HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Teri Ridge, RN, Clinical Operations Advisor, LeanTaaS Frontline nurses across the country remain in a state of constant crisis as they attempt to deliver patient care while facing tremendously stressful environments, untenable patient-to-nurse ratios, and frustrating process inefficiencies.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2023

The iQueue Autopilot solution will be used in all major areas of the hospital setting and integrated into LeanTaaS’ three products, iQueue for Infusion Centers, and iQueue for Inpatient Flow. What You Should Know: LeanTaaS, Inc. ,

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing. Solutions such as remote patient monitoring (RPM) enable providers to remotely manage patient’s health conditions outside the hospital or doctor’s office, freeing up vital resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Fabric will dedicate a large portion of the funding to team growth and advancement of its care enablement system that delivers convenience and workforce automation through a unified platform that replaces a patchwork of fragmented technology solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process" is a free quality improvement program designed to help practices improve the cancer diagnostic process.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Powered by Microsoft/Nuance’s DAX solution. A more appropriate theme may have been the Fast and Furious movies given the fast pace of announcements from senior company leaders on Day 2 of the event. Explaining Medical Bills. Note Summaries. For both clinicians and researchers, AI will be used to create summaries of notes. Coding and Billing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We knew we could not apply ancient solutions and expect new or different results," she continued.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As with so many other aspects of life, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up what healthcare organizations thought they knew about provider scheduling. No longer can they take for granted that existing scheduling workflows will work equally well in all scenarios. What about nurses and medical assistants?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One of the greatest areas of utilization growth for hospitals is chronic care management – increasing from 8% in our 2022 survey to 19% in our 2023 survey. But it has offered technological advancements that are taking better care of people today and will set up healthcare workers for crises in the future. How can providers fix this?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Employee retention efforts have never been more critical and leaders are looking to technology to help their staff work smarter.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Meeting this surge in demand with our current systems would be challenging even under ideal circumstances—but post-COVID attrition of nurses, physicians, and other skilled caregivers makes it clear that there is no hiring solution to fix the issue. and nearly 40% of all in-patient hospital encounters.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

A whopping 100% of respondents in Experian Health’s latest survey said staffing shortages impacted their organizations and 70% of those who said payer reimbursements are the most impacted by the staff shortages say it led to higher denial rates. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s what we’re seeing: GLP-1 disruption Medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound prescribed for weight management are transforming healthcare and society this year. However, widespread use of the GLP-1 medications poses a management challenge for the medical community.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every day, hospital staff do the best they can to navigate the daily chaos of bed management by making educated guesses as to what is going to happen over the course of the day. Relying on team huddles throughout the day, staff pore over Excel or paper spreadsheets to predict how many beds will open up and when.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"At the time, hospitals across the Sanford Health footprint were experiencing a rapid increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, stretching hospital capacity and creating unprecedented challenges for our health system and its frontline workers. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

PCPs face operational burdens on capacity, talent and infrastructure. But identifying the problems and putting proven and scalable solutions into practice are two distinctly different tasks. On the other hand, the threats to primary care have never been greater. They see soaring demands on access and availability. primary care today?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2022

From clinician burnout to nursing staffing shortages, we asked executives to share their clinical predictions to watch in 2022 and beyond. In 2022, we’ll see that shift impact how organizations approach and manage CDI. In 2022, we’ll see that shift impact how organizations approach and manage CDI. Angie Franks, CEO of ABOUT.

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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 enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Korchinski, CIO at CareMount Health Solutions and CareMount Medical in New York. Santosh Mohan, managing director of Brigham Digital Innovation Hub, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. They have been put to the test, and the successful have survived intact, with many lessons learned along the way. Nicholas J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health-system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. Virtual care and remote monitoring have never before been in the spotlight as they are today. Some vendors are even giving away products and services free. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Board members, fellow C-suite officers, IT managers and workers in the trenches have much to learn from the expert guidance in this latest feature article in the series. 'A When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some of these challenges included technology for providers available at scale, a platform to deliver care in a user-friendly fashion, licensure for these tools, state licensure, and expanding quality care to patients amidst the capacity and staffing challenges that all health systems were facing across the country.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Anna Nerz, Healthcare Solution Manager at SAP. For hospitals and the people who staff them, it was exactly the déjà vu they were hoping to avoid: another surge in COVID-19 cases, with the now all-too-familiar strains and stressors that accompany it. The rapid spread of the Delta variant in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

Nurses, physicians, schedulers, and other members of care-provider teams continue to post rising rates of burnout. They’re feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated due to factors such as hectic workplaces and schedules, extended workloads, and excessive administrative tasks. This shouldn’t be the case. How can we do that?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Shiv Gopalkrishnan, General Manager, EMR & Care Management, Philips. Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. What is clinician-centric technology?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Others haven't scaled, because they are discovering that managing all the clinical and nonclinical services associated with hospital-level care in the home is a major undertaking. One way some provider organizations are managing is offloading many services to a technology and services vendor.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Provider organizations, regardless of size or sophistication, are emerging from the pandemic and taking stock of the software solutions they’ll need in the long term and determining where and how to invest. As part of this reflection, many are seeking to better integrate new solutions and rationalize vendors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Simultaneously, many patients canceled appointments and did not schedule new appointments for fear of becoming exposed to the virus. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past decades, hospitals have trialed various initiatives to deal with hospital over-capacity – a problem often associated with poor care experiences. Island Health's Hospital at Home program was created to determine whether treating acute care patients in their own homes is as effective as in-hospital treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories. " Dr. Lisa R.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

For instance, turnover-related compliance problems might impact a practice’s reimbursement rates because new staff aren’t familiar with the claims process and aren’t sure what to look for when reviewing and submitting. It ultimately impacts safety, compliance and, by association, the quality of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 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. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck. Technology leaders at U.S. " Hospital at home.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The shift from digital health being siloed from care to being a central connector between individuals and their care teams should now be the standard, so that valuable insights into vitals, symptoms and service needs can be managed and addressed beyond the typical office visit. Keith Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer at Welldoc.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. These were designed to expand access to care and to create additional healthcare capacity to optimize care for COVID-19 positive patients.

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