FEATURED CONTENT

• How The New Connected Device Market Is Empowering Telehealth

  8/8/2018

  An exciting new category of connected health devices is emerging. It holds promise for disease management, remote care, and precision health. This new category blends two historically distinct worlds: 1) regulated medical devices, and 2) consumer wearables. The powerful combination of these two worlds offers patients and health-conscious consumers new solutions that marry the ease of use and wearability of consumer devices such as FitBit with the accuracy and quality of doctor-prescribed equipment like the Holter Monitor. What this new category of connected health devices enables is the ultimate goal in remote patient monitoring - the ability to offer the same level of medical quality found in hospitals to a patient at home.

• Watch Out For These 3 Help Desk Red Flags

  4/3/2018

  Clinically focused EHR technical support is an often-overlooked necessity for health systems in the evolving value-based care landscape. IT help desks are crucial to value-based care revenue models simply because they help providers be more productive, reduce costly errors and can improve the patient experience. In fact, 85 percent of clinicians’ patient care delivery is impeded by subpar tech support, while 89 percent of physicians and 77 percent of nurses feel more loyal to an organization when advanced tech support delivers a high-quality end-user experience.

• How Technology Is Improving The Later Stages Of Life

  1/2/2017

  Technology is always a hot topic, especially among teens and younger adults. However, the elderly are increasingly turning to technology to enhance their lives. Recent studies demonstrate technology for seniors can be a low-cost way to “offset significant challenges to well-being encountered in the latest state of life.”

• Software And Hardware End-Of-Life Risks For Healthcare

  3/25/2019

  We often find that it is the critical systems that run the unsupported software or hardware. While most IT teams know the importance of unsupported systems and life cycle management, competing priorities and the approach of “if it’s not broken” is often taken with legacy systems.

• The Digital Healthcare Evolution: How Experimentation Can Help Build The Future Of Patient-Centered Care

  2/12/2016

  A lot happens in 60 seconds on the internet. More than 293,000 Facebook statuses are updated, 550,000 tweets written, and 2.78 million YouTube videos watched in this small amount of time.

• Is It Bad Debt Or Charity Care? The Right Way To Measure Uncompensated Care

  11/11/2016

  As part of the Affordable Care Act of 2009, new requirements were introduced relating to community benefits for nonprofit hospitals to meet in order to qualify for 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status. By Lori M. Jones, chief revenue officer, Connance