Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

The ATA (American Telemedicine Association) conference, along with offering some qualifying CME sessions, is made up of more broad topic discussions, meant to bring value to many different industry roles and professionals. Get the most up to date info about telehealth reimbursement and digital health care policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it).

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Why AI matters Healthcare organizations are hot on the trail of digital transformation. At the height of the pandemic, providers scrambled to digitize care (e.g., Since then, many are focused on using digital technologies to change the way they do business (e.g., enabling telehealth visits). adopting a hybrid care model).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? How can you recruit the best people, retain talent you have and ensure a diverse workforce that reflects the patients you serve? Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. The system is digitized. Collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2023

This set of interviews with leaders at KeyBank, Clarify Health, Esri, and Xealth focused on managing patient payments, using data to improve price transparency, using GIS technology to improve EMS response, and more effectively managing third-party vendors. Read more… Helping People Take Their Medications.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

An earlier article, “ Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long—And What We Can Do To Shorten Them ,” explored the complexities of discharging and how hospitals are re-evaluating their workflows to get patients out faster. However, automated solutions don’t need AI to help clinicians enter data into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. He explained how RPM can help manage chronic conditions and ease the burden on hospitals, described the future of wearables and shared some lessons learned during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. "A key issue is how to achieve the benefits of telehealth while limiting the risks," said Tabor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"But as the sheer complexity of our procedures increased, we wanted our patients to have remote access to instructional videos and better connectivity with their care teams. "It helps to strengthen the patient/physician relationship, as all content and care protocols are prescribed and shaped by the patient's physicians.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. How will virtual care play out in 2022? 55 percent of U.S. 55 percent of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Bhat addressed how the move to the cloud benefits eCW as well as its clients – and why the transition wasn’t as difficult as it may seem. Read more… Real Steps Health Systems Can Take to Address Burnout. Two important ways to ensure that tech helps are to choose the right technology and to implement it the right way.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Covid-19 radically stretched healthcare providers in countless ways, including accelerating digitization and changing patient expectations about care delivery. In the short term, clinician shortages and wage inflation are driving demand for solutions that improve productivity and alleviate labor needs.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network is an academic health system based in eastern Wisconsin. It embarked on a journey to foster disruptive innovations by establishing Inception Health as an independent vehicle to drive innovation and digital transformation, focusing on digital health technology.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

It’s well-known that Philips has been firmly focused on health and health care, covering both clinical/professional healthcare as well as personal health for self-care. I was grateful to Sean for spending time with me at CES 2019 in Las Vegas to brainstorm the role of design in health/care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. Yet, 55% require help navigating the process of applying.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible. And it has become an increasingly important component of healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions. " As part of treating their chronic illnesses, staff help them to become comfortable maintaining their own self-care in the home. THE PROBLEM.

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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 IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. Keith Perry, CIO, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

But for health IT, things sped up. When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. They needed help fast. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. Christopher J. Rapidly prototyping telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

OptimizeRx , a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. MEDITECH and Google Health Partner on Integrated Solution. Evidation, VA Collaborate to Enroll Veterans in Personalized Heart Health Program.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 19, 2018

Over time, Lidia sees a shifting focus in her organization from provider-only to all users, including consumers, and from systems to experiences, in the context of the digital transformation happening across many industries — not just clinical laboratories or healthcare. Health Care Law and Consulting. David Harlow.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 19, 2018

Over time, Lidia sees a shifting focus in her organization from provider-only to all users, including consumers, and from systems to experiences, in the context of the digital transformation happening across many industries — not just clinical laboratories or healthcare. Health Care Law and Consulting. David Harlow.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ryan Padilla, Executive Director, Explorer, a GHX company The healthcare industry is in the middle of deep digital transformation across every aspect of the patient journey. And when patients are more involved, they are typically more satisfied with their experience and have better health outcomes. The result?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas.

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

5 moves to know Ransomware Attacks Target Undermanned US Rural Hospitals: Report Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?

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