Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"At the time, hospitals across the Sanford Health footprint were experiencing a rapid increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, stretching hospital capacity and creating unprecedented challenges for our health system and its frontline workers. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some of these challenges included technology for providers available at scale, a platform to deliver care in a user-friendly fashion, licensure for these tools, state licensure, and expanding quality care to patients amidst the capacity and staffing challenges that all health systems were facing across the country.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2024

You should establish a comprehensive budget, accounting for software costs, hardware upgrades, staff training, and potential hidden costs such as for data migration. An effective EPR system should not only streamline administrative processes but also enhance patient care and support the NHS’s digital transformation.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 23, 2023

The healthcare education industry has a high demand for physicians and medical staff, where the supply is scarce. The broad access to chronic diseases management to medication adherence, while healthcare professionals are started using those games to track patient health and medical outcomes in cases from autism to concussion treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Simultaneously, many patients canceled appointments and did not schedule new appointments for fear of becoming exposed to the virus. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past decades, hospitals have trialed various initiatives to deal with hospital over-capacity – a problem often associated with poor care experiences. Island Health's Hospital at Home program was created to determine whether treating acute care patients in their own homes is as effective as in-hospital treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2024

Taylor said, “It took a lot of time to navigate scheduling to make sure that we were staffed appropriately to meet the patient needs on the unit.” They had leveraged locums to help run their inpatient unit, but they needed a long-term solution that would almost exclusively provide physician oversight on the inpatient unit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck. Technology leaders at U.S. " Hospital at home.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

There are still a few months to go in 2018, yet this year is already shaping up to be arguably the most eventful and important for the proliferation of remote patient management (RPM). Extend eligibility to include qualified members of a physician’s or practice’s clinical staff. In the U.S., But it’s not just in the U.S.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

Given its capacity to reach patients in their homes, provide early intervention and care for minor conditions and alleviate overutilization of hospitals’ emergency rooms, telemedicine has become an integral part of many hospitals’ core patient access strategy. ” How to determine where to implement telemedicine.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

Given its capacity to reach patients in their homes, provide early intervention and care for minor conditions and alleviate overutilization of hospitals’ emergency rooms, telemedicine has become an integral part of many hospitals’ core patient access strategy. ” How to determine where to implement telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

A whopping 100% of respondents in Experian Health’s latest survey said staffing shortages impacted their organizations and 70% of those who said payer reimbursements are the most impacted by the staff shortages say it led to higher denial rates. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One of the greatest areas of utilization growth for hospitals is chronic care management – increasing from 8% in our 2022 survey to 19% in our 2023 survey. But it has offered technological advancements that are taking better care of people today and will set up healthcare workers for crises in the future. How can providers fix this?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Others haven't scaled, because they are discovering that managing all the clinical and nonclinical services associated with hospital-level care in the home is a major undertaking. One way some provider organizations are managing is offloading many services to a technology and services vendor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health-system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. Virtual care and remote monitoring have never before been in the spotlight as they are today. Some vendors are even giving away products and services free. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Board members, fellow C-suite officers, IT managers and workers in the trenches have much to learn from the expert guidance in this latest feature article in the series. 'A When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream.

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 13, 2020

vacancy rate (100,500 vacancies, including for doctors & nurses), the highest vacancy rate of any UK public sector service. As an example of the growth in digital engagement, she shared that last Friday (February 28th, 2020), they stress-tested the 111 call centres and verified 12x peak load capacity, deemed as sufficient.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

With the help of technology, the ongoing digital, and now cultural, transformation will enable providers and patients to catch health concerns earlier and provide better solutions in the long run. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is beneficial for conditions that can be effectively managed remotely, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental health issues. Virtual healthcare can also be used for follow-up appointments, medication management, and ongoing care. Virtual healthcare has several benefits. What is Virtual Healthcare? How Does it Work?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Korchinski, CIO at CareMount Health Solutions and CareMount Medical in New York. Santosh Mohan, managing director of Brigham Digital Innovation Hub, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. They have been put to the test, and the successful have survived intact, with many lessons learned along the way. Nicholas J.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age.

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