Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. This first event featured healthcare leaders from across the country and took place in Nashville. The second major theme was acceptance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2022

to implement care.ai ’s Virtual Nursing solution at Lovelace Medical Center, Ardent’s Albuquerque, New Mexico-based affiliate. – Ardent, which operates 30 hospitals and nearly 200 sites of care across six states, is among the first of care.ai ’s partners to introduce AI-powered nursing. Combatting Nurse Staffing Shortages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

" The article also makes a point to emphasize that the medical workforce in the U.S. 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.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And while telehealth has helped provide sweeping access to high-touch treatment, virtual care still is limited by the shortage of therapists. Telehealth certainly has made mental healthcare available to many more people. Where in your view does telehealth come up short? These all are really positive contributions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? Virtual care can be a game-changer for people in rural communities and healthcare deserts. Even in urban centers where there are shortages of specialists.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2024

The confluence of these challenges is prompting health systems to explore new solutions to help mitigate financial burden, and virtual care models have emerged as a beacon of hope. Yet, despite its potential to reduce costs and improve the care experience, virtual care implementation is among the top challenges for health systems.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system. health system.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons. Engage your clinical workforce Ask nurses for their input.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2023

A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support. In response, nurses are going on offense, leveraging the trust they’ve earned to win recent victories in staffing ratios, pay levels, and healthcare system support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

A report released this past week from the ANCOR Foundation and United Cerebral Palsy found that telehealth can play an integral role in transforming the healthcare system to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What You Should Know : – Global innovator LG Electronics announced its first joint solution with digital healthcare enablement leader Amwell® , designed to expand the boundaries of digital health innovation and address a major issue faced by hospitals across the country – workforce shortages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Access to care is a central focus for healthcare given several factors: a growing population being impacted with chronic conditions, increased resourcing constraints, and growing fatigue and workload among providers. Big tech and healthcare companies are paying attention, as indicated by the recent moves of Amazon, CVS and Walgreens.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The dynamics in healthcare are always complicated: Costs are going up, margins and reimbursements are shrinking, and there are clinical shortages everywhere (with no hint of it letting up anytime soon). healthcare system is placing a very heavy burden on nurses who are being driven to the brink, often leaving the field altogether.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. This hospital already had called 150 different places to try and find a tertiary care center to transfer folks to, but to no avail.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the pandemic, so much was asked of our healthcare workers that they began to get burnt-out and started to quit. Stretched out led to stretched thin, meaning that more healthcare workers got burnt-out and quit as well. So how do we get out of this cycle? Kimberly Hartsfield, EVP Growth Enablement at VisiQuate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery. For years, UMass Memorial Health has leveraged technology as a means of augmenting in-person care at the bedside. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Now the healthcare sector faces a new challenge. The healthcare sector is among the top three industries affected.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Musculoskeletal (MSK) is routinely one of the three most expensive categories of care (along with cardio-metabolic disease and cancer care). Dr. Steve Schutzer, an orthopedic surgeon for 34 years, is working on this pain point as cofounder and COO of Upswing Health, a virtual clinic for MSK/orthopedic problems.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In today’s digital-first world, the medical call center still plays a crucial role in connecting healthcare consumers with providers. It starts with the hiring process to ensure agents are kind, caring, and empathetic. Alleviate Workforce Concerns with Outsourced Call Centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 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. Read more… Searching for a New Angle to Address Health Equity. Read more… Exploring Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps for Training.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2022

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. Tytocare’s Mission to Make Home Medical Care Easier and More Accurate. Read more… Addressing Healthcare’s Top Cybersecurity Challenges.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Defending against these attacks must be a top priority for healthcare cybersecurity professionals. In 2024, the attack surface will continue to grow.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

While some have called 2022 an ‘unprecedented year’ for healthcare, the reality is that many of the pressures that challenge health systems’ budgets and margins will continue into 2023 and beyond. Providers Will Fight Revenue Challenges With Admin Efficiencies: Revenue challenges will persist in 2023 for healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. " "The virtual tool also gives our staff the opportunity to immediately reach out to that patient if we notice they are struggling during initial engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. It’s crucial for healthcare organizations to stay at the forefront of these technological advancements to provide the best care for patients and consumers.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Scott Cullen, MD, EVP of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer at AVIA The rapid growth of America’s senior population presents unique challenges for the healthcare industry. Caring for these seniors accounts for more than one-third of all medical expenditures in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." "He took a look at my hand to see how well the progression was going.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

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. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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AIHC

MAY 2, 2022

Coming at the back-end of a long period of adversity due to COVID-19 and an already challenging economic environment for hospitals and healthcare systems, we see a new wave of consolidation, invention, and innovation. In this paper, we discuss some of the trends experienced in health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The healthcare industry has been under nonstop pressure since February 2020. What began as an explosion of patent demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection surges that continue to test the resiliency of the healthcare system to this day. According to the U.S.

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