Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

A patient has a telehealth visit with their doctor remotely in their home via video conferencing. The COVID-19 cause massive movement to telehealth since 2020.

Telemedicine gaining fans in dermatology

Fewer than 10% of dermatology patients who were seen virtually during the COVID pandemic said they would not use teledermatology again—and only 7% said they’d not recommend telehealth to a friend.

January 26, 2021
Covid Drugs

HHS goes live with online locator of COVID-countering therapeutic drugs

The agency has posted an interactive map showing the locations of drug distributors that have recently received shipments of two monoclonal antibody medications good for treating COVID-19.

January 14, 2021

Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway pulling the plug on Haven

The company had planned to model digital healthcare transformation by innovating transparent and replicable ways to cover and serve its combined 1.5 million employees.

January 5, 2021
Smartphone

Online bullying of physicians common across the board, but women docs face much more sexual harassment

Almost a quarter of surveyed physicians say they’ve been personally attacked on social media or by other online means. That’s men and women alike, and in about equal ratios.

January 4, 2021
Cybercrime

Is there honor among thieves who would hold hospitals hostage if not for COVID?

A trend has emerged of evidently softhearted ransomware gangs swearing off hospitals during the COVID crisis.

December 11, 2020
Smartphone

HHS’s updated health IT plan prioritizes ‘person-centered care’

If everything goes according to its authors’ vision, healthcare consumers will finally be using their smartphones to easily access all their medical information.

October 30, 2020
Cybercrime

Cyberattack remediation winding down at sprawling health system

More than a week after protectively disconnecting all online systems in the U.S. following a Sept. 27 cyberattack, a multistate, two-nation health system is coming back online.

October 5, 2020
Cybercrime

Ransom paid to cybercriminal on behalf of Inova Health, others

Five-hospital Inova Health System based in Falls Church, Virginia, was among the clients of Blackbaud, a fundraising service supplier, affected by a ransomware attack against Blackbaud in May.

September 11, 2020

Around the web

Five of the largest U.S. medical societies focused on cardiovascular health are one step closer to seeing their paradigm-shifting proposal become a reality.

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions and Society of Thoracic Surgeons have both shared statements in support of the ban, which is already being challenged in court. The American Hospital Association, meanwhile, opposes the policy shift, saying it “errs by seeking to create a one-size-fits-all rule”

Alison Bailey, MD, co-chair of the business of cardiology sessions at ACC.24, emphasized that reimbursement cuts can have a long-term negative impact on patient. 

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