This document provides tips for doing business in healthcare IT. It summarizes recent trends in the industry including increasing venture capital funding and electronic health record adoption rates. It also outlines challenges healthcare CIOs face such as security issues, implementing healthcare reforms, and retaining their position. The document advocates becoming a healthcare thought leader by getting certified, blogging, joining industry associations, and understanding the clinical side of healthcare.
4 Digital Health Trends Affecting Your Revenue CycleMeduit
The document discusses 4 emerging digital trends impacting the healthcare industry: 1) Big data, with more health data being collected but not fully utilized; 2) mHealth and wearable devices increasing patient engagement and ownership; 3) The Internet of Things expanding connectivity of devices; and 4) Data security becoming more vital as digital innovation increases potential threats. These trends present both opportunities such as reduced costs and improved outcomes, as well as challenges around data sharing and protection that healthcare organizations must address. Behavioral analytics and a focus on data security are seen as important to manage risks in this evolving digital landscape.
Webinar materials prepared for Association for Community-Affilitated Plans (ACAP). Healthcare consumerism is coming - are you prepared? As industry changes, so consumers adapt, and today's consumers have a world of information and engagement tools at their fingertips. In this webinar, learn how health insurance organizations and other healthcare companies can increase and improve their consumer experience through meaningful engagement, through social media.
TechTalks | Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Opportunities and Trendsrmcsoft
This document discusses opportunities for digital transformation in healthcare through three examples:
1. A digital health system operating unit called Mercy Virtual that generated $325 million in revenue and $113 million in EBITDA through remote patient monitoring and reduced unnecessary emergency visits.
2. A study of 300 high-cost patients that spent $45 million annually on acute care. A remote monitoring program reduced costs by $15 million and cut 12 full-time employees.
3. A telehealth startup called TeleHealth Solution that aims to improve access to care, reduce costs, and address physician shortages by providing virtual consultations and remote monitoring across specialties.
AI for Healthcare Leaders: The New AI Frontier for Improved Leadership Decisi...Health Catalyst
A new frontier is expanding AI from artificial intelligence to augmented intelligence. Traditional AI has focused on improving analytics efficiency and effectiveness. Augmented Intelligence is about improving the decision-making ability of healthcare leaders.
Our goal is to support leaders in driving systemwide outcomes improvement—do we have more opportunity in readmission or depression, how should we staff the ED on weekends, how long does a nurse manager need to improve safety culture, and so on. There is an opportunity to include AI to assist in decision making in new and innovative ways. In this webinar, you will see specific frameworks and tools to use AI to close the information gap for leaders to drive outcomes improvement.
How Data Empowers the Member-Centric Enterprise (AHIP Presentation)Mandi Bishop
Presentation at AHIP OpsTech and Consumer Forum, focusing on the 7Vs of data driving the member-centric health plan enterprise: velocity, volume, variability, vulnerability, veracity, volunteered, and viscosity.
1) The document discusses how digital technology is transforming healthcare by improving patient access to providers and services, coordinating between providers and payers, and enabling population health management.
2) Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by automating payments and contracts through added transparency and efficiency. It could also help aggregate patient data across populations while protecting privacy.
3) As nearly every aspect of life now involves digital interactions, healthcare companies must develop digital strategies to provide fluid, digital solutions that meet evolving patient needs.
Role of ai in healthcare whitepaper november 2020 santoshkumar3075
The document discusses key topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare based on a literature review, survey, and workshop conducted by the BDVA Task Force 7 subgroup on healthcare.
1) AI is already adding value in small areas of healthcare but its potential is largely untapped, even with COVID-19 accelerating digital adoption.
2) Legal, social, and regulatory challenges are major barriers to wider AI use, and policymakers need to address issues like unified European data access.
3) The survey and workshop identified reduced healthcare costs, improved quality of life, and better decision making as top benefits of AI. Key areas include medical imaging, records, and future uses like digital twins.
How to Increase Cash Flow Using Data and AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
In today’s challenging environment, healthcare leaders must seek opportunities to boost revenue through improved financial performance and reimbursement. Some common strategies include reducing the number of outstanding bill hold accounts, reducing A/R days, and managing discharged not final billed (DNFB) cases.
This article tackles, the following topics:
Common reasons accounts remain unbilled.
Identifying opportunities for improvement.
Using data analytics and process improvement to achieve financial goals.
Creating lasting improvements.
4 Digital Health Trends Affecting Your Revenue CycleMeduit
The document discusses 4 emerging digital trends impacting the healthcare industry: 1) Big data, with more health data being collected but not fully utilized; 2) mHealth and wearable devices increasing patient engagement and ownership; 3) The Internet of Things expanding connectivity of devices; and 4) Data security becoming more vital as digital innovation increases potential threats. These trends present both opportunities such as reduced costs and improved outcomes, as well as challenges around data sharing and protection that healthcare organizations must address. Behavioral analytics and a focus on data security are seen as important to manage risks in this evolving digital landscape.
Webinar materials prepared for Association for Community-Affilitated Plans (ACAP). Healthcare consumerism is coming - are you prepared? As industry changes, so consumers adapt, and today's consumers have a world of information and engagement tools at their fingertips. In this webinar, learn how health insurance organizations and other healthcare companies can increase and improve their consumer experience through meaningful engagement, through social media.
TechTalks | Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Opportunities and Trendsrmcsoft
This document discusses opportunities for digital transformation in healthcare through three examples:
1. A digital health system operating unit called Mercy Virtual that generated $325 million in revenue and $113 million in EBITDA through remote patient monitoring and reduced unnecessary emergency visits.
2. A study of 300 high-cost patients that spent $45 million annually on acute care. A remote monitoring program reduced costs by $15 million and cut 12 full-time employees.
3. A telehealth startup called TeleHealth Solution that aims to improve access to care, reduce costs, and address physician shortages by providing virtual consultations and remote monitoring across specialties.
AI for Healthcare Leaders: The New AI Frontier for Improved Leadership Decisi...Health Catalyst
A new frontier is expanding AI from artificial intelligence to augmented intelligence. Traditional AI has focused on improving analytics efficiency and effectiveness. Augmented Intelligence is about improving the decision-making ability of healthcare leaders.
Our goal is to support leaders in driving systemwide outcomes improvement—do we have more opportunity in readmission or depression, how should we staff the ED on weekends, how long does a nurse manager need to improve safety culture, and so on. There is an opportunity to include AI to assist in decision making in new and innovative ways. In this webinar, you will see specific frameworks and tools to use AI to close the information gap for leaders to drive outcomes improvement.
How Data Empowers the Member-Centric Enterprise (AHIP Presentation)Mandi Bishop
Presentation at AHIP OpsTech and Consumer Forum, focusing on the 7Vs of data driving the member-centric health plan enterprise: velocity, volume, variability, vulnerability, veracity, volunteered, and viscosity.
1) The document discusses how digital technology is transforming healthcare by improving patient access to providers and services, coordinating between providers and payers, and enabling population health management.
2) Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by automating payments and contracts through added transparency and efficiency. It could also help aggregate patient data across populations while protecting privacy.
3) As nearly every aspect of life now involves digital interactions, healthcare companies must develop digital strategies to provide fluid, digital solutions that meet evolving patient needs.
Role of ai in healthcare whitepaper november 2020 santoshkumar3075
The document discusses key topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare based on a literature review, survey, and workshop conducted by the BDVA Task Force 7 subgroup on healthcare.
1) AI is already adding value in small areas of healthcare but its potential is largely untapped, even with COVID-19 accelerating digital adoption.
2) Legal, social, and regulatory challenges are major barriers to wider AI use, and policymakers need to address issues like unified European data access.
3) The survey and workshop identified reduced healthcare costs, improved quality of life, and better decision making as top benefits of AI. Key areas include medical imaging, records, and future uses like digital twins.
How to Increase Cash Flow Using Data and AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
In today’s challenging environment, healthcare leaders must seek opportunities to boost revenue through improved financial performance and reimbursement. Some common strategies include reducing the number of outstanding bill hold accounts, reducing A/R days, and managing discharged not final billed (DNFB) cases.
This article tackles, the following topics:
Common reasons accounts remain unbilled.
Identifying opportunities for improvement.
Using data analytics and process improvement to achieve financial goals.
Creating lasting improvements.
