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HIMSSCast: Primary care docs are adopting new tools, but maintaining the human core

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Diane Rittenhouse joins host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about the unique impact of COVID-19 on primary care, how digital tools like telehealth can help, and how primary care providers can move forward in this new world.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. 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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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NEJM: OpenNotes/”OurNotes” releases its innovative pre-visit questionnaire for COVID-19 televisits

Society for Participatory Medicine

This morning the New England Journal of Medicine released the latest publication about OpenNotes. The news: an innovative pre-visit form created for the “OurNotes” study has been released before the study is completed, for other providers to use to improve televisits during the pandemic.

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As AI, virtual care reshape the healthcare workforce, remember the difference between 'tasks and jobs'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like so much else in healthcare, that's set to change in the years ahead – is already changing – thanks to the twin revolutions of technology and consumerism. More than half of respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they've already made use of wearable devices so far this year.).

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Sweetwater Medical reduces patients' blood pressure and weight with AI and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The team always has seemed strapped for time, finding it challenging to monitor at-risk patients with hypertension and obesity to help manage their chronic conditions and look for signs of impending problems. Sweetwater Medical Associates is a single-clinic family practice and internal medicine facility in Sugar Land, Texas. THE PROBLEM.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's required new ways of working, new methods of communication, new solutions to old problems and innovative solutions to new problems. Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City.

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What is ChatGPT? Some Health Professionals Are Rightfully Worried

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A discussion with ChatGPX can feel as if someone were asking you questions. The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of collaboration in various industries, with healthcare being no exception. Still, it can’t be trusted to be entirely accurate.

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