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Bill Siwicki for Healthcare It News The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Tebra, a vendor…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care.…
From For the Record The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced an editorial update to CPT, the nation’s leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes new product and administration codes assigned to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 5 years old. The provisional CPT codes are…
By Mike Millard for Healthcare IT News ChristianaCare this week announced some new help to augment its workforce: robotic assistants that can help nurses and other hospital staff spend more time with patients by automatic certain time-intensive tasks. WHY IT MATTERS The technology, called Moxi, is a collaborative robot that can work alongside nurses and…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Internal actors continue to pose a sticky cybersecurity problem for healthcare companies despite not causing a majority of data breaches, according to a new data breach report from Verizon. Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That’s compared to just 18% across all industries,…
By Georgina Gonzalez for Becker’s Hospital Review From big corporations to fast growing start-ups, women executives in the health tech industry are making a mark in their organizations. Twenty-five such leaders have been honored by the Healthcare Technology Report as exceptional in the healthcare software industry. The May 23 report named 25 women who work in healthcare…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News The American Medical Informatics Association this week announced next steps for AMIA 25×5, its multi-stakeholder effort to alleviate documentation burden for U.S. clinicians. WHY IT MATTERS Funded by the National Library of Medicine, the 25×5 Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on U.S. Clinicians by 75% by 2025 was…
By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News Shawn Sefton, RN, has experienced first-hand the operational, staffing and scheduling challenges that plague the U.S. nurse workforce, having worked as a nurse and in various nurse leader roles for decades. She spent her early career as a frontline ED and perianesthesia nurse in various hospitals. Then she…
Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review The CIO role has shifted; once a leader in tech, CIOs are now a member of the executive team, with increasing responsibility revolving around consumer experience, digitalization, technology, marketing and innovation. Those leaders once labeled as IT implementation and management are stepping out into more strategic positions. Here, four…
By Kat Jercich for Healthcare IT News Sepsis, the body’s damaging over-response to an infection, affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States every year. Early treatment is key to staying ahead of the condition, which can be life-threatening. But sometimes the clinical signs can be hard to spot – making artificial intelligence tools particularly…