by jsopher | Nov 23, 2018 | Technology & the Internet
The growing role of voice assistants in health care Judging by the number of commercials advertising “smart speakers,” voice technology is going to be big this holiday season. In 2017, almost 44 million voice assistants were sold, and these devices are...
by jsopher | Dec 21, 2016 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Technology & the Internet
In the first half of 2016 alone, there were 263 health data breaches, reports Healthcare IT News. The number of individuals affected by a protected health information breach skyrocketed from less than 600,000 in 2010 to just under 112 million in 2015, according to the...
by Smitha Gopal | Aug 18, 2016 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Practice Pearls
Nearly half of U.S. doctors are unfamiliar with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, otherwise known as MACRA, according to a new survey by Deloitte. Yet the proposed rule’s shift from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance will drive health care...
by Brigitte Granger | Jul 28, 2016 | Technology & the Internet
More than 80 percent of medical providers currently use electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs were supposed to streamline the patient visit, reduce doctors’ workload, and make it easier to avoid medical errors. However, the data show that hasn’t happened. A recent...
