Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Northeast Health Wangaratta to upgrade 2-decade-old digital records Northeast Health Wangaratta, the healthcare service for northeast Victoria, is upgrading its 20-year-old digital health record system from Orion Health to its modern iteration. It will also make data more updated, consistent, and reliable, he added.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

a Sunnyvale, CA-based SaaS practice management and EHR platform for modern medical practices. – DrChrono offers an all-in-one, cloud-based practice management, EHR, and billing solution to make healthcare more informed, more interactive, and more personalized. What You Should Know: – Today EverCommerce Inc.,

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As medical facilities transition from paper-based systems to EHRs, they become vulnerable targets for hackers seeking valuable protected health information (PHI). These aging technologies often struggle to keep pace with modern cybersecurity standards, leaving vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

million in Series B funding to fuel expansion and support the rapid growth of its modern software. Vital’s solutions make it easier for healthcare providers and health systems to communicate with and engage patients during emergency department (ED) and inpatient visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"With new guidance and workflows in place, Gerald Champion needed a user-friendly telehealth platform that seamlessly synced with our EHR, athenaOne. When athenahealth launched athenaTelehealth, its goal was to deliver an intuitive and HIPAA-compliant care experience for both patients and providers, all from the athenaOne EHR workflow.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

FDB, formerly known as First Databank, which is owned by Hearst Health, announced at HIMSS22 in March the launch of the country's second e-prescribing network, FDB Vela. What made FDB decide to launch an e-prescribing network?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. " WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

Health Analytics Lead, Accenture Federal Services The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Kenyon Crowley, Ph.D., Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2019

They can visit the VA Video Connect test site on their mobile device in order to test whether their device is compatible with the platform. The Department of Veterans Affairs and Verizon are teaming up to offer Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications giant unlimited access to department's VA Video Connect telehealth app.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Cybersecurity tops the list of investment priorities, followed by EHR modernization, virtual / digital care, and AI. The EHR Association is worried about USCDI modeling, noting in a letter to ONC that HL7 has specific requirements while USCDI standards are ambiguous and decrease the effectiveness of those standards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

Research shows nearly 90% of individuals have a mobile device allowing them to reach doctors through a telehealth visit without the worry of pandemic exposure, challenges with transportation or unnecessary expense. The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. Unlike EMRs , requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. CDA can be utilized in numerous medical applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

and Chief Medical Officer at CPSI New collaboration between mobile app developer, EHR vendor and health systems decreases clinician stress The perennial challenge of clinical burnout has reached an inflection point. The following is a guest article by William J. Hayes, M.D., Our smartphones are often the culprit.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. All point to the need for a modern approach to patient identity verification, according to AU10TIX CEO Dan Yerushalmi.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

These requests are quite basic and can be easily satisfied with modern health care technology. Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. It won’t surprise anyone who follows healthcare professionally—or who has used a healthcare portal—that patients are frustrated and disappointed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. THE PROBLEM. "What we refer to here as a great digital divide that is common across healthcare."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. At HIMSS20, Dr. Neil C.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

From the care team perspective, being able to respond to patients and each other in real-time, from mobile phones, is efficient and liberating. There are a lot of challenges that healthcare workers are currently facing, burnout from overworking being one of the most pressing. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Start-up companies began providing digital health services for substance use treatment, for example, through: prescription digital therapeutics (software-based treatments delivered on mobile devices); and providing same-day access to medication-assisted treatments such as buprenorphine and naloxone.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Patients and their care partners can request DispatchHealth medical care via phone, mobile app, or website, and a medical team arrives within two hours equipped with tools and equipment needed to perform high-acuity medical care. Babylon to Provide Fitbits for Eligible Members. Uber Health Expands into Employer Market.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have a tremendous opportunity to use modern technology to share medical information, and I’d like to examine some promising approaches to exchange knowledge between Academic Medical Centers (AMC) and Community Oncology Practices (COP). In the 2000’s, HIPAA mandated standardized EHRs, which enabled more efficient medical care (eventually).

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Hall Render

JULY 28, 2023

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Twilio seems well positioned in this commoditized world as they provide underlying communication infrastructure available over a modern API. Investors have been pouring money into digital health for the past decade. But how has the pandemic changed this landscape? Let’s take a look at some of the market shifts discussed. Hospital to Home.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 3, 2022

For example, athenahealth recently introduced a new capability to its EHR that allows providers to record and display important information in a patient's chart, including pronouns, name used (plus legal name) and gender identity (plus gender assigned at birth). Dr. Acey Albert is director of clinical content at epocrates.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience. Urgently Ortho was looking for a modern solution that was aligned with the brand it wanted to create, he added. “We had evaluated 15 EHR products prior to deciding on DrChrono’s platform,” he recalled. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Curtis Sherbo is vice president of product management at EHR maker athenahealth. So, technology needs to modernize the healthcare experience, similar to how technology has made the retail and financial services industries more consumer-centric, to bring more convenience, ease and immediacy to the patient experience.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2023

healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. . Stephen Dean, Co-Founder of Keona Health The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Growing adoption of EHRs, however, created a movement to capture the data in a digital format. Digital transformation is the key to modernizing your healthcare practice. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. Read down below for their responses.

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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. THE PROBLEM. 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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2024

Director of Technical Product Management at McKesson Worldwide, today’s leading healthcare organizations are embracing digital transformation. The implementation of Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) solutions is a major component of these business evolutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

We predict that ‘modern, frictionless’ benefits will take hold in 2024. Modern frictionless benefits can pave the way, enabled by payers embracing API tech that can deliver accurate, sync’d, real-time benefits data that is foundational to driving innovation and this new future ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

"That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. "That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. But for health IT, things sped up. They needed help fast.

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