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December 19, 2016
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December 19, 2016
A large multinational manufacturer in the healthcare industry is analyzing big data in the cloud to efficiently drive insight across the enterprise to enable better decision-making in business and operations.
Chief Medical Officer Todd Rothenhaus said the company is working on an ROI guarantee as it moves into the post-EHR era of population health and care coordination.
A new report compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that a steep drop in hospital-acquired conditions has accompanied a decrease of 3 million adverse events in the past five years.
Services include primary care, health education coaching, prevention and wellness screening as well as population health offerings.
In addition to big ticket items such as advancing precision medicine and interoperability, the new law contains a provision that targets telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries.
U.S. regulators recently approved two new colonoscopes designed to be used just once and thrown away, but some doctors remain skeptical the new scopes will give them detailed enough images.
The new service integrates with EHRs, enterprise resource planning and content management applications, the company said.
But telemedicine faces a challenge as consumers seek healthcare services from an ever-expanding array of providers and locations, and healthcare organizations must be prepared.