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Good Business Acumen for Healthcare IT

Posted on November 28, 2024 by

When one discusses business acumen, it is usually applied to individuals. What I plan to discuss is business acumen that hospital administrators should have when considering implementation of IT and mHealth technologies. It is well-known that one of the biggest … Continue reading →

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mHealth: The True Patient Centered Medical Home?

Posted on November 15, 2024 by

The patient centered medical home (PCMH) has been defined as ‘an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults. The PCMH is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians, and … Continue reading →

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What Does Ideal mHealth Look Like?

Posted on November 14, 2024 by

The ideal mHealth may many meanings from different perspectives. For the provider taking care of patients with multiple chronic diseases, it may be a platform that incorporates multiple system sensor and monitoring capabilities which transmit only actionable alerts, with minimal … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons Hospitals Need mHealth

Posted on November 10, 2024 by

Mobile health technologies are most utilized now in the outpatient setting either for health and wellness by consumers or by providers primarily for the purpose of informational resources. The reasons for this are multiple, primarily related to marketing business models … Continue reading →

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Occupy Healthcare: a Lost Opportunity?

Posted on November 8, 2024 by

There has been enough publicity about the Occupy Wall Street movement that it is already part of the lexicon, and no longer makes daily headlines. Not hidden among the concerns of the country these days are healthcare, and to be … Continue reading →

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mHealth and HIPAA

Posted on October 28, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies are proliferating into various transmission modalities and spectrum of wellness and healthcare. Safety and privacy of data is of paramount importance to providers and patients. HIPAA laws apply to some types of mHealth products and the implications … Continue reading →

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mHealth and Healthcare IT

Posted on October 27, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies and healthcare IT (with electronic health records or EHRs as the most visible component) are both burgeoning sectors of healthcare business. They have similarities and differences which I would like to explore. The market for … Continue reading →

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How Outcomes-Based Reimbursement Will Change Healthcare

Posted on October 25, 2024 by

The government recently released its final revision to the proposed rules governing accountable care organizations (ACOs) http://www.cms.gov/aco/downloads/Appendix-ACO-Table.pdf. These organizations will herald the beginning of outcomes based reimbursement which will replace volume-based payment systems. Three sub-agencies will be coordinating Medicare and … Continue reading →

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Caregiver: The Key to mHealth

Posted on October 24, 2024 by

The caregiver is an individual who attends to the needs of a child or dependent adult. There is an estimated ten million caregivers over the age of 50 caring for their parents in the USA. Caregivers attend to people who are … Continue reading →

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Business Models of mHealth Vary with Technology

Posted on October 21, 2024 by

Wireless health technologies vary from apps geared towards wellness and fitness, to management of chronic diseases, patient monitoring, and telemedicine. One of the barriers to widespread adoption of mHealth is the establishment of a business model: who will … Continue reading →

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