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Each has pros and cons, including accuracy, price and the potential to scare patients with Big Brother-like perceptions. And biometric technology is evolving quickly enough that hospitals need to frequently evaluate options.
Despite saying that it responded quickly to the malware that locked users out of IT systems, the health network had to deny some patients access while it continues recovering from the malicious code.
More hospitals ranked telehealth as a priority than did last year, and many reported success at engaging patients and improving outcomes.
Rather than streamlining operations such as clinical and IT that could create significant savings, many merged organizations continue running acquired hospitals as individual entities, the consultancy found.
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(SPONSORED) With value-based care models taking hold, healthcare organizations are under pressure to deliver the best clinical outcomes.
New research found variations in cholesterol levels that drew concern because they could potentially determine whether a physician at point of care would prescribe medication to a patient.
Researchers will use the software to crowdsource data that helps physicians better understand how to use fever as a tool to improve medical diagnoses.
Caleb Anderson says changing payment models are likely to make hospital executives rethink revenue cycles, and consider outsourcing services to Cerner or one of its competitors, including athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Conifer and others.
The American Medical Association and 20 other groups called on the agency to refine Medicare Shared Savings to ramp up participation.
The FBI is reportedly investigating the latest in series of healthcare cyberattacks but there’s no definitive word yet on whether the malicious code is ransomware or not.