Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the face of high addiction rates, mounting mental health crises, and daily reports of overdoses and suicides in the United States, a community triage center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has come up with a novel care approach that can be replicated around the world.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

In doing so, we encouraged contributors to comment on the Principles’ potential usefulness as guidance in addressing real emergency situations, as well as any possible gaps and weaknesses.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

What does 2023 hold for healthcare technology, as innovation continues at rapid speed, policymakers and regulators try to keep up with the pace of change – and health systems large and small deal with significant budgetary shortfalls that could hamper their ability to build out their digital transformation efforts? Like what you hear?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Survival of the digitalist: How organisations around the world are transforming with tech that cares: 20 Sep, 9.00am - 9.30am Edward Marx has quite the story to tell. Survival of the digitalist: How organisations around the world are transforming with tech that cares: 20 Sep, 9.00am - 9.30am Edward Marx has quite the story to tell.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. What was the main message you heard at the conference? What were the overarching themes? There were three major messages.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. "We strive to provide each patient the right care at the right time, and this program serves that purpose. The provider works with the patient to establish a primary care physician and assists in scheduling the first in-person appointment.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Before what he referred to as the major ramp up in attacks against healthcare that began in 2015, there was "an appreciable minority of patients who were uncomfortable providing all their information to their doctors," he told attendees at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston earlier this month.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 17, 2023

They can be based on a patient's specific past medical history and what happened in that appointment with the physician and the care team. It could be very helpful for patients to go back and look at that interaction in greater detail. With chatbots, there is usually "a dead end somewhere."

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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. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By Silvia Serrano Guzmán On July 4, 2023 the Constitutional Court of Colombia handed down a landmark decision on one of the most difficult dilemmas faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: the rationing of intensive care in situations of scarcity. The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Never has any modern tool promised greater efficiency and support than what generative AI offers. While the enthusiasm for genAI will remain elevated this year – with governments even investing in this emerging lucrative space , the pace of adoption will likely be slow, says Kota Kubo, CEO of Ubie.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

After telehealth appointments , patient portals can grant access to information about self-care and healthy habits between appointments, and also can be a vehicle for reporting patient health indicators over time. Primary care and other healthcare specialties tend to have episodic patient encounters.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. "What we learned is that we needed data," he continued. Then, if they need to drive to the urgent care or ER, they're told to do so.

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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. And second, so much of what influences health takes place outside of healthcare settings, where patients live, work and play. billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

The emergency room is a stressful and unplanned way to begin a patient journey, and the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles is one of the nation's busiest. As a result, the nuanced minute-by-minute experiences often are lost when only looking at big-picture data." THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2024, healthcare and health IT will feel the continued erosion of traditional care paradigms, be impacted by a retail shift from exuberant expansion to the long game of execution, and will finally, at long last, witness the death of the fax machine. Retail healthcare will continue to supplant primary care. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2024

The KLAS Research report on Global Patient Engagement 2024 found that healthcare organizations outside the US are investing in patient portals, digital front door experiences (self-scheduling and self check-in) and virtual care/patient monitoring. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

Saggar is interested in working with emerging technologies (autonomous robots, generative AI, digital assistants) but focuses on improving and deriving the most benefit from existing systems. “What can we do today that can directly influence patient care and care-givers?” Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2022

In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, and the work of her ATA Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Many pre-pandemic preparedness efforts also stressed legal tools , including emergency laws , which could be used in response to a pandemic or other public health emergency. We do not question the importance of emergency laws or the potential for legal innovations to improve health and equity. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

What role does AI-driven decision support play in this kind of patient oversight? And what kinds of outcomes can healthcare provider organizations expect? Health systems must proactively manage the populations they serve, especially if they aspire to meet patient care expectations. 1 Best in KLAS managed IT services company.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Many healthcare providers had to rethink the way they serve their patients, access systems securely and innovate care services and delivery. David Stupple, National ICT Director of Calvary Health Care, also joined the discussion as he talked about the hospital group's digital transformation. The sudden shift to digital.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has made it more clear than ever that a medical emergency can strike at any time – sometimes, with dire consequences. "If you're not able to talk to the medical team treating you, or your piece of paper that you put in a locked safety deposit box or on a refrigerator somewhere is not with you, guess what?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Karin Schifter-Maor is CEO of Essence SmartCare, a senior and chronic care technology and services company.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kristofer Smith, MD, MPP is the Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Heath, where he oversees efforts to establish a high-quality and clinically effective home-based medical care model for patients with serious illness. Can you share why you’re involved in this area of health care? The following interview has been edited and condensed.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By Brianna da Silva Bhatia, Michele Heisler, and Christian De Vos American health care too often fails to protect the right to health or promote health-related rights. The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), allow us to imagine a new future and help outline a path for how to get there.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. What do medical school ethics courses look like?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

What is the goal of this project? Over the past decade, the implementation and adoption of digital solutions that enable patients to communicate with their care teams more easily between visits have brought tremendous benefits in terms of experience and engagement. Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. It is an approach to patient care that is based on the idea that one person?s health system. health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge. McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. What are the challenges for effective hospital-at-home coordination?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Your survey has discovered fascinating things about Virginia providers' feelings about continuity of care and quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth. We saw growth in the areas of providers agreeing or strongly agreeing that telehealth is an effective tool for providing care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

WHAT’S THE IMPACT. The EIT Health Regional Innovation Hub is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Economy, the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, the Vienna Chamber of Commerce as well as Wirtschaftsagentur Wien. Boehringer Ingelheim RCV. Kapsch BusinessCom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Cancer is a highly complex disease but technology should ideally make caring for cancer patients simpler. Kathy Dalton Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Ronin, which develops clinical oncology software, very much believes virtual care and other technologies can help providers improve their cancer care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital.

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