Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Telehealth Epilepsy Care Collaborative, or TECC, at Boston Medical Center was developed out of the charge led by the federal government’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to improve access to high-quality care for children and youth with epilepsy, especially those facing health disparities or living in rural regions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Teams of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists were tasked with the painstaking duty of refilling kits, verifying expiration dates, and maintaining extensive paper records for every medication vial, bottle, syringe, or IV infusion. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers.

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Hospitals 79

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our reporters will be on the ground to cover the exciting discussions on healthcare analytics, new models of care, and more. September 04, 2023 Sponsored Bridging the gap between cybersecurity and biomedical teams In the realm of healthcare, ensuring cybersecurity is not just the concern of Chief Information.

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Hospitals 96

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. Microsoft has made additional enhancements focused on clinical workflow integration with the Teams product and Dynamics CRM. Virtual care.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine Public Health 135

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

This achievement significantly enabled the continuity of patient care and seamlessly unites our patients’ data in the ambulatory, inpatient and homecare settings. By building a strong team vision, culture, and establishing solidarity, we have achieved a 96% retention rate over the past seven years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' Virtual Care 3.0, Here are some portfolio solutions to consider: Virtual care. Embed the IT team with operations closely.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Governance 196

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Systemic issues of the nursing shortage, critical care capacity and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were common across countries. Focus on the benefits of digital technology for nurses and patients, with continuity of care ensured through remote consultations. Similarities in cross-border community challenges.

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COVID-19 Nurses Elder Care Telemedicine 173

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. on care at home programs, gathering evidence and learnings across the various programs.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Payment Systems HIPAA 126

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Telemedicine 173

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Health Outcomes Hospitals HIPAA Nurses 155

MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mr. Noble-Holt and the MediCopy team will join MRO to expand MRO’s award-winning service and solutions across the outpatient provider market. The company’s highly efficient, tech-enabled workflow ensures rapid turnaround times while maintaining the highest levels of compliance and security. MediCopy is delighted to be joining forces with MRO.

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Compliance 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Your IT personnel must be able to do this around-the-clock. Be ready to support surging personnel.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Licensing Hospitals 180

HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Policies and procedures encompass human resources, patient care, and emergency management. Keywords and keyphrases can be tagged to guidelines, allowing employees to find what they need even when they don’t know the title. Robust Search Features: Add keywords and tag applicable regulatory and standard numbers to your policies.

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Regulatory Compliance Compliance Hospitals 87

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care News NYU Langone Health promotes generative AI innovation with 'prompt-a-thon' Teams of clinicians, researchers and educators worked to find artificial intelligence-enabled.

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Nurses Governance Fraud Health Outcomes 99

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Innovate long-term care. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the U.S. Achieve health equity.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits.

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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. And hybrid models of interaction (in-person and remote) will become more common.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Hospitals 211

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

To meet those demands, organizations should prioritize the creation of convenient digital-first environments that satisfy all parties involved in providing health care services. Customer Experience Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare The past couple of years have posed unprecedented struggles for customer care departments.

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Medical Personnel Hospitals 125

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"In the past, we haven't worried as much about coordinating care across the patient journey, from preoperative education to surgical aftercare," said Andrew Lovewell, administrator. Columbia Orthopaedic Group felt it was representative of its quality and reputation to create a system that improved the care it offered patients.

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Patient Satisfaction Doctors Nurses Telemedicine 120

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Providing patient-centered, equitable and evidence-based health care is increasingly recognized as a goal the U.S. Traditional CDS encompasses digital tools that provide timely information, usually at the point of care, to help clinicians make informed decisions about a patient’s care. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes 228

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s no secret that improving operational workflow significantly benefits staff productivity, satisfaction, and morale as well as care quality. Effective enterprise-wide care coordination can be greatly hindered by manual workflow systems.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Nurses 57

MedTrainer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rivera oversees various projects and creates clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and manages a clinical operations team. The clinical operations team is heavily involved in compliance including trainings, OSHA, and keeping staff up to date. Other programs had a price tag that floated just above reasonable for their budget.

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Compliance Nurses Hospitals 75

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. Every key stakeholder group in health care should have a Chief Patient Officer ,” Stacy envisioned.

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Patient Advocacy Health Insurance Nurses 174

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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COVID-19 162

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. Job losses at the start of the coronavirus pandemic hit the health care industry hard. New data on mortality by health care profession reveals that nurses have been harder-hit, too, by COVID-19 than other professions.

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COVID-19 Nurses Public Health 129

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Customer Excellence & Strategic Consulting at CenTrak The last few years have caused significant disruption and constraints of budgets, staffing, and resources throughout healthcare facilities, from the bedside to administrative teams.

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Nurses Licensing Hospitals 98

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. 'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. Moving towards preventative care.

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Ransomware Governance COVID-19 Hospitals 207

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

The hospital sector has been interesting as it has also had to adopt telehealth at an alarming rate, perhaps not with the same agility as primary care, but adoption has taken place. These remote services are helping COVID-19 response teams to monitor patients remotely and identify those that need the most support and help.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Hospitals Public Health 148

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Here's what that could mean for telehealth, as more funding enables new opportunities for care. Every hospital IT person, telehealth vendor and their customers, project team, and healthcare stakeholder who hasn't heard from their local or state broadband official or advocate should reach out and be proactive with this opportunity.

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Governance Hospitals Health Insurance 112

HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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COVID-19 Nurses 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Improving senior care and facilitating aging in place.

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Doctors COVID-19 Public Health Hospitals 174

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Doctors Governance Telemedicine 182

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Health systems are rapidly transforming their healthcare delivery models with online access and patient engagement tools, remote monitoring and other virtual care modalities. There is unprecedented opportunity for digital health solution providers, arising from the digitalization of core care delivery services.

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COVID-19 Doctors 158

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. “Clinicians were concerned about taking care of their patients, while minimizing avoidable risks,” he said.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Doctors 164