Improving Strategic Engagement for Healthcare CIOs with Five Key QuestionsHealth Catalyst
A healthcare CIO’s role can demand such an intense focus on technology that IT leaders may struggle to find natural opportunities to engage with their C-suite peers in non-technical conversations. To bridge the gap, healthcare CIOs can answer five fundamental questions to better align their programs with organizational strategic goals and guide IT services to their full potential:
Whom do we serve?
What services do we provide?
How do we know we are doing a great job?
How do we provide the services?
How do we organize?
This document lists various AI startups in healthcare and their funding amounts. It describes what each company does, such as using AI for drug discovery, medical imaging analysis, disease detection, and more. The top 3 funded companies are Babylon Health ($635.3M), Zymergen ($574.1M), and Freenome ($507.6M). In total, over 60 AI healthcare startups are mentioned from around the world.
The Work Ahead in Healthcare: Digital Delivers at the Frontlines of CareCognizant
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital technologies in healthcare. Providers are using AI and intelligent machines to personalize care and change how care is delivered. A recent study found that the pandemic pushed many providers to significantly change their operations and embrace digital technologies like telehealth. While IT budgets are growing modestly, many providers expect to implement AI and see the role of intelligent machines in care delivery increasing over the next few years. This will change the skills needed and how work is allocated between employees and machines.
The Biggest Barriers to Healthcare InteroperabilityHealth Catalyst
Improving healthcare interoperability is a top priority for health systems today. Fundamental problems around improving interoperability include standardization of terminology and normalization of data to those standards. And, the volume of data healthcare IT systems produce exacerbates these problems.
While interoperability regulations focus on trying to make it easy to find and exchange patient data across multiple organizations and HIEs, the legislation’s lack of fine print and aggressive implementation timelines nearly ensures the proliferation of existing interoperability problems. This article discusses the biggest barriers to interoperability, possible solutions to interoperability problems, and why it matters.
A New Era of Personalized Medicine: The Power of Analytics and AIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is looking towards an era of personalized medicine in which providers customize treatments for the individual patient. Realizing this tailored level of care s a new level of data volume and analytics and AI capabilities that, while novel to healthcare, other industries are thriving in. Choosing the right role models as healthcare works towards the analytics- and AI-driven territory of personalized medicine will guide informed strategies and establish best practices.
With experience and expertise in these key areas, the military, aerospace, and automotive industries can serve as healthcare’s best examples:
1. The human cognitive processes of complex decision making.
2. The digitization of their industries, with the “health” of their assets as key drivers.
3. Operating in a “big data” ecosystem.
“Your Web Site is Their First Impression” HandoutMichele Affronte
This document summarizes a presentation about health care web sites and best practices. The presentation discusses how the web has evolved and impacted organizational development. It also reviews consumer preferences like access to quality, price, and physician information online. Emerging trends discussed include online account management, mobile access, and nursing portals. The presentation emphasizes that strategy is important and the web impacts organizational culture and responsibilities.
Healthcare Digital Transformation - A primer for healthcare executives and te...Damo Consulting Inc.
The future of healthcare is in digitally reimagined experiences for patients and caregivers alike. Digitalization offers increased choice and convenience for patients, and improved outcomes for caregivers while reducing costs and workloads.
How do we see the healthcare's digital future and its impact on our lives?Jane Vita
"Healthcare is undergoing major changes spurred on by, but not limited to, technology.
Digitalisation is changing the way we think about health, what taking care of it really entails, our personal role in healthcare systems and the way we interact with technology in the context of health.
In many ways, we are entering a post-institutional age of increased personal responsibility, which presents healthcare service providers and other players in the field with major opportunities and great risks. Technology has the potential to empower people and help them become more active in the management of their and their families’ health. This will change the relationship of the patient and the caregiver in profound ways." Mirkka Länsisalo
A co-creation with Mirkka Läansisalo and Sala Heinänen, at Futurice.
Lean Healthcare: 6 Methodologies for Improvement from Dr. Brent JamesHealth Catalyst
The survival of healthcare organizations depends on applying lean principles. Organizations that adopt lean principles can reduce waste while improving the quality of care. By applying stringent clinical data measurement approaches to routine care delivery, healthcare systems identify best practice protocols and incorporate those into the clinical workflow. Data from these best practices are applied through continuous-learning loop that enables teams across the organization to update and improve protocols–ultimately reducing waste, lowering costs, and improving access to care.
This executive report based on a presentation by Dr. Brent James at a regional medical center, covers the following:
1. How lean healthcare principles can help improve the quality of care.
2. The steps healthcare organizations need to take to create a continuous-learning loop.
3. How a lean approach creates financial leverage by eliminating waste and improving net operating margins and ROI.
The document summarizes a presentation about health care web sites and best practices. It discusses how the web has evolved and impacted organizational development. It also reviews data on what consumers want from hospital and physician websites, such as quality information, prices, and online access. Emerging trends are discussed like online account management and the growing use of mobile devices.
The digital healthcare network comprises of telehealth, mHealth(mobile), electronic patient records, wearable, and social media. Predictive analytics will help in providing preventive healthcare facilities rather than curative healthcare.
The document summarizes discussions from eHealth Initiative's 2020 Roadmap Executive Summit regarding health information technology. Key topics discussed included inaccurate patient matching, appropriate data sharing, and gaining consumer buy-in for initiatives. Participants debated whether technology exists to accurately match patients across different organizations. Some argued solutions are available, while others felt more work is needed. Regional patient identifiers were proposed as an alternative to a national identifier. Achieving consumer trust and demonstrating value to individuals was viewed as important for long-term industry solutions.
The Digitization of Healthcare: Why the Right Approach Matters and Five Steps...Health Catalyst
While many industries are leveraging digital transformation to accelerate their productivity and quality, healthcare ranks among the least digitized sectors. Healthcare data is largely incomplete when it comes to fully representing a patient’s health and doesn’t adequately support diagnoses and treatment, risk prediction, and long-term health care plans. But even with the obvious urgency for increased healthcare digitization, the industry must raise this trajectory with sensitivity to the impacts on clinicians and patients. The right digital strategy will not only aim for more comprehensive information on patient health, but also leverage data to empower and engage the people involved.
Health systems can follow five guidelines to digitize in a sustainable, impactful way:
Achieve and maintain clinician and patient engagement.
Adopt a modern commercial digital platform.
Digitize the assets (the patients) and the processes.
Understand the importance of data to drive AI insights.
Prioritize data volume.
This document provides an overview of new care models and technology-enabled solutions that promote connected and independent living for seniors. It highlights three main sections: an overview of trends in senior care innovation, the current solution landscape, and investment perspectives in the senior care market. The overview section discusses trends like greater technological adoption among seniors, a desire for independent living, and the potential for mass market consumer technologies to help seniors if properly marketed. The solution landscape maps out current categories of solutions like telehealth, medication management, and shared care planning. The investment section profiles the views of venture capitalists on what makes senior care solutions stand out and opportunities in the market.
Exceptions to Information Blocking Defined in Proposed Rule: Here’s What You ...Health Catalyst
Information blocking practices inhibit care coordination, interoperability, and healthcare’s forward progress. The ONC’s proposed rule ushers in the next phase of the Cures Act by defining information blocking practices and allowed exceptions. To make the final rule as strong as possible, exceptions should be narrowly defined. In proposed form these include the following:
Preventing Harm.
Promoting the Privacy of EHI.
Promoting the Security of EHI.
Recovering Costs Reasonably Incurred.
Responding to Request that are Infeasible.
Licensing of Interoperability Elements on Reasonable and Non-discriminatory Terms.
Maintaining and Improving Health IT Performance.
This article covers each of these exceptions and discusses what to watch for in the final version of the rule.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Overcome Healthcare Data Security Challenges ...Health Catalyst
As healthcare organizations today face more security threats than ever, artificial intelligence (AI) combined with human judgment is emerging as the perfect pair to improve healthcare data security. Together, they power a highly accurate privacy analytics model that allows organizations to review access points to patient data and detect when a system’s EHR is potentially exposed to a privacy violation, attack, or breach. With specific techniques, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning and transparent AI methods, health systems can advance toward more predictive, analytics-based, collaborative privacy analytics infrastructures that safeguard patient privacy.
