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IT Management

2024 07 Oct

  Healthcare facilities face persistent challenges when striving to optimise performance. The landscape is troubled by staffing shortages, financial disruptions, clinician burnout, and insufficient resources. A recent survey highlights that frontline workers are particularly stressed by a lack of resources and the growing clinical documentation...Read more

IT Management

2024 08 Sep

  The healthcare industry is undergoing a critical shift towards digitalisation, driven by the need to improve patient care, operational efficiency, and reduce administrative burdens. Yet, despite heavy investments, many healthcare providers find the path to successful digital transformation fraught with challenges. According to EdgeVerve CEO, Sateesh...Read more

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2024 02 Aug

  Chatbots have become integral to various industries, including marketing, real estate, finance, and healthcare. Their ability to provide instant responses and handle multiple users simultaneously makes them invaluable. Chatbots enhance patient care by offering symptom diagnosis, mental health consultations, and nutrition tracking services. This...Read more

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2024 01 Aug

  Technology integration in healthcare is pivotal in improving patient care and operational efficiency. However, many healthcare organisations struggle with outdated or inefficient applications, leading to redundancy and inefficiencies. Application modernisation emerges as a crucial process in addressing these challenges, offering a pathway to optimise...Read more

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2024 18 Jul

  Electronic Health Record (EHR) transitions, a colossal technological and operational hurdle, are a defining feature of modern healthcare systems. Clinicians are tasked with mastering new technologies, reshaping their daily routines and workflows, all while upholding the continuity and quality of patient care. The Department of Veterans Affairs...Read more

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2024 16 Jul

  Data is pivotal in enhancing behavioural health practices. By harnessing the power of data, healthcare providers can gain critical insights into patient demographics, preferences, and clinical histories, which, in turn, allows for the customisation of treatment plans to meet individual needs. Additionally, data aids in streamlining operational...Read more

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2024 26 Jun

  Effective communication among healthcare professionals is paramount for delivering high-quality patient care. Traditionally, telephone calls have been the cornerstone of clinician-to-clinician communication. However, the landscape has shifted in recent years with the widespread adoption of mobile devices and electronic health record (EHR) systems....Read more

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2024 13 Jun

  Healthcare organisations must optimise their computing resources to support innovative clinical workflows. Hospitals' primary objective is to provide optimal patient care, but recent years have seen challenges that complicate this goal. Increasing cyberattacks demand heightened cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive patient data, diverting...Read more

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2024 04 Jun

  Artificial intelligence's (AI) emergence in healthcare is now reaching the field of sleep medicine. A recent research commentary by the Artificial Intelligence in Sleep Medicine Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine sheds light on AI's potential to revolutionise patient care and preventive health strategies in sleep medicine. Led...Read more

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2024 30 May

  Patient access to healthcare has been a longstanding concern, one that predates the digital revolution and the current challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. It's a multifaceted issue stemming from various factors like affordability, transportation limitations, and the availability of appointments. While the healthcare system grapples with capacity...Read more

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2024 24 May

  Implementing AI in healthcare must include strategic vision, stakeholder engagement, ROI understanding, regulatory compliance, and scalability planning to fully leverage AI's potential to improve patient care and institutional efficiency.   Key Points AI offers solutions to healthcare challenges by enhancing diagnostic precision, operational...Read more

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2024 06 Mar

  Clinical trials are how we discover new cures, and they can be a life-saving form of treatment.  Paradigm  is breaking down barriers in the healthcare industry with technology that brings clinical trials to more people,  such as cancer patients, while reducing the paperwork burden for doctors and nurses to address clinician burnout.   Clinical...Read more

IT Management

2023 11 Oct

  Managed IT services are undeniably playing a pivotal role in the success of healthcare apps. IT Services revenue in the market rose to US$1,241.00bn in 2023, according to Statista Market Forecast . In the face of the ever-growing demand for top-quality care and services to patients, efficient operation, as well as strict compliance requirements,...Read more

IT Management

2023 06 Apr

Summary   Not only in the U.S., but also in Germany it is a fact that in the current economic situation of service providers, i.e. with the prevailing liquidity bottlenecks, the proof of the above thesis sounds tempting, i.e. a service provider participating in "data marketing".   Obtains valuable information for the treatment of its...Read more

