July 24, 2018
In today’s healthcare world, the Internet of Things or IoT stands at the core of digital transformation along with blockchain, VR, AR, and other forefront technologies. Healthcare organizations will undoubtedly benefit from adopting IoT. According to a recent report on PRNewswire, the global market’s volume for IoT sensors in healthcare accounted for $1.1 billion in 2017. The report also forecasts the market to reach $1.9 billion by 2022, growing at 12.7% CAGR. Still, the increasing interest in connected devices and dedicated enterprise mobile development inevitably clashes with security concerns. While regular security breaches in healthcare carry a threat to sensitive clinical and patient identity data, IoT breaches can put patient health at risk.
June 27, 2018
Digital health focuses on connecting the systems, tools, medical devices, and services together that deliver needed healthcare to each of us and gives critical data insights to each player across the healthcare delivery landscape that weren’t available before. According to the recent 8th Annual Industry Pulse Report from Change Healthcare, security and privacy concerns are causing healthcare payers and providers to strongly reconsider whether or not they want to adopt these digital health technologies and mobile tools.
May 30, 2018
Technology is one of the most volatile spheres of today’s world. Every day, new updates are being developed with the aim of making tasks easier and more enjoyable. Technology is known to continuously influence all spheres of life, as well as professions. From commerce to law, even business and science – they have all benefited one way or another from the advancement of this sphere. The healthcare sector hasn’t been left out either.
April 9, 2018
The care quality reinforced by optimized performance of the medical staff is the main goal among healthcare vendors today. The endeavors to provide maximum patient-centered and equitable care are especially palpable for Medicare patients with chronic conditions. What are the reasons? Medicare reimbursement has been a questionable issue for the last few years as medical staff had to do quite a number of things beyond the bounds of face-to-face visits. Previously, phone calls and core coordination services with other specialists were not paid at all, but now there has been found a solution to get reimbursed.
March 23, 2018
If you’re somewhere over the age of 30, you’re most likely familiar with the scene of walking into a doctor’s office and seeing walls of medical files lining the office. In recent years, however, all of those rows of files have started to be replaced by digital records, transported instantaneously from office to office, wherever your doctor may need them.
February 23, 2018
with Kevin Bermeister, CodondexBig data is promising to help healthcare providers take massive steps forward in treating diseases such as cancer. In this interview, we sit down with KevinBermeister, long time technology investor and innovator, about his startup Codondex. Read More >>>
February 23, 2018
Although healthcare’s migration to the cloud has sped up in the past few years, many internal IT departments are still lagging behind, relying on legacy infrastructure and data centers while pushing back on requests to better support existing services—or innovative new ones. One of the most common responses to such requests: “We’ll be able to accommodate that after we move to the cloud.”
January 16, 2018
Tweet Featured article by Katie Johnson, Independent Technology Author IT implementation is helping businesses in various industries move forward and stay ahead. Through the use of tech-based solutions, businesses now have the ability to streamline their operational workflows and improve efficiency. At the same time, IT implementation is helping businesses manage information better as well […]
January 3, 2018
Technology is important in nearly every aspect of modern life, from communicating with friends and family to completing essential work tasks. However, nowhere is technology more vital than in healthcare, where physicians and patients rely on high-tech machines and tools to perform tests, make diagnoses, and administer treatments. While a new smartphone or a high-performing network might be advantageous in other fields, it is inarguable that developing health tech is a noble effort that deserves high praise and prestige.
November 14, 2017
with Mohamed Shishani, Schneider ElectricIn this interview, Mohamed Shishani discusses how healthcare organizations are implementing new technologies to improve power management capabilities in their facilities, and the impact this has on patient care. Read More >>>
October 31, 2017
Incidents of patient no show are more common than you might think, and they can come with a hefty price tag for healthcare providers. As many as 15 percent of appointments that are made result in a no show and it’s been suggested that as many as 40 percent of a day’s bookings can result in a missed appointment. Not only does this pose an enormous inconvenience to providers who already have to put in substantial effort to keep appointments in order, but the ultimate loss of revenue can be enormous.
October 23, 2017
The medical industry is just one field that is benefiting thousands of people from its newfound developments and incorporations of technology and big data. Doctors and hospitals are using these new advancements in technology, big data and artificial intelligence to find more effective ways to give patients the care they need.
October 3, 2017
Big data is starting to change our world in a number of exciting ways. In recent years, big data has been used for many different purposes, including to track the spread of infectious diseases and played a pivotal role in helping aid agencies to get ahead of an Ebola outbreak in Western Africa.
August 21, 2017
The phrase “medical microchips” may elicit a science fiction-esque sense of imaginative fancy, but as healthcare technology advances, use of such devices becomes more and more plausible. Medical professionals have been working to interface with the human brain for years using electroencephalography, but now comes the opportunity to track and interact with brain waves on a more intimate level.
August 2, 2017
Healthcare organizations can increase the odds of successful integrations that result in greater agility decrease their cost base, and improve the quality of care they provide.
August 2, 2017
Explore this actigraphic to see if your organization is on the right track for tackling these healthcare cloud issues.
