Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Patients awaiting procedures and appointments at all Lurie Children’s locations are still scheduled and are being seen, unless their care provider contacts them directly to reschedule, the hospital said in a new statement posted to its website Thursday afternoon. "Our network systems’ restoration is ongoing and progressing.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

At least 22 states are opening up, or looking at how to open up access to it. Arkansas has enacted legislation requiring that commercial plans cover biomarker testing and eight other states – Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania – introduced biomarker access bills this year.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

Providers can access the full suite of Zocdoc Practice Solutions tools and all of the company's software partners and get new Zocdoc features and product improvements automatically through EHRs and PM vendors that become Advanced Integration Partners.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Transcarent says the ecosystem will provide the employees of national self-insured employers with faster access to verified high-quality digital or in-person care, higher-quality care, and affordable and predictable costs with full transparency. "It’s not an either/or; it’s both." Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the announcement, Azure OpenAI Service, Nuance and Epic partnered to accelerate the innovation of conversational and ambient technologies to enhance provider and patient experiences, expand access to care and improve healthcare outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

Emphasis is placed on providing improved patient access to EHI across communities and improve education on patient-facing health IT capabilities, particularly through mobile devices, along with outreach efforts on the use of AI in healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries are caught up in a Medicare program contractor breach that compromised the personal information of millions of people, according to statements and filings rel | Medicare program contractor Maximus Federal Services, which uses MOVEit for file sharing, told CMS that beneficiaries' sensitive data may have been (..)

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association released a statement on Friday saying that it applauds the Drug Enforcement Agency for posting a meeting notice on Friday that indicates that it is "openly considering" a special registration that would allow providers to prescribe medically necessary substances by telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Apollo's Comprehensive Connected Care service provides a real-time view of the patient from several care touchpoints along the patient journey – from ambulance, emergency, and in-patient to post-surgery and home care.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2022

He said the deal represents an opportunity to help build a primary care experience with Amazon that's "more accessible, affordable, and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers." going forward. going forward.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2024

In a statement, Oracle claimed that its cloud service was chosen for its "scalable high performance and integrated high availability, data protection, security, and disaster recovery capabilities. Additionally, IHH is leveraging Oracle's cloud while complying with local regulatory requirements.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

"It’s critical for organizations to proactively comply with CCPA regulations, rather than face expensive legal battles," said Raj Sharman, professor of management science and systems at the University of Buffalo School of Management, in a statement.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The company said patient-facing conversational AI can augment physician encounters and could improve access to high quality, affordable care as well as improve patient outcomes. Validated at Stanford Medicine, the physician-supervised AI autonomously manages chronic diseases, according to Palo Alto, California-based UpDoc.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As Posnack explained, the agency "analyzed each statement and looked for trends, groupings, combinations, and other affinities." " The resulting theme statements ran the gamut from shifts in individual and care delivery experiences to changes at health systems. Some of the predictions may be relatively close at hand.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 5, 2022

By partnering with Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth, the system’s 145,000 providers can now access automated messaging within their established prescribing workflows to help drive better adherence to prescribed treatment plans.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS There are a number of highlights in ONC's new publication, Individuals’ Access and Use of Patient Portals and Smartphone Health Apps by Catherine Strawley and Chelsea Richwine, that details how access to medical records "has increased consistently over time." in 2018 and 25.6%

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

On the Microsoft healthcare cloud, patients will also have greater access to their healthcare data, and they'll be able to review procedure and services costs and compare pricing across providers, the company said. "Interoperable exchange of information will become more accessible and reach more people" in 2023, Perez predicted.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To help conquer the digital divide preventing rural veterans from accessing the range of health and wellness benefits they are eligible for, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is offering new access to telehealth and virtual care options. VAPAHCS is also the agency's first fully 5G-connected hospital.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Besides offering patients better access and an improved care experience, the effort helps bedside nurses manage their workloads – while offering an opportunity for veteran nurses who may have retired from active bedside care but still want to help patients. "To do that, we need access to the best digital capabilities.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2022

