How Healthcare Can Weaponize Data to Fight Worldwide Disease
Adam Wilson, CEO of Trifacta After more than a year since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, we now understand that part of the challenge in […]
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Leveraging SDOH in Post-Pandemic Risk Modeling to Overcome Distorted Care Projections for 2021 and Beyond
Kurt Waltenbaugh, CEO, Carrot Health The uncertainty and risk created by pandemic-related disruptions in care have health plans in uncharted water when it comes to […]
Real-World Data Flow – The Only Way to Change Value-Based Care?
Manan Sheth, Sr. Technical Product Manager at CitiusTech Healthcare interoperability issues have always been confusing, changing, and difficult to address. The reason why is not […]
Clinical Trials: 4 Strategies to Maximize Patients Referrals
Jai Singh, SVP of Growth at Reify Health Clinical trials were front and center in 2020, as pharma companies raced to develop and prove the […]
Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?
Troy Ament, Field CISO for Healthcare, Fortinet There’s no sugarcoating it: healthcare has a serious ransomware problem. And it’s not a new problem for this […]
How AI Helped Companies Survive COVID-19: 5 Tips for Resilience
Tim Lawes, Sr. Manager for Solutions Consulting at Symphony SummitAI As the coronavirus pandemic transformed workplaces and workflows, it cast a spotlight on service management […]
How Pharma Startups Can Remain Competitive in Today’s Market
Aaron Ferguson, COO and co-founder of Vytal Challenging the status quo is never easy. Neither is being the underdog. Startups face both of these challenges […]
Why We Need a Personalized Approach to COVID-19 Immunity Testing
Shahrokh Shabahang, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Aditxt Therapeutics To date, the battle against COVID-19 has been waged largely in the field […]
Why Healthcare Orgs Need to Take a Practice-Centered Approach to IT
Mona Abutaleb, CEO of Med Tech Solutions Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless […]
Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
Jeff Fuller, Vice President, Analytics Solutions at CipherHealth For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding […]
How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic
Tarun Bhasin, CEO of Kunai While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But […]
Drug Diversion is Complicated: 5 Data-Related Challenges to Overcome
David Brzozowski Sr., President & CEO of Medacist Solutions Group COVID-19 thoroughly dominated American life last year, contributing heavily to the kind of despair that […]
Dynamic Care Demands Flexible Solutions: Filling Gaps in Acute Care
Huiling Zhang, MD, MPH, MBA, Head of Medical Office, Connected Care, Philips Healthcare professionals know that patient care never stands still from admission through discharge, […]
What payers need to know about CMS’ Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange requirement
As plans struggle to decide how to comply with a badly-worded portion of the final rule on interoperability, they should be thinking about the broader […]
How the Pandemic Underscores the Importance of Health IT in Employee & Occupational Health
Jeff Donnell, President of Enterprise Health, “I have received more recognition, interest and support in the last year than in the previous two plus decades of my […]
3 Lessons Learned from Pandemic-Era Clinical Development Regulatory Practices
Dr. Ronan Brown, SVP and Head of Integrated Global Compliance, IQVIA The pandemic has given rise to new norms in drug development that will influence […]
5-Step Guide to Hiring AI Talent for Digital Health, Biotech & Life Sciences Companies
Michael Delisle, VP, Practice Leader for Digital Health at GattiHR Artificial Intelligence (AI) will disrupt healthcare’s destiny for good. Here are five steps digital health […]
Stronger Together: A Remedy to Third-Party Cyber Risk in Healthcare
Ed Gaudet is CEO and Founder of Censinet Taylor Davis is Executive Vice President of KLAS Research Controlling healthcare costs while delivering faster and better […]
Why Healthcare Innovation Needs Human-Centered Principles
Octavio Egea, Executive Strategy Director, frog Millions of people around the world have lost their health as a result of the pandemic. Millions more have […]
What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings
In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary […]
How AI is Enabling Next-Generation Insights from Biomedical Data
Alastair Blake, MD – VP of Clinical & Commercial Partnerships at nference COVID-19 caught the world off-guard, sending governments, populations, and the entire healthcare community […]
3 Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Work to Prevent Insider Security Threats
Sanjay Joshi, Global CIO Healthcare and Life Sciences at Tanium Though it’s often “highly sophisticated” or “nation-state” attackers that make headlines, the truth is that […]
Ransomware in Healthcare: The Costly Reality of Withstanding Hackers
How much larger a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) can healthcare command? This isn’t a rhetorical question, even if it may be difficult […]
Why The Future of Healthcare Coverage is State-Based Exchanges, and It’s a Promising Road Ahead
Dan Thomas, CEO, IdeaCrew, Inc. It is essential for Americans to have a streamlined and cost-effective path to obtain and retain healthcare coverage. Recent events, […]
How Technology Is Powering the Future of Personalized Health
Wilson To, Worldwide Lead for Healthcare, Life Sciences and Genomics at Amazon Web Services Unprecedented innovation and collaboration across the healthcare industry in the past […]
How Health IT is Helping Hospitals Achieve Faster Patient Transitions and Reduce Length of Stay
Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra Technologies COVID-19 served as a brutal reminder that streamlining patient transitions from one care […]
The Cancer Moonshot and beyond: What we need to succeed
U.S. government support can advance health breakthroughs and make a significant difference. I encourage you to support the creation of ARPA-H and to take specific […]
Risk Mitigation: Strengthening Trust in AI for Healthcare
Joachim Roski, Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton Kathleen Featheringham, Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton Better clinical decision support, population health interventions, patient self-care, and research […]
4 Key Constraints Preventing Healthcare from Proper Cybersecurity
Seth Carmody, VP of Regulatory Strategy at MedCrypt Healthcare was created to help people. So why is this industry the most heavily targeted by cybercriminals and […]
Cloud Technology and Healthcare Evolution: Microsoft in the Spotlight
Gerry Miller, CEO & Founder, Cloudticity In April, software giant Microsoft made a lot of headlines announcing its multibillion-dollar acquisition of Nuance, the cloud-based clinical intelligence […]
3 Ways IoT is Empowering Modern Healthcare Industry Today
Ajay Rane, VP of Global Ecosystem Development, Sigfox Today’s healthcare systems are nothing like their predecessors of even a decade ago, and their growth is […]
Leveraging Digital Health to Assist Developing Countries’ Health Systems
Ran Poliakine, CEO and Co-Founder of Nanox Vaccine rollouts are picking up steam and many parts of the world are gradually beginning to relax restrictions […]
Positioning Your Health System for Digital Transformation
Chris Ingersoll, Principal Architect at Innovaccer In my last article, I discussed how an incomplete picture of patient health can lower the quality and raise […]
America’s obesity epidemic requires action, not posturing
Pinterest’s move to outright ban all ads referring to weight loss — regardless of quality of information — is woefully misguided, writes a former Pinterest […]
4 Key Ways 5G Technology is Transforming Patient Care
Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, its link to our lives goes as […]
Cybersecurity: The Hidden Health Tech Crisis No One’s Talking About
Roel Decneut, CMO at Lansweeper The life-saving capabilities of technology in a healthcare environment are beyond dispute. Medical professionals in hospital environments rely on networked […]
Why Virtual Care is Key to Health Systems Long-Term Business Strategy
Catherine Murphy, Chief Operating Officer at Zipnosis Over the past year, the shortcomings and gaps in healthcare have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]
Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization?
