May 1st 2025
Telehealth enhances healthcare communication, improving patient-provider relationships and outcomes through real-time consultations, secure messaging, and remote monitoring.
‘Wild west’ of pharmaceutical sales developed as patients clamor for GLP-1s for obesity treatment.
April 30th 2025
Machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, can sift through massive amounts of data to benefit physicians and patients.
April 22nd 2025
Earth Day and any day is a great day to analyze environmental waste in health care — and possible solutions for it.
Telemedicine had an impact equivalent to 130,000 fewer car trips each month. Researchers say this climate impact should factor into policy decisions regarding the future of virtual care.
Think RPM is too big for your small practice? Think again.
Looking for ways to increase the revenues of your small practice? RPM may be the answer
Practical AI and the future of medical care
Technology can help bridge the divide between medical and dental health
Federal inspectors find ‘high risk’ providers in Medicare telehealth billing worth $127.7M
HHS develops new measures that could indicate fraud, abuse, or waste.
Are scribes the answer to physicians’ documentation woes?
New study casts doubt on whether scribes ease doctors’ paperwork burden
7 ways EHRs can reduce medical errors
The need for integrated patient care to help reduce medical errors, a $20B plague for U.S.
Practices need — and patients deserve — ‘whole health’ data
Many practices have yet to access the data with the greatest potential to impact patient outcomes and their own financial success.
Can Technology Solve the Burnout It Helped Cause?
New technology that fixes the problems of the EHR is the best way to reduce physician burnout
Dispelling the myths of remote patient monitoring
Breaking the High Tech/High Cost Connection to Support Better Health Equity
Amazon Care, online giant’s primary care health service, to close at end of 2022
Change comes weeks after company announces acquisition of One Medical primary care practice.
Feds warn about social engineering in cyberattacks on physicians’ practices
HHS agency warns “vishing,” combining scam emails and phone calls, is on the rise.
Physicians, public health agencies exchanging more information electronically
Immunization data is the most traded as figures rose in 2019.
One-third of companies report workers responsible for health data leaks
Digitization of health care comes at a cost
Interoperability: Is the glass half full or half empty?
New ONC report highlights progress, challenges in promoting interoperability
Cybercriminals using medical devices to hack hospitals
Security experts have been warning health care companies for years that all the connected medical devices are potential vulnerabilities
Patients want physicians to have online presence, communication, billing options
Survey outlines patients’ attitudes on technology.
Average data breach now costs record $4.35 million
Most organizations report multiple data breaches
Patients want medical data to stay with physicians, not migrate to big tech
AMA surveys patients on privacy in light of recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion.
Improve Your Telehealth System
Invest in upgraded tools and platforms and set clear guidelines for patients
Physicians, patients split on how EHR detracts or enhances primary care office visits
Less than half of physicians, but more than 91% of patients, had positive view of computerized records.
Web apps offer a way in for cyberattacks in health care computer networks
HHS calls for added security in latest threat brief on apps such as patient portals, telehealth.
RPM technology: Smart innovation for savvy practitioners
Recent advances have made benefits of remote monitoring more widely available
FBI seizes $500K cyber-ransom that medical centers paid to North Korean hackers
Health systems, loaded with patient data, remain prime targets for computer attacks, feds say.
Remote patient monitoring needs clinical intervention to ensure success
As any competent clinician will tell you, having data is only one part of the equation. A clinician must also be able to intervene efficiently and effectively.
North Korean hackers are cybersecurity threat to U.S. health care organizations, feds say
“Maui” ransomware is not about booking a Hawaiian getaway.
Remote patient monitoring programs could reduce COVID-related hospitalizations
Study finds RPM associated with shorter hospital stays, less intensive care use
AI moves one step closer to taking your job
AI does just as well as doctors when it comes to predicting postoperative complications
How are Medicare patients using interstate telehealth visits?
Most are established patients getting treatment for routine diagnoses
Cybersecurity: How medical practices can protect patient data from hackers
13 tips to keep your patient data safe
What’s next for biotech and health care
Investors face an uphill task this year:Things have been difficult thus far but there will be selective opportunities to recover lost ground and perhaps record some gains this year.