Category: Health News

COVID-19 has spurred telehealth and remote patient monitoring adoption across the United States, with 36 percent of the US consumers now using telehealth to replace healthcare visits. While this has created an opportunity for health systems to digitally transform their... Read More

This is a race between nations to see who is the first to emerge from the horrors of the COVID-19 second or third waves.  The advantages of becoming able to break free from lockdown are enormous. Not only to the “captive... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached all parts of the globe, affecting tens of millions of people: healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor. However, the most badly affected parts of the world are also the ones where access to healthcare is... Read More

The mass vaccine roll-out across the world offers hope that by the summer we will see a glimmer of normality start to return to our lives. However, until then we also have to consider the profound challenges of delivering and administering vaccines... Read More

Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This article was coauthored with Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at CMS, and Shannon Sartin, chief technology officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In... Read More

An unknown author commented that “if necessity is the mother of invention, desperation is its father.” As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding... Read More

Reenita Das is partner and senior vice president for transformational health at Frost & Sullivan. This article was co-authored with Chandni Mathur, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year... Read More

The recent SolarWinds breach presents a range of critical security issues for government agencies, healthcare organizations, government agencies and major companies in other industry verticals. SolarWinds produces a variety of popular IT infrastructure monitoring solutions and the breach it suffered... Read More

At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an... Read More

The pandemic has given us, among other things, a new buzzword: the “next normal.”  As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. Some of this shift to... Read More

2020 was a year like no other and the first signs of impending trouble were in December 2019 which is when the first reports of a new pandemic emanating in Wuhan, China, became public. The rest is history and indelibly etched... Read More

The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are varied, and patients are known to have rapidly changing signs and symptoms that must be tracked with laboratory testing. A patient may start his treatment journey with his primary care physician and will include... Read More