Think Tank VI Overview & Best PracticesJustin Barnes
We started the Health Innovation Think Tank 3 years ago to form a highly collaborative environment that creates and shares best practices as well as strategies to successfully navigate the future of healthcare
We cover 3 primary themes in this session: Care Strategy, Innovation and Leadership. Today is about education, collaboration as well as best practice & strategy sharing. Everyone here is unscripted and on the frontlines of healthcare.
DAMA Webinar - Big and Little Data QualityDATAVERSITY
While technological innovation brings constant change to the data landscape, many organizations still struggle with the basics: ensuring they have reliable, high quality data. In health care, the promise of insight to be gained through analytics is dependent on ensuring the interactions between providers and patients are recorded accurately and completely. While traditional health care data is dependent on person-to-person contact, new technologies are emerging that change how health care is delivered and how health care data is captured, stored, accessed and used. Using health care as a lens through which to understand the emergence of big data, this presentation will ask the audience to think about data in old and new ways in order to gain insight about how to improve the quality of data, regardless of size.
Extending the Case for Digital: Health Plan Members SpeakCognizant
Cognizant's exclusive study shows that healthcare consumers’ appetite for digital continues to expand and deepen across all channels and age ranges: 10 key findings that will help health plans refine their digital member experience strategies in 2018 and beyond.
This document outlines a communication plan for an IRTC project to upgrade their web-based billing system. It identifies key stakeholders such as the project sponsor, steering committee, change control board, customers, and project team. It also includes a power/interest grid and communication matrix to guide communication between stakeholders. The plan discusses meeting guidelines, including setting agendas, distributing minutes, and tracking action items. It emphasizes that effective communication is critical to project success as shown in a case study where a lack of communication nearly caused a project to fail until a new manager implemented a strong communication plan.
El documento explica que la desviación estándar es una medida estadística que indica cuánto se desvían los valores de una variable de su promedio. Cuanto mayor es la desviación estándar, más dispersos están los valores. El documento también presenta fórmulas para calcular la desviación estándar poblacional y muestral y ofrece ejemplos de cómo interpretarla.
Improving Strategic Engagement for Healthcare CIOs with Five Key QuestionsHealth Catalyst
A healthcare CIO’s role can demand such an intense focus on technology that IT leaders may struggle to find natural opportunities to engage with their C-suite peers in non-technical conversations. To bridge the gap, healthcare CIOs can answer five fundamental questions to better align their programs with organizational strategic goals and guide IT services to their full potential:
Whom do we serve?
What services do we provide?
How do we know we are doing a great job?
How do we provide the services?
How do we organize?
This document lists various AI startups in healthcare and their funding amounts. It describes what each company does, such as using AI for drug discovery, medical imaging analysis, disease detection, and more. The top 3 funded companies are Babylon Health ($635.3M), Zymergen ($574.1M), and Freenome ($507.6M). In total, over 60 AI healthcare startups are mentioned from around the world.
The Work Ahead in Healthcare: Digital Delivers at the Frontlines of CareCognizant
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital technologies in healthcare. Providers are using AI and intelligent machines to personalize care and change how care is delivered. A recent study found that the pandemic pushed many providers to significantly change their operations and embrace digital technologies like telehealth. While IT budgets are growing modestly, many providers expect to implement AI and see the role of intelligent machines in care delivery increasing over the next few years. This will change the skills needed and how work is allocated between employees and machines.
The Biggest Barriers to Healthcare InteroperabilityHealth Catalyst
Improving healthcare interoperability is a top priority for health systems today. Fundamental problems around improving interoperability include standardization of terminology and normalization of data to those standards. And, the volume of data healthcare IT systems produce exacerbates these problems.
While interoperability regulations focus on trying to make it easy to find and exchange patient data across multiple organizations and HIEs, the legislation’s lack of fine print and aggressive implementation timelines nearly ensures the proliferation of existing interoperability problems. This article discusses the biggest barriers to interoperability, possible solutions to interoperability problems, and why it matters.
A New Era of Personalized Medicine: The Power of Analytics and AIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is looking towards an era of personalized medicine in which providers customize treatments for the individual patient. Realizing this tailored level of care s a new level of data volume and analytics and AI capabilities that, while novel to healthcare, other industries are thriving in. Choosing the right role models as healthcare works towards the analytics- and AI-driven territory of personalized medicine will guide informed strategies and establish best practices.
With experience and expertise in these key areas, the military, aerospace, and automotive industries can serve as healthcare’s best examples:
1. The human cognitive processes of complex decision making.
2. The digitization of their industries, with the “health” of their assets as key drivers.
3. Operating in a “big data” ecosystem.
“Your Web Site is Their First Impression” HandoutMichele Affronte
This document summarizes a presentation about health care web sites and best practices. The presentation discusses how the web has evolved and impacted organizational development. It also reviews consumer preferences like access to quality, price, and physician information online. Emerging trends discussed include online account management, mobile access, and nursing portals. The presentation emphasizes that strategy is important and the web impacts organizational culture and responsibilities.
Healthcare Digital Transformation - A primer for healthcare executives and te...Damo Consulting Inc.
The future of healthcare is in digitally reimagined experiences for patients and caregivers alike. Digitalization offers increased choice and convenience for patients, and improved outcomes for caregivers while reducing costs and workloads.
How do we see the healthcare's digital future and its impact on our lives?Jane Vita
"Healthcare is undergoing major changes spurred on by, but not limited to, technology.
Digitalisation is changing the way we think about health, what taking care of it really entails, our personal role in healthcare systems and the way we interact with technology in the context of health.
In many ways, we are entering a post-institutional age of increased personal responsibility, which presents healthcare service providers and other players in the field with major opportunities and great risks. Technology has the potential to empower people and help them become more active in the management of their and their families’ health. This will change the relationship of the patient and the caregiver in profound ways." Mirkka Länsisalo
A co-creation with Mirkka Läansisalo and Sala Heinänen, at Futurice.
Lean Healthcare: 6 Methodologies for Improvement from Dr. Brent JamesHealth Catalyst
The survival of healthcare organizations depends on applying lean principles. Organizations that adopt lean principles can reduce waste while improving the quality of care. By applying stringent clinical data measurement approaches to routine care delivery, healthcare systems identify best practice protocols and incorporate those into the clinical workflow. Data from these best practices are applied through continuous-learning loop that enables teams across the organization to update and improve protocols–ultimately reducing waste, lowering costs, and improving access to care.
This executive report based on a presentation by Dr. Brent James at a regional medical center, covers the following:
1. How lean healthcare principles can help improve the quality of care.
2. The steps healthcare organizations need to take to create a continuous-learning loop.
3. How a lean approach creates financial leverage by eliminating waste and improving net operating margins and ROI.
The document summarizes a presentation about health care web sites and best practices. It discusses how the web has evolved and impacted organizational development. It also reviews data on what consumers want from hospital and physician websites, such as quality information, prices, and online access. Emerging trends are discussed like online account management and the growing use of mobile devices.
The digital healthcare network comprises of telehealth, mHealth(mobile), electronic patient records, wearable, and social media. Predictive analytics will help in providing preventive healthcare facilities rather than curative healthcare.
The document summarizes discussions from eHealth Initiative's 2020 Roadmap Executive Summit regarding health information technology. Key topics discussed included inaccurate patient matching, appropriate data sharing, and gaining consumer buy-in for initiatives. Participants debated whether technology exists to accurately match patients across different organizations. Some argued solutions are available, while others felt more work is needed. Regional patient identifiers were proposed as an alternative to a national identifier. Achieving consumer trust and demonstrating value to individuals was viewed as important for long-term industry solutions.
The Digitization of Healthcare: Why the Right Approach Matters and Five Steps...Health Catalyst
While many industries are leveraging digital transformation to accelerate their productivity and quality, healthcare ranks among the least digitized sectors. Healthcare data is largely incomplete when it comes to fully representing a patient’s health and doesn’t adequately support diagnoses and treatment, risk prediction, and long-term health care plans. But even with the obvious urgency for increased healthcare digitization, the industry must raise this trajectory with sensitivity to the impacts on clinicians and patients. The right digital strategy will not only aim for more comprehensive information on patient health, but also leverage data to empower and engage the people involved.
Health systems can follow five guidelines to digitize in a sustainable, impactful way:
Achieve and maintain clinician and patient engagement.
Adopt a modern commercial digital platform.
Digitize the assets (the patients) and the processes.
Understand the importance of data to drive AI insights.
Prioritize data volume.