"Walmart Health collaborated with the American Diabetes Association to bring this evidence-based virtual program to fruition," said Dr. John Wigneswaran, Walmart’s chief medical officer, in a statement. THE LARGER TREND. The diabetes program is just Walmart's latest effort to flex its retail muscle in the healthcare space.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

Under full partners, providers can access the full suite of Zocdoc Practice Solutions tools and all of the company's software partners and get new Zocdoc features and product improvements automatically. Zocdoc said its marketplace aggregates real-time, in-person or virtual care medical appointments across more than 250 specialties.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

The gap between physician and patient readiness for the role of artificial intelligence in care is noteworthy, Wolters Kluwer said in a statement. Last year, Wolters Kluwer introduced AI Labs , a clinical decision-support system accessible to 44,000 healthcare organizations in 190 countries through its UptoDate product.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The AI diagnostic solution can identify the median nerve in ultrasound videos and detect CTS with 95% accuracy, the hospital claimed in a statement. Enabling rapid communication and data transfer, it reduces emergency response time to "under 4 minutes," the company claimed in a statement.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Just like your brick-and-mortar business has to be ADA compliant, your healthcare website must also be accessible to people with disabilities. ADA accessibility lawsuits are on the rise. If your website isn’t accessible to people with disabilities, you could risk lawsuits, financial liabilities, and damage to your brand reputation.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Through the partnership, Ascension’s clinicians and patients will have access to Labcorp’s diagnostics and at-home test collection services. Meanwhile, Cue Health also spun up a platform that offers members access to 24/7 virtual care and on-demand COVID-19 tests , as well as physician-ordered diagnostics for other needs.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This population's immediate need is to address a lack of access to basic necessities, which are beyond the scope of the career program, according to PVA's announcement. WHY THIS MATTERS. PVA works to address the needs of veterans with catastrophic disabilities and paralyzed veterans. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2021

"Virtual care has the potential to dramatically enhance access to high-quality care for underserved populations across our state," said Dr. John Yang, president and medical director for the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, in a statement. And this gives you access to the best physicians on the planet."

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 11, 2022

APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2022

Amwell and LG Electronics announced this week that they are partnering to develop device-based tools that make it easier for patients to access at-home or in-hospital care. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

. “We extend a warm welcome to Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice into the Legacy Care Partners family,” Legacy Care Partners President and CEO Brian McDonald said in a statement. Louis region,” Denise Gloede, president of continuum of care at SSM Health, said in a statement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Patient families access the free multilingual digital companion, Vital's ERAdvisor, through CHLA’s existing MyVisit portal, without account registration or any app downloads.

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Etactics

APRIL 11, 2024

AC-2 within NIST SP 800-53 states that authorization should occur before granting access. Once developed, the following tasks help maintain the authorized account list: System Access Briefings Review of Account Access Review of Account Types Maintaining an authorized account list helps meet the following CMMC Level 1 objectives: AC.L1-b.1.i(a)

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The Digital Therapeutics Alliance this week encouraged legislators to support its efforts to broaden access to DTx. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the post, OCHIN said the critical access hospital with an attached nursing home serving 50,000 residents in southern Idaho was discontinuing its old EHR system. "We feel like it will be a huge win for our patients and our community as well, that they could have that kind of patient portal access," said Tom Murphy, Minidoka CEO.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 25, 2024

Announced Monday, the Troy, Michigan-based company has acquired Next Day Access, which is a provider of residential and commercial home access solutions in the U.S. Now, Best Life Brands boasts a personal home care brand, a home health care brand and a home accessibility solutions brand. Sorrenti said in a statement.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data from the new hospital-at-home platform will be accessible through Orlando Health's Epic electronic health records through a multi-year agreement with the connected health and digital therapeutics company. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

"With 150 million people passing through our doors each week, we have a unique opportunity to reach people who might not otherwise have access to or feel comfortable seeking HIV care," said Kevin Host, senior vice president of Walmart health, wellness and pharmacy in the announcement.

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