Source: Fierce Healthcare Apple iPhone users will soon be able to review long-term analyses of their health, receive automated alerts of changes to their loved one’s condition and share health data directly to their provider’s EHR system through the Apple Health app, the tech company revealed...
Source: Insider Intelligence Google is teaming up with Tennessee-based health system HCA Healthcare to help it consolidate and store digital health records and develop algorithms to improve operational efficiency, patient monitoring, and clinical decision-making. This marks yet another major Google expansion into the healthcare provider space—which will be key for its electronic health...
By: Baha Zeidan Source: www.bio-itworld.com One of the most important and most human concepts that has come into focus in light of the pandemic is “connectedness.” And throughout this ordeal, we’ve been trying to figure out how to cope without it: Early on in the pandemic, global...
Source: University of Florida News Judges don’t do court stenography. CEOs don’t take minutes at meetings. So why do we expect doctors and other health care providers to spend hours recording notes — something experts know contributes to burnout? “Having them do so much clerical work doesn’t...
By: Brian Eastwood Source: MIT Management Sloan School For years, advocates of digital health have touted the potential of video visits, phone calls, emails, text messages, and smartphone apps to provide more convenient and accessible care than in-person visits to brick-and-mortar hospitals and clinics. As recently as February...
Date: 1/17/21 Source: DocWireNews.com The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has clearly shown that major challenges and threats for humankind need to be addressed with global answers and shared decisions. Data and their analytics are crucial components of such decision-making activities. Rather interestingly, one of the most...
Source: EHRIntelligence.com Author: Christopher Jason The spread of COVID-19 has given health organizations the ultimate stress test over the last two-plus months. Clinician EHR use has been instrumental in overcoming that challenge. Between building field hospitals and wiring EHR systems at no cost to decrease hospital populations, or putting together...
Source: RollCall.com The truth about the coronavirus and contact tracing — finding out who is infected, who else might have been exposed by an infected person and then isolating those people — is that national and local public health departments have had to cobble together old...
Source: HealthcareITNews.com By: Nathan Eddy Startups and legacy tech vendors alike are developing array applications and web services to help people track the virus, check for symptoms and offer advice on ways to help prevent exposure. As the number of infections caused by the spread of the Coronavirus...
By: Venky Ananth Source: LiveMint.com One of the tools that can leverage AI to free up more of healthcare providers’ time to offer care to more patients, is the electronic healthcare record (EMR). Stacy, who has been struggling with chronic arm pain, is reluctant to meet her physician...