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Can health systems help push digital health development forward?

mHealthIntelligence The highly competitive digital healthcare market is teeming with companies looking to achieve a singular goal: create solutions with staying power. In recent years, companies have launched and folded in short order, showing that developing...

Addressing challenges in nucleotide therapeutic delivery

PharmaNewsIntelligence Nucleotide therapeutics have become increasingly critical disease management and prevention tools across the healthcare industry. However, challenges in the effective and widespread delivery of these treatments have presented barriers to...

Change Healthcare cyberattack exposes cybersecurity concerns

HealthITSecurity When BlackCat ransomware actors targeted UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare in February, they set off a chain of events that disrupted the US healthcare system and resulted in financial and operational strain for providers...

How updated third-party tech guidance affects compliance efforts

HealthITSecurity Following a December 2022 bulletin that elicited questions from covered entities and a lawsuit from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) updated online tracking technology guidance. In the March...

Exploring advantages and challenges of synchronous video telehealth

mHealthIntelligence Telehealth has persisted as a critical care delivery option in the post-COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) landscape. Adoption and utilization of telehealth remain far higher than pre-PHE levels; however, this spike in telehealth use...

CDRH reports highlight progress in medical device safety, innovation

LifeSciencesIntelligence On April 17, 2024, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), part of the United States FDA, released two companion reports that comprehensively overview the organization’s unwavering dedication to advancing the core...

Navigating the black box AI debate in healthcare

HealthITAnalytics Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the healthcare industry by storm as researchers share breakthroughs and vendors rush to commercialize advanced algorithms across various use cases. Terms like machine learning, deep learning and...

Building a care team to address social determinants of health

PatientEngagementHIT As healthcare organizations prioritize social determinants of health (SDOH) work, they’re building out care teams that can support patients’ social needs. Indeed, in healthcare’s era of team-based care, there’s...

Exploring the top 20 biopharma companies Q1 2024 market cap growths

PharmaNewsIntelligence In the midst of economic uncertainties, fluctuating interest rates, and evolving Medicare Drug Price Negotiation policies, the top 20 global biopharmaceutical companies have achieved a promising start to the year. According to a GlobalData...

Omnicell launches XT Amplify, amending pharmacy care delivery model

PharmaNewsIntelligence On April 16, 2024, Omnicell, a multinational healthcare technology company, announced the launch of XT Amplify, a multi-year innovation project that aims to optimize the current pharmacy care delivery model by enhancing the existing XT...

How one hospital designed its own RPM tools to boost data collection

HealthCareExecIntelligence Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is an important factor in improving clinical outcomes and engaging patients in their care, including in pediatric populations. These tools have long been a critical part of patient care, with the very...

How to address health equity in alternative payment models

RevCycleIntelligence In the current age of healthcare, it is not enough to simply provide every patient with the same level of care. Healthcare providers and other stakeholders must actively prioritize health equity initiatives when developing care delivery...

Why Phoenix Children’s turned in-house to create and deploy RPM apps

mHealthIntelligence Keeping up with the demands of an increasingly digital healthcare landscape can be an uphill task. While some health systems turn to partnerships with digital health companies, others take over the reins of innovation and develop digital...

Exploring strategies to mitigate physician burnout

LifeSciencesIntelligence The onset and continuous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were trying times for healthcare systems globally. Physicians and healthcare professionals were burdened with excess workloads, increased patient risks, and additional challenges,...

How Mass. hospitals move forward with intention on health equity

PatientEngagementHIT If there’s anything that sticks out to Massachusetts Hospital Association’s (MHA’s) Izzy Lopes about healthcare’s heightened emphasis on health equity in the last four years, it’s intentionality. Health equity...

Why diversifying clearinghouse, banking partners is crucial

RevCycleIntelligence Clearinghouses and banks are crucial in supporting hospitals’ financial health, enabling providers to focus on delivering high-quality patient care. However, a recent cyberattack that shut down one of the largest clearinghouses in...

Improving mammography utilization to cut breast cancer mortality

LifeSciencesIntelligence A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the association between mammography utilization and various social determinants of health (SDOH) and health-related social needs among women in the United...

Employing telehealth to ease the hospice transition for kids with cancer

mHealthIntelligence Hospice plays a critical role in providing care and comfort to patients at the end of their life. A challenging time for patients and their loved ones, hospice care relies on coordinated efforts from various experts, including physicians,...

Discovering 6 applications of bioinformatics in drug repurposing

PharmaNewsIntelligence Northeastern University defines bioinformatics as a combination of computer programming, big data, and biology that can be applied to identify and understand sequences or patterns in healthcare. According to the National Human Genome...