Chris Ingersoll, Principal Architect at Innovaccer As our economy has become increasingly digitized, we are generating a massive influx of personal data. Across industries, the […]
A ban on surprise bills is just a Band-Aid
Until Medicare and commercial insurers link the reimbursement they pay providers to the things that matter to us as consumers and citizens, we will continue […]
“The Doctor Will See You Now” and Other Things Patients Won’t Hear Post-COVID
Arun K. Buduri, VP – Engineering/IT and CISO, Innovaccer Following a year of social distancing and strict lockdowns, patients were forced to fundamentally change the […]
Streamline Locally to Increase Efficiency, Battle COVID Globally
John Schaeffer, Co-President, SSG People tend to think of COVID-19 as a national or even worldwide crisis. The pandemic is everywhere, after all, and we […]
4 Strategies for Health IT Leaders to Streamline Their Work & Serve Patients
Monica Bolbjerg, MD, Chairman, Founder & CEO of Qure4u As a physician turned entrepreneur, I’ve learned many lessons in my journey from the patient bedside […]
3 Tips to Help Staffing Run Smoothly at Your COVID-19 Vaccination Site
Martin Hartshorne, CEO of When I Work So far 2021 has been the year of the COVID vaccine as more and more people have become […]
Reinventing the Last Mile: Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Our Most Vulnerable Populations
Jason Z. Rose, CEO of Adhere Health Over the past several months, the United States has rapidly accelerated its COVID-19 vaccination rates, with close to […]
SUD: Can Digital Health Solutions Remove Stigmas Around Addiction?
Nicholas Mercadante, CEO & Co-Founder PursueCare We can safely take for granted that a doctor treating your back pain isn’t going to determine the course […]
The Science of Storytelling: Brand Voice and the COVID-19 Vaccine
Lizzie Harris, Partner, Lippincott Healthcare feels like it’s in a perpetual state of a renaissance. A decade ago, it seemed it was hardly spoken about […]
Will U.S. Healthcare Have The Same Success Rate With Chronic Kidney Disease As Native Americans?
Eric Tran, MS in Microbiology, Tulane School of Medicine Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital, Medical Director of the Main Operating Room For years, hypertension has […]
Supreme Court upholds ACA, dismissing constitutional challenge
The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, dismissing the lawsuit brought by Texas, 17 other states and two individuals on the grounds that they […]
Data Reveals Institutional Racism in Healthcare Still Exist, But Providers/Payers Can Change That
Minal Patel, CEO of Abacus Insights The vaccine rollout is following patterns that are all too familiar — but we can change that Newscasters sounded […]
Post-COVID Telehealth in Europe: What Works for Primary Care? – Analysis
The European primary care telehealth market has been transformed since the outbreak of COVID-19 more than 15 months ago. But which countries have developed an […]
A leap forward in radiation therapy for brain tumors
Intracranial brachytherapy was recently improved through the development of a surgically targeted radiation therapy comprised of Cesium-131 radiation seeds embedded in a bioresorbable collagen tile.
KLAS: Growth of Drug Diversion Monitoring Market
Jackson Tate, Research Director, Pharmacy Solutions, at KLAS Research Often when we talk about the opioid epidemic, the focus is rightly on the suffering that […]
The Role of Digital Mental Health in the Healthcare Journey
Alison Darcy, PhD, President and Founder, Woebot Health With more than 20,000 apps available to address myriad mental health challenges with varying degrees of support, […]
Inflated savings, hidden costs: How vendors who “carve-out” specialty benefits fail to deliver promised value
In recent years, a number of niche vendors have entered the market, promising significant savings for payers if they “carve-out” specialty pharmacy services from integrated […]
Why Provider-Payer Collaboration is the Secret to Value-Based Success
Rachael Jones is SVP, Performance Analytics and Quality, Cotiviti Emad Rizk, M.D.,President and CEO, Cotiviti Just before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, 48% of healthcare providers […]
The healthcare crisis in Myanmar – how UK GPs can help
Dr Jim Brockbank from Myanmar UK GP Health Action provides an update on how the military coup is affecting doctors in Myanmar and explains a […]
The healthcare crisis in Myanmar – how UK GPs can help
Dr Jim Brockbank from Myanmar UK GP Health Action provides an update on how the military coup is affecting doctors in Myanmar and explains a […]
Applying A Hedge Fund Mentality for Investing in Social Determinants of Health
Matt Lambert, M.D., Chief Medical Officer – Curation Health While I am a practicing clinician, I am a firm believer that improvements in healthcare most […]
Avoiding 4 Common Pitfalls of Remote Patient Monitoring
Susan Beaton, VP of Health Plan Strategy, Wellframe COVID-19 created a colossal opportunity for health plans and providers to reimagine how they engage with patients. […]
What Population Health Management Providers Need to Know About HITRUST CSF Certification
Bob Dupuis, VP of Enterprise Architecture and Security at Arcadia Healthcare companies continue to implement value-based care and population health management initiatives to coordinate healthcare […]
As CMS Delays CHART, Rural Providers Need to Take Value-Based Care into Their Own Hands
Lynn Barr, MPH, Founder & Executive Chair of Caravan Health The answer to solving a healthcare crisis that exacerbates barriers to care among some of […]
Can Technology Improve How We Treat (or Prevent) Chronic Conditions?
