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What data and technologies are needed to propel telehealth quality?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. "Stakeholders include internal and external customers, our patients, families and providers," said Aftab.

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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas

Bill of Health

By Jordan Brooks and Tamar Ezer Expanding access to midwives and doulas in the United States is a vital and often overlooked way to increase access to culturally-congruent birthing options during pregnancy and improve health outcomes for birthing individuals and their children. The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Leadership in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Environment

AIHC

Value in healthcare is the measured improvement in a person’s health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement1. But healthcare providers haven’t been able to successfully reduce cost, even with the massive number of hospital mergers and acquisition of physician practices over the past few decades.

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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

Hall Render

Rural hospitals plan to reject Congress’ program. Staff shortages make patient surges harder for children’s hospitals — and the situation won’t get better soon. Rural Alabamians getting improvements in health care with federal grant. Alabama hospital officials weigh in on ‘tripledemic’ concerns.

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eClinicalWorks to showcase EHR and patient engagement innovations at HIMSS23

Healthcare It News

eClinicalWorks continues to innovate and create new technologies that meet the most pressing healthcare needs, such as increased speed and reliability via the cloud, improved physician efficiency, patient satisfaction, value-based care, and reduced day-to-day administrative costs. Patients expect easy access to care.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.