Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

The stark reality is that healthcare organizations are being required to do more with less and this has been exacerbated by COVID-19. While technology certainly hasn’t solved all our problems, one thing technology has provided healthcare is the opportunity to really personalize patient engagement at scale.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. It asks questions about their health status and care progression and can also capture biometric readings from devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. The COVID-19 crisis has forced providers to think more creatively about care models and revenue.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolved digital consumer, healthcare is also embracing digital transformation. Bandwidth’s research reflects this trend: When asked whether COVID-19 changed their expectations of healthcare, more than 80% of respondents said yes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

According to a media release, this new service is for patients at risk of hospitalisation, including those with heart and respiratory disease and infections; aged care residents; and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities. GP visits were lower among people in remote communities than those living in metro areas.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. "Transporting a resident to the hospital can be a very traumatic and stressful experience," said Powell. Saved organizational resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2022

The American Medical Association this week, along with Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Joint Commission, announced the launch of a new learning network to help U.S. health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis endangered an already fragile support system for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the report shows. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. This bipartisan bill will help transform rural health care and improve lives." WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Sam Hanna Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not have been so apparent in the past.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Garheng Kong, Founder and Managing Partner at HealthQuest Capital Hospital-at-home (HaH) and skilled nursing at home (SNaH) are two trends driving increased healthcare in the home for more acute patients. HaH is an innovative care model that provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a full substitute for acute hospital care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Engin Demirel, EMEA head of product management, marketing and sales operations at Olympus, says it is now a vital tool in the hospital’s digital health armamentarium. HITN: How do you think this might create operational benefits for the hospital and improve patient care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

million telehealth episodes in 2019 and expanded to 10,000 to 120,000 virtual visits per week during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic – will enables a co-located team of specially trained critical care physicians and nurses to remotely monitor patients in the ICU regardless of patient location. More than 20% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The elimination of health care inequities will require effective integration of health care systems with communities and the social safety net. Black and AI/AN people also have lower life expectancies.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By Silvia Serrano Guzmán On July 4, 2023 the Constitutional Court of Colombia handed down a landmark decision on one of the most difficult dilemmas faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: the rationing of intensive care in situations of scarcity. On the contrary, human rights-compliant responses lead to better public health outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. population health burden. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. These are some of the lessons learned by chief information officers during the past year or so as the healthcare industry has been tossed and turned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Even in the United States, where vaccination misinformation ran rampant throughout the pandemic, 67% of the population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

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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. Virtual-first primary care has been shown to improve health outcomes by increasing access, he reported.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Why, then, are medical libraries among the first services to be cut when hospitals and health systems trim their budgets? In December 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospital department closures around the U.S., the Medical Library Association issued a plea touting the benefits of their services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2023, the study asked how much COVID-19 affected peoples’ work-life happiness in the past year, a new factor that is also impacting clinicians’ well-being beyond bureaucracy, lack of autonomy, and pay, is indeed COVID-19. But only 45% of doctors said their workplaces offered programs addressing physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In recent years, the biggest challenge faced by Happy Kids, a six-clinic pediatric practice based in Phoenix, Arizona, was a detrimental loss of business during the COVID-19 pandemic. " Before COVID-19, many of the patients struggled with transportation, among other obstacles. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2023

Based on a study of patient visits across all hospital-based outpatient clinics in Maryland from 2012 to 2021, telehealth visits did reduce the overall number of future outpatient visits within 30 days of a telehealth encounter by 14% and saved $239 in total outpatient costs per patient, the new study found.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Over the years, rural doctors who historically performed house calls have been replaced with regional physician groups and community hospitals that are owned and managed by large health systems with multiple locations. Nearly 70% of physicians now work for a corporate entity instead of private practices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2020

health care community is collectively embracing the concept of social determinants of health that have become so obvious in understanding the disparities of health outcomes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Access to health care services is a social determinant of health. One in three U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2021

healthcare system — overused, over-stressed, under-paid, detailed n How Health Systems Can Care for Caregivers , published in the NEJM Catalyst July 2021 issue. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The prevailing, universal health outcome for unpaid caregivers is eroded mental and behavioral health.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Consistently, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's County Health Rankings, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma have some of the worst health outcomes and health factors in their respective states. " Many lack the resources to purchase a needed blood pressure device for at-home use, she added.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

Lawmakers introduce bill criminalizing violence, threats against hospital employees. Most hospitals failing price transparency rule. Shooting at Tulsa hospital exposes vulnerability of health care facilities. Encompass Health opens rehabilitation hospital in Cape Coral. Arkansas receives second $786.6

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Today, one in four hospitals, health systems and health plans rely on five or more telehealth platforms, according to a survey by Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. It's also essential to achieving sustained engagement that improves health outcomes and reduces care costs. Often, this resulted in "platform sprawl."

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Google doesn’t take you to a hospital website. It doesn’t take you to a health plan website. – About 23 percent of caregivers say caregiving has made their own health worse , up from 17 percent in 2015. . – About 23 percent of caregivers say caregiving has made their own health worse , up from 17 percent in 2015.

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