Dr. John Janas, Medical Director, Twistle The prevalence of chronic disease in the United States will increase over the next several decades among all age […]
Making Telehealth Accessible to Underserved Communities Requires a Multifaceted Approach
Over the last year, people across the U.S. have adopted telehealth in record numbers, signaling what people in the industry have long believed — virtual […]
Why we must address needle fear to achieve herd immunity – and beyond
Individuals with needle hesitancy are half of the unvaccinated. Our physician leaders need to realize that our relationship with sharps is different from needle-fearing people who […]
How to Bolster EHR Efficiency and Access to Offer Better Patient Care
Dessiree Paoli, Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Interlace Health Over the past few decades, technology has advanced health care in incredible ways. Between robotic surgery, […]
Telehealth Averted Healthcare Collapse During COVID – Will Inertia Kill Further Adoption?
Dr. Haim Amir, CEO and Founder of Essence Group Major, deep-rooted problems in the healthcare system were brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
What the Shift to 5G Will Mean for Healthcare Cybersecurity
Matthew Doyle, COO & Head of Investor Relations, Chicago Pacific Founders 5G has spent years hovering on the horizon, its industry-revolutionizing potential waiting just out […]
The Risks of Delaying Data Migration for Healthcare Systems
Sashank Purighalla, Founder & CEO at BOS Framework It only takes one data breach to paralyze a whole industry. Hospitality offers one prescient example. In […]
Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Providers & Patient Health
Gary Ogasawara, CTO, Cloudian Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on all types of organizations across almost every industry. The healthcare sector in particular has […]
Opinion: Our country’s health IT infrastructure needs an upgrade
The value of tech-enablement in a clinician’s day-to-day goes beyond our current outbreak scenarios. So much is still done by hand and faxed around that […]
A Promising New Post-COVID World of Virtual Care
Josh Weiner, CEO of SR Health at Solutionreach It’s a striking contrast to look at the world as it now in the wake of the […]
6 Ways eConsults Mitigate Impact of Second Surge of COVID-19 for Providers
Peter Anderson, MBA, AristaMD advisor The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption to help keep patients out of waiting rooms and emergency departments, in hopes to […]
6 lessons to learn after more than a year of Covid-19 and more than 500K deaths in the U.S.
Despite all the attention and scientific efforts, after more than a year, there are still several lessons to be learned in order to be better […]
Talking about Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices Shouldn’t be Taboo
Nastassia Tamari, Director of Information Security Operations for BD According to the National Vulnerability Database, 18,353 vulnerabilities were reported in 2020. That’s nearly three times […]
Frontline Workers Need New Approaches to Treat COVID-19-Related Mental Health Issues
Robert Cuyler, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer at Freespira We’ve long known that the coronavirus pandemic would dramatically impact the mental health of health care professionals […]
Why Healthcare Data Won’t Magically Create Value-Based Care
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation The conversation about transitioning the American healthcare system from fee for service (FFS) to value-based care […]
EHR Adoption is Essential for Outpatient Surgery to Remain Relevant in Managed Care
Tara Vail, Chief Growth Officer at HST Pathways In 2009, hospitals and doctors were given financial incentives to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) through the […]
Patient Experience 2.0: A Shift in Priorities Defined by A Year of the Pandemic
Tim Dybvig, SVP of Patient Engagement at Experity The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare continuum within the past year, creating many roadblocks in the […]
The time is right for enhanced P3s in healthcare
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting the potential of public-private partnerships (P3s) to bring together diverse groups to address issues of population growth, rising healthcare costs […]
How COVID-19 Made Employee Safety Work for Employees
Omri Shafran, CEO of Texas Medical Over the past decade, the move toward automated hygiene, cleaning, and sanitation solutions has steadily accelerated and its effective […]
The Future of Revenue Integrity: From Reactive to Predictive – RCM
Vasilios Nassiopoulos, Vice President of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes Healthcare organizations have witnessed an explosion of new opportunities to extract value from the industry’s […]
The need for privacy in vaccine passport policies
Let’s be careful and deliberate about what we decide to do with vaccine passports. Considerable consequences to individual freedoms – as well as both societal […]
Cancer Centers: Here’s How We Can Restart Clinical Trials Today
Marie E. Lamont, President and COO of Inteliquet Biopharmaceutical companies developing cancer treatments need to restart the clinical trials shut down or delayed during the […]
Effectively Handling Clinical Denials Amid a Pandemic Backlog of Elective Surgeries
Lisa Dadulo, Clinical Practice Director at HGS Healthcare Throughout the pandemic, many hospitals had to delay elective procedures for several months or cancel them altogether. […]
HCPs: Breaking Through The Noise with Digital Engagement
Andrew Ploszay, PhD Vice President, Digital Strategy & Chief Digital Officer, IQVIA In 2020, the pandemic forced a dramatic switch to a 100 percent remote […]
Will Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance be meaningful for physicians?
