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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Early on there were many ideas about greater use of online pharmacies, such as Pharmacy2U or Echo. Many of the online pharmacies had rapid uptake and a bit like the retailers also had to scale up their workforce to cope with demand. All those people that either can’t use an online platform or won’t use an online platform.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To Stacy first stepped a toe into social media via online support groups focused on rare diseases for Emmett.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

The webinar, organised by the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, was chaired by Mette Maria Skjoeth from Odense University Hospital, Denmark, featured registered nurse experts Ann Gregory, clinical nurse advisor to NHSX in the UK and Luis Encinas, emergency coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. Telemedicine and online pharma have their merits. The same McKinsey report shows that only 32% of physicians – the very people administering care online – feel that telehealth can improve the patient experience. Flexibility is great.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my upcoming book on Healthcare Digital Transformation, co-authored with Ed Marx, former CIO of Cleveland Clinic, we discuss how the dramatic growth in telehealth could accelerate digital transformation in healthcare. He suggests that some patients would still want to come into a clinic for their healthcare needs.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Even the dreaded trip to the DMV has gone digital , with most states having overhauled their motor vehicle departments to accept online reservations. There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. We had all the data, and we knew exactly which members were at the highest risk.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

While there are myriad definitions out there for both terms, the following provide a good starting point: Population health management refers to the process of improving clinical health outcomes of a defined group of individuals through improved care coordination and patient engagement supported by appropriate financial and care models.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The latest patient engagement survey from Stericycle Communication Solutions found that nearly half of patients have booked appointments online (48%) or sought care from a non-traditional provider (45%) in the last year, with half of those patients using retail care and one-third using virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

This series explores what constitutes accessibility online, and what experts are doing to move the health care field forward. A huge number of conditions get in the way of people traversing online interfaces. We’ll hear more from accessiBe, as well as UserWay , UniDoc , and Deque Systems , creators of the open source Axe-core.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

But those who needed abortions still had to travel to clinics for care – even when it comes to medication abortions, which consist of taking a few pills. Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lakesha Rivera is the Director of Clinical Operations at Women’s Health Connecticut which spans 90 practices and has more than 250 providers. Rivera oversees various projects and creates clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and manages a clinical operations team.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia. According to HealthGrades , 80% of patients prefer physicians who offer online scheduling. Clinical safety: screening & escalations. HIPAA regulations.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Virtual appointments and online messaging provide new avenues to access care in a timely manner. Primary care doctors and specialists are now able to collaborate online to improve quality of care. The use of the cloud has opened up incredible opportunities for patients and providers alike. Cloud solutions are helping to: 1.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Associates in Dermatology, a network of dermatology clinics in Indiana, Kentucky, and New York, has started notifying patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a ransomware attack on one of its business associates.

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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. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing. “This needed to be coordinated with our entire clinic, with six subspecialty providers, in a way for everything to flow.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Dr. Archie Adams Sometime in 2019, I was multi-tasking and racing between exam rooms amid a controlled chaos that defines an average day in my busy clinic. I thought to myself, I could literally call all my patients for follow ups, but then I wouldn't really need to work in a clinic and what type of practice would that be?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Nowhere is this fear more prominent than a hospital or clinic setting. Technology-enabled workflows now enable patients to complete most of the registration formalities prior to the visit, be it a virtual consult or a clinic visit.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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