Why Improving Chronic Disease Management is the Key to Reducing Excessive Emergency Medical Visits
Chronic disease can be regarded as a major and persistent epidemic of our time. Today, roughly 40 million people in the United States are restricted in their day-to-day activities due to one or more common chronic health conditions. The most widespread chronic...
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
It’s been approximately three months since the first COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization (EUA) in the United States. On December 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was available for most...
Promoting Patient Data via APIs
Interoperability has always been a somewhat controversial issue in healthcare. Most providers and healthcare systems do not seamlessly exchange patient data or do not have the ability to, requiring patients to be responsible for manually transferring their data from...
Population Health Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Conducting population health management is challenging for most health care entities. Doing it during the COVID-19 pandemic makes it exponentially more difficult. Provider support of chronic care patients has been achieved via telehealth more over the past year than...
Top 8 Epic App Orchard Solutions
Since it was launched in 2017, Epic Systems’ App Orchard has grown to include 411 apps from more than 500 participating organizations. According to the most recent numbers, The Epic app developer program consists of approximately 1,200 app licenses and three billion...
Employing Digital Technology to Streamline Delivery of COVID-19 and Flu Test Results
Concerns voiced by experts late in 2020 about a “twindemic” seemed to have dissipated as seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual. This time last year, close to 100 times as many flu cases had been identified from nearly the same...
Frequently Asked Questions about the COVID-19 Vaccine
After months of anticipation, the COVID-19 vaccination process has started, albeit at a slower pace than many Americans prefer. The FDA authorization of two vaccines and possibly another one are important steps in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic or at least...
5 Things Healthcare Leaders Should Know about the New COVID-19 Relief Bill
There’s no denying that the healthcare industry in the United States has been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to many physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals being on the front line caring for patients who contracted the virus,...
What are the Pros and Cons of Telehealth?
Telehealth encompasses a range of healthcare services that leverage telecommunications to care for patients. Many times, telehealth is used interchangeably with telemedicine, which is a more specific type of service that uses virtual visits to facilitate patient care...
6 Ways to Prepare for the COVID-19 Vaccine
The United States faces an unprecedented and complex challenge in its effort to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans. Although the initial distribution of the vaccine will be completed in phases to ensure frontline healthcare professionals and...
3 Ways to Improve Patient Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine
While the COVID-19 vaccine is not yet available, healthcare providers are beginning to prepare for how they will facilitate widespread patient access to the shot once it's ready for distribution. Researchers and doctors are hopeful that the vaccine will be the cure to...
How Texting Improves Lung Cancer Screening Patient Awareness and Outcomes
By Suman Sinha, MD, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Many people avoid or delay lung cancer screenings for a variety of reasons. For some, fear of a diagnosis prevents them from seeking a life-saving, low dose computed tomography (LDCT) scan. For...
