Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entities to bring specialty care to underserved communities and patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

Intermountain Healthcare a $100,000 grant from Intel to develop new remote monitoring capabilities in its hospitals. The cameras are deployed across Intermountain hospitals and monitored from Salt Lake City. ON THE RECORD. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

healthcare workforce, 4 resulting in staffing shortages in hospitals. By incorporating AI and ML into electronic healthcare record (EHR) systems, hospitals with limited resources – whether it be due to geographic isolation or staffing shortages –may improve patient care and outcomes. Andrew Pucher, CEO of Dascena, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Recently commissioned research by Zoom found that patients who have used telehealth once prefer a hybrid mode of care post-COVID-19. They don't have to come to the emergency room or the hospital or the physician's office. This has given rise to digital-first healthcare, which does not mean "digital only."

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has made it more clear than ever that a medical emergency can strike at any time – sometimes, with dire consequences. "What healthcare professionals need to know, and want to know, in the hospital is what matters most to the patient receiving care," she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

"Not only have patients been affected by their lack of internet or devices to support virtual visits, but also by their providers’ lack of broadband connectivity, equipment, and electronic medical record and electronic health record system capacity limitations," they continued. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

HIPAA encourages the use of electronic medical records and includes standards for protecting PHI. Within and beyond hospital walls, care as we know it has changed drastically since the onset of the pandemic. Over the last couple decades, we’ve seen the electronic medical record (EMR) transform data storage for HDOs.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2023

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the third leading cause of death globally was complications 30 days after surgery, killing about 4.2 After validation, the model was deployed across 20 UPMC hospitals. million people each year. The model was then validated against another 200,000 patients who underwent surgery at UPMC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. Burchett, chief medical information officer at Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. " Hospital at home.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 25, 2022

Web applications have grown in popularity in healthcare in recent years and are used for patient portals, electronic medical record systems, scheduling appointments, accessing test results, patient monitoring, online pharmacies, dental CAD systems, inventory management, and more. DDoS attacks are also conducted by hacktivists.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Covid-19 radically stretched healthcare providers in countless ways, including accelerating digitization and changing patient expectations about care delivery. Covid-19–era staffing shortfalls and burnout among physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, as well as IT and office personnel, continue to plague providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Electronic medical records (EMRs) , provider surveys or evaluations, and clinical examinations or assessments are all examples of this, and they are arguably homogenous in the sense that they only illuminate a sliver of the influences on health from a patient’s broader lived experience. From ‘Nice-to-Have to ‘Need-to-Have.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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MedTrainer

APRIL 14, 2022

Burnout in healthcare industries has always existed, and following the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s grown worse than ever. From sensitive patient data that must be handled with care to the credentialing information of new staff, the amount of paperwork can be overwhelming to hospital staff. Easy to Use.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

After the expiration of the COVID-19 PHE, analysts predict a potential loss of health insurance coverage for as many as 15 million Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollees, ages 12 -64. And an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation found Medicaid/CHIP enrollment increased 29% from February 2020 to November 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. Perhaps the biggest driver in recent RPM adoption was the COVID-19 pandemic. RPM enabled providers to continue to support patient care from afar.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Health Tech Areas of Focus Many healthcare systems are focused on prioritizing clinician wellness and addressing burnout with technology to solve issues pertaining to staffing shortages in hospitals and clinics. Leveraging AI can enable faster scans and shorter wait times while eliminating unnecessary manual work.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The third chart bolsters a fact we know-we-know about patients’ faith in health care providers as trusted data stewards : that is that apps recommended by doctors and hospitals more likely make patients feel more comfortable about using them than digital tools not vetted by a trusted source. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Real world evidence from electronic medical records (EHR) data reveals the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations, emergency department visits and intensive care admissions due to the virus, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, COVID-19 surges accelerated widespread telehealth adoption, as many couldn't leave their homes or were not comfortable coming to a doctor's office. With this, the health system saw many hospitals experience strains in their ability to accommodate the volume of patients needing care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. Home as hospital. The home gym. Fitness tech and wearables for activity tracking have long been a big category at CES.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

For years electronic medical records, messaging systems, and other technologies have only increased physician burnout. For example, a health facility shouldn’t continue to send a certain type of patient to a tertiary hospital just because that’s the way it has always handled it.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Yann Fleureau, CEO of Cardiologs, said: "Since the coronavirus crisis began, medical centers have been quick to realize the challenges they face in managing care for patients with cardiac conditions, including the time it takes to read and assess the growing number of ECGs being processed. GLOUCESTERSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FT HYLAND.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

4 benefits of behavioral health partnership for hospital performance. CMS has cited 69 hospitals for noncompliance with worker vaccine mandate. COVID-fatigued health workers are mobilizing. COVID-fatigued health workers are mobilizing. Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Hospital revenues plummet.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) , or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs. About Jon-Michael P. Jon-Michael P.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 7, 2022

After court ruling for AHA in 340B case, HHS says it will start adjusting payment rates for certain 340B hospitals within approximately two weeks. Congress gives rural hospitals a reprieve, for now. Hospital leaders meet at White House to talk ‘twindemic’ strategies. Is the doctor’s office heading for extinction?

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the costs of operating a healthcare practice or hospital rise, and staffing and burnout issues add additional stressors, the medical community is facing unprecedented times. The digital transformation is proving not to be a fad necessitated by COVID-19, but a way to find better connections between practices and patients.

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