Remote Patient Monitoring: Gaining Insight into Patient Health from Afar
The era of remote patient monitoring is ushering in a new era of healthcare, characterized by data-driven insights, personalized care, and efficient resource utilization.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
During a recent virtual panel discussion, health system executives discussed what it should ideally look like when health system leaders come together to launch a digital project. They stressed it is vital to assemble a diversified decision-making team and that leaders should prioritize addressing the organization’s challenges and opportunities rather than being captivated by flashy new products.
Patients yearn for care experiences that are more convenient, personal and accessible. However, clinicians aren't doing a great job of delivering this kind of care, according to a new report. The staffing crisis has put clinicians under a lot of pressure — they feel they often don't have time to deliver adequate care of get effectively trained on how to use new technology.
During MedCity News’ INVEST conference, CommonSpirit Health CIO Daniel Barchi laid out two critical actions that hospitals can take to help ensure their new technology investments will be worth their time and money. The first is to prioritize scalability, and the second is to involve frontline clinical staff early on in the process.
Sara Vaezy, Providence’s chief strategy and digital officer, thinks the definition of an integrated delivery system is going to change. In her view, health systems will be more successful if they let go of the notion that they can do it all.
As hospitals continue to battle healthcare’s workforce shortage and high levels of staff turnover, capacity is a significant pain point. When it comes to technology to help optimize capacity management, hospital leaders want solutions that can automatically identify and prioritize patients who are ready for discharge using real-time data, according to a new report.
Healthcare journalists source a significant amount of the stories they write from emailed pitches. To make the media relations process more fruitful for everyone involved, I laid out my top seven pet peeves as a healthcare technology reporter so public relations representatives have a better understanding of which behavior to avoid.
Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and IBM can’t disrupt healthcare with the same approach they have used to enter other industries, HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen said at HLTH 2022. He argued that technology companies won't be able to infiltrate healthcare from afar. Instead, they must embed themselves into everyday healthcare interactions at hospitals in order for their products and services to be truly impactful.
UnityPoint Health CEO Clay Holderman said his health system made a mistake when it used to leave decision making concerning new technology adoption up to the director of its venture fund instead of involving its frontline clinicians. UnityPoint’s clinicians didn’t take too well to this, so the health system re-structured its technology adoption process to prioritize the voices of its clinical staff.
Healthcare technology companies raised a record of $15.3 billion in 2020, according to a report from Silicon Valley Bank. For the first time, digital health companies surpassed biopharma for the number of deals.
Healthcare startups saw smaller amounts of investment after a record-breaking 2018, according to a report from Silicon Valley Bank. Despite the dip in funding, 2019 saw more deals overall, led by increased investment into healthcare technology companies.
To avoid patient confusion and frustration, Mass General has launched an interactive map of its campus.