Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

A patient who experiences a stroke, for example, has a lower chance of functional independence and an increased likelihood of mortality when treatment is delayed. “Faster response equals better outcomes for the quality and cost of care,” said Will O’Connor, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), TigerConnect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. From a strictly business perspective, readmissions penalties cut into revenue. THE PROBLEM. This was problematic for two reasons. " PROPOSAL.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

In addition to the traits mentioned in the previous article, several others were cited by Christine Vogel, lead nurse educator at UbiSim : Ease of use: the vendor needs to bring in user experience (UX) designers and subject-matter experts. ” Stephan also suggested that technology too often isolates its users.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How to Leverage Digital Tools to Reduce Burnout and Improve Employee Satisfaction Healthcare is in the throes of an employee burnout crisis — and the numbers are nothing short of alarming. Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. Another aspect at play is the patients. Another aspect at play is the patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. And many forward-thinking CIOs and other technology leaders see how fast AI tools are evolving, and they are looking excitedly to a future where further clinical innovation will occur at rapid speed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

In response, healthcare providers and organizations have accelerated their efforts to leverage technology to keep up with new customer demands and provide high-quality care to patients. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies rapidly transforming the healthcare industry and changing how healthcare is delivered.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association and the American Board of Telehealth announced Tuesday that they were partnering to expand access to training and education for virtual care. Technology. The courses may be used for Continuing Medical Education or Continuing Nursing Education credits. WHY IT MATTERS. Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. 570 counties in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Smartphones, tablets, two-in-one notebooks, and other connected devices and sensors are now commonplace inside and outside hospitals and clinics, greatly expanding the potential for data-driven solutions that can improve patient care. How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. "Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With that context in mind, we thought it would be fun for this episode to let ChatGPT take over and asks us the questions. We asked ChatGPT the following question “ Can you come up with 4 questions for a podcast on healthcare IT (technology)? What role do you see technology playing in the future of the healthcare industry?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ever since CMS released the new CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring last year, health systems have been eager to use them, but unsure of the criteria. Providers are acknowledged for the time they spend connecting with patients outside of the office. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

First, hospitals are facing critical care staffing shortages. "There is a national problem finding enough intensivists to support an ICU," said Dr. Glen Bouder, director of valley intensivists at Valley Health and medical director of critical care at Winchester Medical Center. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. For example, in Florida, Avel eCARE partnered with EMS workers to help get Regeneron delivered to homebound patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

The meta-analysis , which examined 12 studies published in English and Turkish from 2016 through 2021, sought to examine how virtual care apps could affect maternal and neonatal health outcomes, as well as costs. It did not have an effect on non-stress visits and receiving emergency obstetric care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Telemedicine has been particularly important because of the large, multistate service region with many rural and frontier patients, mountain passes and snow that complicate travel, and limited numbers of pediatric subspecialists in the Rocky Mountain region outside of Denver. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Through utilizing the technology that we currently have available, many areas of work healthcare professionals are doing can be automated and simplified. Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2020

Earlier this year in New Haven, Connecticut, the location of Yale New Haven Health’s main hospital, the health system was challenged by how many COVID-19 patients would need to be admitted and ventilated. That hospital had more than 25 patients in ICU when it normally has five or six. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Caroline Clarke, Executive Vice President and Market Leader, Philips ASEAN Pacific shared from the perspective of a technology provider on how the Dutch giant is helping healthcare providers during the pandemic around the world, the rise of virtual care and what the future for digital health holds in a post COVID-19 world.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In the health care world, it is now commonly accepted that genes contribute less than half of the influence on peoples’ health status. Other issues play starring roles in overall well-being, including environmental factors, health care services, and social determinants of health (SDOH).

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It was great seeing the Oracle Health Conference in a new location (and a location that us on the conference circuit are very familiar with!).The Comprised on ambient listening technology as well as generative AI, allowing clinicians to minimize their time spent documenting and spend more time with their patients.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the main benefits of asynchronous messaging is that it can reduce the need for real-time communication, which can be particularly useful when participants are located in different time zones or have different schedules. W , hat is Asynchronous Messaging? However, asynchronous messaging can also have some drawbacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Funding to Support Expanded Access to Whole-Child, Value-Based, Outcomes-Driven Autism Care Cortica , the United States’ leading physician-led, whole-child, value-based autism services company, has raised $40 million in a Series D extension, bringing the total Series D round to $115 million.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Penn State Health provides healthcare to patients and communities across 29 counties in Central Pennsylvania, with more than 2,000 physicians and direct-care providers at 127 medical office sites. "Second, they could scale with us, offering technology that could support care for both common and complex conditions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Well, my mind did, prior to meeting with Dr. Joseph Frassica and Dr. Felix Baader at HIMSS19 to discuss Philips’ approach to the tragic problem of healthcare-acquired infections that kill patients. hospitals have been working to improve the rate of nosocomial infections in America, there is a long way to go. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. Additionally, the DEA is now considering a telemedicine registry that will have implications for the kinds of treatments that can safely be delivered using tech-enabled services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

There are over 50 million family caregivers or care partners in the U.S. Assessment of Family Caregivers: A Research Perspective. There’s also financial stress, and the stress of doing hands-on nursing tasks we’re never trained for. I sat in front of my doctor for the first time since before the pandemic. I’m not alone.

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Mobile Health Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When measured through the perspective of the customer, quality becomes the foundation of customer satisfaction and promotes safety and effectiveness. Once transferred into use, the quality built in has to be evident enough for the customer to experience it. The challenge of quality improvement in patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. The most difficult aspect was deploying the technology to be effective and efficient for both patients and providers.”

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Mark Pratt , Chief Medical Officer at Altera Digital Health The patient quietly sits while her physician delves into the data stored in her electronic health record, combing through different screens for specific information. Here’s how. It’s past time to deliver on this.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 28, 2022

How Biofourmis Utilizes an FDA-Cleared SaMD Analytics Engine to Maximize Access to Care. At HLTH21 in October, we sat down with Sheeza Hussain , the Chief Commercial Officer of Biofourmis , to discuss the future of virtual care and her experience with taking hospital-at-home and remote patient monitoring to the next level.

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