Microsoft was wise to acquire Nuance as a way to reach physicians where they are. But is voice the right approach to addressing the shortcomings […]
How Mobile Channels Improve Patient Engagement and Outcomes
Jeanae DuBois, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitwise Technology Consulting The past year’s pandemic struck a painful blow to health organizations’ pre-COVID patient engagement efforts. A recent […]
Why the Digital Front Door is Critical to the Healthcare Revenue Cycle
Joel French, EVP of Patient Experience at R1 RCM, Inc. The COVID-19 crisis has upended many of our traditional business procedures and processes. However, because […]
Digital Transformation: 4 Moves Finance Leaders Can Make to Emerge Stronger
Sonia Singh VP of Center for Consumerism at AVIA In this time of crisis, the U.S. healthcare system has struggled to safeguard lives and suppress […]
4 Ways Health Systems Need To Reinvent Themselves to Compete
Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts For about a decade, digital health has been slowly winning the battle against healthcare’s slow pace of change. Digital […]
Advance Care Planning: The Need for Racial Equity in End-of-Life Care
Ryan Van Wert, MD, Co-founder & CEO of Vynca National Minority Health Month presents a critical opportunity to address the huge gaps that exist when […]
Top 3 Ways to Justify Interoperability Spend & Power Your Physician Alignment Strategy
Dr. Peter S. Tippett, CEO of careMESH For decades, interoperability has been a dirty word for hospitals and health systems. No matter how much they […]
Streamlining Biospecimen Procurement: Avoid These 8 Common R&D Mistakes
Jill Mullan, Chief Operating Officer, iSpecimen Long before a clinician administers a drug or runs a new test, there is the arduous R&D cycle. Unfortunately, […]
3 Reasons Why Mobility Matters for Surgery
Dr. Jeffrey Zavaleta, MD, Chief Medical Officer Graphium Health As the computer form factor shrank from the size of a room to a laptop, computing […]
3 Strategies to Up-Level Medicare Advantage Enrollment Before it is Too Late
Trey Keller, VP of Product Management at Edifecs Aaron Fulner, Sr. Director at Edifecs With a new administration looking to reshape healthcare policy and additional […]
Decentralized Clinical Trials: Surviving & Thriving in the Clinical Research World of COVID-19
Zach Henderson, Chief Commercial Officer, Glooko As with so many aspects of our daily lives, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical trials was […]
What Will It Take for Hospitals to Survive the Pandemic?
Dr. John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Jvion In 1852, Mercy Hospital & Medical Center opened as Chicago’s first chartered hospital. In May, […]
PHINs: Addressing the Fundamental Flaws that Have Broken Healthcare
Brad Bostic, CEO, hc1 The fundamental problem with healthcare can be summed up in one sentence: We expect healthcare services that cater to our individual […]
Why the Digital-First, Patient-Centered Care is Critical to Healthcare
Michael D. Robinson Vice President, Healthcare North America at VMware In the turmoil of one of the hardest years the healthcare industry has experienced, many […]
Time and Goals Should Drive Your Post-COVID-19 Care Management Strategy
Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM, VP of Clinical Transformation for Lightbeam Health Solutions COVID-19 forced many health systems to reassess and reconfigure their care management […]
Does Telemedicine Impede or Help the Patient-Centered Medical Home?
Traditional patient care patterns have been radically altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. And after more than a year of disruption, it’s doubtful that everyone will […]
Why IBM Watson Health could never live up to the promises
The failure of IBM’s marketing-first approach to clinical AI was entirely predictable, but it didn’t have to be this way. Here’s how AI can be […]
How a Virtual Care Mindset Leads to Greater Patient Acceptance and Sustainable Telehealth Growth
Sandeep Pulim, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Bluestream Health There’s no question that the demand for telehealth and virtual care has grown exponentially over the […]
Key Lessons from COVID-19 & How We Can Better Support our Healthcare Provider
Peter Ziese PhD, MD, Business Leader, Monitoring and Analytics, Philips COVID-19 has been a novel pandemic in many ways beyond the actual virus itself – […]
Leveraging the cloud to meet the ONC final rule compliance deadline
The deadline for ONC’s final rule on interoperability and information blocking is upon us. The time is past due for health providers, networks, and vendors […]
COVID Exposed The Dire Need for Real-Time Healthcare Data Sharing
Birju Shah, Head of Product for Uber Health & Communities Nick Jordan, Founder and CEO, Narrative In a world where technology and Big Data can provide […]
To maximize patient access to care, policies should be modernized to enable the broader digital health landscape
Only with proper coverage and access to the modern technologies that made their mark during Covid-19 can we truly democratize healthcare and make the promise […]
3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management
Kenya Smith, Healthcare Solution Marketing Manager at ABBYY AI technology is quickly evolving and already surpassing human decision-making in certain instances; sometimes, in ways, we […]
Next-Generation Cloud Storage: Enabling Collaboration & Analytics for Pharma Research
Russ Kennedy, Chief Product Officer, Nasuni Pharmaceutical companies today are distributed, global organizations, with research centers, manufacturing facilities, and regulatory management hubs spread all over […]
GSK’s Benlysta (belimumab) Receives CHMP’s Opinion Recommending its Approval for Active Lupus Nephritis
Shots: EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion recommending the use of Benlysta (IV, SC) in combination with background immunosuppressive therapies for the treatment of […]
To Advance Health Equity, Put Real-World Cancer Data to Work
Dr. Miller, Medical Director of CancerLinQ LLC Despite decades of scientific progress against cancer, access to treatment remains highly unequal. Some of the reasons — […]
How the Pandemic is Accelerating the Shift to Alternative Care Delivery Models
Mark Prather MD, MBA, CEO & Co-founder at DispatchHealth The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how we interact with one another, with businesses, and with the […]
How NLP Can Uncover Social Determinants of Heart Disease
David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United […]
Healthcare must move toward a circular economy, and single-use device reprocessing offers a template to follow
In healthcare, the linear (take-make-dispose) approach to consumption is even more pronounced than in American culture in general. It’s time for change.
