virtual care vendor Zipnosis aims to help healthcare providers deliver more efficient medical services by prescreening patients and directing them to the right doctors. Continue Reading
Meditech (Medical Information Technology Inc.)
Meditech (Medical Information Technology Inc.) is an electronic health record vendor that holds a 19% market share in the hospital industry, but faces intense competition.Continue Reading
Data blocking: When health information exchanges don't live up to their name
Data blocking and health information exchanges shouldn't go together. But some HIEs are turning into siloes of data, two experts who discuss the problem say.Continue Reading
SaaS app built on cognitive computing platform helps with medical codes
Data analytics and cognitive computing are helping one hospital ensure the correct medical codes are being assigned for Medicare reimbursement via a SaaS application.Continue Reading
MACRA rules: Ten things to know about the new healthcare law
An expert's tips for how physicians paid by Medicare can begin to navigate the quickly accelerating transformation into new payment models -- and the related technology -- under MACRA.Continue Reading
To improve hospital data storage, facilities fire up flash technology
As petabytes of data make hospital data storage a struggle for health systems, flash storage technology holds promise -- and in some cases, pulls ahead of the cloud.Continue Reading
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Patient population management calls for technological approach
Shaun Sutner, news and features writer for SearchHealthIT, starts this handbook by interviewing a healthcare analytics expert on population health, analytics and patient engagement. The expert shares why he believes technology and data analytics are...Continue Reading
Technology drives precision health by linking hospitals and researchers
A small company in Massachusetts is working to achieve precision health by using their technology to bring hospitals and researchers together.Continue Reading
Remote patient monitoring technology becoming imperative for providers
Major healthcare systems are adopting remote patient monitoring systems and technology for groups of patients with chronic conditions, and RPM vendors are having success.Continue Reading
Smartwatch wearable helps OCR HIPAA audit director stay fit
Deven McGraw, director of OCR's HIPAA audit program, wears her smartwatch during free-time workouts and while getting steps on the job and says the device helps her keep fit.Continue Reading
Storage advice for healthcare CIOs: Tech to support a storage plan
One CIO discusses how his healthcare organization chose a storage vendor and developed a storage plan, and offers advice to healthcare CIOs about how they can do the same.Continue Reading