Article Archive for May 2020
Telehealth Gets Stamp of Approval
Many changes have taken place during the past three months since COVID-19 has swept across the country. In an unprecedented move, Medicare has been promoting virtual medical care or telehealth. It just took a pandemic …
Social Factors and Healthcare
A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool can identify socioeconomic hurdles affecting patient health and steers its hospital clients toward programs to invest in that could help boost health outcomes. Business Insider brought this news to us in …
Health Information Exchange Progresses for VA and DoD
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paused their electronic health record (EHR) modernization project while it focused on fighting COVID-19. However progress continues with the integration efforts with the Department of Defense and the community at …
Healthcare Fraud Under Attack
After a federal lawsuit charging fraudulent billing to Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and other federal health care programs, Michael Doyle and Christopher Toepke and their businesses, Logan Laboratories Inc. and Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc., have …
EHRs’ Role in the Pandemic
Many believed as the coronavirus progressed into a pandemic, that electronic health record (EHR) systems would get exposed to be the burden some believed they are to patient care. But as the outbreak continues, EHR …
HIT and the Virus
Health information has never been more important in these days of pandemic. Health information technology (HIT) is certainly under pressure to provide fast and complete information to help track and slow the spread of the …
Population Health Management Now
Population health tech experts from health technology vendors showcase best practices for making the information technology work best at healthcare provider organizations. Healthcare IT News brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, …
Health IT and AI
Google is more than a search engine. It has specialized in diversifying its products. Because of that diversification, healthcare IT is on the horizon for the alphabet giant. Many are wondering if Google is building …
Fraud is Serious Business
Health care fraud in the United States is estimated to be $270 billion every year. Approximately 10 percent of our nation’s health care expenses are attributed to healthcare fraud. Health care scams are constantly evolving …
Stepping Up
A continued collaboration between GE Healthcare and Microsoft is resulting in a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems. Tech Crunch brought this interesting news to us in their article, “GE Healthcare and Microsoft are bringing …
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