Source: Private Payer News The coronavirus pandemic is expected to continue exerting pressure on healthcare spending in 2022, with experts projecting a medical cost trend of 6.5 percent. The medical cost trend for 2022 may not be as high as expected, but it is still higher than the...
Source: Fierce Healthcare Apple iPhone users will soon be able to review long-term analyses of their health, receive automated alerts of changes to their loved one’s condition and share health data directly to their provider’s EHR system through the Apple Health app, the tech company revealed...
Source: Insider Intelligence Google is teaming up with Tennessee-based health system HCA Healthcare to help it consolidate and store digital health records and develop algorithms to improve operational efficiency, patient monitoring, and clinical decision-making. This marks yet another major Google expansion into the healthcare provider space—which will be key for its electronic health...
Source: University of Florida News Judges don’t do court stenography. CEOs don’t take minutes at meetings. So why do we expect doctors and other health care providers to spend hours recording notes — something experts know contributes to burnout? “Having them do so much clerical work doesn’t...
By: Brian Eastwood Source: MIT Management Sloan School For years, advocates of digital health have touted the potential of video visits, phone calls, emails, text messages, and smartphone apps to provide more convenient and accessible care than in-person visits to brick-and-mortar hospitals and clinics. As recently as February...
Source: HealthcareITNews.com By: Nathan Eddy Startups and legacy tech vendors alike are developing array applications and web services to help people track the virus, check for symptoms and offer advice on ways to help prevent exposure. As the number of infections caused by the spread of the Coronavirus...
By: Venky Ananth Source: LiveMint.com One of the tools that can leverage AI to free up more of healthcare providers’ time to offer care to more patients, is the electronic healthcare record (EMR). Stacy, who has been struggling with chronic arm pain, is reluctant to meet her physician...
Source: MarketWatch.com Key Trends and Analysis of the Electronic Medical Records Market: Major factors driving growth of the electronic medical records market include digital transformation in the healthcare IT sector and increasing patients as well as physician's needs for better healthcare, which can be met by easy...
Source: HealthDataManagement.com The adoption of HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing electronic medical information has reached critical mass. That’s the assessment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “New analysis shows that the United States might be at a turning point...
Source: ModernHealthcare.com By: Rachel Z. Arndt The word "patient" is rapidly fading from the healthcare lexicon. Nowadays, healthcare executives sound like those from any other industry, talking about "consumers" or even "customers." With consumer-friendly companies like Apple and Amazon nipping at the heels of traditional healthcare organizations, not...