With heart failure costs rising, such AI interventions may be crucial AI enhanced electrocardiograms (ECG) may be able to accurately detect heart failure in patients being evaluated in the ER for shortness of breath, according to a study published in Circulation: Arrythmia and Electrophysiology.…
Dealing With Rising COVID-19 Cases Illustrate Growing Need for Virtual Technologies in Health & Medical Across the U.S., cases of Coronavirus continue to rise in record fashion. In fact, 19 states recently set a record1 for seven-day averages in daily new cases of the…
AI, other machine learning could send field in new directions Sleep studies are nothing new, and in an age where healthcare professionals and individuals are much more aware of the importance of sleep, as well as the potential danger posed by such conditions as…
Experts weigh in on fixing problems before the start, plus the idea of phishing simulations In our last installment, we discussed risk management and analysis with two experts from Kauffman Rossin—Kevin Fine, MHA, Kaufman Rossin’s director of healthcare advisory services, as well as Rob…
Digital technology continues to make our lines of communication more abundant and easily accessible throughout our everyday and working lives. It also makes us more easily susceptible to fraud and enables cyber criminals with more alternatives to conduct illicit activities. Phishing, a type of…
Collaborative care is becoming more important to all healthcare providers, including physical therapists, with the onset of regulations designed to strengthen the link between reimbursement and performance. For example, the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposal shows that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare…
FDA approves first over-the-counter EKG product The latest Apple Watch, known as Series 4, was unveiled today in California with numerous health-related implications. Most headlines focused on the increased size of the watch—almost 30 percent bigger than its predecessor—but the overhauled software also includes…
What’s All The Buzz About? Let’s Cut To The Chase More and more PT’s these days are being introduced to offerings in the marketplace related to cloud-based and web-based solutions. And yet, the meaning behind these terms is often clouded in mystery (no pun…
Complex Rehab Technology orders can often be just that when it comes to getting approvals – complex. Houston Methodist Hospital, a non-profit corporation, has developed a Functional Mobility and Wheelchair Assessment Form to proactively address requests for further information – effectively decreasing clinical documentation…
A customary view of how healthcare technology creates new jobs often focuses on new devices that require trained healthcare professionals for their use. For example, the first commercial diagnostic ultrasound scanner was launched in the 1960s, then developed expansively in the following decades. Today,…