Photo: AVIA Health As communities across the nation seek new ways to bring COVID-19 vaccination rates up to levels that can more effectively mitigate the spread of variants, they are looking for new and better ways to reach those who…
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CIOs and innovation officers bolster clinical informatics, cyber defenses and more
Photo: NYU Langone Medical Center When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many IT leaders shadowed clinical staff to view first-hand the support those clinicians needed on the front lines. And often they learned some valuable lessons. Meanwhile, while healthcare organizations and…
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AdventHealth meets CMS quality metrics, saves money with digital health platform
Altamonte Springs, Florida-based AdventHealth is a nonprofit health system with more than 80,000 care team members across hospitals, physician practices, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers across nine states. THE PROBLEM With the CMS Hospital…
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What's next for cybersecurity in 2021? Ransomware-as-a-service, DDoS and more
This year saw unprecedented changes in the cybersecurity landscape, with rapid telehealth rollouts and massive shifts to at-home work highlighting new vulnerabilities. In 2021, experts predicted at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this week, bad actors will likely use tried-and-true…
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Universal Community Health moves from text-enabled telehealth to robust ‘tele-assisted care’
Toward the end of March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard in California, Universal Community Health Center in Los Angeles needed to implement a quick-and-easy platform to get telehealth off the ground. THE PROBLEM The health center needed a simple…
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Amazon expands app-based telehealth services for Wash. employees
Amazon is expanding an initiative allowing employees to access healthcare via text message or video call from the Seattle area to throughout Washington state. The service, called Amazon Care, is available via a downloadable app to office workers and to…
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Researcher creates rating system for mobile health apps
With more than 300,000 mobile health apps available, it’s tough to know which ones are best, but a University of Alberta researcher has developed a way to help sort through the tangle. The Alberta Rating Index for Apps (ARIA) is…
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At Health First, preregistration tech streamlines processes and boosts collections
Because of the growing number of cases in Florida earlier this year, Health First Community Health Services’ Health First Medical Group needed to create a safe environment for its patients to register for their appointments and minimize time spent waiting…
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How mobile apps can help hospitals increase patient satisfaction
South Shore Health System prides itself on its maternity platform, said vice president of operational excellence Luke D. Poppish during a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation. So when faced with middling Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ratings in…
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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients…
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