Telemedicine News & Updates 12-12-2018
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news from Enzyme Health, MeMD, Dimension Data, American Well, Teladoc and more.
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4 Signs Your Hospital Should Consider Merchant Services
By Marty Callahan – At this very moment, a doctor somewhere (maybe even in your building) is lecturing a patient about ignoring obvious signs of health issues. The patient was experiencing pain, shortness of breath, trouble focusing, or a host of other issues, but they kept pushing forward as if things would get better on their own.
re:Invent 2019 – Announcing Amazon Comprehend Medical for NLP in Healthcare
By Matt Ferrari – At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of their new machine learning solution, Amazon Comprehend Medical. This new set of natural language processing APIs is powered by Amazon Comprehend, which Amazon recently shared as being supported within the Business Associates Agreement.
Fostering Collaborative Communities to Improve Patient Healthcare
By Scott Gottlieb, MD, Jeff Shuren, MD, JD, & Michelle Tarver, MD, PhD – Collaboration. It’s a word we use a lot at the FDA — and for good reason. Collaboration is an essential element of many approaches we apply to achieve our public health mission.
The Top Questions to Consider During RCM Vendor Selection
By Kaitlyn Houseman – Today’s healthcare leaders understand that they must consider outsourcing revenue cycle management to reduce spending and focus on value-based care initiatives.
Home Health, SNFs May Benefit from CMS 2019 Rule Changes
By Jill Reeves – The 2019 Fiscal Year is well underway, and 2019 proper will be here in a hot minute. That makes this as good a time as any to preview some of the changes that have recently been or are about to be rolled out by CMS.
Leveraging Customer Feedback to Drive Successful HIT Partnerships
By Scott Corbitt – Customer feedback is a critical piece of any commercial relationship, and its impact in health IT can be particularly valuable – but timing is everything.
InterviewsNOW: Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ, COO of PCG Software
As part of our on going series on InterviewsNOW, host Shereese Maynard spoke to Andria Jacobs, COO, PCG Software, a provider-payer software solution company. The episode is now on-demand. Check it out and take a listen.
Hospital Systems to Merge Hosts of Physician Tech Platforms by 2021
Highly functional, highly customizable integrated practice management, revenue cycle management and electronic health records systems are the sought-after solution of choice for thirty-six percent of hospital system executives, according to the Black Book’s…