Healthcare providers should be keeping their eyes on a new piece of bipartisan legislation seeking to offer workers stand-alone telehealth benefits – much in the same way that vision and dental plans are offered. We all remember how quickly telehealth became mainstream as the pandemic ramped up in 2020 – spurred on by both need...Read More

A lot of us complained about the bi-yearly time change, but will the alternative truly be better for us? While daylight savings time does give us more daylight hours, it also can disrupt our sleep schedule and lead to various health issues. Altering the body’s circadian rhythms by even an hour can change the delicate...Read More

Healthcare organizations should be actively working on their interoperability, and federal officials are pushing FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) as the best way to ensure that EHR systems can share data. The military has now deployed a single EHR system, paving the way for interoperability in the Department of Defense, using the FHIR data standard....Read More

With AI getting more intelligent each year, as evidenced by the recent news about ChatGPT passing the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, many wonder what role AI and healthcare will have in the future. At this point, and with the technology available, it is safe to say that they can hold a valuable role in increasing...Read More

Fresh from the exciting 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, FormDr is excited about all of the new and innovative healthcare technology shown at the largest tech convention in the world. One of the primary topics of the convention was cybersecurity, and we were happy to see companies putting user data security as...Read More

Whether you realize it or not, online tracking technology is part of our daily lives. Every time your phone remembers a password for you, or your browser picks up right where you left off – a bit of your information was saved. The question is – what type of information, and how much? In response...Read More

Although RPM, remote patient monitoring, is still a fairly new technology, Silicon Valley AI and healthcare entrepreneur Robin Farmanfarmaian has some very concrete ideas about where it is headed. Like other remote and virtual healthcare solutions, RPM was embraced and accelerated during the pandemic years, and has now become part of healthcare ecosystem. Farmanfarmaian authored...Read More

As the country heads into winter, cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are on the rise, combined with the usual flu surges, and, of course, COVID-19. This simultaneous influx of illness has been dubbed in the news as a “tripledemic,” and unfortunately it is hitting the pediatric population the hardest. RSV is a fairly common...Read More

A lot has happened in the world between 2016 and 2022, especially in the healthcare sector. When the AMA started this project in 2016, Kate Kirley, MD – a family physician and director of chronic disease prevention at the American Medical Association – was quoted as stating “Digital health is the sort of Wild West...Read More

A new Mayo Clinic study presents some alarming findings for the healthcare world. It predicts that one in five physicians plan to leave medicine completely, and even more plan to reduce their hours or change course into a career track that is non-patient care based. The Mayo Clinic conducted this study with 20,665 respondents at...Read More