After the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shifted healthcare from in-person visits to virtual appointments, patients embraced new communication tools that quickly connected them with providers, schedules and their health records.
Telehealth use has increased 38 times from the pre-pandemic baseline, according to research from McKinsey. And as more patients flock to providers with established digital patient platforms, those healthcare organizations that...
Incentivized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform care delivery to improve outcomes, healthcare stakeholders are increasingly turning to value-based care initiatives. Outcomes are now contingent on providers working together across the continuum for shared goals, but hospitals are often not equipped with the resources necessary to do so.
That’s where technology comes into play. To...
Healthcare IT has drawn a great deal of investment for more than a decade as hospitals embraced electronic health records, with the help of incentives. Healthcare IT’s opportunity is compounded by some of the industry’s flaws: About 30 percent of U.S. healthcare spending, or up to approximately $933 billion, is considered wasted.
The broader healthcare IT market is expected to...
Healthcare is on a journey to make patient care more personal and holistic. With the industry slowly shifting toward value-based care rather than a fee-for-service payment model, providers are able to focus on preventive care as opposed to reactive treatments.
In response to this change in thinking about how healthcare can best serve patients, precision medicine is becoming a new focus for...
Cloud adoption isn’t new in healthcare. In recent years, spurred by the pandemic, healthcare systems turned to cloud capabilities to push the delivery of care to their communities.
When healthcare organizations had to send staff home and enact strict safety rules in March 2020, the rapid deployment and scaling of telehealth services and remote work capabilities meant reliance on cloud...
Like many healthcare providers, Eisenhower Health has seen a surge in demand for outpatient surgeries, and because of it, the organization recently expanded and modernized its surgery center with additional operating rooms and state-of-the-art technology.
The healthcare system in Rancho Mirage, Calif., completed a three-year, $68 million expansion of its Eisenhower Desert Orthopedic Center in 2021, which doubled its space...
At Southcoast Health, a community-based health system operating in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, IT and clinical leaders raced to stand up new solutions in the spring of 2020. As with most healthcare providers, telehealth became a mission-critical service at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the organization also had to find ways to track testing and implement...
With hospitals and outpatient facilities sprawled across the New York City metro area, Northwell Health knows how critical it is for clinicians to effectively team up for patient care.
The healthcare system had to rethink earlier strategies for clinical communication and collaboration, which included face-to-face meetings, phone calls and pagers at the bedside. A move to Microsoft Teams in 2019 provided...
If there’s a healthcare organization that knows something about building a strong data security foundation, it’s Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
In fact, the multidisciplinary clinic system, with locations throughout the greater Houston area, “had ransomware before ransomware was cool,” according to CTO and CISO Martin Littmann. In 2015, an attacker used a zero-day variant of CryptoLocker to infect two machines at one...
