Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 30, 2022

” to explore some of the most common security problems and how blockchain technology offers one of the most promising trends in the future of security for behavioral and telehealth services. However, it is challenging to ensure that behavioral health and telehealth services are secure and safe for various reasons.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have. Dr. Michael Sherling, cofounder and chief medical and strategy officer, says the company adopted this strategy from its founding 13 years ago. They test their products in their own medical practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care people receive when ill, injured or wanting to stay well. These networks profit the people they serve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke? COVID significantly changed the landscape for IT and the electronic health record. They still want access to everything in their medical record.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Suraj Kapa, Chief Medical Officer at TripleBlind Data is arguably the most critical driver of innovation in healthcare today. When you think about it, everything in healthcare hinges on having access to the right data: From developing new drugs and medical devices to allocating scarce resources amidst supply chain issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

"In a healthcare system in 2021, data really serves as the basis for how decisions are made and how care is delivered," said Kimberly McManus, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the VA's Office of Information and Technology, during a symposium this week. Are we using that data in the service of the patient?"

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Lloyd Price

MAY 25, 2023

This allows them to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. They can also be used to generate treatment plans and recommend medications. Research: LLMs can be used to analyze large datasets of medical research papers.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

MAY 15, 2023

Our partners, along with us, will be present to demonstrate how our collective expertise is shaping the future of healthcare delivery. Working in partnership with NHS staff, the Xerox Digital Patient Team have delivered both a holistic health records transformation programme and outpatient communications programme for multiple Trusts.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

But as COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the country, you and your team may find yourselves considering how you can provide safe, accessible psychiatric solutions to your patients. Also, evaluate medications prescribed to understand which medications your FQHC prescribes the most.

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TheraNest

APRIL 6, 2022

It is the process of collecting varying types of data regarding new clients/patients coming to your organization for services. This form is designed to gain a complete medical history, family history, list of concerns, and any other relevant history that might have impacted or is currently impacting their mental and behavioral health.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Growing interest in AR/VR in healthcare: Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have gained traction in various medical fields like surgery, training, and rehabilitation. Medical training: Trainees could use Glass to visualize procedures and anatomy in 3D,enhancing their learning experience. This is the Google Glass vision.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

"Curadite empowers patients, clinicians, caregivers and family members to work together to improve medication adherence with the support of our intelligently linked, proactive medication management platform. With Curadite’s MMP, healthcare providers and loved ones have tangible evidence that medication is being taken as prescribed.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Toward that end, this month I’m doing a talk at the Massachusetts Council on Aging annual conference , to launch a new topic I’ll be using in local community presentations: How To Be An Empowered Patient and Caregiver. My prompt: What’s a good way to introduce seniors to how to be an empowered patient?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

Will they be used effectively to help them remain as safe, independent and/or well as possible? WellBe ® utilizes advanced speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis to deliver information and answers from any place in your home where it can hear your voice. Learn more at Safely-You.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In the last few years alone, we’ve watched as healthcare organizations have quickly become mobile-powered businesses with the migration to electronic health records, patients increasingly using mobile apps to view test results, schedule appointments, contact their care provider, and even control their medical devices.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 13, 2022

Do you seem to notice that your child has symptoms of COVID-19? Lots of questions keep coming to your mind, and now you are probably scared and anxious. 1 All we need to do is learn those signs and symptoms, look at the duration of the symptoms , and search for the medications available. What should you do?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 13, 2022

Do you seem to notice that your child has symptoms of COVID-19? Lots of questions keep coming to your mind, and now you are probably scared and anxious. 1 All we need to do is learn those signs and symptoms, look at the duration of the symptoms , and search for the medications available. What should you do?

