Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2023

Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service will be trying out a remote pregnancy monitoring platform by ASX-listed HeraMED. It aims to evaluate the platform's clinical usability, patient satisfaction, value for money and economic benefit.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction HIPAA Licensing 136

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. THE PROBLEM.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Nurses 207

Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2023

A new 6,000-square-foot hospital operations center at Children's Mercy Kansas City uses artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care coordination from the time of patient's admission until discharge. The hospital is the first freestanding pediatric hospital in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2021

Just like many healthcare provider organizations across the country, Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, offers patients a multitude of services spanning several floors in multiple buildings that were constructed at different times on varying terrain. " Mike Mistretta, Virginia Hospital Center. THE PROBLEM.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Doctors 273

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Take a deep dive with Rick Gannotta, SVP, Chief Healthcare Administrative Officer at Masimo, into the administrative benefits of Hospital Automation—from its impact on healthcare delivery and efficiency to its ability to transform models of care in ways that benefit both the patient and the clinician.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction 78

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The gamble is over for hospitals that avoided complying with CMS price transparency mandates. After a slow start since they were implemented more than 18 months ago, CMS has issued 350 warnings for noncompliance, 157 corrective action requests, and finally issued fines to two Georgia hospitals in June. The fines are significant.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Compliance Governance 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital. It asks its doctors to self-report on infection control tracking and readmission tracking, and all patients fill out a survey about 30 days after surgery, which asks about their recovery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With nearly a decade of successfully running a virtual ICU and a virtual care hospital known today as Mercy Virtual Care Center , Mercy in St. Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions.

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Hospitals Nurses Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 191

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, implemented a patient monitoring at home, or PM@H program, using fully managed device kits prior to the pandemic. Studies show great benefits for patients, as well as hospitals, when patients are monitored in the 30-day post-discharge period. THE PROBLEM.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Nurses Patient Satisfaction 179

Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2023

As digital health and telemedicine technologies continue to explode, patients increasingly are being drawn into their care in ways unlike ever before. And hospitals and health systems know they must find ways to engage their patients to keep them healthy and satisfied.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. Parodi also flagged the patient satisfaction component: "We're consistently running at 4.95

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Hospitals Public Health Patient Satisfaction Medicaid 167

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

" The IVR system allows patients to pay using the phone without speaking to anyone. "We strive for great patient satisfaction," Pritchett said. "A patient's experience is not just the service they receive but the full gamut, so these things were important to us." " she concluded.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a ‘workstation on wheels,” which is a computer on a cart, accessorized with useful tools along with a wireless connection. Or they may grab a tablet or cell phone.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Nurses 130

HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

About Augment Therapy Augment Therapy’s gamified technology can be used in various settings, from pediatric children’s hospitals servicing inpatient and outpatient care, adult rehabilitation, and skilled nursing facilities, and in provider-focused at-home health care.

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Patient Satisfaction Nurses Hospitals Compliance 97

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Vital’s platform, powered by AI and natural language processing (NLP), keeps patients in-network, generates millions in revenue for health systems and improves the care experience – through actionable and personalized patient content, automated communication and real-time feedback.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction HIPAA 97

Health Populi

JULY 8, 2020

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. But wait — there’s more, asserts the Lown Institute in their approach to ranking America’s Best Hospitals in 2020. The Institute was surprised by the similarity of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals for civic leadership.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction 98

Medical Gas Compliance

MARCH 27, 2023

As healthcare facility managers, we aim to keep patients safe and in a welcoming environment that enhances quality and patient satisfaction. Therefore, a healthcare design trend we continue to see requires creating spaces that reflect calmness and strive to ease the patient's journey. Dr. Roger Ulrich, Ph.D.,

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 98

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. The post Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D.

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Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine COVID-19 Medicaid 87

MRO Compliance

MARCH 17, 2022

MRO eXpress is an application to streamline patient medical record requests through an electronic format that connects directly to an enterprise-wise ROI workflow at a hospital facility. Additional benefits include: Automates the health system patient request forms and provides patients with end-to-end request tracking.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Compliance 130

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Following a tender process, the Victoria-headquartered health technology provider was picked to implement the Get Well patient engagement platform, which it exclusively distributes in Australia and New Zealand. Kaweka Health also tapped Orion Health to install a hospital information system at its facility. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 261

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No hospital or health system is immune from the challenges of the nationwide nursing shortage. As organizations look for ways to reduce the administrative burden on nurses and improve engagement and satisfaction, virtual nursing is one consideration. How does it play out in hospitals and health systems?

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Nurses Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 163

Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

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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Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes Hospitals Public Health 285

HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2022

., will use Biofourmis ’ virtual care and AI-based predictive analytics technology to support a new Rural Home Hospital program delivering acute hospital-level care inside patients’ homes–including a clinical trial studying this care model in rural areas. participants selected for the Rural Home Hospital program.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Public Health Nurses 52

HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2022

What You Should Know: – Blessing Health System , an integrated rural health system selects Biofourmis , a virtual care and digital therapeutics provider to launch its own home hospital services. Delivering Acute-Level Hospital Care Inside Patients’ Homes. ” Rural Home Hospital Program Background.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Medicare Medicare 52

MRO Compliance

APRIL 1, 2022

Hospitals continually seek new strategies to streamline operations and boost efficiencies. These are the new metrics that matter—with overall cost reduction and patient satisfaction in mind. HIM Director’s Guide to Driving New Efficiency in ROI. HIM Director’s Guide to Driving New Efficiency in ROI.

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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals 147

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "The Advanced Care at Home Program does not limit the role of nurses in hospitals."

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Nurses Patient Satisfaction Hospitals COVID-19 187

Hanys

JANUARY 6, 2023

They were recognized for nurse satisfaction, inpatient and ambulatory nursing-sensitive indicators, patient satisfaction and using technology and innovation to deliver culturally and socially sensitive care. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 174

Hall Render

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a recent Memo reminding hospitals and other Medicare certified health care entities of their regulatory obligation to maintain a safe setting for patients, residents and staff. These measures have been applauded by the American Hospital Association.

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Hospitals Medicare Medicare Patient Satisfaction 45

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

"There were beginning to be discussions about transferring neonatal surgical services to other centers," explained Dr. Christopher Dewhurst, the clinical director for the Family Health Division at Liverpool Women's Hospital and the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19, with an option to be admitted to a virtual ward.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Nurses 142

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2023

It is not only the physicians suffering but also the clinicians and vital support staff that are the backbone of healthcare as a whole – whether in private practices, hospitals, or urgent care clinics. While burnout is common among healthcare professionals, so is the demand for urgency and growing frustration among patients.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Doctors 125

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. CIOs and other health IT leaders are pondering how to implement systems that span the health system or hospital and enable physicians to pull the technology into their permanent workflow.

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Nurses Telemedicine Hospitals Patient Satisfaction 199

HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2023

This allows added functionality via electronic health records (EHR) and integrations with existing systems such as nurse call, environmental controls, and meal ordering to drive patient satisfaction and operational efficiency.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes Nurses 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

The UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was the nation's first center to perform organ transplantation in children. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app." " RESULTS.

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Electronic Medical Records Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction 187

HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversely, a hospital with a burnout-reduction program would spend only $11,592 per nurse per year employed.

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Patient Satisfaction Nurses Hospitals COVID-19 98

Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 29, 2019

Today’s healthcare organizations face tremendous pressure to deliver high-quality care and improve patient satisfaction, all while reducing costs. As hospitals adapt to new value-based care models, telehealth can be a great way to improve patient satisfaction and engagement.

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