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2023 28 Mar

IMO Solutions published a recent survey uncovering the most pressing needs faced by U.S. provider organisations and the bold changes they are planning to improve patient care.   More than 300 provider leaders were involved in the survey who are responsible for implementing and purchasing technology at healthcare provider organisations.  ...Read more

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2022 11 Aug

Gune joins Huma to drive further commercial adoption of the company’s digital health platforms in the U.S., specifically its  ‘Care at Home’  platform for remote patient monitoring. “Huma is transforming healthcare and research through its digital-first patient care platform, expanding access for patients, increasing capacity for clinical staff...Read more

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2021 14 Dec

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2019 16 Oct

Harnessing the power of healthcare data is key to developing innovative solutions that lead to better patient care.   At Medtronic , two key approaches enable the medical device company to utilise data on people's health to help hospitals become more efficient and effective in their delivery of care. The first one entails developing devices that...Read more

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2019 11 Feb

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2017 05 Jun

Evolving technology is seen paving the way for wider use of precision medicine in patient care. Further, more cost-effective gene sequencing and federal projects such as the Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot help to advance progress in this field.   However, there are also substantial obstacles facing personalised medicine, including...Read more

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2017 07 Mar

Healthcare leaders continue to find ways to address the problem of physician burnout as this impacts on patient care. At the Cleveland Clinic, cognitive computing is now used to reduce clinician workloads as well as simplify workflows and increase efficiency. See Also : Burnout: Practical Psychological Strategies to Cope Through a collaboration...Read more

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2016 07 Apr

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality   was conceived in 1991 to explore the healthcare utilization of rapidly evolving computing and communications technologies. Physicians, educators, scientists, and engineers gathered to assess how patient care and medical education could be enhanced by increasingly powerful and affordable computers and the newly...Read more

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2015 27 Jul

Athenahealth's new secure text messaging service "athenaText" makes coordination within care teams easier and faster — which contributes to improved patient care. Integrated with athenahealth’s cloud-based EHR platform, athenaText is available free to the more than one million healthcare professionals on the athenahealth network. The service is accessible...Read more

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2015 02 Jun

Morten Elbæk Petersen is the CEO of the innovative Danish public health portal sundhed.dk. Launched in 2002 for citizens and health professionals and the largest patient portal in Europe, the site won Petersen the HIMSS Europe eHealth Leadership Award this year. Today, twenty per cent of the Danish population uses the portal every month and use is...Read more

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2015 08 May

At WoHIT 2015, Agfa HealthCare "Envisions the Future of Care", enhancing collaboration, interoperability and mobility. Enterprise Imaging and Portal offer cost-effective, long-term solutions that align with EHR platform strategy Solutions form a pathway to integrated care, across departments, enterprises and regions, and beyond. They provide physicians...Read more

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2015 28 Feb

Medical students learning to relate to patients often interact with “standardised patients” portrayed by healthy people who are trained to act like real patients. The drawback of that type of interaction is that it is relatively expensive, and students do not always get to experience the range of patient personalities. Computer-based virtual patients...Read more

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2014 11 Jul

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the leading paediatric hospitals in the US, has been included in the list of 'Most Wired' hospitals in the country. Being named on the list, released annually by Health & Health Networks magazine, is recognition of a health care organisation's investment in technology that supports patient safety and...Read more

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2014 01 Jul

Approximately three million patients are currently connected to their professional caregivers via devices that remotely monitor health data. By 2018, that figure is expected to increase nearly five-fold, to 19 million patients worldwide. The expansion of mobile health technology will also double its share of total revenues, from one fifth to 40 percent...Read more

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2014 17 Jun

The interconnection of home- and hospital-based devices will allow medical caregivers to monitor elderly patients in their homes, reducing preventable hospitalisations, which stress senior patients and the facilities, which provide care to them. The “closed-loop healthcare” system being developed by researchers at the University of Missouri was presented...Read more

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2014 30 May

Gives healthcare providers immediate insights into patient satisfaction   Long Range Systems, (LRS), a leading supplier of messaging and tracking solutions, has announced the launch of Check Point Surveys, a tablet survey application that helps businesses collect on-site patient feedback.   “Healthcare providers cannot afford to find out about...Read more