Patient Engagement

American Telemedicine Association cheers the $8 billion emergency funding legislation, which it says will expand the toolkits of healthcare professionals working to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.

The new device, CarePort, is designed to allow caregivers to easily hook up with patients in their homes. The vendor's CEO eyes enabling senior citizens to stay at home, not the hospital.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, a global digital exemplar in the UK, is prioritizing patient-centricity with an open platform and integrated technology to achieve high levels of digital maturity.

Specialized answers about medication information were created specifically for the ambient voice-enabled service.

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.

AMA officials say the playbook aims to dispel some of the "myths and misconceptions from an array of complex federal and state laws surrounding patient electronic access to medical information."

Now generally available, the EHR-linked new Dragon Ambient eXperience applies AI to help capture and contextualize physicians' conversations with their patients.

These are three trends the healthcare payments network sees as most impactful surrounding this year’s global conference.

Dr. Eldesia Granger of The MITRE Corporation guides healthcare leaders on how to work with consumer-generated data. At HIMSS20, she’ll highlight MITRE’s framework for handling this emerging information source.