Category: MedCity Influencers
Managing medications during Covid-19: A team effort in transitional care
Why payers need top-notch digital data management
How AI is reshaping the future of the patient-provider experience
At the Crossroads: Examining the complexities of the largest vaccination effort in history
2021’s crystal ball: 6 AI predictions that will shape a new commercial model
Under one roof: How to treat autism in children
At the height of digital wellness, are we missing the human touch?
The fight against Sars-CoV-2 in 2021: What’s next?
Treating cancer with precision: It’s time for host response rofiling
Digital health meets value-based care: It’s time for a new chapter
Management lessons from the pandemic: Healthcare leaders must become “activators”
How health plans can mitigate the bumps along the road to implementing CMS’ interoperability rules
In our minds, we’re goin’ to Carolina—Medical schools as drivers of an improved patient experience
The bot will see you now
AI predicts better kidney care
Are metabolic hormones the next frontier in cancer treatment?
5 trends that will shape healthcare in 2021
Opening up real-time access to data via APIs could help streamline Covid-19 vaccination programs
Making EHRs more like a butler by serving the needs of clinicians
Healthcare’s next act: More connections, stronger relationships
5 trends that could improve healthcare in 2021
What if we captured the spirit and urgency of Covid-19 research to cure cancer?
How 2020 has shaped the future of healthcare
Predictions for AI-powered digital healthcare in 2021
Catching up on care post Covid-19 requires ‘digital compassion’
In addition to human empathy, we are also seeing a new “digital compassion” emerging as healthcare providers work to support patients in need during this uncertain time. Showing this kind of compassion has become easier as technology becomes more advanced and patient-centric in response to the pandemic.
Disruption, acceleration and innovation: Health IT predictions for 2021
Precision measurement in 2021: Why accuracy is key to the vaccine ‘cold chain’ and disrupting the spread of Covid-19
Getting healthcare enterprise AI data to deliver
Fixing the cracks: Why it’s time to modernize marketplace enrollment strategies
Is the biopharma industry right to be skeptical about AI?
How augmented intelligence and NLP can help clinicians, researchers identify rare diseases
To help clinicians diagnose rare disease more quickly and accurately, many healthcare organizations are embracing technology solutions like natural language processing (NLP) tools that can create augmented intelligence workflows that facilitate the rapid search of unstructured clinical data from multiple data sources.
Covid-19 is bringing digital therapeutics to the forefront of medicine
Innovation, not price controls, will ensure patients’ ongoing access to life-saving medicines
Covid-19 Is derailing cancer clinical trials. Is new technology required to get them back on track?
Accumulated genetic variations: What they are and why they matter to a complete health picture
Unlike inherited genetic predispositions, accumulated genetic changes are the result of environmental influences, such as smoking, chemicals or ultra-violet radiation. A growing body of research links somatic changes to an increased likelihood of blood cancers and cardiovascular disease, both heart disease and stroke.
The role of coaching in motivating and creating personal accountability for better health
How digital healthcare tools are changing medicine in Europe since COVID-19
Predictive surveillance: Can artificial intelligence eliminate HAIs?
AI-powered surveillance systems are helping health systems and public health agencies with their response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The current health crisis offers a glimpse of how it may be possible to predict and prevent a range of chronic health concerns, including healthcare-associated infections.
Covid’s mental health crisis curve
How to improve revenue cycle management: 5 tips
In the uncompensated care pandemic, AI is a potent antidote
Why we need a wholistic approach to behavioral health
4 ways to improve patient experience with advanced analytics
Helping nurses bounce back from the devastating effects of Covid-19
Knowledge gained from Covid-19: Better practices for preventing infections
With proper guidelines in place, along with more education on less toxic chemicals and the proper use of new technologies, greater outcomes will be achieved as we prepare for future outbreaks.
