Search Results: "NYC Health + Hospitals"
-
NYC Health + Hospitals adds mental health services to virtual urgent care platform with $3.9M grant
NYC Health + Hospitals recently received a $3.9 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust to incorporate mental health services into ExpressCare, the health system’s virtual urgent care platform. The health system will also launch a version of its new tele-behavioral health services that is tailored to the New York City’s homeless residents.
-
NYC Health + Hospitals utilizes Accellion platform for securely sharing PHI
NYC Health + Hospitals will use Accellion’s kiteworks platform to ensure providers have a safe way to share patients’ protected health information.
-
NYC Health + Hospitals CEO: We’re being cautious with EHR rollout
The organization is proceeding with the new, $764 million Epic EHR project despite the warnings of Dr. Charles Perry, ex-CMIO of the first two hospitals to go live.
-
Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Nursing Strikes Reveal Systemic Issues Healthcare Must Address
The deficiency of nurse-specific billing data makes nurses literally and figuratively invisible in terms of political and financial decision-making capacity within the U.S. healthcare sector.
-
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, departures and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
-
Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
Telehealth in 2023 – Predicting the Unpredictable
Making predictions in unpredictable times can be dangerous. As long-held certainties – even ones as […]
-
LG, Amwell Launch New Healthcare TV Kit to Fight Burnout and Workforce Shortages
LG launched the first solution to come from its collaboration with Amwell. The product, called the Carepoint TV Kit 200L, is in beta testing but will soon be sold to hospitals to help clinicians virtually connect to patients’ rooms. Powered by Amwell’s Converge platform, the product is aimed at helping clinicians more easily engage with patients amid healthcare’s workforce shortage crisis.
-
Following Roe decision, bad actors will try to target reproductive health data
State bans would mean sensitive patient data, such as interactions with a telehealth provider to obtain abortion drugs, could be used against someone as a threat. One expert warned that the value of such data will “skyrocket.”
-
Pandemic proves the mother of health innovation as startups raise $9B in NYC
Funding for 2021 was up 150% from the previous record of $3.6 billion raised in 2020, according to the 2022 New York Healthcare Innovation Report. Digital health startups in areas including virtual care, patient engagement and mental health captured 87% of funds.
-
SXSW resonates in health: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week
Every week, we compile the most trafficked and thoughtful stories on MedCity News. This week, healthcare-related stories originating at the recent South By Southwest festival struck a cord with our readers:
-
NYC hospital CMIO quits over EHR implementation, cites Challenger report
The ex-CMIO of two New York City public hospitals so hated the way the city’s health department was rolling out an EHR system that he quoted the official report of the 1986 Challenger disaster in his resignation letter.