Technology

Mobile devices for patients to report symptoms associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors address an unmet need.

The resulting spike in telehealth use exceeded expectations, with an 11,718% increase in remote Medicare visits between March and April 2020.

The first half of 2021 saw 372 deals averaging $39.6 million, which is already more than the total value of the deals done in all of 2020.

Three differentiators that separate leaders from chasers in virtual health transformation.

Artificial intelligence can help deal with everyday problems such as prior authorization and high utilization. But payers are also eyeing it for loftier purposes.

By enabling a more efficient, integrated process, electronic payment solutions are optimizing payment processes for payers and providers at a time when reliable, accurate and timely payments are of utmost importance to healthcare organizations.

Insurers make acquisitions as pandemic adoption of virtual care delivery becomes the norm.

To say that Covid-19 has permanently transformed the meetings and events landscape would be stating the obvious, authors share in this opinion piece.

The latest technology is changing treatments for patients.

Strategies are needed that take most, if not, all of the burden away from the patient so that RPM enhances their experience with their care. Both telehealth and RPM have those elements needed to improve the patient experience, including good communication between doctors and patients and improved patient engagement.

As patients become discerning consumers of healthcare, providers are focused on implementing processes and technologies that enhance the entire experience, from care delivery through to payment obligations.

It is undoubtable that the role of telehealth technology has soared throughout the pandemic, achieving levels of adoption that were previously thought unattainable. However, appetites are changing drastically, the question is now; what role can telehealth play in emergency medicine?

Companies are forming and investment dollars are pouring in. Can these services make mental healthcare more accessible and affordable as the pandemic leaves depression and anxiety in its wake?

Breaches in online vaccination schedulers are the among the security problems the healthcare sector is scrambling to fix.

As market forces visibly disrupt healthcare (less access to cheap capital, reimbursement pressures, rising demand for services in the face of constrained supply), digitally transforming core processes is not merely an option any more.

Much of the data that AI depends on is tainted with racial bias.

Dr. Kathleen Bethin, clinical professor, and Dr. Lucy Mastrandrea, associate professor and division chief of endocrinology/diabetes both at the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, spoke with Vic Baldry of Cecelia Health to discuss the challenges telehealth has created when caring for families with children who have type 1 diabetes.

But many devices don’t communicate with a patient’s electronic health record.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was more of a stretch goal than a reality for most providers despite the seeming prevalence of video conferencing.

Amid the nursing shortage, hospitals can create better working conditions through these three technology solutions.

How consumers feel about their virtual care encounters will influence everything from CAHPS surveys to compensation beyond the pandemic.

Providers and payers need data to address social determinants of health effectively. But that data is often siloed, unstructured and difficult to use.

Devices take some of the pressure off a healthcare system coping with COVID-19.

Kristin Ficery, who leads Accenture’s North America Health, discusses recent Accenture research that discovered since the onset of COVID-19, 60% of patients want to use technology more for their healthcare. And nine out of 10 patients said quality of care was “as good or better” than before COVID-19.

Half the health systems and 65% of doctors had no online reviews, which puts them at a disadvantage when millennials go shopping for healthcare.

Health organizations that had RPM solutions in place pre-pandemic have been more successful at scaling up than organizations that were starting from scratch during the pandemic.

Enforcement of rules to encourage the freer flow of healthcare data were delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are now scheduled to go into effect this year.

The technology must be further developed and tested to improve hand hygiene compliance.