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Providence Approaches Healthcare Digital Innovation With Provider Expertise

PatientEngagementHIT Providence health system knows something about digital tools in the healthcare consumer world, with its latest incubated technology, Praia Health, being proof of the power of stakeholder input and design. As a health system serving patients...

Ensuring Drug Safety Through Regulatory Compliance

PharmaNewsIntelligence In healthcare technology, the intersection of science and regulations is where innovation meets responsibility. Nowhere is this more evident than in the pharmaceutical industry, where drug safety is paramount. Regulatory compliance plays a...

The Impact of Biotechnology Breakthroughs in Healthcare

LifeSciencesIntelligence Biotechnology stands at the forefront of innovation and progress in the rapidly evolving healthcare technology industry. The commercialization of biotechnology products has transformed healthcare, offering novel solutions to age-old...

What Technologies Support Payers With Claims Management Processes?

HealthPayerIntelligence Claims management is an integral part of the healthcare process as it determines how much providers receive in reimbursement, what costs health plans will cover, and what patients ultimately owe for their care. After providing care,...

A Look at California’s Newest Bans on Chemicals in Food

PharmaNewsIntelligence On October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting the manufacturing, sale, delivery, distribution, or carrying of food products for human consumption containing four presumably harmful chemicals: brominated...

Unlocking the Future of Value-Based Care With Data

RevCycleIntelligence Advocate Health is a value-based care leader. More than 2.4 million lives are covered by the health system’s value-based care contracts, which include 12 different accountable care organizations (ACOs) and clinically integrated...

Using Telehealth to Address Side Effects of Cancer Immunotherapy

mHealthIntelligence Virtual care modalities have been lauded for their ability to connect patients to healthcare quickly and conveniently. While not all types of care are suited to virtual delivery, certain services, like specialty consultations, can be...

5 Critical Steps for Entering the Life Sciences Market

LifeSciencesIntelligence Market entry in any industry is complex, and life sciences market entry is no different. As companies enter or plan to enter the life sciences market, it is crucial to have a comprehensive understanding of market entry procedures and best...

How Advocate Health Keeps the Value-Based Care Momentum Going

HealthCareExecIntelligence Value-based care adoption has hit a tipping point. More than half of all healthcare payments are tied to some level of quality or value measurement as of 2021, according to the latest data from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action...

Communicating With a Patient’s Family Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule

HealthITSecurity When disclosing protected health information (PHI) to a provider at a HIPAA-covered entity, patients likely want to ensure that their information is not being shared with everyone in the hospital waiting room. But they may want to keep...

What is a Zero-Day Attack, How Can Healthcare Defend Against Them?

HealthITSecurity Defending against zero-day attacks is difficult – by nature, threat actors committing zero-day attacks are taking advantage of unknown or unpatched vulnerabilities. Understanding the nature of these attacks, as well as the threats...

How to Develop Assays to Measure Biomarkers

LifeSciencesIntelligence Biomarker discovery and research is a rapidly growing healthcare field that continues to impact the healthcare system significantly. Biomarker research has been used in preclinical research settings to inform drug discovery, in clinical...

Taking STI Screening Access to Community-Based Organizations

PatientEngagementHIT When Joshua O’Neal, sexual health program director at the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) in Georgia, took on a project to improve patient access to STI testing, he didn’t know he’d be facing a perfect storm of...

10 Things to Know About the Updated 2023 COVID-19 Vaccines

PharmaNewsIntelligence With the onset of the fall season, many Americans are grappling with numerous questions about COVID-19 booster shots, the flu vaccine, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) protection. This year's vaccine rollout has encountered...

Using Patient Teach-Back to Improve Patient Education

PatientEngagementHIT Patient education and health literacy strategies are incomplete without patient teach-back, a practice many providers use to make sure their patients understand health information. As the healthcare industry confronts a growing population...

Visualizing, Interpreting, and Disposing of Healthcare Analytics Data

HealthITAnalytics The success of a healthcare analytics project is predicated on how well project stakeholders navigate the data lifecycle, which consists of data generation, collection, processing, storage, management, analysis, visualization,...

75K Healthcare Workers May Strike, Hospital Operating Margins Grow

HealthCareExecIntelligence As exhausted healthcare leave their jobs or prepare to go on strike, clinician burnout and staffing shortages rises to the top healthcare leaders' concerns.  One symplr survey revealed that 97 percent of respondents struggle with...

Storage, Management, and Analysis in the Health Data Lifecycle

HealthITAnalytics The data lifecycle drives data analytics projects across industries, and healthcare is no exception. Healthcare stakeholders need to have a firm grasp on each of the steps in the cycle — data generation, collection, processing,...

How Vermont’s All-Payer ACO Model Paves the Way for Value-Based Care

RevCycleIntelligence As its name states, the Vermont All-Payer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model is an arrangement that incorporates patients with both private and public healthcare coverage, but what makes this model so appealing to providers? Is this...