Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

million face-to-face consultations a day to the majority being carried out remotely. According to a 12 April BBC report, GPs are now seeing just seven in every 100 patients face-to-face. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Clinicians from Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine collaborated on this work, calling out the relatively fast adoption of HaH programs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. This advanced real-world data analysis can help determine appropriate prices for drugs, based not just on the cost of research and development, and the considerations of pharma companies, but on real-world patient outcomes.

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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. Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. 9amHealth is addressing this challenge by providing affordable cardiometabolic care at scale and helping to manage the rising costs of GLP-1s for both patients and employers.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2024

“For patients and their employers, the increases have meant higher health-insurance premiums, as well as limiting wage hikes,” Melanie Evans explained. This chart from WSJ’s reporting illustrates the >2x change in the CPI for hospitals vs the overall rate of price increases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Focus on the benefits of digital technology for nurses and patients, with continuity of care ensured through remote consultations. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement. Digital technology has been an important theme pointed out by Gregory and Encinas. Digital is gaining momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

"Because of the nature of the virus causing a big increase in ventilated patients, you need a certain number of drugs in order to intubate those patients," Krass said. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. How do medical centers capture and assess patient feedback, and implement improvements promptly and effectively? Department for Veterans Affairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2022

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. A new approach to patient experience: digital health as a product management function.

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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. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

Google Analytics & HIPAA Compliance The first step toward using Google Analytics while remaining HIPAA compliant is using Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM allows you to manage tags or tracking codes from various sources across your website without having to code manually. Find Out More! × Find Out More! Please Wait.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

" Glenn Tullman, digital health entrepreneur and founder of Livongo – which merged with Teladoc in 2020 – had this to say: "Big Tech was struggling in healthcare because patients' problems are more about the overall experience than technology, per se." Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

This platform can include offering deeper dives into population health management, accurate cost of patient care, CMS and social data, supply chain optimization (especially when we are having issues with the supply chain on a global scale) and, most importantly, insight to bring more efficiencies in your daily hospital operations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

HIPAA regulators are now changing their enforcement practices to take that perception of luck out of the equation—and force every organization that touches sensitive patient data to get serious about cybersecurity.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Threats from patients, visitors, and staff have increased, sometimes with tragic consequences. CMS has identified three (3) specific CoP tags for surveyors to cite, including: 42 C.F.R. c)(2) (Patient Rights, Privacy and Safety) obligation to care for patients in a safe setting. §482.13(c)(2) §482.15(d)(1)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

More than one-in-three patient interactions will go virtual globally – as the physician will no longer be the automatic first touchpoint. Throughout the crisis, virtual visits, remote monitoring, and patient engagement tools have effectively reduced foot traffic at clinics and delivered a large portion of office visits virtually.

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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. Routine care plummeted during the pandemic and has still not bounced back , and as telehealth utilization has grown, patients have experienced more pain points and barriers to care. Patient Engagement Needs to Evolve.

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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. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: 2020 rings in new decade at Penn Medicine, closes chapter of big change Featured Decision Content:

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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. There's a lot of evidence, including some recent research showcased at HIMSS22 that they save money while improving patient satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of patients have turned to telehealth. " Advocates noted in the lawsuit that abortion restrictions have worked in tandem with the effects of the coronavirus to disproportionately impact patients of color, low-income people and other already vulnerable populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. The last chart comes out of the GWI paper, detailing consumers’ developing their own “health toolkits” for both mental and physical health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Telehealth has made a huge difference in delivering appropriate care to patients since the beginning of the pandemic. Team-based care means that patients are at the center of care delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It seems obvious that an alert like this is going to help doctors provide better care to their patients. Turns out there’s a lot of nuance when it comes to drug to drug interactions. Doctors get notified of important things they can address with the patient while they’re present with the patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Boston Medical Center specifically serves a significantly disproportionate number of disadvantaged patients living in the Greater Boston community. Approximately 59% of BMC’s patients come from underserved populations, it reported. Another barrier was transportation. " Dr. Laurie Douglass, Boston Medical Center.

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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. At the same time, patients have turned to telehealth as a way to avoid in-person transmission and address medical needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. The other aspect of medication that COVID-19 soon outed was prescribing. This is a gap and adds to the friction for clinicians and their patients.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. He suggests that some patients would still want to come into a clinic for their healthcare needs. Following the money.

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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. For many, their CRM journey began as a natural extension and coordination of their patient portal, telehealth, virtual care, and digital front-door initiatives.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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. Only 38% of Americans have a dedicated savings fund for healthcare emergencies. Partnerships.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ignoring or not following safety rules can create serious issues concerning patient and employee safety, in addition to the potential for expensive penalties and legal issues. Emergency Response Problems The time to find out about response problems is not when you are having an emergency!

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