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  1. Patient Communications: Remembering The Past While Looking To The Future 1/3/2020

    Can you remember where you were on December 31, 1999? Most likely, you were gathered with friends or family, ready to celebrate the dawn of the year 2000. It was an exciting time—and doesn’t really feel like it was too long ago. And yet, in terms of technology and communication, it really was a different lifetime.

  2. Top 5 Takeaways From The Federal HIT Strategic Plan 2/6/2015

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released, for public comment, their Federal Health IT Strategic plan covering 2015 to 2020. The strategic plan is divided into five major goals guided by a “collect, share, and use” methodology: Expand Adoption of Health IT (Collect); Advance Secure and Interoperable Health Information (Share); Strengthen Healthcare Delivery (Use); Advance the Health and Well-Being of Individuals and Communities (Use); Advance Research, Scientific Knowledge, and Innovation (Use). By Paul Sliva, Health IT Consultant, ICE Technologies, Inc.

  3. Patient Relationship Management: Taking Care To The Next Level 11/28/2016

    When patients quit coming back to a practice, it is often for different reasons than providers assume. By Josh Weiner, Chief Operating Officer, Solutionreach

  4. The Next Step To Value-Based Care: Activating Healthcare Data For Physicians 3/26/2019

    Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now.

  5. New Best Practices In Patient Data Transfer For EMTALA Support 4/13/2018

    The Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) stipulates that if an individual comes to an emergency treatment facility in need of care, the hospital must either treat the individual to stabilize the medical condition or transfer the individual to a facility that can treat the condition. In any event, a hospital must provide medical care, regardless of the individual’s insurance status or ability to pay.

  6. Can AI Propel Us Towards Universal Health Coverage? 7/2/2019

    The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage as ensuring that everyone can obtain the care they need, when they need it, right in the heart of their own communities. While countries in all regions of the world continue to make progress toward these goals, millions of people still have no access to healthcare. Considering this stark reality, it’s imperative we ask ourselves, how might advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) improve healthcare access and outcomes globally?

  7. Defending Healthcare IT In The Pandemic Landscape 8/31/2020

    Attackers have used subjects in the news as social engineering lures before, but this moved to the next level in the first half of 2020. From opportunistic phishers to scheming nation-state actors, cyber adversaries found multiple ways to exploit the pandemic for their benefit at enormous scale. Phishing and business email compromise schemes, nation-state-backed campaigns, and ransomware attacks were paramount among them. Bad actors worked to maximize the global nature of a pandemic that affected everyone, combined with an immediately expanded digital attack surface.

  8. Health Informatics And The Future Of Healthcare 2/7/2017

    Healthcare is constantly evolving, and so are the ways physicians are handling patient information. By Scott Rhodes, Vice Provost of Enrollment, Florida Polytechnic University

  9. The Benefits Of IT Convergence In Healthcare 1/21/2011

    This article explores how network convergence can help hospitals reduce costs, while boosting patient care and service levels. By Rod Sampson, director of marketing, Belden

  10. Omnichannel Communication: The Frontier Healthcare Needs To Target 11/4/2019

    One of the many aspects that insurers focus on to create more value through their health plans is to improve communication with the members. In the era of growing digitization, most payers have started to offer online services. However, many beneficiaries still use traditional channels to interact with insurers. Does it imply that members are averse to using digital channels for communication?