This document provides an overview of new care models and technology-enabled solutions that promote connected and independent living for seniors. It highlights three main sections: an overview of trends in senior care innovation, the current solution landscape, and investment perspectives in the senior care market. The overview section discusses trends like greater technological adoption among seniors, a desire for independent living, and the potential for mass market consumer technologies to help seniors if properly marketed. The solution landscape maps out current categories of solutions like telehealth, medication management, and shared care planning. The investment section profiles the views of venture capitalists on what makes senior care solutions stand out and opportunities in the market.
Exceptions to Information Blocking Defined in Proposed Rule: Here’s What You ...Health Catalyst
Information blocking practices inhibit care coordination, interoperability, and healthcare’s forward progress. The ONC’s proposed rule ushers in the next phase of the Cures Act by defining information blocking practices and allowed exceptions. To make the final rule as strong as possible, exceptions should be narrowly defined. In proposed form these include the following:
Preventing Harm.
Promoting the Privacy of EHI.
Promoting the Security of EHI.
Recovering Costs Reasonably Incurred.
Responding to Request that are Infeasible.
Licensing of Interoperability Elements on Reasonable and Non-discriminatory Terms.
Maintaining and Improving Health IT Performance.
This article covers each of these exceptions and discusses what to watch for in the final version of the rule.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Overcome Healthcare Data Security Challenges ...Health Catalyst
As healthcare organizations today face more security threats than ever, artificial intelligence (AI) combined with human judgment is emerging as the perfect pair to improve healthcare data security. Together, they power a highly accurate privacy analytics model that allows organizations to review access points to patient data and detect when a system’s EHR is potentially exposed to a privacy violation, attack, or breach. With specific techniques, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning and transparent AI methods, health systems can advance toward more predictive, analytics-based, collaborative privacy analytics infrastructures that safeguard patient privacy.
Think Tank VI Overview & Best PracticesJustin Barnes
We started the Health Innovation Think Tank 3 years ago to form a highly collaborative environment that creates and shares best practices as well as strategies to successfully navigate the future of healthcare
We cover 3 primary themes in this session: Care Strategy, Innovation and Leadership. Today is about education, collaboration as well as best practice & strategy sharing. Everyone here is unscripted and on the frontlines of healthcare.
DAMA Webinar - Big and Little Data QualityDATAVERSITY
While technological innovation brings constant change to the data landscape, many organizations still struggle with the basics: ensuring they have reliable, high quality data. In health care, the promise of insight to be gained through analytics is dependent on ensuring the interactions between providers and patients are recorded accurately and completely. While traditional health care data is dependent on person-to-person contact, new technologies are emerging that change how health care is delivered and how health care data is captured, stored, accessed and used. Using health care as a lens through which to understand the emergence of big data, this presentation will ask the audience to think about data in old and new ways in order to gain insight about how to improve the quality of data, regardless of size.
Extending the Case for Digital: Health Plan Members SpeakCognizant
Cognizant's exclusive study shows that healthcare consumers’ appetite for digital continues to expand and deepen across all channels and age ranges: 10 key findings that will help health plans refine their digital member experience strategies in 2018 and beyond.
This document outlines a communication plan for an IRTC project to upgrade their web-based billing system. It identifies key stakeholders such as the project sponsor, steering committee, change control board, customers, and project team. It also includes a power/interest grid and communication matrix to guide communication between stakeholders. The plan discusses meeting guidelines, including setting agendas, distributing minutes, and tracking action items. It emphasizes that effective communication is critical to project success as shown in a case study where a lack of communication nearly caused a project to fail until a new manager implemented a strong communication plan.
El documento explica que la desviación estándar es una medida estadística que indica cuánto se desvían los valores de una variable de su promedio. Cuanto mayor es la desviación estándar, más dispersos están los valores. El documento también presenta fórmulas para calcular la desviación estándar poblacional y muestral y ofrece ejemplos de cómo interpretarla.
This document discusses project procurement activities including what procurement entails, the processes outlined in the PMBOK Guide, the author's past procurement experience, alternative procurement entities, expected activities for the IRTC project, and a list of activities needed for a successful project. Project procurement involves planning purchases, selecting suppliers, administering contracts, and closing contracts. It allows organizations to reduce costs and increase resource availability by obtaining goods and services from outside vendors.
The document analyzes the potential impacts of IRTC purchasing a software add-on package from their vendor for their legacy billing system. The add-on would integrate the legacy system with IRTC's customer service systems. It is estimated to add 4 weeks for installation and $25,000 to the project budget. This would significantly impact the project scope, schedule, and budget. A cost-benefit analysis is needed to determine if the add-on is worthwhile given IRTC's goal of replacing the legacy system with a new web-based system. Approval from project stakeholders would be required before committing resources to the add-on.
Meetings, how to run corporate meetings, and planning meetingsyabadadoo052
This document provides guidance on planning and running effective meetings. Some key points include:
- Meetings are important for communication, problem solving, and creating new ideas if run properly. Face-to-face meetings are generally more effective than virtual meetings.
- When planning a meeting, consider the purpose, desired outcomes, agenda order, timings for each item, attendees, date, time and venue. Circulate the agenda in advance.
- During the meeting, keep control of time, agree on outcomes and follow-up actions. After the meeting, distribute notes and ensure actions are completed.
- The goals of the meeting should address both the agenda items and attendees' needs. Effective meetings make productive use of attendees
The board meeting of the [NAME OF ASSOCIATION] was called to order at 7:00 p.m. on [DATE]. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved, and treasurer, management, and attorney reports were presented. The board voted against resurfacing the pool for $26,000 but voted to amend association rules to restrict leasing and accept a landscaping contract. The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
The document discusses trends in healthcare data and analytics. It covers four main topics: 1) industry dynamics and business priorities in healthcare are driving a focus on value-based care and lower costs while engaging patients, 2) healthcare is experiencing a big data explosion from sources like EMRs and devices, 3) key trends include predictive analytics, cognitive computing, and value-based care, and 4) opportunities exist in population health and clinical decision support while challenges include lack of integration and security concerns.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare: Four Real-World I...Health Catalyst
This document discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are improving healthcare outcomes in four key areas:
1) Augmenting leadership decisions by helping identify issues and make future-oriented decisions
2) Overcoming data security challenges by detecting potential privacy violations or attacks
3) Resolving uncompensated care costs by using propensity-to-pay tools to target unpaid accounts
4) Improving patient flow by reducing wait times and avoiding delays through predictive models
The document discusses how strong authentication using FIDO standards can improve patient access to immunization records. It notes that current methods of identity proofing and authentication are inadequate for online access to immunization information systems (IIS), which contain patients' immunization histories. FIDO authentication could help by allowing secure online identity proofing and two-factor authentication. This could increase patients' uptake and empowerment to access their own immunization records through IIS portals. The document provides an example use case of how a company called MyIR could leverage FIDO to allow patients secure access to their family's immunization records and forecast upcoming needed immunizations.
Surveys a series of ethical, economic, clinical and also safety issues relating to the application of informatics to healthcare, focusing especially on the role of informatics in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Talk presented in the University at Buffalo Clinical/Research Ethics Seminar - Ethics, Informatics and Obamacare, November 20, 2012. Slides are available here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/13/ethics-informatics-obamacare.pptx
Information systems for health decision making - a citizen's perspectiveErdem Yazganoglu
We make health decisions everyday. We get our information from the Internet. As a society we are investing large amounts of funding for the health information systems. In this presentation, I tried to look from the perspective of a citizen and tried bringing a different perspective.
Podcast Summary - Patient Identity and the Role of Today's Modern CIOM2SYS Technology
M2SYS Healthcare Solutions offers this slide show summary of our podcast with Sharon Canner from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) on topics including: patient identity, CIOs, the advantages and disadvantages of a national patient identifier (NPI), how healthcare IT has succeeded and fallen short to implement electronic health records, the impact of health IT on the economy, and more.
Your cognitive future: How next-gen computing changes the way we live and workIBM in Healthcare
The healthcare industry is undergoing significant change driven by six disruptive forces - rapid digitization, changing consumer expectations, regulatory complexities, increasing healthcare demand, shortage of skilled resources and elevating healthcare costs. To meet the implication of these forces, healthcare organizations must excel in engaging with consumers, discovering new ideas and taking effective decisions
Currently, traditional analytics capabilities are unable to exploit maximum value from the ever increasing data resource constraining organization’s achievements and performance. But cognitive computing has the ability to bridge this gap and can open up fresh opportunities for the healthcare industry. It is already helping healthcare organizations to provide personalized care, effective decisions and more innovative solutions.
