How to Conduct a Health-Care Environment Electronic Risk Assessment: Mitigations for the Digital Health Era

2015 ◽  
pp. 513-520
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment

Digital Therapeutics: Health Care Wired for the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 338-344
Author(s):  
Joanne Kaldy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Share Data

Digital therapeutics (DTx)—treatment or therapy that uses digital health technologies to spur changes in patient behavior—increasingly are making their way into the health care environment. This evolution is especially apparent as health care moves to valuebased care, silos between settings are breaking down, and data collection/analysis and teamwork play key roles. These technologies, whether they are apps, software programs, or sensors, are helping patients adhere to treatments and lifestyle changes, set and meet viable care goals, and avoid costly emergency department visits and hospitalizations. At the same time, DTx are helping practitioners ensure the best possible outcomes; streamline costs; monitor patient progress; and receive, analyze, and share data.

Digital Therapeutics: Health Care Wired for the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 338-344
Author(s):  
Joanne Kaldy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Emergency Department Visits ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Share Data

Digital therapeutics (DTx)—treatment or therapy that uses digital health technologies to spur changes in patient behavior—increasingly are making their way into the health care environment. This evolution is especially apparent as health care moves to valuebased care, silos between settings are breaking down, and data collection/analysis and teamwork play key roles. These technologies, whether they are apps, software programs, or sensors, are helping patients adhere to treatments and lifestyle changes, set and meet viable care goals, and avoid costly emergency department visits and hospitalizations. At the same time, DTx are helping practitioners ensure the best possible outcomes; streamline costs; monitor patient progress; and receive, analyze, and share data.

The Conundrum of Charitability: Reassessing Tax Exemption For Hospitals

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-380
Author(s):  
David A. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Tax exemption is an ancient, honorable and expensive tradition. Tax exemption for hospitals is all of these three, but it also places in sharp focus a fundamental problem with tax exemption in general. Organizations can retain their tax exemption while changing circumstances or expectations undermine the rationale that led to the exemption in the first place. Hospitals are perhaps the best example of this problem. The dramatic changes in the health care environment have eliminated most of the characteristics of a hospital that originally persuaded the citizenry to grant it an exemption. Hospitals have entered into competition with tax-paying businesses, and have increasingly behaved like competitive actors. Such conduct may well be beneficial, but it does not follow that tax exemption is appropriate. Rather than an undifferentiated subsidy, a shift to focused goals will provide charitable hospitals with the opportunity and incentive to “do the right thing.”

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