Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore. Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years.

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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

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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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 19, 2023

John Vivoda, Senior Director of Patient Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. Historically, a lack of patient empowerment has been a struggle in healthcare. A quick search will discover that posts tagged with #DoctorsofTikTok have 8 billion views.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. By fostering responsible AI innovation, we aim to harness its power to improve health outcomes while safeguarding patient rights and data privacy.

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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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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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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

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

MAY 23, 2022

The Surgical Center at?Columbia Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the healthcare sector embraces value-based care, the patient – not the procedure – is the central focus for providers. But the move to patient-centered care requires several significant deviations from the status quo. The use of the cloud has opened up incredible opportunities for patients and providers alike.

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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. Some folks believe telehealth applications take up very little space on patients' computers, so how can broadband be an Achilles' heel?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. But in-person interactions are often not the root cause of patient dissatisfaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Enhancing emergency response as a way to save more lives.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

This allegation includes over reporting the number of hours that nurses provided care to residents to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The settlement requires the SNFs to: · Stop engaging in the illegal practices that are alleged in the lawsuit. Appoint a monitor to oversee compliance at one of the facilities. ·

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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. The most difficult aspect was deploying the technology to be effective and efficient for both patients and providers.” " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat. " News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. I was behind as usual, and I could sense the frustration in the air from my patients who had been waiting for a while. I was behind as usual, and I could sense the frustration in the air from my patients who had been waiting for a while.

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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. Caregivers are beginning to do their patient rounds through virtual visits. This trend will only grow in the coming years. Contact tracing.

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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. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He advises entrepreneurial health care providers and technology companies on business arrangements, compliance, and corporate matters in telemedicine, digital health, remote patient monitoring, and click-and-mortar services. But more recently, both the Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General at HHS have engaged in.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As a patient engagement product director, there’s nothing that I love to hear more from customers than they live and breathe in the systems we’ve created. I don’t mean that no one is thinking about patient engagement, of course. Where does patient engagement fit? And that’s happening for good reason.

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Hospitals 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. So before we go further we should ask: Why should a clinician be responsible for finding a food source or an apartment for a patient? One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. The adoption of high-quality connected health by clinicians and healthcare organizations was swift, and access to these new means of high-quality care by patients have been transformational. We cannot afford to let that happen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. The adoption of high-quality connected health by clinicians and healthcare organizations was swift, and access to these new means of high-quality care by patients have been transformational. We cannot afford to let that happen.

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