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. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine leveled the playing field by making healthcare more accessible.

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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. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. CTA tracked consumers’ use of technology throughout the pandemic, and the first chart illustrates important findings that illustrate the digital transformation of people through COVID-19. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S. in the next 12 months.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Generative AI already has the power to alleviate some of providers’ biggest woes, which include rising costs and high inflation, clinician shortages, and physician burnout,” Bain & Company observe in Beyond Hype: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI in Healthcare Today. ” Bain & Company surveyed U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients. Prioritize Intake for Effective RCM Patient intake is an important part of the revenue cycle process. So much of the experience for patients is a financial one,” added Smith.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 16, 2024

Exec Summary: Digital phenotyping is a rapidly growing field that uses data collected from personal digital devices to measure and understand human behaviour and health. It can provide researchers with a more objective and continuous measure of behaviour than traditional self-report methods.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice President & Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center ( WHAIC ) to the explore the past, present, and bright future of HIM professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Matthew Ko, cofounder and president, COO, explains in this video how they developed a highly customizable and accurate ambient voice solution. Ko says that the company “built up one of the world’s largest data set of patient conversations collected around the world” during four years. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

' and more. If we can seize this moment, we may be able to make this a uniquely transformative year for healthcare. Here are some priorities for technology and leadership focus for CIOs in 2022. Now is a good time for CIOs to look at ways to create a perfect platform that digs into a much more comprehensive array of data.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The project has been successful in developing and implementing a number of standards, including the Argonaut FHIR Data Exchange Standard and the Argonaut FHIR API Standard. Subscribe today! The Argonaut Project focuses on the development and implementation of FHIR, a standard for exchanging healthcare data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 23, 2023

In that proposal, I make it clear that this is NOT an end-state, but rather a method to more smoothly transition. A key point of a smooth transition is that it does not stop what is working today, but provides methods of supporting the future for those early adopters. Yes, it is based on HL7 v3, and uses SOAP.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

One could say that Amazon.com launched the modern computing era when it released Amazon Web Services more than 17 years ago. The recent advances in generative AI are being use in research for scientific discovery, by providers to summarize notes and large clinical charts, and even to help patients receive personalized care.

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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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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

Because these ideas are just too good to live on indefinitely in my digital bookmarks, I’ve decided to share them here. Data’s role in healthcare’s digital transformation Healthcare Revolution: Bold Predictions for 2024. All three trends map back to (you probably already guessed it) data. Innovation in Data-Driven Health Care.”

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Enablers build the technology stacks that integrate multiple emerging and traditional data sources. This allows healthcare providers, researchers, and insurers to access and analys e a wider range of data, which can lead to better insights and improved outcomes. Custodians hold healthcare data and the workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have focused their efforts on data that clinicians want to use, that fits their workflow, and can be seamlessly incorporated into their Epic system. When the work was done, the lab data seamlessly appeared within Epic.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 19, 2024

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has taken the healthcare world by storm. By enabling clinicians to track patient vitals and health data remotely, RPM offers a promising path to improved patient outcomes, potentially reduced healthcare costs, and increased access to care.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On the other hand, there are concerns about the potential for big tech companies to misuse patient data or to create monopolies in the healthcare industry. Google is also developing wearable devices to track health data and to detect early signs of disease. One concern is that big tech companies may misuse patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online community and app designed to combine many forms of support patients benefit from. A patient who receives a diagnosis is often confused, desperate, and overwhelmed.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, it’s increasingly important to offer services and monitoring to patients in the home, because those interventions are key to managing chronic conditions as well as rehabilitation after surgery or other medical procedures. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

Exec Summary: Personal health large language models (LLMs) are an exciting new area in healthcare that uses AI to provide users with personalised guidance and support. Here's a breakdown of how they work and their potential: What exactly are Personal health LLMs? Subscribe Today! What can Personal health LLMs do?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the world of healthcare, where we are constantly looking for ways to make things better, it is no surprise that we are facing a high burnout rate. While there are countless problems and struggles in healthcare, there are a lot of ideas and technologies right now that are working to make things better.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. Please explain what remote therapeutic monitoring is and how it has come to the fore. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Thousands of dust-gathering paper records would sit in the good doctor’s basement, eventually to be trashed while patients start afresh with new doctors, losing decades of information. Plus, organizations are often stuck paying maintenance fees for software they rarely use. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

AI-powered chatbots can help direct patients to the most appropriate care provider. It will not be long before the technology is capable of doing much more complex tasks like diagnosing patients. Should AI be used for this type of work? High-risk applications include the use of AI to diagnose diseases.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Just when clinicians—inspired by the HITECH act and new forms of analytics—are grappling with new uses for traditional clinical data, they are being pushed to include a far vaster data set: social determinants of health (SDoH). Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

This, coupled with national healthcare worker shortages, means that healthcare workers are feeling heightened patient volumes and stress levels. Many healthcare organizations use AI-powered automation to support their employees, increase positive patient outcomes, and decrease administrative workloads.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Updating the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire. Read more… Automatically Generated Medical Notes the Way You Would Have Written Them. The ability to apply a customized style helps here. Read more… Why Self-Scheduling Has Reached a Tipping Point.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Imagine two coins, flipped simultaneously, where one always lands heads and the other always lands tails, no matter how far apart they are. Communication using Entanglement? While it might seem like entangled particles could be used for "instantaneous" communication, that's not quite true. Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. CloudWave renewed its partnership with the FDA to share threat intelligence data for medical device security.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

How often have you heard how SDoH impacts people’s mental health? In order to learn more about the connection between mental health and SDoH, we sat down with Malekeh Amini, Founder and CEO at Trayt Health. It was eye opening to hear and see how many ties there are between SDoH and a person’s mental health.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 28, 2023

NLP is used in a variety of applications, including machine translation, text classification, and sentiment analysis. In the healthcare industry, NLP is increasingly being used to extract insights from electronic health records (EHRs). NLP can be used to extract information from EHRs in a number of ways.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home. How can RPM help? Patients need more care, not less.

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