HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

A new report by KLAS highlights which LTC EMR vendors are best delivering the quality, integration, and training needed to get the most value out of their systems. Epic, although having limited usage data, is exclusively employed by LTC facilities owned by Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), which represent a small segment of the market.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Healthcare organizations face risk in not delivering exceptional consumer experiences. Michalene Elliott Kinsler Healthcare organizations face risk in not delivering exceptional consumer experiences. However, these relationships are increasingly tenuous.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. Implications for healthcare. Population health and precision medicine defined. health system.

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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. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This elevates Hint from being a trusted enrollment, membership management, and billing platform, to a comprehensive solution that provides everything a DPC doctor needs in one innovative platform. With the acquisition of AeroDPC, the platform will become a fully integrated end-to-end solution for DPC practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

BMC opted to go with integrated health and social care solutions from vendor Activate Care. “The technology offered to resolve all those problems through one platform,” Douglass said. “We used the Activate CareHub to accomplish all of our challenges in one platform that was easy to use for patients and care teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. 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. About Aaron Kaufman.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

A new report by KLAS highlights which LTC EMR vendors are best delivering the quality, integration, and training needed to get the most value out of their systems. Epic, although having limited usage data, is exclusively employed by LTC facilities owned by Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), which represent a small segment of the market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. To read the special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. Healthcare professionals have remained resilient over the course of the pandemic and the resulting stress has been well documented.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

" Abortion providers told Healthcare IT News that they had already shifted much of their practice over to telehealth in the interest of patient safety. As with other healthcare specialties, McNicholas acknowledged that not every case is right for telehealth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Layla McCay As the first wave of infections arrived, we saw near-instant digital innovation that might otherwise have taken years: the rapid roll-out of remote working platforms, shared care record projects, electronic patient record configurations, and virtual clinics and consultations. A second wave of digital transformation?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Integrate AI-Automation with Existing Systems. For AI-software to be effective, it must integrate with your practice management and electronic health record (EHR) systems. 1: Patient Acquisition, Satisfaction, and Retention.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

That sharing is limited by doctors’ ability to accept patient-generated data, where only a handful of doctors have implemented technology for remote monitoring or integrating data from wearable technologies. As the Deloitte consumer-vs-physician study shows, there’s a gap between patients who are taking on more DIY healthcare tasks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Nor are base platforms for accessing care, services and information distributed to or accessible by all U.S. Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The new technology has definitely helped to reduce provider stress.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Adopting FHIR standards for integrating data with a physician's daily workflow.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Tech integration in the store and via e-commerce is changing the customer experience — and experience is table stakes now to keep the consumer’s loyalty, which is increasingly fleeting. You know about CVS buying Aetna late last year, bringing together the pharmacy-cum-healthcare services operation with a health insurance plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. My work with healthcare enterprises suggests that 80-90% of all outpatient visits could become "virtualized" in some way.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic may be viewed as the single largest disruptor in the history of American healthcare. Against these headwinds, and entering a new era that could redefine healthcare, rather than slow innovation, COVID-19 has accelerated Geisinger’s digital efforts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Kishore Pendyala, CEO of KP-Tech Services The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was introduced by HL7 in 2014 as a significant replacement for the HL7 V2 and V3 standards. How FHIR is replacing HL7 The healthcare FHIR standard is capable of everything HL7 V2 is and more. Why Adopt FHIR?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Professional Services at CenTrak Although the healthcare industry has shown significant resilience, the byproduct of the pandemic has amplified staff stressors across all operational and clinical roles.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On the contrary, patient engagement is becoming a c-level imperative at healthcare systems across the country. Effective engagement has emerged as a leading tool on two fronts: – Counteracting the labor crisis in healthcare by improving job satisfaction through the streamlining of intensive manual outreach and rounding.

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Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Intelligent automation tools are also designed to be integrated into nurses’ workflows rather than be a disruption. These tools enhance healthcare operations by enabling advanced capacity planning, analyzing staffing needs, and eliminating manual work.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

NATIONAL Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical pilot program integrates medication consultations Bad news for FTC’s noncompete ban Cigna to sell Medicare business to HCSC for $3.3B 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Daytona Beach medical office building/surgery center HCA Healthcare breaks ground on new freestanding ER in Orlando Lee Health’s new state-of-the-art bloodmobile hits the road Naples physician charged with Medicare fraud gives up license; enters guilty plea Nemours opens full-time office for children in Panama City with St. La Shawn K.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

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