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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

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. Providers are feeling the squeeze. Telephone triage. HIPAA regulations.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines. The end goal is to move closer to the quadruple aim of healthcare … but digitally.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“I can now self-schedule, and see when the patient has checked in, and when they’re ready and waiting for me,” she said. We learned a lot of lessons around operational redundancy in those early days.” "Telemedicine also can add to patient burden and frustration, which can add to a provider’s stress.

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How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The FDA also provides necessary guidelines for operating a device and supporting documents highlighting the dos, don’ts, and pros and cons, thus helping make informed decisions. A typical day in the life of a busy physician includes seeing scheduled appointments in the outpatient and inpatient rounds and emergency visits in between.

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How AI and Intelligent Automation Can Support and Retain Nurses

HIT Consultant

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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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

Health systems are also empowered, meanwhile, to glean population-level health insights and digest macro trends to improve care and operations. For example, real-time integration enables use cases like alerting physicians when a patient checks into an emergency room, or seamless care transitions between settings, facilities, and providers.

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What's on the horizon for Teladoc? CIO Claus Jensen weighs in

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Or do you need components that can do different things – like scheduling, like making sure you get the lab tests you have to get, like having an experience for the provider that fits into their work environment. So how do we use technology to bridge the gap? And then the third part is logistical science. This is a hard problem.