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. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

You suggest wider applications of telemedicine are benefiting patients with more serious health issues as well as overburdened providers. What are a few of these applications and how is virtual care technology helping? As telehealth enters its post-pandemic adolescence, broader use cases are dominating the landscape.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings? What's the typical patient look like?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The combined impact of respiratory illness such as COPD, asthma, chronic cough and pneumonia on individuals and health systems is staggering. And, even when not fatal, poor monitoring leads to increased ER visits and hospital stays. Please explain what acoustic AI is and how it can be used in remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When it comes to changing patients’ health behaviour, simply providing them with information is not enough. " He told delegates at HIMSS22 APAC that it was vital to motivate patients so they can become active participants in their own care. Risk communication.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption? How can telehealth be used as a patient engagement tool in inpatient settings?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2024

What You Should Know: – CareDirections and Carium announce the launch of StrokeCP, a groundbreaking digital health platform designed to revolutionize post-stroke care. – Remote Monitoring and Coaching: StrokeCP facilitates remote patient monitoring, coaching, and seamless communication between patients and care providers.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2024

What You Should Know: Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, is launching a groundbreaking program utilizing smartphone-based technology to improve wound care management for patients suffering from chronic diabetic wounds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. Patients need more care, not less.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jiang Li, CEO at Vivalink Healthcare is at a turning point, reshaping our view of what defines hospital care. Recognizing the importance of the home in a patient’s care journey is essential. An integrated RPM platform is vital for extending care into the home.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2023

Patient engagement is top of mind for executives and clinicians at hospitals and health systems today. While there may be a need for more constant touchpoints with patients, that would bring with it an unintended physician burden. So, what's the solution? But this is a key aspect of patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. Peter Greenwald, Meghan Reading Turchioe, RN, and Ruth Marie Masterson Creber, RN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

The goal was to gather innovators, changemakers and healthcare providers to lead efforts to improve access to quality care with telehealth and remote monitoring. "We must offer patients diverse modalities of care, meet them where they are, and empower them to choose their preferred methods.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To get an idea of what this future may hold, Healthcare IT News interviewed Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of the Johns Hopkins-backed health IT company emocha Health. Each locale collects patient data, but the data sets don't talk to each other. As a result, the opportunities that exist for health IT companies are massive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

And many healthcare professionals are exploring exactly what AI can do and deploying systems to help health systems manage care and patients manage their health. AI-driven platforms also can offer real-time monitoring and advice, especially for chronic conditions that require ongoing management. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. THE PROBLEM. Jamy Ard, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

What You Should Know: – CoachCare , a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual health company, has made its fourth acquisition in 12 months, snapping up Nashville-based Verustat for an undisclosed amount. billion by 2027.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

TimeDoc Health is a vendor of virtual care management, chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring technologies and services. What are the challenges that chronic care management faces today and into the future? The reverse is now true," according to the Post. In August, it named Brian Esterly CEO.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What’s more concerning is that 75% of patients don’t meet guideline-based goals for A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol control. In fact, projections note that diagnoses of diabetes will increase by 54% by 2030, impacting nearly 55 million Americans. Lucienne Marie Ide, M.D., Today, more than 11% of the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

The Thai unit of the Japanese IT and electronics company NEC is helping turn Chiang Mai, a city north of Bangkok and the second largest city in Thailand, into a smart city by first digitising its delivery of care to the elderly and patients with chronic diseases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With more than 180 speaking engagements in 15 countries, she has educated audiences on many aspects of technology intersecting healthcare, including artificial intelligence and the shift in healthcare delivery to the patient's home. Where is remote patient monitoring today?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Sixty percent of healthcare C-suite and clinical leaders see remote patient monitoring becoming a new standard of care over the next two years, according to a new study released today by WebCareHealth , a company that delivers solutions to remotely monitor patients managing chronic illnesses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Choose the right device to get reliable patient data and reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. Please explain what remote therapeutic monitoring is and how it has come to the fore.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To get some insights on what is actively being done in these two fields of healthcare IT, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community. New patient experience expectations, coupled with a looming labor shortage in radiology, is forcing new (and in many cases, overdue) innovation in imaging diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

Neutropenic fever is a common complication for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. In fact, one out of every 29 chemotherapy-treated patients is hospitalized, with a startling mortality rate of 7-9.5%. Jiang Li is CEO of wearable temperature monitor vendor Vivalink, which has been tapped for several oncology clinical trials.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2021

The dynamic world of voice technology is impacting healthcare through a number of use cases, as technologies like natural language processing allow computers to understand what humans can say – and allowing computers to speak back.

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MAY 16, 2024

Although promising in its ability to transform healthcare through more efficient and accurate data capture and management, there is still much that we as an industry and society need to understand before scaling its use, especially when it comes to patient care. During a recent panel discussion at HIMSS24 in Orlando, Fla.,

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

"If we're genuine about changing patient experience we have to make sure we collect data and make the clinical decisions as close to the data collection as possible," said AJ Missaghi, CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell Technologies. We call this DataOps."

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

We reached out to our network of security experts to get their opinions and perpsectives on the Ascension ransomware attack and what healthcare should learn from it. It’s been a bad couple months for cybersecurity in healthcare. Or maybe it will end up being a good thing. Here are a few of the responses we got from our community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2023

Ahmed Siddiqi, an orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Institute Brielle Orthopaedics in New Jersey, started implementing models of digital, remote and hybrid care in early 2020. "I was looking to take advantage of digital care management to improve that process for my patients as well as my team.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

As the CEO of a leading Femtech company , I have witnessed firsthand the transformative potential of at-home remote monitoring and innovative technologies in empowering individuals and couples on their reproductive journey. Innovative technologies, particularly AI , have emerged as key enablers of better patient experiences.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Jussi Reijonen, Account Manager at Medixine While contemporary healthcare is slowly but surely embracing novel technologies, front-line nurses are still a much under-used resource in bridging the gap between innovation and patient well-being. Still, there’s a lot that needs to change along the way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

Even before COVID-19, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, had a system-wide initiative to provide more patient-centric care, part of which included providing patient care on patients' terms. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " Dr. Brett Oliver, Baptist Health.

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