Cloud Technologies in Healthcare: Improving Access to Care at Lower Costs
Venky Ananth, SVP, Global Head of Healthcare at Infosys The healthcare industry has been among those at the fore when it comes to cloud adoption. […]
There’s a hospital staff wellness crisis. It’s on executives to fix it.
Healthcare providers pushed to the brink after a year of the Covid-19 pandemic are tired, burned out, and even suffering the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress […]
3 Ways Providers Can Navigate COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout Successfully
Lisa Romano, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at CipherHealth The New Year brings hope and promises that an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is in […]
Antibody testing can improve efficiency in limited vaccine supply
Given our current limited supply, the threat of variant spread, and availability of higher quality antibody test kits, policymakers ought to update their vaccine guidance […]
Quality Virtual Care Matters for Patients – Even More Than Telehealth
Rick Halton, Vice President of Marketing, Lumeon The COVID-19 pandemic made healthcare visits over video or phone the norm, likely turning telehealth into a permanent […]
Achieving Financial Sustainability: A Connected Community of Care’s #1 Goal
Dr. Keith Kosel, Vice President at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) “Show me the money!” No one old enough to have seen the 1996 […]
Government Money: The most effective weapon in the fight against Covid-19
Many people complain about the government – probably with good reason – but the policies surrounding non-dilutive life science R&D are policies that deserve praise, […]
Why A Smart Command Center Requires A Health Cloud Platform
Dr. David Nace, Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer Aviation, military, NASA, or even utilities like the New York Power Authority—almost all high-consequence, complex organizations have […]
Want to end the pandemic? Send In rghe Troops.
The solution is clear, the need is urgent, and the infrastructure is in place. Send in the troops.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Senior Care More Human
Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care When it comes to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in particular and long-term care in general, a human-centered and empathetic […]
Innovative, Non-Invasive Technologies Advanced Earlier Detection & Monitoring of Liver Disease
Jon Gingrich, CEO, Echosens North America Leveraging technological advances to facilitate new ways of engaging patients and integrating non-invasive technology into a liver disease program […]
Payers Struggle with Provider Data Management Too
Eric Demers, CEO of Madaket Health Provider data management is usually discussed from the provider perspective: the busy staff, the needless paperwork amid a pandemic, […]
Improving Inventory Management During COVID-19 and Beyond
Todd Stewart, Vice President, Enterprise Workflow Solutions, CenTrak Healthcare systems across the country are facing high patient volumes combined with higher patient expectations during the […]
Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management
Athar Siddiqui: Global Strategy Lead, Digital Connected Solutions – Ascensia Diabetes Care “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can […]
How to Optimize Your Healthcare Practice with Advanced Technology Solutions
Terrence D. Sims, President of Strategic Growth and Marketing, Raintree Systems As COVID-19 continues to influence patient behaviors and causes providers to reevaluate how they […]
Why Patients, Not EHRs, Deserve our Undivided Attention
Prayus Tailor, MD, FASN We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR […]
VR and AR Simulation Medical Training Can Reduce Medical Errors
Adam Dougherty, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, SimX Human error is an inevitable event in the practice of any trade, including healthcare and medicine. The […]
3 Ways to Boost Patient Confidence with Real-Time Contactless Communication
Ford Blakely, SVP & GM, Medallia Zingle Although the vaccine’s rollout is slowly underway, Covid cases worldwide are continuing to reach all-time highs as new […]
11 Best Practices of a Successful Care Model Transformation Plan
Moha Desai, Principal, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation Health systems across the country will require a plan to react to government deep spending cuts and revenue […]
Best Practices to Ensure Telehealth Security and Protect Patient Data
Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX To support the sudden increase in test results and medical records being transmitted during the pandemic, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies […]
Electronic Signatures Speed Care, Keep Providers in Compliance
Stephan Herron, CEO/President of Scriptel Corporation While certain healthcare regulations—especially those around telehealth visits—have been relaxed during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the core compliance and […]
Why Labor Management Systems Are a Resource Healthcare Can Rely On
In 2021, the role of advanced technology solutions across the healthcare sector can – and should — be expanded. They already have been applied in […]
Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions
Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall, Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as […]
The Future of Remote Care Automation Begins with Cardiac Rehabilitation
Uri Bettesh, CEO and Founder of Datos Health 2020 was undeniably the year that saw telehealth and remote care services come to the forefront of medical care. Many have […]
Can AI Pave the Path to Reducing Physician Burnout?