Patient Engagement in Healthcare Improves Health and Reduces CostsM2SYS Technology
It’s been said that patient engagement develops naturally when there is a regular, focused communication between patient and provider and it leads to behaviors that meet or more closely approach treatment guidelines. It is also believed that patients engaged in their own care make fewer demands on the health care system and more importantly, they experience improved health. Patients who are educated about both their condition and their care are also patients who are most likely to get and stay healthy. In fact, many believe that empowering patients to actively process information, decide how that information fits into their lives, and act on those decisions is a key driver to improving care and reducing costs.
Research shows that informed and engaged patients take a more active role in their own care and furthermore, health care organizations are slowly discovering how patient engagement contributes to their financial and quality objectives. Patient engagement essentially revolves around the theory that if patients understand their condition, know the symptoms to watch for, know why they’re taking medication for example and how to implement the necessary lifestyle changes, the chances of them getting and staying healthy are significantly improved and when you proactively engage patients in their care, the quality of that care improves.
Listen in to our latest podcast with Brad Tritle, Director of Business Development for Vitaphone Health Solutions, chair of the HIMSS Social Media Task Force and contributing editor of the HIMSS book Engage! Transforming Healthcare through Digital Patient Engagement as we discuss the current state of patient engagement in healthcare, how it is defined, whether it really does have a significant impact on improving health and reducing the cost of care, what engagement initiatives are providers using and what the future of patient engagement may look like.
The document discusses how the healthcare industry is being transformed by connected health technologies and changing consumer expectations. It notes that consumers now demand more convenient, transparent, and personalized healthcare experiences similar to top retailers. This is forcing health insurers to evolve into companies that focus on building loyal relationships with customers and partners. New technologies allow insurers to gather more data about individuals and better understand their needs in order to provide improved care, drive better outcomes, and enhance experiences. However, these technologies also require advanced security to protect sensitive medical information.
Aami hitech mu impact on the future on HC ITAmy Stowers
Relate the components of The HITECH Act and Meaningful Use to health management technology
Identify whether existing systems meet requirements
Communicate technology needs and request feedback from end users for a smooth transition
Implement best practices to move people and systems forward under these new requirements
Med Device Vendors Have Big Opportunities in Health IT Software, Services, an...Shahid Shah
If you’re in the medical device manufacturing or hardware sales business your revenue growth (CAGR) is under pressure like never before. You’re being asked to do more with less but you’re probably going to find that hard to accomplish because of one or more of the following challenges:
* Longer product development timelines caused by more FDA and other government regulations
* Increased demand by customers to have your devices deliver user experiences that are more like “consumer” devices such as cell phones and tablets
* Lower margins as a reaction to commodity competition (your sensor hardware business will be commoditized faster and faster over time)
* More complex and longer sales cycles because devices are now being approved for sale not by facilities and clinical executives alone but increasingly by CIOs and IT teams
* Increased cost of risk management and compliance caused by connectivity requirements
Any one of these challenges is difficult to meet but these days you’re probably being asked to meet more than one simultaneously. The solutions are not simple but the good news is that medical device manufacturers have many revenue generation opportunities today that can fund the new strategic imperatives you’ll need to put into place to meet the challenges listed above.
This briefing, presented by Netspective CEO Shahid Shah, describes some of the opportunities and how device vendors can take advantage of them.
mHealth Israel_Top Health Industry Issues of 2021_Will a Shocked System Emerg...Levi Shapiro
Presentation by PwC Health Research Institute for mHealth Israel, February 17, 2021: Top Health Industry Issues of 2021...Will a Shocked System Emerge Stronger?
Key Sections:
1) Rightsizing after virtual visit explosion
2) Changing clinical trials
3) Easing physician burden with digital
4) Healthcare forecast for 2021
5) Reshaping health portfolios
6) Resilient and responsive supply chains
7) Inter-Operability
Reducing Health Care Costs by Pulling IT into Healthcare Organizationsosloy2k
Much has made of the government’s effort to “push” IT, or more accurately electronic health records into healthcare. This article examines how we might pull other IT solutions such as evidence based medicine and secure physician communication into healthcare organizations.
Health Care is facing massive transformation. There is a lot to be learned from the Internet Industry and open standards like OpenID, OAuth and Microformats.
Critical Care: The Importance of Stronger Authentication in Health CareFIDO Alliance
Ensuring that data is secure is of critical importance to health care organizations, yet 90% have had a data breach with an average cost of $2.1 million. The need for advanced authentication solutions is clear.
Learn:
– How FIDO enabled solutions are being deployed in health care
– Relevant government and regulatory policies
– The impact of stronger authentication for patients and practitioners
D1 1020 related paper a booster shot for health and wellness exec report v4Dr. Wilfred Lin (Ph.D.)
A cognitive computing system like IBM Watson has the potential to transform the healthcare industry by enabling enhanced patient care, advanced discoveries, and better decision making. Cognitive systems can analyze large amounts of data to identify patterns and insights that humans may miss. The healthcare industry faces challenges from factors like rising costs, regulatory complexity, and a shortage of skilled workers. Cognitive computing can help healthcare organizations improve their abilities to engage with patients, discover new insights from data, and make personalized, evidence-based decisions.
In search of a digital health compass: My data, my decision, our powerchronaki
Knowledge is power. Despite extensive investments in digital health technology, navigating the health system online is challenging for most citizens. Also for eHealth, the “Inverse Care Law” proposed by Hart in 1971, seems to apply. Availability of good medical or social care services and tools online, varies inversely with the need of the population. The low adoption of eHealth services, and persistent disparities in health triggers a call for multidisciplinary action.
Barriers and challenges are not to be underestimated. Culture, education, skills, costs, perceptions of power and role, are essential for multidisciplinary action. This comes together in digital health literacy, which ought to become an integral part to navigate any health system. Patients living with an implanted device or coping with persistent, chronic disease such as diabetes, as well as citizens engaged in self-care, caring for an elderly relative, a neighbor, or their child with illness or deteriorating health, need a digital health compass.
The panel will engage the audience to elaborate on a vision for this personal, digital health compass and drive advancement in health informatics and digital health standards. The transformative power of health data fueled by targeted digital health literacy interventions can be leveraged by open, massive, and individualized delivery. This way, digital health literate, confident patients and citizens join health professionals, researchers and policy makers to address age-related health and wellness changes to shape the emerging precision medicine and population health initiatives.
From a panel in the eHealthweek 2016. http://www.ehealthweek.org/ehome/128630/hl7-efmi-sessions/
Wendy Mayer, VP of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer presented this at the Health Hackathon at Cornell Tech on April 9, 2015 to the audience of Cornell, MIT, Harvard, and Weill students. #HealthHack2015
PGx Analysis in VarSeq: A User’s PerspectiveGolden Helix
Since our release of the PGx capabilities in VarSeq, we’ve had a few months to gather some insights from various use cases. Some users approach PGx workflows by means of array genotyping or what seems to be a growing trend of adding the star allele calling to the existing NGS pipeline for whole genome data. Luckily, both approaches are supported with the VarSeq software platform. The genotyping method being used will also dictate what the scope of the tertiary analysis will be. For example, are your PGx reports a standalone pipeline or would your lab’s goal be to handle a dual-purpose workflow and report on PGx + Diagnostic findings.
The purpose of this webcast is to:
Discuss and demonstrate the approaches with array and NGS genotyping methods for star allele calling to prep for downstream analysis.
Following genotyping, explore alternative tertiary workflow concepts in VarSeq to handle PGx reporting.
Moreover, we will include insights users will need to consider when validating their PGx workflow for all possible star alleles and options you have for automating your PGx analysis for large number of samples. Please join us for a session dedicated to the application of star allele genotyping and subsequent PGx workflows in our VarSeq software.
Selective alpha1 blockers are Prazosin, Terazosin, Doxazosin, Tamsulosin and Silodosin majorly used to treat BPH, also hypertension, PTSD, Raynaud's phenomenon, CHF
Breast cancer: Post menopausal endocrine therapyDr. Sumit KUMAR
Breast cancer in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) status is a common and complex condition that necessitates a multifaceted approach to management. HR+ breast cancer means that the cancer cells grow in response to hormones such as estrogen and progesterone. This subtype is prevalent among postmenopausal women and typically exhibits a more indolent course compared to other forms of breast cancer, which allows for a variety of treatment options.
