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Reviewing the Top Medical Technology of 2018

Electronic Health Reporter

Technological innovations are helping medical experts advance and improve the healthcare industry. Through technology and science, medical researchers are creating innovations that are improving, expanding and transforming the healthcare industry. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds

Electronic Health Reporter

Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Productivity […].

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018.

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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

Health Populi

“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision. Accenture’s vision this year is built on five pillars: Citizen AI. Extended Reality.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients

Health Populi

World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. Danone works on medical nutrition designed around patients in various stages of diseases including allergy, metabolic disorders, oncology and stroke. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.