Cardiac patients can’t wait on care during Covid-19: A patient advocate’s perspective
5 tips to find the right digital health venture partner
Healthcare will improve when quality improves – and it begins with workforce competencies
How to sustain independent physician practices
Beyond the pandemic: Harnessing the power of real time insights
Covid-19 didn’t just disrupt healthcare, it accelerated industry change
What the U.S. needs to do to assist cancer patients and their physicians in developing countries
More than human: Taking healthcare back to its people-centered roots
How to tackle the mental health crisis that will come with a second Covid-19 wave
Culture-free alternatives for characterizing bloodstream infections
Barriers to quality care—and how home testing can break them down
Gains in tRNAslation: It’s time for investors to realize the potential of European RNA technologies
Ransomware in healthcare: The inevitable truth
Covid-19 highlights the need for real-world, real-time data in Ob-Gyn and Beyond
Here are the benefits of data consolidation
The trough and the tidal wave: How health insurers can get ahead of the looming demand
7 best practices for pharmacies managing short-dated inventory
Why prioritizing health equity in the Covid-19 vaccine distribution is not just right, but necessary
Staying sane on the mission to Mars
Why most hospitals could save millions by improving patient safety
Technology can ease pandemic challenges faced by hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers
To keep critical revenue flowing, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers need to resume elective surgeries and procedures as quickly as possible and mobile apps can help by giving patients and staff vital information, provide advance symptom screening and help providers reduce elective procedure no-shows through better patient compliance.
Best practices for physicians in adopting compliant and efficient data sharing
By making responsible and strategic technology investments, practitioners will have access to robust data, be in a position to analyze and interpret trends and outcomes and provide health care informatics that ultimately will be the insights they need to be successful in a value-based health care environment.
Covid-19 has presented the possibility of reinventing healthcare delivery and reimbursement must support this
Will Covid-19 be the straw that breaks AI’s back?
The new frontline of care: social services
Technology’s role in streamlining processes and lowering costs in the fight against Covid-19
Politics won’t fix the inequities in healthcare – but this will
Use virtual visits to enhance the patient centricity of clinical trials
3 reasons telehealth is here to stay
Is the digital health industry prepared for an unprecedented flu season?
Asynchronous virtual health: 3 reasons it’s critical for now and foundational for the future
How the value of innovation will be redefined in 2021
While payers and policymakers took a more narrow-minded perspective on innovation value in 2020, the year 2021 will bring an increased focus on a treatment’s societal value, how innovation interacts with digital technologies, and whether new innovations are able to reduce existing health outcome inequalities.
Using American-made PPE will help to prevent shortages as nation braces for second Covid-wave
Realizing healthcare’s robotic revolution
Consumer healthcare behavior is changing: 3 changes that will stick post-Covid in the healthcare revenue cycle
Healthcare industry’s struggle to expand software teams is limiting growth
Advocating for underserved populations: Is remote patient monitoring the answer?
What payers need to know about FHIR
New cervical cancer screening guidelines ignore past progress
The importance of care coordination
How the intelligence-based health system will become critical to meet patient needs today and post-Covid-19
We’ve failed in chronic care management It’s time to change course.
After the pandemic, hospitals should keep working together
The unique constraints of cloud utilization in healthcare
The new “virtual” normal: Is face-to-face care delivery a thing of the past?
Telemedicine’s evolutionary leap: Who says you can’t teach an old Darwin new tricks?
How Covid-19 has enhanced the need for price transparency
3 technologies that will play a pivotal role in the pandemic and beyond
The e-doctor will see you now
Robotic Process Automation: The future of healthcare revenue cycle management
Why geriatric care must evolve post-Covid-19
How digital solutions are transforming healthcare and life sciences business processes
How to get nationwide reimbursement for novel medical technology
Teladoc-Livongo point the way to a consumer-first health ecosystem but also further fragmentation
Best practices for running a board meeting: What healthcare entrepreneurs need to know
What would post-Covid value-based care look like?
The evolution of healthcare and technology in the ‘hospital of tomorrow’
How payers and providers can address the CMS interoperability mandate
Why we invested in Eden Health
Match without a flame: Why interoperability mandates still require operational, use-case specific platforms
How wearables can help the healthcare industry address Covid-19
Addressing Covid-19 is a data problem – here’s how the data community is harnessing healthcare data to solve it
A pandemic reinforced our belief in population health
15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right
Pennsylvania court interprets scope of Patient Safety Act privilege protections
How the biotech capital markets are faring in the time of Covid-19
4 strategies to help your infusion center navigate Covid-19 uncertainty
Trust, privacy, and our American pandemic
What rural hospitals can teach their urban counterparts about patient engagement
Rural hospitals are grappling with high rates of chronic disease, lack of broadband access, and workforce shortages that are exacerbated by the low pay and professional isolation that are characteristic of rural settings. It is from within this digital divide that rural hospitals have learned so much they can pass along to their urban peers.