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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Can Healthcare Optimize Its Human Resources and Redefine Care Delivery in the Process?

Healthcare IT Today

We know that our aging population has complex needs, requiring more post-acute and in-home care as well as other community-based support. It is not about remote patient monitoring or adopting electronic health records or tools to help patients view their charts. This isn’t a job for robots or AI.

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To boost tech adoption, consider the benefit of a survey

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2011, as part of the Linkage Technology Survey of Adults age 65-100 , the report observes that there are few surveys of technology ownership among the older adult population. And we may be able to examine age in relationship to tech ownership. Why do surveys of older adults matter? Twelve years later, not much has changed.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. At the institutions served by ClosedLoop, case managers or care managers usually reach out to patients by phone. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

Often, the phone has recorded credit card information and can populate a form so that the patient doesn’t have to enter the numbers manually. Patient-centric care teams are formed in Buzz groups and carry out case management through secure messaging within each appropriate group, which on average, contains ten providers.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population. The survey was fielded in December of 2007 with a population of 907 adults aged 65-98 (the mean age was 74). This population is rarely surveyed today, despite the growing lifespan of the 65+. Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ?

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Design for all – what we wanted and what we got

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Can you look at a list, for example, of technologies that vendor websites claim are aimed at older adults and their caregivers -- and substitute younger beneficiaries or health care recipients? Was that what was meant in the concept ‘design for all’ in this prescient report ‘Connected Living for Social Aging’ sponsored by AARP in 2011?

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