Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The research adjusted outcomes for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, both overall and when stratified by clinical area. Virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis , while teleneurology is improving access and care for veterans. telephone visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"RPM provides a viable solution to improve patient care and outcomes, leverage team-based care, and maintain neutral workload for PCPs and care teams. The health system's expansion into remote patient monitoring is meant to directly address two of these issues.

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Hospitals 156

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology. Today’s innovative home-based care providers are leveraging technology in meaningful ways to accommodate patient preferences and improve care. In a 2021 study, 43.3%

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Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Compliance Hospitals 104

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The sheer volume and complexity of the daily workload, coupled with inefficient working practices and shortages of staff, are currently causing members of healthcare teams to be at particularly high risk of burnout. Leaders should conduct assessments to evaluate the extent and causes of burnout within their administrative team.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

Director, Product & Strategy, Patient Consent, IQVIA Technologies The clinical trials landscape continues to evolve and with it, an exponential growth in the adoption of electronic informed consent (eConsent) solutions. Traditionally, trials have relied on face-to-face interactions in clinical settings for this purpose.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. One of the biggest factors driving these challenges is staff burnout. Staff satisfaction and retention was a priority for 11% of U.S.

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Hospitals 181

HIT Consultant

JUNE 8, 2022

FHI is the largest global survey of its kind, analyzing feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countries on the impact of digital health technology in the adoption of connected care. Staff satisfaction and retention top the priority list for healthcare leaders.

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Health Outcomes 97

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. This problem has been exacerbated by the increasing complexity of medical technology and the consequent proliferation of alarms.

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Nurses Licensing Hospitals 98

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. Tim eyes four areas of importance for value-based care in 2022: telemedicine, staff retention and provider burnout, health equity, and growth in value-based payment.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Telemedicine 173

HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

Staffing levels continue to plague health systems across all of the clinical and administrative areas, with no real signs of easing in the next several years. Employee retention efforts have never been more critical and leaders are looking to technology to help their staff work smarter. Health IT is a misnomer.

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Nurses Hospitals Licensing 98

Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. How does all of this lead to improved patient outcomes? Please explain why.

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Health Outcomes Healthcare information Technology Telemedicine Hospitals 191

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2023

Whether at home, on vacation or in the hospital, patients and care providers want access to innovative technologies that can expedite the delivery of medical advice, prescriptions, referrals and action when it is needed most.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Electronic Medical Records Hospitals Nurses 111

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Through utilizing the technology that we currently have available, many areas of work healthcare professionals are doing can be automated and simplified. Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. One type of automation is chatbots and related technology that can automate the triage and symptom intake process, along with surfacing education and discharge materials.

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COVID-19 Health Outcomes Hospitals Nurses 286

HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2023

These tools can help healthcare providers ease their staffing turnover pain, work within their assigned budgets and provide staff members with accurate tools to improve job performance and satisfaction. However, there is still much work to be done.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even so, the circumstances have amplified staff burnout and pressured an already fragile labor market. Decreasing the stress placed on healthcare professionals is critical to combating burnout and promoting staff retention. Effective enterprise-wide care coordination can be greatly hindered by manual workflow systems.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Nurses 57

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As with countless global industries, clinical trials were forced to move key functions online as COVID-19 swept the world in early 2020. Clinical research operations had to rapidly deploy remote approaches that were previously in the planning or pilot stages. Reducing Staff Turnover.

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COVID-19 Pharmaceutical Industry Informed Consent Compliance 97

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Telemedicine technology provides a viable and valuable option on both a scheduled basis as well as when patients do not show up for their scheduled in-person appointments," he continued. THE PROBLEM. "Our patients depended on, and we depended on, telemedicine to provide care and treatment during COVID.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Nurses HIPAA 174

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

"We had significant staff retention issues at the front desk, along with issues related to missing registration information," said Rebecca King, vice president of operations. "We thought we could do a better job by automating the registration process, so implementing a self-check-in solution was a high priority for us.

