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Articles by Luis D. Castillo
We Owe It To Patients To Eliminate Faxing: Here’s How To Get Started
Luis Castillo is President and CEO for Ensocare, a SaaS care coordination company. getty Cable television is obsolete. VHS and cassette tapes are novelty throwbacks to a different time. Most kids couldn’t tell you what a landline is. Yet, for all that, healthcare still relies on the fax machine, a similarly dated tech artifact, as a critical part of the transmission of information. This needs to end.
Interoperability Rules Are Delayed: Why That’s Good News And Bad News
Luis Castillo is President and CEO for Ensocare, a SaaS care coordination company. Getty In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced they would delay the enforcement of its Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rules until 2021. This is a good news/bad news scenario for healthcare providers and the health IT professionals who support their clinical workflows.
Patient Transport Delays? Technology Holds The Answer
As healthcare has evolved, the logistics surrounding patient care have gotten exponentially more complicated. That’s partially because, thanks to the evolution of payment schedules that penalize providers if their patients are readmitted 30, 60 or even 90 days beyond the initial date of discharge, hospitals are increasingly responsible for outcomes long after patients leave their sight.
Venmo For Health Data? What You Need To Know About PHI Portability
Health data belongs to the patient. That message has been made abundantly clear by the current administration. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Administrator Seema Verma have set out to reclaim patient data from hospitals, payers, software vendors and anyone else who might otherwise come across patient data in the course of providing care or doing business. But what does it really mean for a patient to control their own data?
FHIR Standards Continue to Shape Health IT's Interoperability Progression
A little over a year ago, I took to this platform to discuss the basics of HL7’s fast health care interoperability resources, or FHIR. I extolled the virtues of these standards and how they were transforming health care’s reliance on disparate systems, creating a set of APIs that varying health care providers could use to streamline their EHRs and the health care experience as a whole. Now, one year later, some things have remained the same, while others have changed.
IT In The ED? The Growing Role Of Tech In The Emergency Room
One area we don't typically think of when we discuss health care IT is the emergency department (ED). That's because a fast-paced environment and the need for one-on-one care is not always conducive to technology solutions whose purpose is to automate aspects of care. Patients need help as quickly as possible, and that can minimize the opportunity to use technology to assess and manage ED activities.
Health Care Wearables: What IT Experts Need To Know
For ages, one insurmountable hurdle stood in the way of health care reaching its full potential. That hurdle? The simple truth that a patient’s well-being was out of the hands of the care team the moment the patient left their sight. That’s changed with the advent of wearable devices that give physicians, care managers and other members of the care team an assortment of tools to monitor patients’ health. This begs the question: Why aren’t more health systems relying on these apps and devices?
Death Of The Fax Machine: Three IT Challenges Standing In The Way Of Fax's Ultimate Destruction
You can get almost any product in the world online. You can order food from your favorite restaurants on your phone. You can get psychiatric consultations, telehealth services and meet the love of your life by swiping right on the appropriate apps. But when it comes to transferring patient health information (PHI) between providers, far too many enterprises are still choosing to "swipe right" on the fax machine.
How Investments In Tech Help Narrow Networks And Patient Choice Coexist
Right now, two phrases are shaping the post-acute care conversation, and at first glance, it appears as if these two concepts are diametrically opposed to one another. The first phrase is “patient choice.” The second is “narrow network.” Patient choice is something that most patients rightfully consider to be important. The concept of the family doctor is ingrained within the consciousness of the average citizen.
The State Of Interoperability In Healthcare
Even as the healthcare information technology (IT) field has made strides to facilitate cooperation between EHRs (electronic health records), it’s become abundantly clear that we still have a way to go to achieve anything approaching complete and total interoperability.
How technology can assist discharge planning and aid efficiency
In today’s value-based environment, hospitals are under financial pressure to discharge patients sooner while ensuring patient safety and quality of care. This challenge comes with the clear risk that releasing patients too quickly can result in costly readmissions. Discharge planning that requires care coordination is a complex process. Managing the transition from the hospital to a post-acute setting can be time consuming for discharge planners and care management staff.
Health IT Is On FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources For Beginners
The health IT industry has been buzzing about FHIR (or fast healthcare interoperability resources -- pronounced “fire”) since it was introduced by Health Level Seven (HL7) as a proposed interoperability standard. HL7 is a not-for-profit organization that has been developing ANSI-accredited standards for hospital information systems since 1987.
Virtual Health -- Coordination Care In The Future
Digital products like Alexa and Siri “learn” a person’s favorite restaurants, music and retail stores and make recommendations on different eateries to visit, items to buy or events to attend. These tools can also perform simple tasks, such as turning on lights, locking doors, adding to a running list of needed groceries or purchasing an item off the Internet.
Virtual health-Coordinating care in the future
We are constantly experiencing change in the healthcare IT industry. For example, the emergence of the Internet, the introduction of smart phones and tablets, and more recently, the shift toward intelligent solutions that take volumes of information, interpret it and make predictions and recommendations for action.
Five Steps To Greater Cybersecurity In Health Care Organizations
It is universally acknowledged that frequent hand washing can prevent the spread of infections -- and yet, there are health care workers who don’t wash their hands. The use of motorcycle helmets can dramatically reduce the chances of head trauma during accidents, but over 25% of people don’t wear one while riding. This same pattern emerges when it comes to cybersecurity in the health care space.
Five Things To Look Out For When Selecting Care Coordination Software
It used to be that interventions were the cornerstone of acute care. A patient would arrive at a hospital with a medical problem and the healthcare providers in that location -- nurses, doctors and ancillary staff -- would respond to the patient’s needs and provide treatment. After the individual received care, they would be sent home or to a post-acute facility, to further recover.
The three C’s of cross-continuum care coordination
Posted in Features, Vendors. Written by: Luis Castillo There has never been a better time to shore up care coordination across the continuum. Emerging value-based payment opportunities along with penalties directed at hospitals for unnecessary readmissions are prompting healthcare organizations of all sizes to find ways to improve quality, reduce costs and prevent return visits to the hospital; enriching care coordination is one strategy for realizing these goals.
Changes in Circulating B Cell Subsets Associated with Aging and Acute SIV Infection in Rhesus Macaques
Aging and certain viral infections can negatively impact humoral responses in humans. To further develop the nonhuman primate (NHP) model for investigating B cell dynamics in human aging and infectious disease, a flow cytometric panel was developed to characterize circulating rhesus B cell subsets.
Leveraging technology to overcome care coordination hurdles
Hospitals and health systems are starting to recognize the value in coordinating care after patient discharge. The more these entities are able to communicate and collaborate with post-acute providers, patients, families and community support services, the greater the likelihood of reduced readmission rates and positive long-term patient outcomes.
Utilizing a TLR5-Adjuvanted Cytomegalovirus as a Lentiviral Vaccine in the Nonhuman Primate Model for AIDS
Citation: Deere JD, Chang WLW, Castillo LD, Schmidt KA, Kieu HT, Renzette N, et al. (2016) Utilizing a TLR5-Adjuvanted Cytomegalovirus as a Lentiviral Vaccine in the Nonhuman Primate Model for AIDS. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0155629. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155629 Copyright: © 2016 Deere et al.
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