Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Gartland to talk about the state of access challenges organizations face today, the unbalanced physician capacity across different specialties, and how intelligent scheduling potentially can drive improvements in both operational efficiency and patient satisfaction. Let’s start with physician capacity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and Chartis Group won big in the 2022 Best in KLAS Awards, the research and insights firm announced Tuesday. It was also named the top overall physician practice vendor, along with snagging nine other Best in KLAS awards. Inpatient Clinical Care. Ambulatory and Post-Acute Care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribes show early promise in reducing clinicians’ burden, according to a recent The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) pilot. – Published in NEJM Catalyst, TPMG recently implemented ambient AI scribes for 10,000 physicians and staff.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. Krol, medical director of Connecticut Children's Care Network, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Pair that with a longstanding physician shortage and it could be a recipe for disaster in ERs and urgent care centers this winter. How can advances in remote patient monitoring have significant benefits for patients and providers with improved medical care and patient outcomes? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In its second "state of telemedicine" report, virtual care platform vendor Doximity found that roughly three-quarters of patients surveyed said they plan to continue using telehealth after the pandemic. Report authors observed that this rate was consistent across different race and ethnicity groups.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tom Kiseau, digital leader and chief innovation officer at the Chartis Group, hosts a regular series of AI roundtables alongside colleagues and experts from other practices in the industry. Together, these benefits optimize the patient’s decision about accessing the most appropriate and convenient care for them.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2023

He noted that many of the startups are helping providers "reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing basic tasks to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions and supporting well-being and flexible work arrangements."

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – PointClickCare , a cloud-based healthcare software for the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) market) announced a new partnership with Sound Physicians , a national physician partner to hospitals, post-acute providers, physicians’ groups and payers to offer a fully integrated virtual health solution to U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Move fast with AI and break things?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

Care management is fed by information, much of it electronic. Clinicians rely on electronic health records and other healthcare information systems to give them the data they need to make informed decisions to optimally manage care. How would that impact care management and outcomes? And for what purpose?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Fabric will dedicate a large portion of the funding to team growth and advancement of its care enablement system that delivers convenience and workforce automation through a unified platform that replaces a patchwork of fragmented technology solutions.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

In the 1970s, the medical community was shaken by several high-profile lawsuits alleging unethical behavior by physicians. As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. The authors identified eight studies of medical students.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. Extend primary care through day-to-day monitoring, technology and services that enable early intervention when needed. "For us, Cadence's total partnership model resonated," Cheung explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Raleigh Medical Group is a multispecialty group that serves the Research Triangle area of North Carolina with 115,000 patient visits a year in its internal medicine, gastroenterology, dermatology and rheumatology divisions. Cary Medical Group is one of its two internal medicine practices. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

When COVID-19 struck, Christ Health had to close its clinic and had no way to see its patients. "But it wasn't as ideal a set-up as we wanted it to be." The funds were also meant to implement telemedicine and teleconferencing solutions for patient care and education. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In addition, MDLIVE is enhancing its virtual primary care service to include health coaching for patients with chronic conditions. “Ultimately, this will help patients get care faster and facilitate more meaningful patient-provider interactions that improve health.”

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

What You Should Know: – From 2020 to 2021, telehealth utilization declined 76 percent nationally while, during that same period, retail clinic utilization increased 51 percent nationally. percent for urgent care centers, 0.6 percent for retail clinics. percent for urgent care centers, 0.6 percent for retail clinics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. Hospital outpatient departments prioritized providing care to patients at home rather than have them come into the clinic. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthSnap , a leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM) solutions, announced today the closing of a $25M Series B funding round by Sands Capital , with participation from new investors Comcast Ventures , Acronym Venture Capital , and Florida Opportunity Fund.

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

Steward Health Care plans to sell its physician group to Optum. Steward’s physician group operates in nine states. Connecticut lawmakers considered a number of bills in March that were focused on regulating private equity ownership of health care facilities in the state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Workflow platforms utilizing RTLS data can monitor patient flow metrics, providing staff with precise patient location information throughout their care journey. Last year, we saw the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increase the size and complexity of data sets important to decision-making.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As described in our blog post last year , an increasing number of states across the country are seeking to regulate physician practice management (“PPM”) and private equity transactions in the health care sector. The former Governor published an opinion piece in strong support of the Bill on February 20.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

which provides electronic medical records and practice management software (Office Practicum) to pediatric physician practice groups has recently confirmed that it was the victim of a cyberattack in which an unauthorized third party gained access to its internal computer network. Advanced Care Pediatric Centre, PLLC.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. " Dr. Matthias J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2020

The sheer number of suspected cases of the virus, the pace at which it is spreading, and the desire to have as many people as possible practice social distancing or shelter-in-place have made it more challenging for individuals to receive care in a traditional, in-person setting. Doubts about quality, doctor-patient relationship.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. How will CMS' proposed remote therapeutic monitoring codes enhance patients' quality of care? consumers want virtual care services.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Right now, that means using ambient clinical voice to generate SOAP notes. We caught up with them at their 2023 User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23) in Orlando Florida. You could have done that with a well-craft set of templates. Earlier this year, NextGen introduced Ambient Assist their ambient clinical voice solution.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Integrates AI Medical Scribe with Epic EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout Sunoh.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered ambient listening technology for healthcare, announced today its successful integration with Epic’s open interoperability platform, fhir.epic.com. Providers using Epic®’s EHR system can search and request Sunoh.ai

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2020

ChristianaCare this week announced the launch of its Home Care Coach, a HIPAA-eligible Alexa Skill aimed at meeting the needs of home health patients. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic inevitably complicates home health care provision, especially because vulnerable members of the community are often the ones relying on it.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

In an open-access Viewpoint in Clinical Infectious Diseases , we identify ethical goals for the allocation of scarce therapies. The second tier is unvaccinated people over 65 or with any clinical risk factor. Current federal guidelines for therapy allocation, in contrast, do not identify ethical objectives or involve ethics expertise.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. Standardization and the reduction of unwanted clinical variation are top of mind for most healthcare leaders.

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