FEATURED CONTENT

• Facilitating Behavior Change Is The Key To Unlocking Improved Patient Outcomes

  3/11/2019

  Medical care is being revolutionized by precision medicine and personalized treatments that address each patient’s unique needs. However, these advancements alone are not nearly enough to improve outcomes. Individual behavior also plays an important role in tackling chronic conditions, reducing risk of diseases, and improving overall population health.

• IoT And Healthcare: Is Your Body The Next Target For Hackers

  6/28/2016

  Healthcare cybersecurity primarily focuses on protecting breaches of patients’ private medical data and, more recently, on preventing ransomware attacks that can lock health professionals out of their systems and make electronic medical records inaccessible. However, as wearable and implantable medical devices are developed and grow in popularity, another concern arises: the potential for hackers to actually attack the body of patients.

• Predictive Analytics Support Patient Goals Of Care For Individuals With Advanced Illness

  2/21/2018

  Thanks to an ambitious Health and Human Services timeline that hopes to see 90 percent of traditional Medicare payments transformed into value-based reimbursement, healthcare payers, particularly Medicare Advantage plans, are relying more heavily upon population health and data analytics to track, forecast and improve patient outcomes.

• Cybercrime Is Bad For Your Health

  5/18/2016

  Hardly a week goes by without a hospital, healthcare provider or health insurer falling prey to some form of ransomware — a big problem that is only getting bigger. Leading hospitals such as Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, MedStar Health’s Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and Methodist Hospital in Henderson, KY have fallen victim to these attacks. The recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) saw ransomware attacks rise 16 percent overall this year and, according to Brookings Center for Technology Innovation study, 23 percent of all data breaches occurred in healthcare, tripling over the last two years alone.

• Why Healthcare Should Provide Treatment Cost Information

  1/3/2018

  As part of revenue cycle management, patient financials — the ability to discuss treatment costs at the time of service and helping patients understand why visits cost what they do — is crucial and a growing challenge in healthcare IT. Savvy healthcare consumers are demanding more information about all aspects of their medical care and are especially interested in obtaining up-front information about costs in an effort to mitigate increasing premiums and high deductibles.

• 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.