EHR, Health Information, Meeting and Primary Care

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. Implementing systems that improve effectiveness and efficiency are the top draw here among clinicians, followed by meeting with the doctors to gain an understand of their needs. How to move forward?

Primary Care

Primary Care Patient Experience EHR Health Data

Australia’s Victorian Department of Health engages Altera’s dbMotion to deliver state-wide Health Information Exchange solution

Digital Health Global

MAY 11, 2023

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Altera Digital Health (formerly the Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment) has won a competitive tender to deliver the Victorian Department of Health’s state-wide Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution.

Health Information

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CareTeam enables whole-patient care approach with athenahealth EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. " Additionally, CareTeam places a heavy focus on addressing patients' whole health. THE PROBLEM.

EHR

EHR Patient Experience Primary Care Telehealth

Bridging the Gap: Communication Challenges Throughout the Patient Journey

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

In pursuit of a better patient experience, most healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation, including the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). These care pathways can only be offered if the scheduling process goes beyond a simple time and date screen. Only 12% of the U.S.

EHR

EHR Patient Experience Primary Care Health Information

The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. The Act paves the way for patients to become more pro-active partners in their care. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

Health Information

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

Health Data

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. Advanced device integration will allow data flow between the providers' EHR and patients' personal devices.

Telehealth

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The Intersection of Digital Patient Engagement and Care Outcomes

Xealth

APRIL 8, 2024

The shift empowers patients and care providers with innovative tools, paving the way for potentially enhanced health outcomes through more personalized and accessible care. There’s growing interest in understanding how digital tools can support patient care more effectively in various healthcare specialties.

EHR

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Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. The main reason: 60% say navigation services employer’s existing carriers don’t meet employer needs.

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How a QR Code Helped Mountain Park Health Center Adopt New Technology

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months.

EHR

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year. as Chief Medical Officer.

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Physicians and Technology: Avoiding Burnout

Advanced Medical Reviews

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts a shortage of up to 105,000 doctors by 2030, including an estimated 43,000 in primary care. Another is the often time-consuming process of meeting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for quality and clinical reporting.

EHR

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Memorial Healthcare System grows its telehealth offering to 61 programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

PROPOSAL Memorial Healthcare System works with several vendors to help it achieve its virtual care goals. "The tablet devices also allow primary care physicians to monitor patients from their home. The physician will be able to visually see the patient and identify how the patient is progressing.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Primary Care Telemedicine

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

DirectTrust released the finalized criteria for the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) Participant program , aligning accreditation requirements with the requirements necessary to participate with a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA.

RCM

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Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. All but one of One Health's clinic locations serve communities that meet the frontier definition. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

Telehealth

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

The goal was – and still is – preventing costly duplicate healthcare expenses and taking better, more informed care of patients. CSC records are encrypted and shared only with other authorized users who see CSC patients, and, in turn, CSC only is able to access patient records when care is established with CSC.

HIE

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Luke's primary use of the patient portal prior to COVID-19 was as a tool for providing patients access to their health information, especially lab results and physician/patient messaging," he explained. Of patients with an assigned primary care provider, 55.51% of patients are enrolled in the portal.

Telehealth

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

Through its regional presence, HIMSS Europe works towards aligning the diverse healthcare systems and policies across European countries, fostering collaboration, and promoting interoperability in health information exchange. For: Innovators who want to improve outcomes with data.

Digital Health

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Solving Provider Burnout with Virtual Healthcare

GlobalMed

JUNE 4, 2019

They may also lose revenue to retail clinics and urgent care centers. Meeting compliance regulations, quality measures and payer requirements can consume hours of each day. Finally, providers can increase their patient volume by offering remote services to smaller communities that lack specialty and even primary care.

Telemedicine

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In this installment, you will share in expertise from: Andy Crowder, chief information and analytics officer at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois. " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital.

Hospital IT

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Chronic Care Model is based upon the idea that people with chronic illnesses should have access to continuous care and support. It shifts the focus from acute and reactive care to proactive, population-based care. Under this program, care teams can bill for time spent managing patients’ health conditions.

Primary Care

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Hospitals are signing on to use Alexa-type devices to access patient data

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Other hospitals using voice-activated devices include Commonwealth Care Alliance in Massachusetts, which is in the midst of a 50-person pilot program using the devices for home-bound patients. Boston-based Commonwealth Care operates four primary care centers and administers two health plans.

HIPAA

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Telemedicine Today: November 2016

American Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A Bright Future for EHRs and Telehealth. Today, most EHRs and telehealth systems integrate data, transporting patient demographic, financial, medical and visit information back and forth between systems using protocols like HL7. Can they support an enterprise approach across multiple specialties and locations of care (e.g.

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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. This is likely the paragraph that will get me in the most trouble. It wasn’t easy.

Primary Care

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health

6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

From misplaced faxes and handwritten notes to EHR systems requiring more than a dozen documentation steps, patients often fall through the cracks – or wait so many months for a specialist appointment that they forget about it. Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine.

Telemedicine

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Published by Xtelligent Healthcare Media, the company exclusively publishes content about telemedicine, mobile health, connected health, and remote patient monitoring. Brought to you by HIMSS, the Healthcare IT News site and email newsletter covers security and privacy, EHR integration, AI, telehealth, and more.

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Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Connected Health Pulse

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Australia’s Victorian Department of Health engages Altera’s dbMotion to deliver state-wide Health Information Exchange solution

Trending Sources

CareTeam enables whole-patient care approach with athenahealth EHR

Bridging the Gap: Communication Challenges Throughout the Patient Journey

The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

The Intersection of Digital Patient Engagement and Care Outcomes

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

How a QR Code Helped Mountain Park Health Center Adopt New Technology

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Physicians and Technology: Avoiding Burnout

Memorial Healthcare System grows its telehealth offering to 61 programs

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Solving Provider Burnout with Virtual Healthcare

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

Hospitals are signing on to use Alexa-type devices to access patient data

Telemedicine Today: November 2016

Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

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