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2023

For example, studies have shown that LLMs can be used to: Extract insights from clinical text analysis: LLMs have been shown to be able to extract insights from unstructured clinical texts, such as electronic health records, discharge summaries, and clinical notes, with high accuracy.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

There’s no difference in the length of treatment, the type of care, or how the provider conducts the appointment. If patients require medication, a virtual psychiatrist can prescribe that as well — often through your organization’s existing system. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.’s

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How effectively can the industry innovate while navigating new standards that may add complexity along with frustration? HTI-1 is an ambitious, some say long overdue, effort to ensure the algorithms driving the future of healthcare forward are transparent, safe, and work to eliminate existing health disparities without creating new ones.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you use practice management software for your psychiatric practice, you know how significantly it can transform your efficiency. Making use of the full range of capabilities can result in major time savings and efficiency gains for your practice. First Learn Your Software’s Core Features. New Client Intakes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Wicked problems, indeed: “It is only when you are lost in the system that you become aware of how far we need to go to actually change it,” Amy observed. How do we navigate this ethical turf in a go-go innovation paradigm? Then open up the Strava app, run on your military base and — oops! — Spur your ethical imagination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

But those who needed abortions still had to travel to clinics for care – even when it comes to medication abortions, which consist of taking a few pills. Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2021

Blessing Health was looking at ways it could provide these patients with a true human connection with their care team, in a safe environment, while monitoring the physiological as well as subjective parameters during their recovery. Second, once discharged, they are limited in their interactions with family and healthcare providers.

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Ortholive

JANUARY 17, 2022

How can you calculate your indirect and direct injury costs? If you are curious about how much you are spending to cover these hidden expenses, click here to calculate your indirect workplace injury costs using our free calculator. What are the indirect costs of workplace injuries and how do they differ from direct ones?

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2023

But, how does bridge care work, and how does it help ensure patients get the care they need in a way that’s financially and organizationally sustainable for health systems? When these patients leave the hospital system, they’re often starting medications or getting medications adjusted. Keep reading to learn more.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It was incredible to see how something like a rare disease could drive people to create solutions for themselves and their loved ones. Plus, she needed to connect them all and track her health records since they weren’t doing that for her. She asked how other chronic patients were dealing with this and the answer was: Binders!

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Here are five benefits of remote patient monitoring and how physicians can begin implementing it today. A 2002 Coulter study finds that patient engagement is crucial to ensure high-quality medical services. Reduced Risks of Medical Mistakes. Do you know that medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death in America?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

It needed advice on best practices to adjust to life during COVID-19 and continue treating patients safely and effectively. Another challenge was how to leverage its digital billing platform to respond to the rapidly changing landscape of regulations and requirements around reimbursement. " Amy Coombs, Whole Life Health Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT. However, we now were left with a clinical staff of three: one doctor, one nurse and one referral coordinator to meet the medical needs of 1,200 patients in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.” THE PROBLEM.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

E-prescribing is the electronic transmission of a prescription directly from a provider to a pharmacy using a special technology called an EHR (electronic health record). Checking for potential drug interactions is important when prescribing a new medication. How to Find the Requirements for Your State. And if so, when?”

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2023

Additionally, we will discuss how remote patient monitoring (RPM) can aid in the management of permissive hypertension. In addition, it may contribute to other medical conditions such as sleep apnea , which can worsen the situation. What is Permissive Hypertension?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is the sixth article in Healthcare IT News ’ Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 feature story series, and it focuses on the kinds of stresses telehealth managers face, how telehealth technology hurts managers’ abilities to cope with those stressors and how telemedicine tech helps them manage stress. " Dr. Lisa R.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are numbers assigned to every task and service a provider administers to a patient, including medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. weight, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, respiratory flow rate), initial device supply with daily recordings or programmed alerts transmission, every 30 days.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And, though I could probably use a hair transplant from Turkey, I’m going to skip Nikhil’s take on medical tourism and dive into a couple of healthcare data-oriented predictions in his posts. Data standards rendered obsolete? Original prediction: We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g.,

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MAY 12, 2020

We’ve often blogged about OpenNotes , the practice of patients having access to what their providers write in the record after a visit – your so-called “visit notes.” Here’s how it’s played out. Please think about this, in the context of your own care visits.

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