Diagnosis and Staging
The diagnosis of HR+ breast cancer begins with clinical evaluation, imaging, and biopsy. Imaging modalities such as mammography, ultrasound, and MRI help in assessing the extent of the disease. Histopathological examination and immunohistochemical staining of the biopsy sample confirm the diagnosis and hormone receptor status by identifying the presence of estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) on the tumor cells.
Staging involves determining the size of the tumor (T), the involvement of regional lymph nodes (N), and the presence of distant metastasis (M). The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system is commonly used. Accurate staging is critical as it guides treatment decisions.
Treatment Options
Endocrine Therapy
Endocrine therapy is the cornerstone of treatment for HR+ breast cancer in postmenopausal women. The primary goal is to reduce the levels of estrogen or block its effects on cancer cells. Commonly used agents include:
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs): Tamoxifen is a SERM that binds to estrogen receptors, blocking estrogen from stimulating breast cancer cells. It is effective but may have side effects such as increased risk of endometrial cancer and thromboembolic events.
Aromatase Inhibitors (AIs): These drugs, including anastrozole, letrozole, and exemestane, lower estrogen levels by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme, which converts androgens to estrogen in peripheral tissues. AIs are generally preferred in postmenopausal women due to their efficacy and safety profile compared to tamoxifen.
Selective Estrogen Receptor Downregulators (SERDs): Fulvestrant is a SERD that degrades estrogen receptors and is used in cases where resistance to other endocrine therapies develops.
Combination Therapies
Combining endocrine therapy with other treatments enhances efficacy. Examples include:
Endocrine Therapy with CDK4/6 Inhibitors: Palbociclib, ribociclib, and abemaciclib are CDK4/6 inhibitors that, when combined with endocrine therapy, significantly improve progression-free survival in advanced HR+ breast cancer.
Endocrine Therapy with mTOR Inhibitors: Everolimus, an mTOR inhibitor, can be added to endocrine therapy for patients who have developed resistance to aromatase inhibitors.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is generally reserved for patients with high-risk features, such as large tumor size, high-grade histology, or extensive lymph node involvement. Regimens often include anthracyclines and taxanes.
This presentation gives information on the pharmacology of Prostaglandins, Thromboxanes and Leukotrienes i.e. Eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are signaling molecules derived from polyunsaturated fatty acids like arachidonic acid. They are involved in complex control over inflammation, immunity, and the central nervous system. Eicosanoids are synthesized through the enzymatic oxidation of fatty acids by cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes. They have short half-lives and act locally through autocrine and paracrine signaling.
Can Traditional Chinese Medicine Treat Blocked Fallopian Tubes.pptxFFragrant
There are many traditional Chinese medicine therapies to treat blocked fallopian tubes. And herbal medicine Fuyan Pill is one of the more effective choices.
“Environmental sanitation means the art and science of applying sanitary, biological and physical science principles and knowledge to improve and control the environment therein for the protection of the health and welfare of the public”.The overall importance of sanitation are to provide a healthy living environment for everyone, to protect the natural resources (such as surface water, groundwater, soil ), and to provide safety, security and dignity for people when they defecate or urinate .Sanitation refers to public health conditions such as drinking clean water, sewage treatment, etc. All the effective tools and actions that help in keeping the environment clean come under sanitation. Sanitation refers to public health conditions such as drinking clean water, sewage treatment. All the effective tools and actions that help in keeping the environment clean and promotes public health is the necessary in todays life.
Congestive Heart failure is caused by low cardiac output and high sympathetic discharge. Diuretics reduce preload, ACE inhibitors lower afterload, beta blockers reduce sympathetic activity, and digitalis has inotropic effects. Newer medications target vasodilation and myosin activation to improve heart efficiency while lowering energy requirements. Combination therapy, following an assessment of cardiac function and volume status, is the most effective strategy to heart failure care.
The biomechanics of running involves the study of the mechanical principles underlying running movements. It includes the analysis of the running gait cycle, which consists of the stance phase (foot contact to push-off) and the swing phase (foot lift-off to next contact). Key aspects include kinematics (joint angles and movements, stride length and frequency) and kinetics (forces involved in running, including ground reaction and muscle forces). Understanding these factors helps in improving running performance, optimizing technique, and preventing injuries.
Gene therapy can be broadly defined as the transfer of genetic material to cure a disease or at least to improve the clinical status of a patient.
One of the basic concepts of gene therapy is to transform viruses into genetic shuttles, which will deliver the gene of interest into the target cells.
Safe methods have been devised to do this, using several viral and non-viral vectors.
In the future, this technique may allow doctors to treat a disorder by inserting a gene into a patient's cells instead of using drugs or surgery.
The biggest hurdle faced by medical research in gene therapy is the availability of effective gene-carrying vectors that meet all of the following criteria:
Protection of transgene or genetic cargo from degradative action of systemic and endonucleases,
Delivery of genetic material to the target site, i.e., either cell cytoplasm or nucleus,
Low potential of triggering unwanted immune responses or genotoxicity,
Economical and feasible availability for patients .
Viruses are naturally evolved vehicles that efficiently transfer their genes into host cells.
Choice of viral vector is dependent on gene transfer efficiency, capacity to carry foreign genes, toxicity, stability, immune responses towards viral antigens and potential viral recombination.
There are a wide variety of vectors used to deliver DNA or oligo nucleotides into mammalian cells, either in vitro or in vivo.
The most common vector system based on retroviruses, adenoviruses, herpes simplex viruses, adeno associated viruses.
BBB and BCF
control the entry of compounds into the brain and
regulate brain homeostasis.
restricts access to brain cells of blood–borne compounds and
facilitates nutrients essential for normal metabolism to reach brain cells
The Children are very vulnerable to get affected with respiratory disease.
In our country, the respiratory Disease conditions are consider as major cause for mortality and Morbidity in Child.
As the world population is aging, Health tourism has become vitally important and will be increased day by day. Because
of the availability of quality health services and more favorable prices as well as to shorten the waiting list for medical
services regionally and internationally. There are some aspects of managing and doing marketing activities in order for
medical tourism to be feasible, in a region called as clustering in a region with main stakeholders groups includes Health
providers, Tourism cluster, etc. There are some related and affecting factors to be considered for the feasibility of medical
tourism within this study such as competitiveness, clustering, Entrepreneurship, SMEs. One of the growth phenomenon
is Health tourism in the city of Izmir and Turkey. The model of five competitive forces of Porter and The Diamond model
that is an economical model that shows the four main factors that affect the competitiveness of a nation and its industries
in this study. The short literature of medical tourism and regional clustering have been mentioned.
Storyboard on Acne-Innovative Learning-M. pharm. (2nd sem.) CosmeticsMuskanShingari
Acne is a common skin condition that occurs when hair follicles become clogged with oil and dead skin cells. It typically manifests as pimples, blackheads, or whiteheads, often on the face, chest, shoulders, or back. Acne can range from mild to severe and may cause emotional distress and scarring in some cases.
**Causes:**
1. **Excess Oil Production:** Hormonal changes during adolescence or certain times in adulthood can increase sebum (oil) production, leading to clogged pores.
2. **Clogged Pores:** When dead skin cells and oil block hair follicles, bacteria (usually Propionibacterium acnes) can thrive, causing inflammation and acne lesions.
3. **Hormonal Factors:** Fluctuations in hormone levels, such as during puberty, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, or certain medical conditions, can contribute to acne.
4. **Genetics:** A family history of acne can increase the likelihood of developing the condition.
**Types of Acne:**
- **Whiteheads:** Closed plugged pores.
- **Blackheads:** Open plugged pores with a dark surface.
- **Papules:** Small red, tender bumps.
- **Pustules:** Pimples with pus at their tips.
- **Nodules:** Large, solid, painful lumps beneath the surface.
- **Cysts:** Painful, pus-filled lumps beneath the surface that can cause scarring.
**Treatment:**
Treatment depends on the severity and type of acne but may include:
- **Topical Treatments:** Such as benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, or retinoids to reduce bacteria and unclog pores.
- **Oral Medications:** Antibiotics or oral contraceptives for hormonal acne.