Abboud Chaballout, Founder of Diagnoss The timing couldn’t be more critical for us to start making serious headway to reduce the growing problem of burnout […]
Health Plans Must Go Beyond the ONC Mandate and Prioritize Member Experience
Minal Patel, CEO of Abacus Insights Laurent Rotival, SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO, Cambia Solutions We are all frustrated when there’s a glitch with […]
Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality
Warren A Whyte, Ph.D., VP Scientific Partnerships at ConcertAI According to a 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one in […]
3 Ways Hospitals Can Improve Employee Communication—Now and Beyond the Pandemic
This year and the coronavirus pandemic brought new challenges to hospitals and healthcare facilities across the globe. And while the first phase of vaccine distribution […]
Telehealth Helped Me Beat COVID-19, But It’s Just A Start
Lisa Romano, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at CipherHealth I was the voice of social distancing, a proponent of mask-wearing from the very start. Still, […]
Virtual Care in the Post-COVID World: How to Prepare Your Healthcare Environment
Nicole Muehlenhaus, Senior Product Manager, Ergotron As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption, many patients and providers supported the remote-friendly technology. While the big spikes […]
A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience
Chris Evanguelidi, Director, Enterprise Healthcare Market for Redpoint Global Inc. Researchers from Johns Hopkins published a study in October on the impact of the pandemic […]
Treat in Place: Protecting Nursing Home Patients From Hospital Readmission
Waseem Ghannam, MD, President, Telehealth Solution A night doctor’s dilemma Five years ago, I was practicing medicine in a rural hospital in North Carolina as […]
Evaluating COVID-19’s Behavioral Health Impact on the Economy
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation We’re now in a new year and new presidential administration. At least three companies are producing […]
Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach
Amnon Drori, CEO of Octopai The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers […]
Incyte Receive Positive CHMP’s Opinion for Pemigatinib
Shots: The EMA’s CHMP has adopted a positive opinion of pemigatinib for the treatment of adults with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with documented […]
Novo Nordisk Receives the CHMP’s Positive Opinion for Sogroya (somapacitan)
Shots: The EMA’s CHMP accepted a positive opinion for the use of Sogroya (somapacitan), once-weekly recommending its approval for the treatment of adults with growth […]
The Combination of 5G and AI Will Transform Healthcare in 2021
Bryan Lubel, Executive Vice President, Connected Health of KORE Not many will disagree that the global pandemic has accelerated the use of technology in healthcare. […]
A New System to Fit A New Economy: How Healthcare Can Recover From COVID-19
Paula Muto, MD, FACSFounder and CEO, UBERDOC, Inc. We are at a watershed moment. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reevaluate our priorities both […]
Why CMS Will Lead the 2021 Kidney Care Revolution
Chris Riopelle, CEO of Strive Health After an unprecedented year, kidney care providers, including nephrologists, dialysis facilities, and care extenders are expecting 2021 to follow […]
How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations
Giri Rajaiah, Executive Leader, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, DISYS As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is […]
From Analog to Digital Neurology: 3 Steps to Better Inform Patient Care
Dr. Nandor Pinter, Director of Neuroimaging Research, DENT Institute Dr. Murray Gillies, General Manager of Digital Cognitive Dx Venture, Philips The field of neurology is […]
Top 5 Business Opportunities for Digital Health Companies in 2021. Where Is The Money?
Ralf-Gordon Jahns, Managing Director of R2G For many companies, 2020 has been a devastating year due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the […]
Intelligent Automation of the Revenue Cycle: How an Integrated Platform Approach Yields Financial Results
Sean Barrett, Senior Vice President, Product and Digital Transformation, R1 RCM Healthcare provider networks are experiencing enormous pressure to manage financial margins and invest in […]
Leveraging Technology and Data for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Kevin Grauman, President and CEO, QLess After months of uncertainty, hope is finally on the horizon as three viable COVID-19 vaccine candidates are moving closer […]
Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data
Roberto Martinez, President, Mexico, Encora Among the many evolving technologies in the healthcare industry, there may be none more important or impactful than remote patient […]
To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data
Ed Simcox, Chief Strategy Officer at LifeOmic The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken 270,000 American lives to date, has shined a light on another crisis […]
3 Steps to Maintain Telehealth’s Momentum Post-Pandemic
In the face of COVID-19, healthcare witnessed how crises can become the long-awaited push for creativity and innovation that the industry needs. When our healthcare […]
IoMT Is Improving Patient Access: We Must Avoid Creating New Barriers
Heidi Sveistrup, CEO at Bruyère Research Institute Elza Seregelyi, Director at L-SPARK The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is changing the face of healthcare and […]
Transitioning from Traditional to E-Fax: How Healthcare Communications are Transforming Post-COVID
Michael Morgan, CEO of Updox The majority of industries have decreased or eliminated their use of the traditional fax machine over the past decade, including […]
Provider Strategies for Mitigating Telehealth Fraud & Abuse in 2021
Dr. Gary Call, Chief Medical Officer at HMS As healthcare spending continues to rise, so too does the inherent risk for bad actors to take […]
Why Hospitals Should Act Now to Create Clinical AI Departments
John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Jvion A century ago, X-rays transformed medicine forever. For the first time, doctors could see inside […]
Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches […]
Transforming Care Delivery Through AI-Powered Predictive Surveillance
John Langton, Ph.D. Director of Applied Data Science, Wolters Kluwer, Health Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems have pushed forward […]
Why A Patient-First Strategy for Specialty Rx Pharmacists Is Critical to Optimize Outcomes
Dr. Brandon Salke, PHARM.D, Pharmacist-in-charge, Optime Care One of the biggest challenges for biopharmaceutical companies of rare and orphan disease patient populations is optimizing disease […]
Is Your Connected Community of Care Truly Making a Difference?
Dr. Keith Kosel, Vice President at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) Connected Communities of Care Definition: An innovative method for effective population health management using […]
4 Quick Tips for Getting COVID-19 Claims Paid Promptly
Lillian Phelps, Sr. Director of Product Management, Availity As the COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the world, many providers have adopted an all-hands-on-deck approach and mentality […]
How pharmaceutical innovation is saving the world
Nine months. In March 2020, the United States was in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. We shut the entire country down and ground […]
Meaningful Use of Genomics Requires Informatics Beyond EMRs
Assaf Halevy, Founder and CEO of 2bPrecise Electronic medical records (EMRs) are widely expected to serve as a cornerstone technology that drives the delivery of […]
Death by Ransomware: Poor Healthcare Cybersecurity
Babur Khan, Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks If hackers attack your organization and you’re in an industry such as financial services, engineering, or manufacturing […]
How to Capitalize on Digital Health Momentum in 2021
Adam Sabloff, Founder and CEO of VirtualHealth As we re-examine the healthcare system in the wake of the pandemic, we are continually identifying opportunities to […]
CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Scott Galbari, CTO, Lyniate Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last […]
Patient-First Model: High Tech Meets High Touch for Individuals with Rare Disorders
Donovan Quill, President and CEO, Optime Care Industry experts state that orphan drugs will be a major trend to watch in the years ahead, accounting for […]
Making EHRs more like a butler by serving the needs of clinicians
Healthcare leaders can continue to wait for the government to enact and enforce IT changes that may or may not serve the needs of clinicians. […]
Gaps in Clinical Communication, Document Exchange Lead to Gaps in Care
John Harrison, Chief Commercial Officer of Concord Technologies Communication problems and inadequate information flow are two of the most common root causes of medical errors. […]
How The Internet of Things (IoT) Can Be Used to Monitor The Elderly
Ajay Rane, VP of Global Ecosystem Development, Sigfox Shelter-in-place orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic have exaggerated the social exclusion and loneliness of many elderly […]
For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for […]
COVID-19 Exposed The True Vulnerability of Healthcare Infrastructure
Martyn Crew, Director of Solutions Marketing at Gigamon In 2019, 41 million patient records breached in 572 reported incidents at an average cost of $1.8 […]
Worthy of further analysis
A recent report by Deloitte projects that the artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery market will grow 53% by 2025, citing the increased investment of labs […]
Why Some COVID-19 Testing Protocols Aren’t What You Think
Pawel Czech, Founder of Nex.D While countries around the world continue to flounder with regards to COVID-19 testing, everyone is wondering how national governments could […]
Is Broadband Access The Missing Key to Improving Rural Healthcare?
