Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry
The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance.
Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the board. Beyond the benefits listed above, I see the adoption of digital technologies as a way to improve the customer experience ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Customer Journey Mapping Digital Health Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Chatbots Healthcare Transformation Linda Comp-No Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 2, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. John Lynn headed east for the annual HFMA conference. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. This comes with a challenge, though: Ke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Collision Conference Digital Health Canada Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup HFMA Inovalon Invicta Health Solutions Judy Faulkner NVIDIA SimiTree Source Type: blogs
The moral depravity of the Republican party
Following up on yesterday ' s post about how rich yet unequal we are, it ' s very important to debunk the common idea that Republican voters are somehow responding to " economic anxiety " or the relative decline in income of people with limited formal education. In the first place, the median income of Republican voters is higher than the average median income. They are mostly skilled tradespeople, small business owners, and even very affluent people who work in financial services or technology industries. Yes, there is an urban/rural divide, but most of these voters aren ' t people living in shacks down in the hollo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Educational Freedom
Colleen HroncichAs we head toward Independence Day on Monday, it seems like a good time to consider educational freedom.If we were designing a system of education today, it ’s unlikely anyone would suggest building schools and assigning kids to them based on where they live. No other area of life works that way—not even other levels of education, like preschool or college. Food stamp recipients aren’t assigned to government‐run grocery stores. Medicare and M edicaid don’t require recipients to see a ZIP ‐code assigned doctor. K‑12 education is an anomaly.It ’s easy to see why children w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought
The following is a guest article by Baha Zeidan, CEO at Azalea Health.
Deploying advanced technologies is often an afterthought, especially for rural hospitals struggling to retain talent and navigate the increasingly complex regulatory environment.
However, new technologies empower providers to streamline their operations, reduce the time spent on administrative tasks, and conserve increasingly precious resources.
In Q1 2022, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that hospitals across the nation have 105,000 fewer workers than in February 2020, a roughly 2% decline. Rural providers especially feel the pinch, as medic...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Azalea Health Baha Zeidan Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation Rural Hospital IT R Source Type: blogs
Notes on monkeypox
If you remember the right wing freakout over Ebola virus -- of which IIRC there were fewer than 5 cases in the U.S., none of which was fatal -- you may wonder why the deafening silence about monkeypox. Ha ha! You don ' t have to wonder. So far, he monkeypox outbreak in the U.S. and Europe seems to be largely if not entirely limited to men who have sex with men. This will likely change, of course.Here are the basics about monkeypox. Unfortunately it ' s behind the NYT paywall but it ' s the best summary I could find. Anyway I ' ll review the situation for you. Monkeypox is indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, but among th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 27, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Voting Republican is bad for your health
Literally. A study byWarraich HJ, Kumar P, Nasir K, Joynt Maddox KE, and Wadhera RK in BMJfinds this: There has actually been lots of previous research on this general question. As the authors note, " Previous studies have shown that counties that elect Republican candidates tend to experience worse health outcomes, such as fewer gains in life expectancy and increased rates of opioid prescription.56789, " so this is just further confirmation. As they summarize their fndings, " the mortality gap between white residents in Democratic versus Republican counties increased fourfold. Rural Republican count...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Automated Wearable Breast Ultrasound System: Interview with Maryam Ziaei, CEO of iSono Health
iSono Health, a medtech company based in San Francisco, has created the ATUSA System, a wearable 3D ultrasound breast scanning system. The device is worn on the breast, and does not rely on operator experience or skill to obtain consistent, high quality breast scans.
As the scanning takes place automatically, it can be used by non-sonographers, such as medical assistants. The system also employs AI to assist in scan interpretation and treatment decisions.
The portable system can be used at the point of care, which may mean that it is suitable for use in remote or low resource parts of the world. As...
Source: Medgadget - June 16, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Will Digital Health Widen Or Close The Health Inequity Gap?
This study shows real-world positive results of peer-to-peer mentoring for diabetes patients.
Disruptive technologies have a tendency to widen gaps – before closing them
It is hard to predict the rate at which digital health becomes reality for everyone. But thinking back to what we know about former examples of how disruptive – not that anyone called them that then – technologies spread, we see a tendency that they tend to widen the gap at first but close them later.
From electricity to washing machines, from polio vaccines to mobile phones – there was a period for each when the bene...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research E-Patients Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones Source Type: blogs
Republican Health Policies Disproportionally Harm White Citizens in Their States
BY MIKE MAGEE
“As I’ve said before, I believe Dr. Ladapo is an anti-science quack who doesn’t belong anywhere near our state’s Surgeon General office, let alone running it. But now that he’s been confirmed, it’s my sincere hope that he and Governor DeSantis choose to focus on saving lives and preventing unnecessary illness instead of continuing their absurd promotion of conspiracy theories and opposition to proven public health measures — but I’m not going to hold my breath.”
If you identified these as the words of the former governor, and now Congressman Charlie Crisp, currently running to retake t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Affordable Care Act Charlie Crisp Medicaid Medicaid Expansion Source Type: blogs
Paul Krugman and the “Ersatz” Theory of Private Currencies
George SelginAlthough I ' ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there ' s one I ' ve yet to directly challenge. That ' s the belief that such currencies only thrive in the absence of official alternatives. Otherwise, the argument goes, people would drop private currencies like so many hot rocks. Since this opinion assumes that private currencies are inevitably inferior to official ones, I hereby christen it the " ersatz " theory of private currency. Note that " currency " means circulating or (in today ' s digital context)peer-to-peer exchange media: nobody denies that other so...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
How to tackle the physician shortage
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts that at least 139,000 doctors will be needed by 2033, particularly in rural and low-income areas. In an attempt to address this need, states have been replacing physicians with non-physician health care providers and reducing physician oversight. I’ve seen it firsthand. One day in the ER, aRead more …How to tackle the physician shortage originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/sujan-gogu-and-aishwarya-sivaramakrishnan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Sujan Gogu, DO and Aishwarya Sivaramakrishnan < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 23rd 2022
In conclusion, remofuscin activates the lysosome-to-nucleus pathway in C. elegans, thereby increasing the expression levels of xenobiotic detoxification genes resulted in extending their lifespan.
Naked Mole-Rat Skin Shows Fewer Signs of Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/05/naked-mole-rat-skin-shows-fewer-signs-of-aging/
Naked mole-rats exhibit a maximum life span that is many times longer than is the case for similarly sized mammals. Further, they are negligibly senescent, showing few age-related declines in function across much of that lengthy life span. That includes maintenance of stem ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The J-1 work exemption: a flawed solution to the physician shortage
A few years ago, my rural town expected the addition of a“J-1,” or foreign, physician. This addition was meant to alleviate the work of my father, who had been the only neurologist at our underserved hospital for the past few years. And yet, with this J-1’s arrival, my father and his office soon foundRead more …The J-1 work exemption: a flawed solution to the physician shortage originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/gregory-tan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Gregory Tan < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Lower Physical Performance Correlates with Some Inflammation Markers
Researchers here report on a study showing that lower physical performance in old age correlates with only one of a small panel of selected blood markers of inflammation. It is expected that a greater burden of chronic inflammation will cause a more rapid decline in later life, including the loss of strength and resilience leading into frailty. Inflammation and its interaction with tissue function is sufficiently complex a topic, and sufficiently varied from individual to individual, that we might expect to see mixed results like these, however.
Maintenance of physical performance is essential for achievement of h...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
