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Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

As of 2017, nearly nine in 10 office-based physicians had implemented an electronic health record (EHR). Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. Only 39% of physicians surveyed believed […].

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share.

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. Typically, patients are unable to get reliable transportation. THE PROBLEM But services were needed more than ever.

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Commercializing Digital Therapeutic Solutions: Key Lessons Learned to Watch

HIT Consultant

The pandemic has set ablaze the white-hot market for Digital Therapeutics (DTx), which “deliver medical interventions directly to patients using evidence-based, clinically evaluated software to treat, manage, and prevent a broad spectrum of diseases and disorders 1.” The Big Picture .

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. Further, as artificial intelligence (AI) takes center stage, new regulations may be needed to disclose the nature and source of care dispensed. The following is what they had to say.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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