Category: Health IT

More physician responsibility for patient care

Medicine today is single encounter-oriented, with the patient medical record structured to support one encounter at a time, where an encounter is either a single outpatient visit or an inpatient stay. The problem with this single encounter orientation …

Future of telehealth may rely on lawmakers extending emergency measures 

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Physicians might make fewer follow-up calls if they lose audio-only reimbursement

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Post-Pandemic, What’s a Phone Call From Your Physician Worth?

Medicare billing codes for audio-only follow-up check-ins lead to new reimbursement battles.

Health care technology innovation from COVID

The provision of quality medical services is the main target that every health care provider aims at achieving. Medical practitioners should have effective technical skills to ease their service delivery to their clients regardless of the health care s…

HCA taps Meditech EHR for 3 New Hampshire hospitals: 4 details 

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Ascension, Johns Hopkins & 14 others launch campaign to protect telehealth access

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7 stats that show how Americans used telehealth in 2021

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The race to find uses for Big Data  

Smartwatch wearers: Have you checked your smartwatch lately? Did it tell you how many steps you have or how fast your heart is beating? How accurate is the information? What does that number mean for your overall health, and where do all of those numbe…

How Epic’s Cosmos, Stanford’s data-mining platform aim to unlock EHR insights for care in real time

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