Connected Health
By creating new definitions and revising others, the proposed rule targets health and wellness technology companies operating outside of HIPAA and qualitatively expands the scope of what constitutes a PHR.
The FCC established the Affordable Connectivity Program in December 2021 to provide access and subsidized computing devices. It's free to enroll in ACP, but too few people are taking advantage.
Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience.
With the door now opened for medical data to be weaponized, HIPAA protections are insufficient for current times.
As digital healthcare evolves, patient care becomes more intertwined with, and reliant on, technology and software. To keep operations running smoothly, healthcare IT professionals must perform regular and exhaustive testing on every component of the healthcare ecosystem. Implementing robotic process automation (RPA) testing solutions like Keysight’s Eggplant can help your organization keep customer EMR configurations, patient-facing portals and medical devices seamlessly connected so clinicians can focus on patient care instead of technological concerns.
As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts.
As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.
Before disasters, such as tornadoes or wildfires, communities should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones," where equipment and virtual-care kiosks can be moved.
The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion.
With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.