- **Procedures:** Such as chemical peels, extraction of comedones, or light therapy for more severe cases.
**Prevention and Management:**
- **Cleanse:** Regularly wash skin with a gentle cleanser.
- **Moisturize:** Use non-comedogenic moisturizers to keep skin hydrated without clogging pores.
- **Avoid Irritants:** Such as harsh cosmetics or excessive scrubbing.
- **Sun Protection:** Use sunscreen to prevent exacerbation of acne scars and inflammation.
Acne treatment can take time, and consistency in skincare routines and treatments is crucial. Consulting a dermatologist can help tailor a treatment plan that suits individual needs and reduces the risk of scarring or long-term skin damage.
Pictorial and detailed description of patellar instability with sign and symptoms and how to diagnose , what investigations you should go with and how to approach with treatment options . I have presented this slide in my 2nd year junior residency in orthopedics at LLRM medical college Meerut and got good reviews for it
After getting it read you will definitely understand the topic.
Nutritional deficiency Disorder are problems in india.
It is very important to learn about Indian child's nutritional parameters as well the Disease related to alteration in their Nutrition.
4. Healthcare IT Forecast
HIT Venture Capital Funding
How Many Health IT Venture Capital Funding Deals
Occurred Over the Past Five Quarters?
• There were 104 health IT-related venture
capital funding deals during the first quarter of
2013, compared with 30 health IT-related
venture capital funding deals during Q1 2012,
according to a recent report from Mercom
Capital Group.
• The report notes that there were 51 health IT-
related venture capital funding deals during Q4
2012, 39 such deals during Q3 2012 and 44
such deals during Q2 2012.
• The report is based on Mercom's analysis of
quarter-over-quarter information on venture
capital funding activity in the health IT sector.
Source: Mercom Capital Group, "Healthcare IT Funding and M&A: 2013 First
Quarter Report"
5. EHR Adoption Rates
Friday, May 10, 2013 — LATEST NEWS
SurveySaysMore Than 90% of U.S.
PhysiciansNowUse EHRs
A survey conducted by Harris Interactive and released by Accenture
finds that 93% of U.S. physicians report using electronic health record
systems.According to the survey, 45% of U.S. doctors say they use
health information exchange technology to access data from outside
their organization, and 38% say that using EHRs and HIEs has helped
lower their organization's costs. Healthcare IT News et al.
6. Hospital Data Exchange
Increased by 41% Over Four
Years
Health data exchanges between hospitals and other health care providers increased
by 41% from 2008 to 2012, according to a results of a recent study lead by National
Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari
The study found that:
• 58% of hospitals routinely exchanged electronic health information with providers and
health systems outside of their organization in 2012, and data exchange efforts with
outside hospitals more than doubled during the study period;
• 84% of hospitals that adopted a basic electronic health record system and participated
in a regional health information exchange shared information with providers outside of
their organization during the study period;
• The proportion of hospitals that adopted at least a basic EHR and participated in a
health information exchange increased by more than 500% from 2008 to 2012; and
• Hospitals with a basic EHR that participated in HIEs had the highest rates of hospital
data exchange activity in 2012.
7. More Employers Adopting Health Care
Engagement Technology
More employers are using mobile applications, social media and online games to boost
employees' engagement in their health care, according to a report by Buck Consultants and
WorldatWork
The report also found that:
• 50% of surveyed employers said they currently use social networking or other social media
tools to boost employees' health care engagement and 37% said they likely will adopt such
tools within the coming year;
• 36% said they currently use at least one mobile tool to promote employee health
engagement and 36% said they likely will adopt at least one mobile health tool within the
coming year; and
• 32% said they currently offer mobile tools to help employees manage their health care
benefits and 52% said they likely will offer such tools within the next three years
Challenges for adoption:
• A lack of support from senior management
• IT infrastructure challenges
• Privacy concerns
Source: Crain’s Business Insurance/Modern Healthcare
8. Changes Effecting the Healthcare
Ecosystem
• Changing Payment Model
• Physician Alignment
• Patient & Employer Engagement
• BI, Predictive Analytics and Big Data
• Security & Compliance
• mHealth and Telehealth
• Interoperability & HIE
• Limited Resources
• Consolidation
• Increased Investment in HIT
9. Changes Effecting Healthcare IT
According to CIO Magazine:
Few industries faces as many IT Challenges as healthcare, where
Government mandates, security requirement and a need to replace
Outdated technology make a CIO’s job difficult:
TOP ISSUES FACING HEALTHCARE CIOs:
1. Meaningful Use
2. Healthcare Information Exchanges
3. Healthcare Reform
4. HIPAA Compliance
5. Mobile Healthcare and BYOD
6. Wireless Networking
7. Telemedicine
8. Patient Engagement
9. Clinical Data Analytics
10. Storage Infrastructure
11. The Cloud
12. ICD10 Conversation
Source: CIO Magazine August 21, 2012
10. These are not your doctor’s techie toys
anymore!
Smart devices are now the new clinical tools for clinicians
11. Today’s Healthcare CIO struggles
to retain a place in the C-Suite
“I’ve recently become very, very worried about the CIO position….” What I see that
worries me is an erosion of the position in many healthcare systems…
Shaffer also indicated that she sees “extreme variance” in the role of CIO and in
the ability of healthcare organizations to get value out of the CIO position.”
Source: Vi Shaffer - Gartner
12. Are HIT Investment Realizing The
Results Expected?
Financial woes at Maine Medical Center
By Stephanie Bouchard, Managing Editor
“In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s
largest health systems said it has suffered an operating
loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal
year…”
“In the memo, Petersen said the operating loss is due to declines in
inpatient and outpatient volumes because of the hospital’s efforts to reduce
readmissions and infections; “unintended financial consequences” due
to the roll out of the health system’s Epic electronic health record and
problems associated with being unable to accurately charge for services
provided; an increase in free care and bad debt cases; and continued
declining reimbursement from Medicare and MaineCare, the state’s
Medicaid program...”
Source: Healthcare Finance News
13. Nearly one in five healthcare CIOs have had a security breach
within the past 12 months, according to statistics compiled by
McKesson in Understanding Your CIO.
Their top infrastructure IT focus is on systems that secure
personal health information (22 percent), followed by
servers/virtual servers (18 percent) and a focus on mobile devices
(16 percent
Security & Privacy Issues Continue Keep
CIO’s Up At Night
14. Security & Privacy Issues Continue Keep
CIO’s Up At Night
Vendor Scam Results in Data Breach for Clinic
Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic in North Carolina is notifying approximately 17,300
Patients of a breach of their protected health information after the clinic apparently
Was the victim of a scam
Massachusetts provider settles HIPAA case
for $1.5 Million
Alaska Medicaid Settles HIPAA Security
Case for $1,700,00
UCLA Health System Settles Potential HIPAA
Privacy and Security Violation
HHS Impose a $4.3M Civil Money Penalty for HIPAA Privacy Rule Violations
15. Shift In HIT Leaders Behavior Is
Needed
Behaviors must change…
Current:
• Project lead by IT and Executives
• IT approved everything doctors desired
• Limited clinical juice in early EHR systems
• IT accepts vendors limitations and standards
Future:
• Clinicians are more involved in technology projects
• IT has to get better at scoping and communication its capabilities, not
just approving everything doctors want.
• IT doesn’t say “no”. The business has to say “no”
• IT have to work closely with partners to innovative
16. Do you know the HEALTHCARE
Secret Hand Shake?
Are you and your business part of the healthcare
ecosystem?
• What is my business focus? Revenue or mission?
• Do you really understand what the term “Healthcare” in HIT really
mean?
• Can you effectively speak the language of healthcare?
• Do you know who influences buying decision in healthcare?
• Can you clearly articulate your “healthcare” value prop?
17. Transitioning From Expert to Healthcare
Thought Leader
A Simple Formula For Success:
• Share your perspective via social media and in public
public forums
• Get Certified in Healthcare IT
• Involvement Industry Associations & Events
• “Live the life” of a healthcare professional
• Partner with other technology innovators
• Turn your customer into your innovation partner
20. Social Media - Strengthen My Brand
Current Trends in Social Media
Current trends to watch in social media in
health care include:
• Managing a conversation
• Engaging e-patients
• Convergence with personal health
records
• Social media for providers
• Education communities for
healthcare professional
ARE YOU PLUGGED IN TO THESE
SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITIES?
