Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The hospital offers self-health management tools like Health Care Express, Chang Gung e-Finger App, CGMH Mobile App, and NHI Care Express.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With virtual mental health a trend during the exponential growth of remote care, AI and femtech, the survey focuses on three key areas that might increasingly shape future medical care. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. The provider will be able to observe trend lines or screen share it for use during the appointment.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With virtual mental health a trend during the exponential growth of remote care, AI and femtech, the survey focuses on three key areas that might increasingly shape future medical care. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 16, 2024

Some key trends to watch from some of my colleagues at FTI in their article The Evolution of Healthcare: Trends to Watch in 2024. billion in 2019. Digital Health. Commercialization of Healthcare. billion in 2010 to $119.9

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. per 100,000 women).

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has announced the launch of its Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, aimed at enhancing opportunities for collaboration among medical and computer scientists. Fuchs, the school's dean for artificial intelligence and human health, in a statement. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 29, 2022

The aim of the programs is to reduce hospital readmissions and improve digital health risk assessments. THE LARGER TREND. Patient-reported outcomes are a critical way to assess the ongoing state of patient health and satisfaction, and a growing number of digital tools are helping them do so. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced this week that it had brought HIPAA-related enforcement actions against five healthcare providers. "Timely access to your health records is a powerful tool in staying healthy, patient privacy and it is your right under law," said OCR Director Lisa J.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Our digital capability will be significantly uplifted by the introduction of a Digital Outpatient Management Service and eReferrals," the Health department noted. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

Morgan’s InstaMed team to analyze health care payments data, describing the experiences of consumers, providers and payers in the Trends in Healthcare Payments Fourteenth Annual Report. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The care coordination and healthcare navigation vendor Quantum Health announced this week that it had hired Zane Burke as chief executive officer and Board of Directors member. Burke's time at Livongo overlapped with the company's 2019 IPO , as well as its big-ticket merger with Teladoc. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

University of Connecticut researchers will use a $392,994 award for a large-scale computational study of biased health information that focuses on bias reduction in the health domain. THE LARGER TREND. National Science Foundation and Amazon. WHY IT MATTERS. For this third round of Fairness in AI funding that totals $9.5

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

THE LARGER TREND. A University of Missouri study published this past week found that the turn to virtual care reduced stress for residents and helped increase access to services. At the same time, however, relying on telemedicine had drawbacks, especially from a social perspective. WHY IT MATTERS. Saved organizational resources.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A new study published in this month's issue of Health Policy and Technology found, however, that healthcare organizations may face obstacles when it comes to complying with the law. THE LARGER TREND. The California Consumer Privacy Act, passed in 2018, aims to give consumers more control over their online personal information.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

OCR's enforcement actions, which include some substantial monetary penalties for the following healthcare providers, and compelled them to furnish patients with timely copies of their health records: Peoria and Canton, Illinois-based ACPM Podiatry , failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records, according to OCR.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2023

And yet, the referral rejection rate reached an all-time high in home health care – all the way up to 76%. All the while, patients being referred to home health have a higher acuity level on average. Nursing home referrals are also up compared to 2019, a fact that would surprise some health care experts during the peak of the pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe. From the specialty perspective, behavioral health is getting serious attraction toward telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Overall, the study – which was fielded in June and July of this year – found that 36% of patients have accessed telehealth services in the last year, up from 9% in 2020 and 7% in 2019. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. Rates were highest among millennials and what J.D. Power survey from this past year. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Warner questions whether Google is "prioritizing the race to establish market share over patient well-being," and whether the company is "skirting health privacy as it trained diagnostic models on sensitive health data without patients' knowledge or consent." Have you tested Med-PaLM 2 for this failure mode?

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2022

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that ambulatory clinicians spent less time in electronic health record systems at the start of the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. That initial valley was short-lived, however, according to the report. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In this blog, I share nine healthcare marketing trends you need to embrace in 2023 to remain competitive in today’s ever-changing healthcare marketplace. 9 Healthcare Marketing Trends 2023. 9 Healthcare Marketing Trends 2023. Healthcare consumers continue to move swiftly down the paths of least resistance toward quality care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

in health care. The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O.

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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2023

Fee-for-service (FFS) home health admissions are decreasing quicker than FFS enrollment. That’s according to the 2023 post-acute care industry trends report from Atlanta-based analytics and metrics firm Trella Health. Between Q2 of 2019 and 2022, annual FFS admissions fell by 16.4%, on average. in 2021 and 5.8%

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 27, 2023

. – The report, Health is Primary : Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability reveals the United States has seen a consistent decrease in the number of primary care clinicians since 2014, caused by a decline in the number of clinicians entering primary care, burnout leading to retirement, and decreased direct patient care time.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. practicing providers” largely found in Trilliant Health’s data trove. health care financing.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Around 2019, Medicare Advantage (MA) was all the rave among home care providers. But, since 2019, that optimism around MA has waned for most. Then, particularly recently, the growth in plans’ adoption of SSBCI and primarily-health related benefits has slowed.

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Home Health Care

JULY 28, 2023

While health care bankruptcies are trending to triple the level seen in 2021, home-based care is – for now – seemingly immune to the surge of filings seen across the continuum. Overall, there have been 40 health care bankruptcies filed through June 2023, compared to 46 filings in 2022. In fact, senior care made up 26.1%

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That’s according to a recent study conducted by the West Health Research Institute of Blue Shield of California. Many home health agencies offer palliative care services, but they typically have been hard to manage financially. With the emergence of value-based care, that is beginning to change, however. Amedisys Inc.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Formed in 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, CommonSpirit Health is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. " Dr. Francisco Rhein, CommonSpirit Health. It has more than 1,000 care sites serving 20 million patients in 21 states.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 29, 2022

What You Should Know: – Flare Capital Partners , a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. When we started the firm in 2014, over $4.5 billion was invested.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A paper in Health Affairs by Martin, Hartman, Benson, Catlin, and The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team (2022) finds that national health expenditures (NHE) rose but declined as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). Health care spending in the US grew 2.7 percent share in 2019. percent share in 2019.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Post-acute care volume trends continue to suggest that the shift to home is here to stay. Other data, however, also suggests there’s a widening gap between hospital referrals to the home health setting and agencies’ ability to accept new cases. Home health acceptance rates. Source: CarePort, a WellSky company.

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