August 2, 2017
Excellent service processes are fast processes — this is the universal truth of service operations. Just as the water level in the bay hides the rocks from visibility, high levels of inventory mask underlying problems in manufacturing or logistics. Extending the analogy to service, long process times mask all kinds of service inefficiencies, such as incorrect order entry, insufficient resources, and errors in processing individual steps in the service journey. Increasing the velocity of a service process is akin to lowering the water level in the bay in order to expose the “rocks” that need to be tackled. Speed really does matter.
July 10, 2017
The field of biomedical research is huge and ever expanding. As industry, in particular, the tech industry, contributes more and more funding and patents for medical firms to use, there are now technologies available that were completely unthinkable just a few decades ago. Technology has had an impact on the medical field in other less direct ways too, from the ability to study for nursing degrees remotely and even consult with patients remotely using webcams.
June 22, 2017
Hospital administrations have set their sights on reducing patient length of stay (LOS), both because of changing reimbursement requirements and the fact that reducing LOS can also decrease the number of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), which have payment reductions of their own. These efforts have led to a flurry of research into factors that impact LOS and how to address them. However, due to the diversity of patient conditions, much of the literature focuses on a very specific class of patient (e.g., patients with acute kidney damage). Beyond those two factors, though, there are several general operational considerations that have an impact on LOS and are more straightforward to address.
June 22, 2017
While healthcare technology continues to help facilities move ahead in leaps and bounds, and medical devices save lives by the millions every year and make life more comfortable for many patients, there are certain risks to keep in mind too. In particular, in recent times it seems like more medical devices than ever have been recalled by the FDA. That is because, in fact, according to a 2016 third-quarter report from the Stericycle ExpertSolutions Recall Index, recalls rose in that quarter, and the number happened to be the highest observed since the year 2000.
June 7, 2017
Big data, the byproduct of modern technology, has been playing a significant role in improving the quality of care and transforming the healthcare industry. Big data holds a lot of potential for the benefit of the healthcare industry. Since this data is generated from real-life medical and healthcare cases and not from any theoretical or hypothetical assumptions, it can be used as an effective instrument in drug administration, healthcare management, population healthcare, telemedicine as well as in precision medicine and preemptive care.
June 7, 2017
Addiction is something that people from all walks of life face. Mothers, sons, and grandmothers alike can all fall victim to this growing problem. Drugs and alcohol are just a few of the addictions that people suffer from. Many years ago, these problems were thought to be simply bad choices. Now, doctors and other healthcare professionals are realizing that addiction is more complicated than that. With a changing attitude comes hope. In today’s world, people are using technology to combat addiction. Below are just a few ways that technology is helping addicts recover.
June 6, 2017
The notion of improving operational efficiency is conspicuously absent from the healthcare debate — neither Obamacare nor the newly proposed GOP plan discusses the impact that a step-function improvement in efficiency could have on access to healthcare (through more capacity), quality of healthcare services (through reduced wait times for patients) or cost (through better utilization of scarce, expensive assets).
May 25, 2017
Add “travel agent” to the list of things that have gradually receded from our consciousness, along with pay phones and brick-and-mortar retail stores. One needn’t look far to see the humble travel agent’s replacement: hundreds of websites and mobile applications from which one can research options, read reviews and make reservations. In the next few years, though, even those websites and apps may face the same fate as your neighborhood travel agent.
May 9, 2017
With the help of machine learning, some of the most exciting and promising improvements within the healthcare industry are just beginning to happen. In addition to helping healthcare professionals improve the diagnosis and care of patients, machine learning can also provide individuals with the technology to better care for themselves. As healthcare facilities and professionals work to apply these advances within machine learning to the healthcare industry, they can expect to see motivated patients, filled staff vacancies, improved facility efficiency, reduced money expenditures, and projected patient admissions.
April 27, 2017
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of dealing with a cancer diagnosis — either personally or as a caregiver to a friend or loved one — must have at some point wondered why they invariably had to wait well past their treatment appointment time, every time. The root cause is that the healthcare scheduling system is broken. Healthcare providers are using a calculator, spreadsheets and standard electronic health record (EHR) templates to solve a math problem that demands a cluster of servers and data scientists to solve effectively.
March 10, 2017
It seems as if news about another hospital laying off workers — or worse, closing — hits the news every day; at last count, 21 hospitals stopped treating patients in 2016. Hospitals and healthcare systems across the country, including some of the largest, laid off thousands of employees. In November 2016 alone, 13 providers eliminated more than 1,000 jobs.
March 3, 2017
The driver for most of the progress in human civilization has been technology. This is also the case in the medical world. It is technology that has paved the way for the scientific research that has lead to the development of medicine and treatment that has saved millions of lives.
March 1, 2017
An analogous challenge exists when using predictive analytics with healthcare data. Healthcare data can often seem quite stubborn, like Katherina. One of the main features of healthcare data that needs to be “tamed” is the “skew” of the data. In this article, we describe two types of skewness: the statistical skew, which impacts data analysis, and the operational skew, which impacts operational processes.
March 1, 2017
The Affordable Care Act and other reforms have been driving healthcare administrators to look for new ways to reduce costs, which can be a challenge while still preserving the quality of care. One of the key cost-efficiency measures that the healthcare industry tends to overlook is supply chain management. Billions of dollars are lost annually due to waste, poor inventory control, and inefficient delivery.
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