21. Believe IT OR NOT… CIO’s Do Blog!
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 1
5 blogs ontaining almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself
How do you deal with the challenge of a blog and Twitter account making you “too”
accessible as a CIO?
“People generally respect boundaries. Part of my life is to ignore cold callers (unless they are
serendipitously offering something on my priority list), I would love to get back to every person
that wants to meet me for lunch and talk about my organization’s prioirities but ,there isn’t enough
time in the day to respond – let alone I have all those meetings. I have met a lot of great people on
Twitter and I have hired a few, all of those have turned out great.”
Will Wieder, CIO Ministry Health Care
22. Get Certified!
Why invest in industry certification?
• The industry finds value in certified professionals
• Helps to breakdown the “credibility wall”
• Gives you greater insight into the culture of the industry
• Strengthens your personal knowledge of workflow, technology,
functionality of business and clinical systems used
27. Now You Know… The Balls In Your Court
Ask yourself…
• Is this just a Job or a Calling?
• Am I an active participant in the healthcare eco-system?
• I’m prepared invest in myself and my community?
• Am I dating my customers or am courting them for marriage?
Meaningful use is the granddaddy of all healthcare IT challenges. Passed in the 2009 economic stimulus package's HITECH Act, the program requires all providers to demonstrate the meaningful use of EHR by 2014 or face reduced Medicare reimbursements. (For Medicaid participants, the deadline for avoiding penalties is 2016.) Providers do receive financial incentives for using EHRs before those deadlines. Meaningful use is to be achieved in stages, with stage 1 underway and stage 2 beginning in 2014. Critics say the program is too costly and too ambitious. Given that large hospitals can spend several years and many millions on EHR and electronic prescription implementation, they may be right.Health Information ExchangeThe HITECH Act also funded the creation of state HIEs. These groups have the enviable task of helping healthcare organizations share data contained in largely proprietary EHR systems, of which there are literally thousands, though the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange initiative to develop standards and policies for data exchange may help (provided varying laws about patient records crossing state lines can be reconciled). In addition, there are close to 300 HIE organizations (most of which predate the HITECH Act) that represent their own geographic areas, set their own policies and have matured more that the state groups. CIOs looking to get started with HIE will likely more questions than answers and find it a highly political processHealthcare ReformTwo parts of the controversial reform bill upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court concern technology. One is the mandate for each state to set up a health insurance exchange by 2014 so consumers can buy insurance on the open market. Even Massachusetts, the state at the forefront of healthcare reform, is struggling to implement the necessary combination of technology that includes content management, ecommerce, CRM and portals. The second is the accountable care organization, a voluntary partnership among providers who aim to give patients more coordinated, and less expensive, healthcare. Accomplishing this requires significant investment in EHR and HIE, as well as robust clinical data analytics and frequent patient engagement (both of which will be covered later).HIPAA ComplianceThe HITECH Act beefed up HIPAA, which predated the rise of information technology. It essentially turns business associates into covered entities, meaning they must take steps to secure personal health information, and it dramatically increases the fines for a data breach involving PHI. Tellingly, it notes that a loss of encrypted PHI does not constitute a data breach, implying that organizations should invest in encryption technology. The bigger issue, judging from the list of data breaches since new HIPAA rules went into effect, remains lost or stolen hardware—primarily laptops and mobile devices—containing PHI that's all too easy to obtain. On top of that, healthcare reform sets a 2014 deadline for electronic fund transfer compliance.Mobile Health and BYODMedical professionals love smartphones and tablets such as the iPad, which fits nicely in a doctor's white coat pocket, and the ubiquitous example of a doctor remotely accessing patient records from a child's soccer game points to the tremendous potential of mobile health, especially in the developing world. CIOs remain way. In addition to the usual security requirements of a successful BYOD policy, healthcare CIOs must contend with HIPAA privacy and security rules, which penalize providers even if users' personal devices go missing. This means taking an especially close look at which users can access which applications—or even particular data sets within applications—and, if field medics and trauma nurses share touchscreen monitors, robust, role-based identity and access management.Wireless NetworkingGiving healthcare workers access to mission- and life-critical applications and medical devices requires a strong, secure wireless network. In facilities filled with banks of elevators, radiology departments, stacks of bathrooms and box upon box of paper records—all of which interrupt wireless signals—building a strong hospital network can be a challenge. Linking an entire medical campus, especially one filled with buildings that predate the ENIAC, let alone the Internet, can be nearly impossible. Possible Food and Drug Administration regulation of hospital wireless networks doesn't help. The solution is often a combination of a wireless WAN and a plethora of access points, neither of which come cheap. Perhaps coincidentally, new hospital construction, when it happens, seems to focus more on wired networks.TelemedicineThe challenge of wireless networking in hospitals—not to mention bringing broadband to rural America—is one technological factor hindering the spread of telemedicine, which connects specialists (often in urban or university facilities) to patients in areas underserved by doctors. Another is equipping exam rooms with teleconference equipment, which can be expensive and hard to use. Then there's the thorny issue of telemedicine reimbursement; there's no national rule, and individual state policies vary, especially when it comes to providing services that cross state lines, so some doctors hesitate to participate in a program for which they won't get paid. Payers, including Medicare, have also been slow to catch on. Perhaps that's why robots are providing telemedicine services in some hospitals.Patient EngagementPerhaps the only thing harder than convincing healthcare professionals to use technology is convincing patients. Few use personal health record services, for example. PHRs offer electronic access to key information such as medical history, lab results and drug allergies, but many won't let patients edit info, are limited to certain providers or are just plain hard to use. The medical home model combines telemedicine and mobile health and offers promise for improving patient engagement and cutting care costs. So do emerging smartphone applications and gadgets that help patients track exercise and vital signs alike. Meanwhile, advocates including Regina Holliday and Dave de Bronkart remain outspoken in Washington about giving patients access to their data.Clinical Data AnalyticsBig data has big potential in healthcare. On a system-wide level, executives can see what medical conditions are most prevalent among patients and devote resources to treating or even preventing them. They can also determine if certain procedures lead to return hospital visits and share best practices for rehabilitation and recovery. On an individual level, abundant wireless mobile health devices and applications gives clinicians a chance to monitor and study patients' vital signs remotely, so, say a sudden spike in blood glucose is addressed without a expensive ER trip. The challenge, of course, is first implementing analytics systems and then bringing information together in a clinical data warehouse that's accessible yet secure. Often only the largest healthcare systems can afford thisStorage InfrastructureHundred-year-old hospital buildings frustrate storage administrators as much as they do network admins. The typical healthcare data center is bursting at the seams, inconveniently located and a low priority for executives focused instead on expanding clinical space. The electronic documentation needed to meet the HITECH Act's meaningful use requirements, not to mention state and federal data retention laws that may require healthcare organizations to keep patient records on file for as long as 25 years, will only make things worse. To combat this, organizations can deploy virtualized storage on a storage area network while rolling out thin provisioning, tiered storage and data replication technology on top of it. However, not all medical software vendors, and not all legacy applications, support SAN technology.The CloudIn theory, the cloud's a great place for healthcare organizations to store appointment summaries, medical images and other patient records, as well as a viable data backup option for disaster recovery planning. There's no need for additional infrastructure or personnel and, since data is essentially being archived, immediate access to data isn't necessary. In practice, questions about data ownership, HIPAA compliance, public cloud security "always-on" availability make many healthcare providers wary of cloud services—even though, as noted, hospital IT security itself tends to be weak. That said, some smaller healthcare providers are giving inexpensive, easy-to-use cloud-based EHR systems a shot, while a minority of larger providers are building private clouds as extensions of virtual server implementations.International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th RevisionWhile most of the world has been using the diagnostic code set known as ICD-10 for at least a decade, the U.S. still uses ICD-9, which was finalized in 1979 and is therefore quite dated. A federal mandate to move to ICD-10 by Oct. 1, 2014 is said to improve diagnoses recorded in EHRs and streamline onerous billing processes. However, organizations such as the American Medical Association oppose it, saying ICD-10 implementation places an unfair burden on physicians, nurses and coders. It's also a costly, time-consuming process that can't really be automated. Oh, and the World Health Organization expects to finish ICD-11 by 2015, so another upgrade is on the horizon.
JoelKurtzman (Booz and Company – Editor and Chief of Strategy & Business – credited with coining the term “Thought Leadership”