The plain truth is that rural America has always had a market failure problem. In the 1930s, the problem manifests as woefully inadequate telephone and […]
Medical Device Design: 4 Ways Designers Can Create Medical Devices That Work for Everyone
Stuart Karten, Founder/President, Karten Design Medical device design has been going through sweeping changes over the last decade. Ten years ago, medical device companies weren’t […]
Gleaning Insights for COVID-19: Why Claims and Clinical Data Matter
Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti As 170 research teams race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, some that are […]
As Telehealth Surges, Are Seniors Being Left Behind?
Anne Davis, Director of Quality Programs & Medicare Strategy at HMS A global health crisis has thrust us into a scenario in which lives quite […]
Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance
Courtney Tesvich, VP of Regulatory at Nextech When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model […]
Billions in Federal Provider Relief Funds Have Been Distributed. Now Come Auditing and Compliance.
Anna E. Stevens, CPA, is the Partner-in-Charge of Health Care Services at Weaver, Of the $175 billion in federal Provider Relief Funds (PRF) allocated to […]
Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense
Don Godbee Don Godbee, Mobile Solutions Architect at Stratix Don Godbee Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid […]
COVID-19: How Hospitals Can Create Better Inpatient Bed Capacity through Math
Dr. Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF & Director of Client Services at LeanTaaS Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements […]
5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers
Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients […]
Innovation, not price controls, will ensure patients’ ongoing access to life-saving medicines
To reduce drug prices, we should focus on the complex drug channel arrangements that stand between manufacturers and patients and not as much on price […]
5 Myth-Busting New Hospital ADT Notification Requirements
Claudia Williams, CEO of Manifest MedEx When doctors know their patients have been to the hospital, they can act fast to provide needed support. Widespread […]
The Modern Approach to Acquiring Healthcare IT
Cheryl Rodenfels, Healthcare Strategist, Nutanix The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the shortcomings of today’s hospital and healthcare IT infrastructure, with many healthcare organizations […]
Virtual Engagement During COVID Pushes Paradigm Shift for Physician Training and Patient Care
Shalini Shah, MD is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, and Enterprise Director of Pain Services, UC Irvine Health The dominant […]
Your Room is Ready: How to Recapture Health System Revenue by Solving “The Motel Problem”
Rich Miller, Chief Strategy Officer of QGenda Healthcare leaders attempting to regain some of the revenue lost during the COVID-19 shutdowns now face a formidable […]
NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events
David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US […]
COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts
Elizabeth Bierbower, Former President of Humana’s Group & Specialty Division Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients […]
3 Key Solutions to Fighting Stress In the Medical Field
As you read this, doctors are on the frontlines fighting a global pandemic. Lives depend on their skills and expertise, but what often gets overlooked […]
How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, HealthEC Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. […]
Hospital Sustainability Demands that Revenue Integrity Move Front and Center
Vasilios Nassiopoulos, VP of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes Razor-thin operational margins coupled with substantial and ongoing losses related to COVID-19 are culminating in a […]
COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Transforming the Health of Businesses
Margarita Alegría, PhD, Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital American businesses and their leadership are at a crossroads. COVID-19 has forced […]
7 Best Practices for Third-Party Risk Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard, The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry has forced pharma companies to outsource, increasing their reliance on third-party vendors and […]
While We Wait for 5G, Is Wi-Fi or Cellular Better for RPM Solutions?
Mark Denissen, President and CEO, Anelto Many in the healthcare industry are keeping an eye on the rollout of 5G wireless, which promises to connect […]
How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases
Brett Furst, President at HHS Technology Group Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the […]
8 Ways Advanced Analytics Can Help You Decide If Telehealth Should Be Temporary or Permanent
Prasad Dindigal, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, EXL. Over the past few months, primarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has gone […]
Lean on Your Connected Community of Care in Times of Crisis
Dr. Keith Kosel, Vice President at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) We’ve all experienced crises in our lives. They may be personal in nature […]
Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic
Diku Mandavia, M.D., SVP, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which […]
4 Ways to Combat Hidden Costs Associated with Delayed Patient Care During COVID-19
Matt Dickson, VP, Product, Strategy, and Communication Solutions at Stericycle COVID-19 terms such as quarantine, flatten the curve, social distance, and personal protective equipment (PPE) […]
What the U.S. needs to do to assist cancer patients and their physicians in developing countries
Tumor boards can help physicians in developing countries get access to U.S. expertise and represent one way to democratize state-of-the-art care for cancer patients throughout […]
How RPA Can Help Get COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Patients First
Ram Sathia, VP of Intelligent Automation at PK While most of the public’s attention is focused on the horse race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine, […]
Will Nanox Disrupt The X-ray Systems Market?
With its share price falling from more than $66 to less than $24, September was a tumultuous month for Nanox. On August 25th, the medical […]
COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration
Wes Wright, CTO at Imprivata If you work in healthcare, chances are that the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to quickly scale up or move staff […]
Gains in tRNAslation: It’s time for investors to realize the potential of European RNA technologies
Investing in new innovative RNA technologies can lead to rapid value creation, and Europe is a fertile ground to hunt for them.
