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• The Big Data Healthcare Is Ignoring

  10/6/2017

  In the years since the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare providers and technology developers have sought out solutions to leverage the resultant newfound abundance of patient data to improve outcomes. By Kurt Waltenbaugh, founder and CEO, Carrot Health

• Applying Machine Learning To Live Data

  8/4/2017

  According to the OECD, U.S. healthcare devotes far more of its economy to health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is shorter than in other countries that spend less. The biggest areas of spending and concern are for coordination of care and preventing hospital admissions for people with chronic conditions such as heart disease. The combination of connected medical devices, streaming analytics, big data, and machine learning has become more powerful and less expensive than before, which could enable scalable chronic disease management with better care at lower costs.

• You Can't Ignore The Fax: Tips For Transitioning Providers To A Digital Fax Solution

  7/6/2020

  While the fax machine has no shortage of challenges—lack of privacy, misdials and risk of confidentiality breach, throughput challenged, blurry printouts, wasteful—it also has been a tried and true workhorse. Organizations seeking to transition to a more efficient and secure alternative will need to take pragmatic steps to assure an electronic solution works as reliably, easily, and inexpensively as the fax machine.

• ASCs Add Substantial Value To Outpatient Surgery

  10/5/2020

  Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are not new to the healthcare industry, but recent technological advances and the potential for COVID-19 infection in the hospital setting are driving many third-party administrators to take a deeper look.

• Did The U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into The Third Leading Cause Of Death?

  6/15/2016

  Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest “Can You Top This” except, increasingly, the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical deaths, many of these IT snafus are caused by preventable interoperability communication errors, as has been the case for decades.

• The Role Of Care Coordination Technology In Achieving ED Optimization

  6/8/2020

  Hospital emergency department overutilization is costly for providers and patients. More than one-third of all ED visits are avoidable, and if patients were instead diverted to a lower level of care the U.S. healthcare system could save more than $18 billion per year. Despite the many drivers for unnecessary ED use, there is a tremendous opportunity for providers to improve care coordination and achieve ED optimization.