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Patient Engagement
A maternal fetal medicine physician at Children's Hospital Colorado shares a virtual care success story, with telemedicine delivering critical care for high-risk pregnancies across a vast region of the state and beyond.
Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without phone or video.
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Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.
OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini did not recommend opioid medication for one group over another – suggesting that artificial intelligence could help address clinician bias and improve fairness in treating pain.
To effectively share data with patients, hospitals and health systems must build a tech foundation centered on interoperability, driven by rigorous data standardization and secure exchanges – and the adoption of HL7's FHIR.
Dr. Tejaswi Kompala, head of cardiometabolic clinical strategy at Teladoc Health, says too many people are overburdened by the needs associated with managing their chronic conditions – but that artificial intelligence could help in several ways.
Compromised by a phishing email, the health system says some employee and patient personal information may have been impacted.
A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be "no aggregation without representation," its leaders say.
Healthcare providers can take advantage of seniors' growing trust in digital health tools, empowering older adults to make sense of a complex healthcare landscape, says the CEO of one care navigation platform for Medicare beneficiaries.