COVID-19 Hastens America’s Reckoning with Rural Healthcare
Source: Christian Heitz from Pexels So long as we could say, “Healthcare is a business,” we could continue to avoid the moral and ethical choices […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…
Michael A Greely, Co-Founder & General Partner at Flare Capital Partners This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over […]
Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care
Eric Tran, Tulane School of Medicine Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the […]
5 Trends Driving The Future of Healthcare Real Estate in 2020 & Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed patient expectations for healthcare delivery, including offered services and health office operations. Although health systems have remained dynamic in […]
Covid-19 has presented the possibility of reinventing healthcare delivery and reimbursement must support this
While there are encouraging signs of reimbursement falling in step with the move towards a more value-based healthcare system, what is needed now to further encourage healthcare […]
The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Kelly Patrick, Principal Analyst at Signify Research Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal […]
Were We Mentally Ready for COVID-19? Why It’s Time to Take Behavioral Health Seriously
Dr. Jacob Lazarovic M.D., IMCS Group As you read this, over 200,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus. The influx of cases continues, […]
Thriving in a Value-Based Care Environment: Impacting Outcome-to-Cost Ratio
Jerry Carlson, Product Support Manager, BG DI BU IC Sales, Dunlee As the COVID-19 pandemic creates surges in acute care, many imaging departments are experiencing […]
Is Your Community Ready for Connected Community of Care Model?
Dr. Keith Kosel is a Vice President at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) This question initially brings to mind many possibilities such as connection […]
Getting Beyond the Telehealth ‘Stop-Gap’ Mentality
Roland Therriault, President, InSync Healthcare Solutions Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46% of patients […]
3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health […]
Digital Behavioral Health: Addressing The COVID-19 Behavioral Health Crisis
Victor Siclovan, Director of Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in […]
How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Ruby Raley, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Axway Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement […]
Accounting for the Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Andy Aroditis, CEO, NextGate The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a medical crisis. Since the highly contagious disease hit American shores in early 2020, the […]
New cervical cancer screening guidelines ignore past progress
It is unclear why the American Cancer Society would potentially impact the lives of countless women with recommendations that contradict decades of real progress.
Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to […]
4 Areas Driving AI Adoption in Hospital Operations and Patient Safety
Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead at NVIDIA COVID-19 has put a tremendous burden on hospitals, and the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff who […]
New leadership, continued vision
Welcome to the first issue of Pharmaceutical Commerce under new ownership. As announced, MJH Life Sciences acquired the multimedia platform in July, after 15 years […]
The Coronavirus Crisis’ Silent Death Toll: Chronically Ill Patients
Dr. Kayur Patel, Chief Medical Officer of Proactive MD The impact of the coronavirus crisis is shining a bright light on many of the challenges […]
Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH
What You Should Know: – How the top US acute EHR vendors, namely Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, and MEDITECH (+85% share of US acute market in terms of revenues), have progressed on international […]
Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement
Bill Krause, VP and GM, Digital Experience and Consumer Engagement at Change Healthcare With the rise of healthcare consumerism, people are looking to hospitals, health […]
9 Ways UX/UI Design Can Improve Digital Health Adoption for Seniors
Amy Oughton, Founder, and CEO Dream in Color Seniors have the lowest reported usage of telehealth of any age group. As many healthcare providers are […]
Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic: It Starts With Cleaning Our Devices
Rikki Jennings, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Zebra Technologies The importance of handwashing has never been more obvious than in recent months, but as experts continue […]
New Attacks, Regulations, and Stakes Call for New Security Strategies
Tim Callan, Senior Fellow, Sectigo The amount of data generated by the healthcare industry is staggering—and constantly increasing. Healthcare data encompasses the personal information of […]
4 Ways Businesses Will Adapt Their Healthcare Landscape
Dr. Donald Brown, CEO and founder of LifeOmic The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives, from how we work to how we […]
Envisioning a 5G-Powered Retail-Healthcare Hub
Mitzi Amon, Director of Healthcare Marketing at Vertiv If you’ve been to a big-brand grocery or department store recently, you probably noticed some form of […]
Top 5 RCM Challenges for Healthcare Executives in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Brian Robertson, CEO at VisiQuate, There have been many memorable “where were you?” events since the 21st century began. But few can match the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Improving the Patient Experience by Optimizing Telehealth Through COVID-19 and Beyond
Art Papier, MD, CEO and Co-Founder at VisualDx We are facing a global healthcare crisis unlike any in our recent history. Within the span of […]
Improving the Patient Experience by Optimizing Telehealth Through COVID-19 and Beyond
Art Papier, MD, CEO and Co-Founder at VisualDx We are facing a global healthcare crisis unlike any in our recent history. Within the span of […]
COVID-19 Underscores Why Certain Aspects of the American Healthcare System Should Change Forever
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation In the late 1940s, the United Kingdom was busily reassembling country and what remained of the […]
Why Now Is The Time to Reimagine Healthcare Through Technology
Jeff Fallon, CEO, eVideon It wasn’t that long ago that people went to the bank on a Friday to cash their paper paychecks. Maybe they’d […]
How Times of Crisis Spur Needed Change in Healthcare Delivery
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change healthcare operations in the world, foundational systems are being adapted to meet these new demands. Sometimes it takes […]
Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap
Oliver Schacht, PhD, CEO of OpGen Secondary bacterial or fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients have received inadequate attention from the public. For most, co-infections pose […]
The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
Abhinav Shashank, CEO and Co-founder of Innovaccer Inc. COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the […]
Telehealth Platforms: 5 Pillars of Patient-Centric Design
Ed Adamson, Director of Strategy & Insight at Star To accelerate the adoption of telehealth services and remote health platforms, the patient-centric design is a […]
