The Skyscape Blog
Gmail’s Confidential Mode – Nothing to Write Home About
TL:DR Email is still a universal medium, and everyone uses it. While emails are easy to use but secure, they are NOT. You have to choose between security or ease, but not both! Enter Google with its Gmail. People got excited about this so-called Confidential Mode, and...
A Serendipitous Blast from the Past
Earlier today, a colleague informed me that one of our Skyscape team members (who is now happily retired) was celebrating his 70th birthday! I suddenly remembered that he had his 50th birthday in one of our older offices in Hudson! I also had an epiphany that many...
A Case of Nurse’s breach of Patient Confidentiality
Most of the healthcare professionals are conscious about HIPAA, and of course conscientious about patients’ rights to complete confidentiality. And the healthcare industry has adopted the best practice of annual HIPAA training processes to cover the new workforce...
BuzzVideo: Your go-to Telehealth app for clinicians to connect with their patients
Social distancing as a result of COVID-19 has led to a tremendous need for telehealth solutions. BuzzVideo gives practitioners telemedicine access directly from their mobile device or from any web browser, allowing providers across the care team to continue to treat...
What to Expect from the Healthcare Industry in 2022
The Underrated Staffing Crisis of Healthcare To prevent burnout among healthcare professionals, healthcare facilities must partner with technology vendors and consultants to ensure a smooth digital transformation. Healthcare workers, especially doctors and nurses, are...
Telehealth Privacy and Security Tips
Did you know that cyber-attacks are one of the fastest spreading crimes in the digital world? It is the third-largest "economy," right behind the United States and China, costing $6 trillion in 2021. In the U.S., the most affected victims apart from the small...
Is Your Healthcare Data Secure?
The massive threat that hackers pose to all industries, including healthcare came into sharp focus again. Last year, healthcare data breaches spiked by 55% – an alarming rate!!! Recent cyberattack exposed more than 54 million people to greater risk of fraud and...
Today’s Challenges for Home Health Organizations
Today’s home health healthcare workers must be totally mobile and need an easy, secure way to share documents, release forms, images and updates with colleagues, other providers and sometime with patients and patients’ family members. When most of your staff is...
Mobiles Lead Haiti Into the Future
Tim J. Bristol, PhD, RN, CNE The use of handheld technology has proven time and again to be crucial to healthcare over the past two decades. In many developing countries this is no exception. When a hand held device can have books, notes, and even communication tools...
SkillsHub – Get Ready for the Workplace
Prepare your students for the workplace Get away from the paper-based checklists and using text books that were obsolete at time of print. Skyscape's Skills Hub platform allows you to spend more time teaching and impacting outcomes by:Electronically giving...
Key Strategies – How Mobile Tech Can Slash Rehospitalizations and Boost HCAHPS Scores
"We’ve been able to cut our rehospitalization rate in more than half.”- Joshua Simpson In this webinar, we'll discuss tools and strategies you can use to drastically reduce rehospitalizations, increase Medicare ratings, and improve HCAHPS scores, as well as some tips...
How to Keep Your Smart Device Sanitary
Please raise your hand if you've ever dropped your phone on the ground. You hold your breath as you reach down and pray that your screen hasn't cracked. Flipping it over you find a perfectly smooth screen and you put it back in your pocket and continue with your day....
Telehealth Coding and Billing During COVID-19 for Curbside Consultation vs Doc to Doc vs Formal Consultation
During the COVID-19 public health emergency, Telehealth offers medical practices the ability to continue caring for their patients, both those with and those without COVID-19. In order to mitigate exposure of patients who are sick or at-risk due to other conditions,...
Mobile Secure Communication Increases Patient Engagement
Patient engagement is an important theme discussed by many clinicians and hospital leaders. The healthcare industry is a competitive marketplace where patients have several choices about what doctors to see and what clinics to visit. The term “patient engagement”...
When you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em
Recently, I attended a Rewards & Recognition gala in Boston, where many of our physician friends were present. Physician Burnout During social hour and discussion, we talked about the topic that invariably creeps up in such groups. It was about growing...
Telemedicine and COVID-19
The global COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the healthcare system. It is with science, technology, and communication that we will ultimately conquer this virus. Telemedicine and virtual communication technologies are stepping into the spotlight to...
UPDATE: Buzz has come up with latest solution and new look
Buzz is HIPPA-secure platform that simplifies real-time and on-the-go communication between healthcare providers within and outside of an institution. The app is sleek, easy to use, and supports texting, dictation, private calling, and file sharing. All totally...
Emerging Trends: The HOME in Home Care
When recovering from a hospitalization or managing a chronic condition, there’s no place quite like home. As hospitals continue to use innovative payment models, Home Care will be increasingly popular and important in providing quality healthcare. Home Care is all...
How Google is NOT helping, but hurting small businesses in this COVID-19 pandemic
Skyscape’s trusted content App, on Infectious Disease released and available since 2015, has been removed by Google unilaterally from its Play Store, citing “Sensitive Events”. This is trusted content, editorially prepared with clinically relevant information,...
Smart Device Academic Policy
If your school or program is considering instituting a mobile program into their curriculum, then you might need to develop an academic policy to keep everything in check. Below we have a general outline of an academic policy that can help you develop your own....
