Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

The emergency room is a stressful and unplanned way to begin a patient journey, and the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles is one of the nation's busiest. "Patients have numerous interactions throughout a hospital visit. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " Claude Stang, Cedars Sinai.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

He has quite the seat for the artificial intelligence explosion in healthcare – he's sitting right in the middle of it. Healthcare IT News sat down with Lamm to discuss these projects and his feelings on AI in healthcare as it grows faster than some might like.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients. In a turbulent environment, a host of ingenious solutions surfaced to help bolster the healthcare system itself.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s no surprise that when it comes to healthcare, consumers are now seeking a better customer experience on par with the quality of the clinical care they have come to expect. Marketplace and Commercial consumers, typically accustomed to the latest digital innovations, expect personalized care and fitness and health management tools.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

Another healthcare cyberattack has made the news and it’s a big one. UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

It is difficult enough to find access – especially timely access – to needed medical specialists in large urban areas, but it can be next to impossible in rural communities. Virtual care has proven that it can be a big help in connecting patients with the right specialists , and in a timely manner. population.

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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. "Should requirements of such a duty be based on the sensitivity of collected data?"

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It has more than 1,000 care sites serving 20 million patients in 21 states. At CommonSpirit, the acceleration of new mediums of care delivery enables patients to live healthier via virtual asynchronous care and evidence-based, digital-enabled therapies. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Francisco Rhein, CommonSpirit Health.

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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? We interviewed FDB President Bob Katter, who went in-depth on e-prescribing.

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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. But can the busy staff person find a free workstation or device? In this video interview below, we discuss how their platform benefits from a new partnership with JAR Systems , a healthcare mobile charging solution provider.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2022

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. Paddy Padmanabhan Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022?

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MRO Compliance

MARCH 17, 2022

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development and sales professionals. The Stevie Awards organizes eight of the world’s leading business awards programs, including the prestigious American Business Awards® and International Business Awards®.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bob Farrell, CEO, mPulse Mobile Over the last several years there’s been significant investment in digital healthcare startups and growth-stage organizations, particularly those showing technical innovation that delivers improved health outcomes and more efficient care delivery models. Investors today are focused on quality over quantity.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The following is a guest article by Troy Hawes, Managing Director at Moss Adams The recent cybersecurity attack against Change Healthcare caused dramatic disruptions to one of the nation’s largest prescription processors. The cost of allowing a data breach to occur can cause an exponential financial impact on an organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

We all know what skills and qualifications we needed when we first entered the field, but regardless of how long you’ve been working in Health IT, the field has changed a lot since then. So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Digital transformation is the topic du jour in healthcare today. 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?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2023

Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. Coordinating and integrating across multiple vendors can be frustrating and expensive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

An array of disconnected, niche, point applications, and those not purpose-built for healthcare, are further fragmenting an already disjointed healthcare experience – and potentially marginalizing the role of local health systems in the lives of the communities they serve. Please explain exactly how.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

The following is a guest article by Marlena Herrera, Director at Protegrity Healthcare organizations are becoming more lucrative targets for hackers, as their data is rich with extremely sensitive information and is often susceptible to vulnerabilities. Healthcare’s most valuable data is their patient or policyholder data.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

Empowering Enhanced Outcomes Through InsightsBy leveraging observational data and employing machine learning techniques, medical technology startups can gain valuable insights that inform future iterations of their products, leading to improved outcomes and optimized strategies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These patients often come from traditionally underserved populations, including Black and Latinx communities, that disproportionately experience the clinical and economic burdens of diabetes. It can also help cut spending by $9,800 to $14,000 per patient each year.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jared Gillespie, Senior Director of Clinical Solutions at Academy Medtech Ventures (AMV) In the landscape of rehabilitative care, the integration of neurocognitive technology stands as a beacon of innovation, charting a course toward improved clinical quality and patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. No one can keep up with the explosion of information in medicine. Read more… The Role Predictive Analytics in Serving Front-Line Clinics.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site —places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health. Service plan for a client.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

An Extension of the Clinical Team Beyond Mere Patient Navigation Modern care guidance is an evolution of patient navigation that combines a systematized assessment to support disease-specific clinical conditions with a tech-enabled, human-led solution.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 13, 2023

Yet amid healthcare organizations building a more customer-centric approach to customer experience (CX), many have not included a key piece of the CX puzzle: analyzing the voice of the customer. The value of unstructured data Healthcare organizations use a variety of existing touchpoints to connect with their customers.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2023

non-medical factors that influence patients’ health outcomes) can influence compliance rates. So, how can compliance officers identify and understand these social determinants of compliance? Also, how can they work with healthcare leaders to manage them and improve the organization’s overall compliance culture? 

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return. So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2023

Dhruv Suyamprakasam is CEO and founder of virtual healthcare company iCliniq. He believes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models like it are not a threat to healthcare but an enhancement. He spoke about some of the specific challenges telemedicine faces, and described how ChatGPT and similar LLMs can help overcome them.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Branden Neish, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Weave In the midst of a global pandemic and a looming economic recession, the healthcare industry has faced a multitude of challenges. Staffing shortages have put a strain on healthcare practitioners, leading to increased workloads and longer hours.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today’s world is increasingly driven by technology and digitalization, and the healthcare industry finds itself at a vital intersection between patient care and data security. This stark contrast between the magnitude of cyber risks and the allocation of resources to protect patient data has become an urgent concern.

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