Martha Grogan, M.D., Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic: Hi, I’m Dr. Martha Grogan, and I’m a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, and today I would like to discuss with you some information concerning a condition called cardiac amyloidosis. And if you’re watching this, it’s probably because either you or someone close to you has been diagnosed … Read more
Martha Grogan, M.D., Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic: Hi. I’m Doctor Martha Grogan. I’m a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, and I’d like to discuss with you the treatment options for patients who have cardiac amyloidosis. In previous segments, we talked about the diagnosis and what amyloid really is, and now we’ll talk about the treatment … Read more
[Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of 2. Part 2 will appear tomorrow.] Lost amidst talk of all the amazing technologies used in healthcare today is a subject very important to Robert Slepin: change management. Slepin knows a thing or two about change management. In his role as emeritus CIO advisor at electronic health record … Read more
In testimony before the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday, Adam Meyers, senior VP of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, apologized for the worldwide technology outage this past summer that disabled millions of Microsoft Windows machines across healthcare and other industries. In his appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee on cybersecurity and infrastructure protection, … Read more
The Veterans Administration’s Office of Inspector General conducted a new audit to determine whether the VA and Oracle Health had sufficient controls in place to prevent, respond to and mitigate the impact of major performance incidents stemming from the launch of the agency’s new electronic health system at several veterans’ healthcare facilities. The agency found … Read more
Nearly two-thirds (66%) of U.S. patients with sensitive health issues are more comfortable making appointments with chatbots than with staff, according to the Talkdesk U.S. Consumer Healthcare Survey, conducted in August 2024 on the online platform Pollfish. Talkdesk received responses from 1,000 men and women aged 18 and over. Meanwhile, 62% of patients felt support … Read more
Marilee Benson is president of Zen Healthcare IT, a technology vendor that aims to make interoperability simpler with a flexible health data exchange platform and on-demand data exchange experts. Zen’s Gemini Integration Platform covers the range of healthcare interoperability needs, including simple API access to more than 600,000 providers via the national data-sharing networks. Benson, … Read more
This past summer, the U.S. Supreme Court, with its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, put an end to the principle that federal courts should defer to federal regulatory agencies’ expertise when deciding on ambiguous statutes. The 6-3 case, in which the court’s conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, was a blow to the power of federal agencies … Read more
Particle Health, the data exchange and analytics company, filed a lawsuit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York alleging that Epic Systems Corp. is using its monopoly over electronic health records to block its provider customers from getting full patient medical records – and also barring the Particle platform from competing in the fledgling payer … Read more
Colorado is densely populated across the front range of Denver and Colorado Springs. After leaving the Denver Metropolitan Area and the I-25 corridor, one is quickly in areas that are sparsely populated, where people are accustomed to traveling many hours to access healthcare specialty expertise. THE PROBLEM Even in some larger population areas, certain medical … Read more