Nathan Eddy

Customer relationship management tools can help healthcare organizations attract, acquire, and retain patients – and give insights to drive behavior change and manage chronic conditions.

Startups and legacy tech vendors alike are developing array applications and web services to help people track the virus, check for symptoms and offer advice on ways to help prevent exposure.

The technology enables remote monitoring, allowing for the engagement of patients in their homes and facilitating communication between quarantined people and healthcare providers.

"Zero trust flips the security model: Instead of 'trust but verify,' organizations 'always verify but never trust,'" one security expert explains.

Monitoring coronavirus patients remotely with clinical-grade sensors and collecting data on numerous physiological signals could improve clinical decision-making for providers.

The self-developed platform, powered by Medicomp's Quippe Clinical Data Engine, will officially go live later this spring in the hospital's ED, with an expansion planned later in the year.

The expanded bandwidth would be a big boost to smartphone-based healthcare consultations, enabling doctors to remotely monitor a patient’s vitals and analyze the statistics in real time.

The Cerner system was scheduled to go live March 28, but was delayed due to the need for additional development of interfaces between the existing EHR, Cerner’s platform and VA's general IT infrastructure.

A new Chilmark report finds that even those health systems found to be "at the pinnacle of strategic intent and maturity" have yet to define a clear ROI for their pop health programs.

It's the second major health system this month to announce it's making the switch.