Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today declared a public health emergency in Louisiana to prepare for potential impacts of Tropical Storm Barry. The declaration follows President Trump’s emergency declaration for the state and gives Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) beneficiaries and their healthcare providers and suppliers greater flexibility in meeting emergency ...
Virtustream Healthcare Cloud helped the North Carolina-based health system “future-proof” its IT system by moving mission-critical data to its hosting service. Powered by WPeMatico
Natural language processing-powered software has helped the clinic gain efficiencies, leading to more time with patients, fewer EHR burnout symptoms and the ability to see more patients in a day. Powered by WPeMatico
Digitize.AI’s Lia technology uses real-time analytics and machine learning to automatically check for new cases and securely submit them directly to payers. Powered by WPeMatico
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and National Kidney Foundation (NKF) announced a new prize competition that seeks to identify ideas and solutions patients and care partners have developed to improve their daily life with kidney disease. The KidneyX Patient Innovator Challenge, funded by the National ...
Patient engagement can include listening to the family members of those who have been lost. Following the unexpected death of his celebrity-son over a decade ago, Kim Ledger is campaigning to reduce prescription drug related deaths. Digital surveillance could be part of the solution. Powered by WPeMatico
Thailand’s population is ageing rapidly with almost half of its electorate above 50 years old by 2025. Healthcare costs are rising and it is not tenable in the long-run to keep building hospitals. One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost. ...
The smartphone app also came in handy during a ransomware attack: When other systems were down, it was up and running. Powered by WPeMatico
More than half of hospitals say they’ve had one or more data breaches caused by third-party vendors in the past two years, with an average cost of $2.9 million per incident – but too many are still failing to do adequate risk assessments. Powered by WPeMatico
A multi-year agreement with the machine learning company will start with a tool to identify high-risk GI patients, eventially expanding to other high-burden diseases. Powered by WPeMatico
