HealthIT Answers

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Hiren Thakkar - Inadequate ethnic diversity in clinical trials, tight eligibility criteria, delayed or missing prescription recommendations for certain communities, and access gaps affecting global health are all hot topics in academia, business, and government. The post Is Clinical Trial Diversity the New Patient Centricity?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The online program will cover a range of topics and best practices, including workflow, regulatory considerations and health equity. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. WHY IT MATTERS. Operations, workflow and productivity in the ambulatory setting. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians. The percentage of flagged accounts decreased as patients aged. Adolescents voluntarily sharing their portal access.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

On a panel together, we each presented on topics relating to product hopping, but from very different perspectives. Dmitry and I would have several conversations on the topic over the years, and we eventually began a short paper project on the topic that will remain unpublished.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

It never ceases to amaze me how integral the role of the pharmacist could be to a patient and how many pharmacists are relegated to counting pills and checking insurance. Yes, the pharmacist has to make sure the prescription is filled properly and the patient gets the right number of pills.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While collecting and isolating DNA samples from saliva may offer a wealth of information regarding heredity, disease risk, and other outflows of the “instruction manual” for patients, analyzing cells captures the minutiae of patients that goes “beyond the book” and most closely informs pathology. And what would that mean for patients?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Access to Resources: Participants will receive access to educational resources on depression and related mental health topics. Digital Data Collection: Securely shared digital data will contribute valuable real-world information to the study.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 24, 2023

The topic was innovation in payer and provider data exchange. These include: Unreliable access to data. Local systems store different information in different places, so access to the information needed across environments and platforms is unreliable. Inconsistent data terms. And I, for one, am eager to see what’s next.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While diversity "always creates a richer story," Heigert said, he focuses his user experience and creative teams on building trust with minority communities by making sure they can identify with the health communications they receive or access. Revitalizing maternal health education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine leveled the playing field by making healthcare more accessible. Not only was accessibility a huge win for the people, but so were improved patient outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

What You Should Know: – A new survey by Artera , a leader in patient communication technology, reveals a stark disconnect between how healthcare providers communicate and what patients actually want.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

For the 68th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Topics We Want to Stop and Start Talking About. Maybe this makes us biased and tired of talking about a number of topics which others still enjoy. Maybe this makes us biased and tired of talking about a number of topics which others still enjoy.

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MRO Compliance

MARCH 30, 2023

HIPAA (where current rules lie) versus a proposed new rule allowing enhanced data sharing through a one-time permission granting by the patient. New rules and laws are making this a difficult topic to address for a few reasons. Two issues are beleaguering progress around substance abuse data sharing.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Listen as they take a deep dive into such topics as: AI and imaging; patient access to their radiographic images; and, medical imaging in the home environment. The Tate Chronicles episode now on demand. Host Jim Tate talks to Tim Dawson, Chief Technical Officer of Canon Medical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

"Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. "The majority of these patients are racial/ethnic minority populations (72%), dually eligible for Medicare/Medicaid, with multi-morbidity and high healthcare needs, and lower health and digital literacy," she added.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

health economy includes employers, unions, public sector plans and other groups as well as the Patient as Payor — thus prompting NABIP’s Bill of Rights. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Primary topic: Patient Engagement. Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Accessing the patient anytime, anywhere Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: EMEA Sponsor: Philips Right Now:

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD ( @catalysthg ) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care. ”. T2: How can we empower PCPs to become more accessible to patients?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

With so many of the nation's underserved patients using telehealth services, practitioners and medical organizations must work to understand what these patients need in order to improve the quality of care. Many people in the United States still struggle to access healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dr. Melissa Urrea from @naviHealthPAC on the topic “ Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Senior Population. ”. 7/22 – Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As one of our strategic priorities, our goal is to advance health equity in part through expanding access by bringing prevention, wellness and healthcare to all people where they live – at home, at work, in big cities and rural communities,” said Jeff Shuren, M.D., The committee should be fully operational in 2024. “As

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2023

Telehealth is one of the hottest topics at the HIMSS23 Conference & Exhibition – most especially since the COVID-19 pandemic brought the technology at long last into the mainstream of healthcare. The pandemic also awakened patients to the convenience and efficiency telehealth options can provide.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Birgit Bauer is a patient expert and health communication specialist in Germany, who will speak at a panel on patient empowerment and digital health ecosystems at HIMSS22 Europe in Finland next month. Many older Germans are hesitant about digital tools, and sometimes do not even have WiFi.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 12, 2023

Sessions centered on the practical use of information in care settings and how to better leverage and apply existing tools to improve workflow and patient care. The relationship between payers and providers is among the more challenging health intersections in patient data exchange and interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2023

However, if done correctly, RFID technology offers significant potential for improving efficiency and patient safety in healthcare applications. Read more… Addressing Patient Burnout With Digital Transformation. Read more… The Importance of Patient Portal Usability. This episode has surprise topics!

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification. Rogow, CEO and President at Healthix , who shared their use of Verato to address their Patient Identity challenges.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion. Geography and demography have always played a role in health care access and health-associated outcomes. By Stephen Wood. One example is the use of hemodialysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UCLA Health is using telehealth to make care more accessible to LGBTQ patients Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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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. By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. advertising platforms).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Both are reminders of the need to make online resources accessible to all. For any organization – and particularly healthcare entities and systems – accessibility should be top of mind. That makes providing an accessible user experience vital, especially when it comes to health matters.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2023

The topics that dominated the conference included teasing out the nuanced approach to safely deploying Chat GPT/AI into the industry (and when not to), health equity, and the patient journey. Artificial intelligence/machine learning and the power of what it can do was another key topic of discussion at HIMSS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn ( @techguy ) from @hcittoday on the topic “Revenue Cycle Management ”. Join us for this week’s #HITsm chat where we’ll be discussing the following topics.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Topics included the workforce shortage and burnout , increasing access to telebehavioral health , expanding critical and emergency care on demand, cybersecurity, and telehealth waivers and licensing. What did you learn about expanding access with behavioral health telemedicine? The second major theme was acceptance.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Let’s discuss the topic in detail. It grants individuals certain entitlements related to their medical data, including the ability to view their records and manage who can access their information. Adherence to HIPAA regulations is a compulsion for healthcare providers and health plans responsible for patient data.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Empowering Families for Smooth Transitions Prior to discharge, families will be invited to access Trualta’s comprehensive library of articles, videos, and modules covering various caregiving topics. Proven Impact on Patient Outcomes This partnership holds significant potential to improve care transitions and patient outcomes.

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