While telemedicine is often hailed as a way to give patients care in the home, it’s also being used to help emergency services treat patients with more information.
In Germany, research university Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen has zeroed in on helping providers use telehealth in emergency services. Sean O’Sullivan, a researcher at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, will be speaking at...
Pediatric patients who require emergency care often need unique equipment, specialized practitioners and appropriate resources that many hospital emergency departments simply don’t have.
In fact, only about 10% of EDs in the United States have a pediatric-specific department, and most report not having the resources needed to treat common emergency conditions such as bronchiolitis, asthma...
For many health systems, the transition to virtual care during the pandemic was like night and day. Before COVID-19 hit, they delivered most of their care, if not all of it, in person. Within a matter of days into the public health emergency, that all changed.
That was not the case, however, for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to Christina Armstrong, a clinical psychologist at...
Earlier this week, HIMSS Trust Partners from the HIMSS, the Chartis Group, Accenture, and ZS came together to share new data and insights at the HIMSS State of Healthcare event. If you missed it, you can still register and check out the event on demand here.
But on this week's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett discuss some of the most interesting...
Like many healthcare organizations at the start of the pandemic, McLaren Health Care, a 15-hospital health system across Michigan and Ohio, was forced to reprioritize many of its ongoing projects.
As COVID-19 began taking off across the country, McLaren was in the midst of implementing a new clinical communications system from PerfectServe.
“We really wanted this tool in our toolbox in the worst...
Today medicine is changing to become more participatory. Patients are beginning to expect more out of care and increasingly act as consumers. This is forcing providers to make the shift as well.
"Clinical quality and safety are our core competencies. In customer experience, our focus has been expanded to include experience beyond our clinical care," Christen Castellano, vice president of customer...
The pandemic led to an explosion in the use of remote models of care, from telehealth to remote patient monitoring and more. Many providers have adopted these modalities for the first time as a result of COVID-19.
But those at UVA Children’s Hospital were ahead of the trend and have utilized remote patient monitoring for about seven years under the guidance of pediatric cardiologist Dr. Jeffrey...
As the health tech industry grows, more and more innovators are looking to create in the space. However, the road from ideation to full-fledged digital health company can be windy and complex.
Rebecca MacKinnon, founder and CEO of 5D Strategies, has worked in the health tech startup world for decades, first as an entrepreneur and now as a consultant helping young startups find their feet.
"I come...
Hope Johnson, the administrator of Perioperative Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network, has been with the eight-hospital health system for nearly 15 years. As such, she has watched and been a part of Lehigh Valley’s technological transformation.
“It’s crazy,” she told MobiHealthNews. “Like every project we do now involves technology, whether it’s security, HIPAA,” or the system’s recent...
