Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Fox, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS TV publication, to discuss the future of balancing patient privacy and data sharing. Focus sharpens on data quality and usability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent. A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. As an example, elder care differs from pediatric care. The challenges with telehealth in elder care were the topic of a recent study by Harvard Business School.

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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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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

For many, their CRM journey began as a natural extension and coordination of their patient portal, telehealth, virtual care, and digital front-door initiatives. While this may work as a starting point, to a large extent, the EHR-based tools have yet to provide the rich, nuanced experience that is the ultimate desired outcome.

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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. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes. . 'Break

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Advanced medical research has brought us to the point where many serious conditions can potentially be treated and even cured – with people who have essentially faced a lifetime of being incapacitated finally able to conduct normal lives. While many industries have come to rely on data, drug-pricing has lagged in such efforts.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, they also point out that ambient artificial intelligence, or the underlying assumption about software that can make sense of a conversation and provide clinical decision support in real-time, is still very nascent. Users of the leading voice-recognition tools acknowledge that the technology delivers better caregiver productivity.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

As multiple startups emerged with models to provide mental health services using a virtual care model, health systems have turned to these startups to extend their mental health services to their patients and employees. But recent data suggest that mental health app downloads have declined by a third since last year.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Visiting your primary care physician? This transformation – which everyone had been predicting for years, but never really hit a tipping point until the pandemic – should be a boon for healthcare. We had all the data, and we knew exactly which members were at the highest risk. Ordering takeout? But they are not.

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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.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Amazon's recently launched Amazon Care has run into scaling issues almost from the get-go, with the unit's head acknowledging they will need " thousands of employees " to scale. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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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. Lack of testing adds to pressure. are lower than Spain (9.7)

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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. Down with data caps!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Digital health startups have also defied dire predictions about funding slowdowns, with data pointing to stronger-than-ever funding numbers in 2020, including aggressive M & A by public companies riding the wave of strong stock market performance. As with most such complex scenarios, the answer depends on the type of care.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And that means that patient engagement solutions, while still critically important, can’t distract from patient care or complicate workflows. And while it’s a central hub for clinical patient records, non-clinical—but still contextually important—data must be pulled in from elsewhere. Where does patient engagement fit?

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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. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S.

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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. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Achieve health equity. Accelerate digital health.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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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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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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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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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. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’m sharing that image with you here in Health Populi to set the stage for, of course, a discussion of WSJ’s data points through a health/care lens. currently live in counties with limited or no access to maternity care services. But for health care, Baby, we’ve got a long way to go.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? We have reached a tipping point now that Medicare begins to pay for some virtual care services.

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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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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In an emergency like the pandemic, staffing shortages remain a persistent problem, but expanding facility infrastructure and deploying the devices that healthcare providers need to provide modern medical care can also be extremely challenging. But that point of view significantly underrates the transformative potential of wireless power.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Providing the necessary support is key to achieving high-quality patient care, staff satisfaction, and overall retention, along with increasing an organization’s bottom line. Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. for Americans.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

At some point, they would’ve naturally risen to prominence. Quality and consistency of care are just as important. The same McKinsey report shows that only 32% of physicians – the very people administering care online – feel that telehealth can improve the patient experience. We also can’t escape data tracking across platforms.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insurance companies and third-party administrators (TPAs) also have critical roles to play in the care experience, bringing together networks of physicians, specialists, surgery centers, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and more to create a comprehensive care experience for their members or clients’ employees.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

” This re-look at children’s health data is aspirational because it is laying out how to best measure child well-being to set the bar higher for doing so. The second graphic connects the children’s data framework to adult social determinants of health (housing, social capital, work-life balance, etc.).

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Then Gary looked forward at the evolution of self-care – the theme of this year’s annual conference. The goal of VBID is to align costs and outcomes in health care in terms of paying for what brings value. health care system $94.8 Scott rhetorically asked. billion savings.

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