Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. 15% of medical devices were running on unsupported operating systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

PBHG's vision is to be a center of excellence that focuses on innovative and integrated wellness through compassionate care, and its promise is to change lives and save lives through a strengths-based approach, partnering with individuals to help achieve their full potential and enhancing their quality of life. The state closes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. " said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Telehealth levels peaked during the pandemic, for well-established reasons. While visits have been declining from the peak, virtual care experts predict the future will hold a mix of digital and in-person healthcare. When healthcare facilities struck down on visiting hours, providers found unique ways to adapt.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. Meeting the increased demand for professional healthcare products and solutions. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. How can telehealth be used as a patient engagement tool in inpatient settings? And how will telehealth evolve beyond its current use today?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

But at the same time, many teams were thrust into telemedicine provision out of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic without the chance to hone the necessary expertise. Salim Saiyed, system vice president and chief medical information officer for UPMC in Central Pennsylvania. Providing care via a remote medium.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

While there were certainly providers and patients who would prefer more advanced telehealth, the health system's efforts to launch a program had limited success. While there were certainly providers and patients who would prefer more advanced telehealth, the health system's efforts to launch a program had limited success.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. These are some of the lessons learned by chief information officers during the past year or so as the healthcare industry has been tossed and turned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Studies show great benefits for patients, as well as hospitals, when patients are monitored in the 30-day post-discharge period. The biggest driver was to determine how to increase capacity to the hospital without having to use a hospital or clinic to monitor patients. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

On top of those, there is a COVID-19 threat for both staff and patients. "And so we needed to figure out a way to provide the continuity of care that continued necessary care for these folks and minimized their exposure to COVID-19 – and overall reduced risks," said Corey M. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. " Jared M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system created a telehealth program, the main problem it was trying to solve was how to improve access to care across the state. THE PROBLEM Alabama has some of the worst healthcare outcomes in the country. "This was all too clear during COVID.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The report found the healthcare system's reliance on incorrect, outdated or incomplete utilization data may not accurately reflect the underlying health risks and needs of disadvantaged populations and communities, resulting in a serious misallocation of healthcare resources. What is the thrust of your new report?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The bottom line is that people want to have access to healthcare anytime, anywhere, across multiple devices and in the language of their choice. In fact, many new areas of telehealth – such as tele-oncology and tele-stroke – have become part of the mainstream healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Hilltop Regional Health Center in Tacoma, Washington, had two big issues going into the COVID-19 pandemic's virus spread and shutdowns. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue. THE PROBLEM. We were able to purchase these for everyone that needed them."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

healthcare system. But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

Geisinger is a world-class health system in Pennsylvania with 10 hospital campuses, more than 130 clinic sites and more than one million patients served annually. THE PROBLEM As a rural health system stretching across a broad geography, transportation can be a barrier to patient engagement. This was especially true in cardiac rehab.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions. As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions. healthcare industry increased by 6 percent. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Whitfield, system integration analyst at HopeHealth. For the health system's RPM solution, the goal was to have patients achieve healthy BP and BG metrics over a set amount of time, using the devices to track progress. Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Switching to fully remote operations during the pandemic was a rushed adventure into what was mostly uncharted territory. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. Some face the lingering effects of COVID-19, while others lack funding and staff. But what are they exactly and how could they contribute to a more efficient healthcare environment? revolution. revolution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2020

Earlier this year in New Haven, Connecticut, the location of Yale New Haven Health’s main hospital, the health system was challenged by how many COVID-19 patients would need to be admitted and ventilated. “In early 2020, before COVID-19 was named a pandemic or any known cases were 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." " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2023

– The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels. . Here are the top 10 patient safety concerns for 2023: 1.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

What does this mean for healthcare and health IT? Some advanced healthcare provider organizations, such as large academic medical centers, are already well-advanced in their precision medicine efforts. But many are preparing today for what many think will be the next step in the evolution of healthcare. Dr. Matthias J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2022

Healthcare organizations each faced an average of 109 cyberattacks per week last year, by far the most of any industry. Patients who are monitored or managed at home using a health system's technology likely do not have such strict safeguards in place. Why are cybercriminals targeting patients at home?

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