Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On Monday, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS. "Projects that focus on underserved populations around the world will be eligible for the program. Learn more here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. It has proven itself throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

He is in an excellent position to comment on the report and the potential here for telemedicine, so Healthcare IT News interviewed him to get his perspective on the issue. Virtual care creates a multimodal "front door" to healthcare. How can virtual care enable this?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

Clinicians rely on electronic health records and other healthcare information systems to give them the data they need to make informed decisions to optimally manage care. Care management is fed by information, much of it electronic. But what if optimal could become more optimal? How would that impact care management and outcomes?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2023

What You Should Know: Patient violence is a top safety concern for healthcare workers, according to recent Motorola Healthcare Worker Safety report. Overall, the data shows that healthcare workers feel safe in their respective medical environments, but are grappling with safety issues that have dominated headlines in recent years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2022

"This element of touch and go was particularly challenging for mental healthcare, in which providers may be helping with sensitive, traumatic issues and were unnecessarily disrupted and inhibited by the outdated technology. THE PROBLEM. Its efforts to revamp and improve its technology were merely trial and error. Network connectivity?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare?

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some healthcare provider organizations are using conversational AI to help caregivers and patients. The technology is being used in healthcare for such things as patient chatbots, medical triaging and patient support, patient data management and access, and access to medical services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Overall, it's a great fit – and one that soared during the pandemic and beyond. Overall, it's a great fit – and one that soared during the pandemic and beyond. She has more than 20 years of experience working with a wide range of patients. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Among these barriers: the lack of transportation or financial resources to pay for taxis or buses; lack of resources to provide child or dependent care in order to attend appointments; inability to take extra time off work to travel to in-person appointments; and physical limitations or illness that made it particularly challenging.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

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. 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. Louis, Missouri. ( @FollowMercy ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare IT News interviewed Griffin to take a closer look at what he will be presenting at the HIMSS22 conference. Dr. Shawn P.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The healthcare industry has a golden opportunity to consolidate the advances achieved in digital health and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre COVID, 25% of younger healthcare professionals had considered leaving the healthcare profession as a result of work-related stress. Staying power.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Since the onset of the pandemic, Saint Luke’s has seen high volume in facilities. Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. Luke's Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. How can RPM help? An estimated 41% of adults in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Three and a half years after the pandemic’s start, the medical field is still feeling the ripple effects. During the height of the pandemic, eCheck-ins grew in popularity. Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox Finding a frustrated patient sitting in a waiting room has become familiar.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2020

Dr. Rob Fields, chief medical officer for population health at Mount Sinai, is leading the effort at the health system along with a team of clinical pharmacists. "The ability to monitor patients at home during the pandemic – and on an ongoing basis – is critical," Fields said in a press release.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19. Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Arc Madison Cortland in Oneida, New York, knows that there is a lack of providers that specialize in the intellectual/developmental disability field. Additionally, The Arc is in a rural area requiring travel to see a provider, and there is a lack of providers in the field. THE PROBLEM. pause for needed medical services.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Cost concerns increasingly outweighed worries about the pandemic as the top reason Americans deferred healthcare, according to a new study by Qualtrics , the leader and creator of the experience management category. Rising Costs Replace Pandemic Concerns As Top Reason Americans Defer Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. He sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss how telehealth and RPM can work together, the role analytics plays with RPM and the future of RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Before the pandemic struck, Iceland was lagging behind in digital healthcare, according to Runolfur Palsson, director of internal medicine and rehabilitation at the national university hospital, Landspitali. “The problems have been a lack of funding and lack of common vision, but during COVID this all changed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

Amid a period of tremendous medical uncertainty and service disruption, health workers and first responders functioned like a life vest keeping society afloat – and healthcare providers were prompted to seek innovative ways to produce better care outcomes for patients and be better prepared for unpredictable future medical challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Several technological solutions have been launched to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic, notably to detect the first symptoms, track the virus, carry out tests and support the population in accessing and receiving healthcare. “An app should have added value to the current process of the local healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Middle East was on a transformational journey even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, where its healthcare system was concerned. The population – and the growing number of those with chronic diseases – had been rising for some time. Virtual care: a helping hand in a time of crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2020

As with nearly every element of the healthcare world, applications of artificial Intelligence and machine learning have been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping people away from disease hotspots is a priority during the pandemic and this has created a surge in the use of telehealth.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients. So, What Comes Next? As the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Weisberg to discuss what telehealth cannot do to cure the therapist shortage, how virtual reality works in mental healthcare, why she believes VR is the goldilocks answer to the staffing problem, and how virtual reality can give access to alternatives to pharmacological treatments like opioids.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Bend clinic’s previous EHR system was not accessible remotely, so VIM volunteers would have had to suspend operations during COVID-19 if they had not gone live with Epic when they did. “The COVID-19 pandemic had reached a level that the highest-risk community members were being asked to shelter at home.”

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

For healthcare providers under immense pressure to provide top care to COVID and non-COVID patients, having reliable medical technology is essential for functionality. For healthcare providers under immense pressure to provide top care to COVID and non-COVID patients, having reliable medical technology is essential for functionality.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2020

A new KLAS report found that organizations have turned to a wide range of vendors – most frequently those providing telehealth technology – to help provide care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. KLAS surveyed nearly 200 healthcare leaders in April and May about tools they're relying on during the coronavirus crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond. What have been some of yours?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2022

The pandemic disrupted many industries, but few experienced the level of change seen in healthcare. During the pandemic, the healthcare industry evolved from slowly adopting technology to implementing new technology strategies virtually overnight to continue patient care, most notably through telehealth.

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