Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Centrik is a source of consumer health information that can integrate with a patient EHR in real time. It will allow Phoenix to digitally integrate its on-site services into the platform and provide "frictionless" patient engagement via the Well mobile app. NSW launches online menopause toolkit.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The healthcare workforce is depleted, exhausted and demoralized. Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. But for a U.S. health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. Financial and revenue cycle disruptions are significant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2024

With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. This was largely because telemedicine visits were not embedded in the patient portal, MyChart from Geisinger's EHR vendor Epic , said Benjamin C.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Dell and Northwestern drive AI further into hospital workflows Dell Technologies and Northwestern Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine aim to develop and integrate generative multimodal large language models into hospital workflows to improve patient care and reduce physician burnout, according to an announcement Friday from Dell.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

Studies The latest ONC data brief indicated 58% of PCPs are satisfied with their ability to access external immunization information via their EHR and/or portal. Greenway Health is integrating Nabla , an ambient clinical documentation tool, into its Prime Suite and Intergy EHR solutions. for automated clinical documentation.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

nurse workforce, Sefton said leaders couldn't continue to ignore burnout any longer and discussed actions healthcare organizations can take to eliminate some of the key problem drivers. EHR outage takes down federal Cerner systems. The software services company surveyed more than 200 nurses working in U.S.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Further, Saint Luke’s believed this care model would help address the capacity constraints that exist in the brick-and-mortar facility and alleviate workforce challenges. MEETING THE CHALLENGE Saint Luke’s partnered with Medically Home to establish an integrated virtual and physical care model to manage the census of HIYH.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Patients and their families have grown accustomed to managing their own health and wellness needs in a right-time, right-place manner. A month later, it announced an effort to "streamline operations by eliminating 267 roles in its corporate workforce." However, the integration of the two entities is slow-moving and amorphous.

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Hospitals 239

HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2024

It’s worth asking: If the healthcare landscape has changed so much, why do foundational electronic health record (EHR) systems stand largely unchanged? Ultimately, EHRs were created as documentation and billing engines—and those are still their primary purposes. The benefits stretch across functions and the continuum of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to get their thoughts on using technology to optimize the healthcare workforce. The industry is facing a historic workforce crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The combined company, which will operate as IKS Health, will have annual revenues of $330+ million, as well as a global workforce of over 14,000 employees serving over 150,000 clinicians in many of the largest hospitals, health systems, and specialty groups in the United States. For more information, visit ikshealth.com.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ZEDOC is currently being integrated into the Sunrise EMR , which is also being rolled out across SA. This process is managed locally by each implementing service as well as by patients within the patient-facing elements of the solution. Q: After TQEH, which services are also slated under the Stage 1 implementation? . _

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Nearly 334,000 healthcare providers, including 117,000 physicians left the workforce in 2021, according to a 2022 study. The workforce departures are coming at a time when the country is already facing critical clinician shortages. Many things need to be improved, from compensation to EHRs to flexible scheduling.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We spoke with the health IT vendor executive to get her expert views and 2023 predictions on these issues as well as other topics such as social determinants of health and EHR optimization. Her informed takes on these important subjects can help guide leaders through the year to come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ideal solution, it said, must be "flexible and fully digital with automated end-to-end system commencing from point of contact to results on a user interface and records management." " The framework will also consider and manage AI's potential risks around safety, ethics, privacy, security, and regulation.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2024

As the industry evolves, health systems are faced with multiple challenges: Revenue growth with limited capacity, managing and retaining a highly-skilled, but burnt-out workforce, increasing operational costs, and making the most of their care delivery capacity to ensure patient access to high-quality care.

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Hospitals 64

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients. How are cloud contact centers enabling employees to work remotely, managing a rapid increase of incoming calls from the public no matter their location?