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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Medicare 209

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe. This kind of technology-enabled workflow can take a tremendous burden off of some of our most important care team members. As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Emily Goetz, Vice President of Commercial at Bright.md.

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Nurses Hospitals Licensing Health Outcomes 102

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

CCRLC currently uses two Polycom devices to provide the link between the mental health provider and the patient receiving services. CCRLC currently uses two Polycom devices to provide the link between the mental health provider and the patient receiving services. " Jane Schmitz, Clark County Rehabilitation and Living Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Workflow automation that uses AI to infer clinical meaning and ML to improve its performance over time may not directly contribute to the care of my patient but improves my ability to do so. Chris Larkin, Chief Technology Officer at Concord Technologies We see healthcare AI as becoming deeply imbedded in our systems.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Improving Quality of Care by Addressing Preventable Harm Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS Human error is a major cause of patient harm and prevents the delivery of safe, quality care even in today’s heavily regulated environment.

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Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals Compliance Nurses 59

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The dynamics in healthcare are always complicated: Costs are going up, margins and reimbursements are shrinking, and there are clinical shortages everywhere (with no hint of it letting up anytime soon). Nurses provide critical care for all of us. Here are four tips on how to keep nurses in the field.

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Nurses Hospitals Licensing 96

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Kate Godwin-Smith, Director, Client Services, Patient Consent Solutions, IQVIA Technologies. Clinical trials advance much-needed treatments while offering hope to patients and their families. This equates to greater retention and stronger engagement throughout the course of the trial. It’s a lot to process in one sitting.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Tips include improving legacy systems before moving them to the cloud, ensuring what gets moved to the cloud is optimized for scalability and flexibility, and weighing the appetite to maintain on-premises and cloud infrastructure in the interim. Read more… The Evolution of Suki’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solution.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 11, 2024

In a survey , dental providers agree that careful and precise recordkeeping is indispensable, emphasizing the importance of documenting elements such as patient histories, examination results, diagnoses, radiographs, treatment plans, consent forms, and clinic notes. This does not only facilitate comprehensive patient care.

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Regulatory Compliance Compliance ADA Informed Consent 105

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From a clinical standpoint as well, time to treatment significantly impacts outcomes. Despite the evolution of clinical solutions that successfully treat or manage many common forms of cancer, most of the navigational challenges that lead to poor outcomes cannot be remedied by manually adding more workers or resources.

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Nurses Healthcare information Technology 97

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. Read more… How CIOs Can Help with Clinician Retention. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Doctors Telemedicine Hospitals 95

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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HIPAA Informed Consent Nurses Compliance 86

HIT Consultant

JUNE 15, 2023

In revenue cycle management (RCM) , the last few years have seen the emergence of new technologies for coding and billing. These results translate directly into cost savings, reduced denials, improved revenue capture, accelerated time to cash in hand, and other benefits. Few can miss the increasing role of AI in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2023, hospitals must identify their financial risk and focus on employee retention and recruitment as the threat of a recession looms. Care will continue to extend beyond brick-and-mortar settings as technology advances to support chronic care management and decentralized trials in remote settings.

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Hospitals COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health 98

HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

Aren’t digital tools supposed to help doctors and clinical staff, rather than burden them with additional work? Healthcare has a reputation for throwing technology tools at institutional problems without designing the solutions to assist both patient and the team providing care. This shouldn’t be the case.

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COVID-19 Health Outcomes Licensing Nurses 52

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States. Amazon launches Amazon Clinic , a virtual care option that will operate across 32 states that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health. Welcome to easy-to-use, effective care for common health conditions.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow. . What is clinician-centric technology?

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Hospitals Nurses 52

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Practices shifting to this virtual or hybrid care model should not overlook how bi-directional data integration between their electronic health record (EHR) and patient engagement tools, including telehealth platforms, ensures optimal patient care, efficiency, data security and a vastly improved patient experience. .

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