Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Paul Brient , chief product officer of athenahealth, to gain his insights into how artificial intelligence can improve patient experiences and healthcare delivery, simplify healthcare interactions, and make healthcare more accessible, as well as hear how the electronic health record vendor is using AI today.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Emory Healthcare is using three medication management services offered within Fuzion by DrFirst, a platform that provides clinicians with medication history, to streamline workflows for its clinicians and improve medication adherence for its patients. She said that on-time refill rates doubled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future. Emergency response bracelet.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 22, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Kanav Hasija, cofounder and chief product officer of Innovaccer, announced the suite of AI that could take "high-quality, low-cost, patient-centered care to the next level" at the company's annual online "Innovation Keynote" Tuesday.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SA Health and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) recently announced the first go-live of the South Australia Statewide Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program. It leverages New Zealand-based The Clinician's ZEDOC solution for the near-real-time collection and reporting of PRMs.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience. What is the goal of this project?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 12, 2024

Contact center vendor Talkdesk is placing a big bet on generative AI, transforming its technologies and processes with the AI that exploded in popularity with the release of ChatGPT. Why did you turn to generative AI to bolster your technology? We also use genAI to help our support agents do their jobs better and more efficiently.

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MARCH 29, 2023

million) contract from SA Health to extend its digital patient pathways project across the entire state over the next two years. Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Health IT company Personify Care has bagged a A$5.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. "The result was patients had to enter their medical history or medication lists and wonder why the doctor didn't know it already, leading to patient frustration and feelings of disconnection.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Not-for-profit organisation Salveo Healthcare has recently introduced a remote patient monitoring technology from the United Kingdom to support its delivery of preventative care in Tasmania. Can you walk me through the pilot of Clinitouch – how is the technology being received by your staff and clinicians?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As it continues to open facilities, Walmart says it will use Epic's EHR to stay connected with patients, healthcare professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders. It also aims to enhance communication, personalization and information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and patients who use the portal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

One way to alleviate the burden on healthcare workers and potentially improve the patient experience and outcomes is remote patient monitoring. As president of Honeywell Sensing & Safety Technologies, Sarah Martin knows quite a lot about the opportunities and challenges of RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Karin Schifter-Maor is CEO of Essence SmartCare, a senior and chronic care technology and services company.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2022

San Francisco-based One Medical is a technology-focused primary care organization offering in-person, digital and virtual care services that it says are designed to improve the healthcare experience for its customers. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. going forward. going forward. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. PROPOSAL So CMH launched a digital front-door patient experience project, powered by artificial intelligence. Convert online traffic into qualified patient leads.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2024

As a result, many patients struggled with feelings of isolation, anxiety and difficulty navigating social situations, hindering their overall well-being and quality of life. "These challenges often translated into academic and social barriers to success, impacting students' learning experiences and outcomes.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Nuance noted in the statement that WellSpan conducted a satisfaction survey that found that 94% of physicians using DAX reported that it improved the quality of patient-physician interactions and 85% said that reduced documentation workloads helped them achieve better work-life balance. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. The new subscription-based telehealth program also expands the system's virtual care offerings.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Patients are becoming shoppers with greater choice in the marketplace, creating a novel sense of urgency to improve the way care is discovered and accessed. To engage, reach and attract patients, Community Health needed to make access to care more searchable, discoverable and accessible for consumers online.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 16, 2024

serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Allowing the digital layer to be available to patients with mild and moderate depression and anxiety allows care teams to have a new type of tool to provide care in this population, he said.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

To better evaluate rapidly evolving remote patient monitoring technologies, KLAS researchers explored customer experience with RPM in several key areas, including partnership, innovation, ease of use and integration with electronic health records. More than 165 individuals from all sizes of organizations responded.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New Module to Offer More Robust Integrated V irtual Care Delivery Options 98point6 Technologies , a leader in licensed on-demand virtual care software, announced the addition of a new asynchronous module to its flagship technology , allowing providers the option of delivering both live and asynchronous care capabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep's advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals. The experience allowed the Tennessee-based system, which also operates in Mississippi and Arkansas, to observe AI's compatibility with its existing telemedicine program. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinicians. Re-center care around the patient-physician relationship. Create technologies and policies that reduce fragmentation.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, has a special patient experience project coinciding with the opening of the Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care. The organization is bringing new capabilities to improve patient experience, lower cost and improve outcomes. Mercy, a massive health system based in St.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. How can telehealth be used as a patient engagement tool in inpatient settings? Other examples include virtual care in patients’ homes and assisted living communities.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. For example, Northwell Health implemented health chats with its patients.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations more easily leveraging their enterprise data warehousing to fuel clinical and operational analytics. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. Patients can request breast health images from mobile devices be sent to mammography facilities or directly. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2022

Allscripts has approved a third-party integration with a patient-provider match tool, ReferralPoint, for use with the Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts Practice Management platforms. The third-party program also communicates rates to patients, captures their feedback and sends consult notes to referring physicians.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Graham Gardner is a cardiologist and CEO and cofounder of Kyruus, a patient scheduling and payments technology and services vendor. He has had a long career on the healthcare provider and healthcare information technology sides of the industry. You are a proponent of better patient access for underserved patients.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. The HIYH model provided an opportunity to expand capacity without construction of new hospital beds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers. The hope is that this will keep nurses in the profession, enhancing their careers and improving retention."

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2024

DAX Copilot uses proven conversational, ambient, and generative AI technology to automatically draft clinical summaries of exam room or telehealth conversations in seconds for immediate review and entry in the electronic health record (EHR) system. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Hospitals rankings.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Some behavioral healthcare practices have begun advancing their patient portal and mobile app offerings. Native telehealth integration was a rarity in patient portals not too long ago. Patients with access to these materials may be more likely to fully engage with their treatment plans.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2022

Some health systems are beginning to reconfigure care models to proactively care for patients with chronic conditions and illnesses, and a key component of this is implementing remote patient monitoring services. You believe strongly that RPM technologies are the future of healthcare. Please explain.

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