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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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Part One: A Look Back on Health IT in 2017

Mobile Health Matters

2017 was a roller-coaster ride for healthcare, marked by exciting innovation, damaging cyberattacks, periods of lulls and disruptive change. The biggest thing to happen to healthcare IT in 2017 was the advancement of the consumerization of healthcare, and the changing discourse around the patient as a consumer.

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VA, VHA, Verizon partner to increase rural veterans' telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to that, the Anywhere to Anywhere VA Healthcare program expanded telehealth to remote clinics and call centers. In fact, the VA Telehealth Emergency Management Team was established in response to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria in 2017, according to Dr. Neil Evans, chief officer for the VHA's Office of Connected Care.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

in 2017, 54.4% " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2014 and 45.5% ON THE RECORD.

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Sen. Ron Wyden: COVID-19 meant no more 'dawdling' on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

told Healthcare IT News in a recent video that the COVID-19 crisis made clear how important it is to support telehealth with a sustained national strategy. In 2017, he worked with Sen. Wyden's comments on Telehealth Connection TV, a new series from HIMSS TV: Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Nuance is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice

Healthcare IT Today

Microsoft Nuance has been providing healthcare voice solutions for over two decades. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Peter Durlach, Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Life Sciences and Health to learn more about their ambient clinical voice solution. How is the company leveraging that experience? Tell us what you think.

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Lawsuit Brought Against CHIME for their $1 Million Patient ID Challenge

Healthcare IT Today

They planned to announce the $1 million winner in Feb 2017 at the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum. CHIME teamed up with HeroX (which co-founded the XPRIZE) to run a year-long competition to develop a National Patient ID solution. Here’s the challenge description from the HeroX […].