Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Offering individuals with disabilities quality care from their homes can help to prevent avoidable visits. How can telehealth help keep people with disabilities out of emergency rooms? By utilizing virtual care visits, people with disabilities can have their chronic care conditions regularly checked, preventing ED visits later.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health. In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. Even though they were quite busy, she noticed that most of the patients who did not show for their appointment were women.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.). How does your e-prescribing network work? They then have to call their doctor to discuss more affordable options.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2021

Electronic health records (EHR) had already been increasingly supplanting paper-based systems, and telehealth solutions were gradually gaining traction as an additional way to offer convenience, portability and easy access by patients. Telehealth brings experts in the field directly to patients, regardless of their location.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

" Speech language pathologists (SLPs) help address many types of speech and communication difficulties for people of all ages, as explained by Avivit Ben-Aharon, founder and clinical director at Great Speech: Speech sounds – How we say sounds and put sounds together into words. Literacy – How well we read and write.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. How will this transformation occur? You suggest that this year, healthcare will become a digital-first system.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Merely speculating as to how it will impact the world of healthcare once x gets developed. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Community to hear their thoughts on the digital front door and how it has already transformed healthcare. Now we are seeing rapid uptake in operational workflows that support care too.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Burnout is something that can slowly creep up on you but take a long time to crawl out of. Taking time off and finding things that you enjoy and are excited about are key to letting your brain reset and being ready to get back to work. While burnout is hard to recover from, it is possible.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients. So, What Comes Next? As the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. But telehealth can help in a significant way.

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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. DTx can fill that void in care and provide patients with a much-needed treatment option.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. How can RPM help? Patients need more care, not less.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are shifting to a more human-focused, patient-centered care approach. Without a strong focus on language access, some groups of vulnerable patients may fall through the cracks. Is language access provided in a way that is patient centered?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2022

When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers. The question for healthcare providers, then, is where exactly to direct their IT dollars in order to consistently generate the kinds of outcomes that feed patient loyalty and the bottom line?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Are Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and telehealth the same thing? Will I lose reimbursement and the in-person connection with patients? These are questions and concerns that we frequently hear as practices consider if a Remote Patient Monitoring program is right for their patients. What is Telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. United Physicians is an independent physician organization in metropolitan Detroit supporting approximately 2,000 providers. THE PROBLEM. In fact, they'll worsen.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

However, while these chatbots hold promise for revolutionizing healthcare, there are several reasons why these technologies require more time to prepare for widespread adoption. This could result in biased or non-factual responses for patients and providers. ” The human touch is still needed to help AI achieve its full potential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“While in 2020 many healthcare organizations saw their financial plans obliterated, patient behaviors radically shift and virtual care explode, in 2021 they will work to put the system back together,” said PwC researchers. " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID patients out of hospitals as possible. The question becomes, how do we evolve and improve telemedicine so that it’s an even more viable option permanently? A similar trend is playing out in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

There has been this huge rush to implement AI wherever it can be added. There are so many great things that AI can do, such as data gathering, increased pattern recognition, etc. A human touch is very much still needed, not only to get the AI to function as it should but in order for patients to feel comfortable.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. As a result, most U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

In my own family, my Uncle Roy struggled to manage his type 2 diabetes—he constantly missed doctor appointments, failed to take his medications, and never checked his blood sugars. Last year, we had the privilege of helping 23,452 patients complete millions of daily care behaviors.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

Nurses, physicians, and their supporting care teams simply have too many bureaucratic chores and too little time. Aren’t digital tools supposed to help doctors and clinical staff, rather than burden them with additional work? It seems counterintuitive, but the unfortunate reality is that digital tools can cause inefficiency.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. As a healthcare provider, how can you best ensure that you’re well-equipped to handle expansions in remote care scenarios? .

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shared health data is the connective tissue that brings together patient medical histories with other social determinants of health (SDoH) data, but it must be the right kind of data: That which reflects whole person care and embraces a co-designed approach to deliver high-quality outcomes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Dealing with healthcare provider burnout due to bureaucratic tasks and high-expectation patient demands.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

This kind of technology-enabled workflow can take a tremendous burden off of some of our most important care team members. Think about it—we’ve already got technology that can efficiently deliver every kind of communication, whether it’s going from patient to nurse or from nurse to patient.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

Can lawmakers do anything about it? Cedars Leads Latest Round Of Funding In Yolo County, 16,000 Medi-Cal patients lose doctors in Dignity Health dispute with Partnership HealthPlan Kaiser med school names CEO Kaiser Permanente launches food-is-medicine hub Kaiser, Vizient target healthcare greenhouse gas emissions L.A.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

They experience additional pressure to deliver better outcomes – all without the necessary resources to support these daunting demands. Dr. Christopher Crow is cofounder and CEO of Catalyst Health Group, a primary care network that works for physicians and patients. So, what has happened as a result?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Health IT experts contend that technology can advance health equity for the transgender patient population, as this group has traditionally been marginalized by the healthcare industry. In response to these inequities, we saw a way to address many of these concerns and help patients feel seen and heard with a new EHR functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. Integrating health benefit accounts, payment plans and even Medicaid enrollment will help meet patients where they are on their financial journey.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

That “magic synergy” exists in Indianapolis, Providence and a relatively small number of other communities, where HIEs are aggregating data and supporting providers by getting data to them at the point of care. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

That “magic synergy” exists in Indianapolis, Providence and a relatively small number of other communities, where HIEs are aggregating data and supporting providers by getting data to them at the point of care. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

5 things to know about HHS OIG’s patient harm report. $15 AMA, organizations launch effort to apply equity lens to patient care. How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems. How to Create a Healthcare Data Culture. OIG: 25% of Medicare hospital patients experienced harm pre-pandemic.

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