Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

One way to alleviate the burden on healthcare workers and potentially improve the patient experience and outcomes is remote patient monitoring. How can advances in remote patient monitoring have significant benefits for patients and providers with improved medical care and patient outcomes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. What do patients worry about?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 16, 2024

AI assistants will train healthcare providers on patient assessments and support information collection for diagnoses JACKSON, Wyo.–(BUSINESS OSF HealthCare, which Fortune named one of the Most Innovative Companies in 2023 , possesses deep expertise in industry-leading patient care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

T he 2023 BDO Clinician Experience Survey “takes on” clinician burnout, connecting the strategic dots between the clinician experience and the patient experience. Clinicians’ feeling burnout is the top morale challenge facing U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Please explain how, and the value virtual primary care adds here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2024

The initiative is designed to give experienced nurses the tools and empowerment to offer remote, system-wide support through Geisinger's 24/7 virtual nurse center, where registered nurses handle admissions, discharges and virtual rounds, enabling bedside nurses to prioritize hands-on patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 23, 2024

The report, titled “ Exploring the Digital Health Landscape in the WHO European Region: Digital Health Country Profiles “, offers a comprehensive overview of how member states are integrating digital health into their healthcare systems.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CI&T (NYSE:CINT), a leader in driving AI-powered digital transformation for global brands, will be showcasing its innovative solutions to advance the future of healthcare and life sciences at the 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference taking place in Orlando, FL on March 11-15, 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2024

Nuance on Wednesday that announced that York, Pennsylvania-based WellSpan Health and more than 60 additional healthcare organizations are in the process of implementing DAX Copilot embedded within Epic electronic health records. Then, three years ago, the health system expanded Nuance Dax to primary care and a number of specialties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

It's been a long week at HIMSS24, filled with educational sessions and an exhibit hall packed with the latest and greatest in healthcare information technology. Veronica Walk is senior director analyst, healthcare and life sciences, at consulting firm Gartner, where she specializes in emerging clinical technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Talking with a CIO this week, he described how telehealth is now just part of the infrastructure for how they see patients. Patients and clinicians are now more comfortable with telehealth as an option that provides great convenience for the patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Collecting social determinants of health (SDOH) information from patients is challenging. It is not easy to ask if a person is experience food insecurity or is currently unhoused. We wanted to find out more about how the company is helping healthcare organization collect SDOH information. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Telemedicine took a huge leap forward during the pandemic as more providers and patients embraced remote delivery of healthcare services. Piotr Orzechowski is CEO of Infermedica, an AI health company dedicated to improving preliminary symptom analysis and digital triage. AI also significantly enhances telemedicine adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company. Why do you believe prioritizing health equity is the key to the future of healthcare after the pandemic ends?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

The subscription-based service sends semi-customized supportive texts based on what users input about their experiences when signing up and without initiation. Reducing healthcare worker burnout. She developed Sharp Index to be a resource to support the healthcare industry's mental health challenges. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered. And many healthcare professionals are exploring exactly what AI can do and deploying systems to help health systems manage care and patients manage their health. The app has been tested and vetted by the U.S. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2024

The founders, Dr. Edmund Jackson, Cody Hall, and Dr. Jason Parker, bring a wealth of expertise in the healthcare sector, where they identified a critical need for innovation in hospital operations. Using their collective experience and insights, they established UnityAI with a mission to transform how hospitals optimize patient flow.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 23, 2024

According to an NHS review into outpatient appointments , the main reasons for missing appointments stem from difficulties with processes and communication, as well as previous poor experiences. My own research for the NHS also pinpoints anxiety as a significant factor in the relationship between patients/carers and healthcare estates.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 26, 2024

Closed Loop Medicine specializes in leveraging digital care to enhance drug efficacy and outcomes for patients with specific chronic disorders. In the most extreme cases, we are seeing patients having severe adverse events, for example, when required to change dose levels to undergo surgery.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

As the industry evolves, health systems are faced with multiple challenges: revenue growth with limited capacity, managing and retaining a highly-skilled, but burnt out workforce, increasing operational costs, and making the most of their care delivery capacity to ensure patient access to high-quality care.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2023

DOWNLOAD THE FREE BOOKLET The approach features six areas of expertise as a guide for their work: Digital Transformation of Brands, Connected Experience, Reimagining Scientific Affairs, Change Management and Shifting Capabilities, Data Driven Enterprise, and Emerging Business Models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

Virtual care has proven that it can be a big help in connecting patients with the right specialists , and in a timely manner. Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. Today, too many patients are lost in the labyrinth of the U.S. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers. The hope is that this will keep nurses in the profession, enhancing their careers and improving retention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. Please discuss Sanford's $350 million virtual care initiative and how it is helping the organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

Under the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, TRACE aims at how best to use and sustain telehealth to provide cancer-related care. There has been growing interest in how to enhance patient care experiences through the development of hybrid models that layer in virtual care opportunities like telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. " Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell, to discuss delivering primary care via telemedicine, and how it can help patients, cut costs and aid population health management.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We recently had a chance to sit down with Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at  Lifepoint Health , who shared with us that her past experience has given her a unique view in crafting the patient experience. This would help to create the type of care experience patients now expect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. However, the scheduling volume of visits was "a broadly cited acute problem."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. It’s again getting to that normalization place of what makes sense for a provider and his or her patients.

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