Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2024

It has helped more than 6,900 patients – from San Diego to Sacramento – access care through more than 9,200 virtual visits. Kwiatkowski, who holds a pharmacy doctorate, is steeped in the technology, finding ways to improve outcomes, enhance patient and provider experience, and reduce clinician burnout.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are key to unlocking patient data and solving some of healthcare's most complex problems. Even as the U.S. Technology allows easier access to disparate data sources without compromising data privacy or integrity.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached. The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Even in regions where healthcare delivery mechanisms are abundant, demand can be overwhelming while other healthcare operational challenges interfere with patient outcomes. Quickly thereafter, the now-Unicorn status startup unveiled its FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

It's been a long week at HIMSS24, filled with educational sessions and an exhibit hall packed with the latest and greatest in healthcare information technology. Veronica Walk is senior director analyst, healthcare and life sciences, at consulting firm Gartner, where she specializes in emerging clinical technologies.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients. Frost & Sullivan recently surveyed 129 healthcare decision makers to discover how contact centers changed as a result of the pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Some behavioral healthcare practices have begun advancing their patient portal and mobile app offerings. But it has become more common since the COVID-19 pandemic – and this trend is likely to continue. Patients with access to these materials may be more likely to fully engage with their treatment plans.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

Electronic health record (EHR) systems have drastically reduced the need for physical records, and they have been a critical part of healthcare operations for decades. Consumer demand in healthcare has shifted; led by the need to meet patient convenience inside, as well as outside, the four walls of the organization.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the announcement, Azure OpenAI Service, Nuance and Epic partnered to accelerate the innovation of conversational and ambient technologies to enhance provider and patient experiences, expand access to care and improve healthcare outcomes. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 23, 2023

Before COVID-19, healthcare worker burnout had reached crisis levels , research from the National Academies of Medicine shows. More than 330,000 U.S. healthcare professionals left the industry in 2021, with many remaining workers considering leaving, reported commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies Patient data interoperability sounds like industry jargon, but it’s a vital piece of providing timely and accurate patient care. Relying on outdated record-sharing methods can delay the opportunity for patients to take advantage of life-altering care. In which channel do those exist?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

While there are a lot of nuances to their approaches to value-based care, at the core of each of them, is the technology that allows healthcare organizations to make value- based care a reality. Without the right technology, is value-based care even possible? Unfortunately, faxes don’t solve this problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. I believe every CIO, CMIO, and CMO should be evaluating this technology and understanding how it can help their organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 Their departure will only worsen an existing gap between growing healthcare needs and a shrinking talent pool to provide them. At the same time, more radiologists are quitting due to job burnout, and fewer medical students are replacing them. Hospitals must invest in innovative technologies to help cut costs and fill resource gaps.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Watch our recent CIO Spotlight interview with Mirshuris' colleague, Mass General Brigham Chief Information Officer Dr. Adam Landman, for more on their work with generative AI.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

The goal was to gather innovators, changemakers and healthcare providers to lead efforts to improve access to quality care with telehealth and remote monitoring. Four telemedicine experts who attended the ATA conference reported into Healthcare IT News with their perspectives on the event.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

after the opening keynote on Tuesday, more than 1,100 exhibitors, large and small, are getting their booths in shape to showcase their newest health IT products and strategies. ' "It's not enough just to kind of open up the pipes in healthcare and increase the volume of information," Sweeney-Platt explained.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. One type of automation is chatbots and related technology that can automate the triage and symptom intake process, along with surfacing education and discharge materials. Even before the pandemic, a UCSF study projected a global shortage of 2.5

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HIT Consultant

MAY 5, 2024

This dichotomy is therefore likely due in part to a lack of awareness and understanding around the technology. Before the public is forced to understand complex, revolutionary, future-state technological developments in healthcare, they must understand how the technology is safely used today.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Digital health startup investments reached a new high in 2021, closing the year with more than $30 billion in venture capital funding. Demand for mental health services has shot through the roof as workers – especially healthcare workers – struggled with increased workloads and stress.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

"For those with cognitive impairments, they might not understand on a telehealth call why or how their doctor is talking to them through a computer screen," explained Kimberly Powell, an assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing and lead author of the study, in a statement. Improved access to care.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. More precise diagnoses with the help of AI.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

Wyatt Oren, Director of Sales, Telehealth and EdTech, Agora Throughout history, new and emerging technologies have helped revolutionize and advance the field of medicine, allowing medical professionals to develop groundbreaking new procedures, work towards cures to previously incurable diseases, and much more.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Unmesh Srivastava, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Clever Care Health Plan The United States Census Bureau released its most recent statistical findings in 2020, revealing a notable increase in the diversity of the nation’s population. Have there always been cultural challenges in healthcare? By 2020, this had risen to 61.1%.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 6, 2024

The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment. Doing so increases access and leads to better healthcare experiences and outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

This, coupled with national healthcare worker shortages, means that healthcare workers are feeling heightened patient volumes and stress levels. So, what can be done to give physicians the support they need and deserve?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology. Today’s innovative home-based care providers are leveraging technology in meaningful ways to accommodate patient preferences and improve care. In a 2021 study, 43.3%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tom Liddell, Harmony Healthcare IT CEO Rules and regulations protecting consumer data often burden businesses, no matter your industry. These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Healthcare is no exception.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 25, 2024

Introduction The ever-evolving world of healthcare billing can feel complex, and with the introduction of MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act) in 2015, cardiology practices have faced some adjustments. How Does MACRA Impact Cardiology Billing? MACRA regulations are subject to change.

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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. The problem is worsened by geography – in rural America, such providers are even harder to find. But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the crisis. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022?

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