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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. Remote patient monitoring uses three primary FHIR resources: Patient.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 FDA Governance 177

HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

The platform provides a quick and cost-effective way to create new revenue opportunities, better support the workforce, improve care and boost the bottom line. – Workforce management guidance to help define hybrid staffing and scheduling plans. – Web-based Clinician Console for providers to conduct visits.

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Licensing 98

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Only 22% of companies offering chronic condition management solutions to employees fully trust vendors to act in the employer’s best interest, according to a Quantum Health report. Operations software vendor symplr integrated with Branch , a workforce payments platform.

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Telemedicine Nurses Medicare Medicare 105

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Experience Care has a proven track record with its leading electronic health record (EHR) platform NetSolutions, serving 150 long-term care clients with 850 facilities. Workforce shortages, regulatory shifts, and changes to reimbursement can have a profound impact on care delivery,” said WellSky CEO Bill Miller.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access.

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Hospitals 157

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Partnerships Hona has integrated Particle Health’s API for retrieving records outside an EHR system into its tool for creating medical history summaries. Radical Imaging has integrated FlexView with arcc , the imaging platform form Apollo. Healthcare consumer data vendor Freshpaint launched its Healthcare Privacy Platform.

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Payment Systems Public Health Medicare Medicare 114

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2024

Leveraging an Outside Provider for the EHR Service Desk. Andy Oram talked to Brent Francom at Smarty about working with vendors to integrate its API for address standardization and tackle the problem once and for all. Read more… Why Managing Mobile Devices at Scale Matters in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Only 40% of healthcare organizations said their EHRs are good at managing clinical burnout , according to a recent report from MGMA and Laserfiche. Less than half (47%) said their EHRs are good at helping them save money. News from RSNA LG Business Solutions USA unveiled a 21-inch 5MP diagnostic monitor.

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Hospitals 114

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Partnerships Data vendor Veradigm is partnering with MedEvolve to make the company’s Effective Intelligence workforce automation and analytics solutions available to Veradigm clients. Personify Health is now offering integrated access to WeightWatchers for Business , a weight health platform for employers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

As the industry evolves, health systems are faced with multiple challenges: revenue growth with limited capacity, managing and retaining a highly-skilled, but burnt out workforce, increasing operational costs, and making the most of their care delivery capacity to ensure patient access to high-quality care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Challenges, opportunities for IT leaders.

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Fraud 343

AIHC

APRIL 10, 2024

This will minimize challenges EHR has in setting up your software with your patient database. Administrative safeguards HIPAA administrative safeguards are actions, policies, and procedures designed to manage the selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of security measures to protect ePHI. safeguards)?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

Needs changed almost constantly as their responsibilities for maintaining the health and safety of their workforces seemed to shift every single day. How would they transition seamlessly to remote working conditions and still manage health surveillance?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

THE PROBLEM The massive health system recently set three goals: Improve patient outcomes by monitoring and actively managing patients with chronic diseases, with a specific focus on remote medication titration to get more patients to guidelines. Give patients peace of mind and more assurance their conditions are appropriately managed.

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Hospitals 104

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

workforce, stretched thin during the pandemic, emotionally exhausted clinicians exhibited cynicism, disillusionment and career disengagement. Within UCHealth's EHR, providers can now see previously inaccessible data, like lower-cost options. AMA president, said in a prepared statement.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Scheduling: Nurse scheduling is one of the single biggest time sucks for frontline staff and has a negative impact on retention of nurse managers. How long does it take to set up, train, and integrate into our operations? What data sources does the AI solution utilize, and how does it handle data privacy and security?

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Nurses COVID-19 Hospitals 105

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. “In managing our own workforce, we identified the need to screen and monitor employees for concerning infectious symptoms daily.”

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2023

– By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas. Financial detials of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Additionally, 89% of patients said the ability to manage their health in a single platform is as least somewhat important. Tellingly, 70% of orgs with plans to deploy AI intend to adopt solutions via their EHR vendors. PointClickCare released Pharmacy Connect , a medication management tool for care teams in senior living communities.

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