Connected Health Pulse

Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS UnitedHealth Group, Optum's parent company, reported more than $1 billion in net losses during the first quarter – which included impacts from the February 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack and subsequent payment systems outage. million in 2019.

Telehealth

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Halamka and team point out a JAMA study which overestimated the risk of heart disease in people who had high BMIs.

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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

” I decided to pay the best cash price I could strike and get onto the meds to help abate my bothersome cough. Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact. health care system.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. " Dr. Kenneth W.

EHR

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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% WHY IT MATTERS.

Telehealth

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1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools, Outlook Is Cautiously Optimistic, Finds Elation Health Survey

Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI scribe tools use speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and transcribe conversations between a physician and a patient during clinical encounters. For those who have tried AI scribing and have decided not to purchase yet, they are also looking to EHR vendors to provide a solution.

Primary Care

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. In that game we play of “what I want to be when I grow up,” Stacy had not planned to work in a career as patient advocate. “I for herself and for her son, Emmett.

Life Science

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UpStream Raises $140 Million Series B Round to Scale Value-Based Care Model Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More than 2,900 physicians providing care to 175,000 senior patients now leverage UpStream’s unique platform to ensure better patient outcomes and improve their financial performance. star quality performance for contracted seniors attributed to those practices. “Primary care physicians are an integral part of the U.S.

Primary Care

Primary Care Medicare Interoperability Nursing

During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. “I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained.

Telehealth

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Raleigh Medical Group is a multispecialty group that serves the Research Triangle area of North Carolina with 115,000 patient visits a year in its internal medicine, gastroenterology, dermatology and rheumatology divisions. Cary Medical Group is one of its two internal medicine practices. THE PROBLEM.

EHR

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Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

ADTs are simple electronic messages, typically sent by a hospital or SNF’s electronic health record (EHR), letting an assigned physician and care team know their patient has been admitted to a care setting, discharged from a care setting, or transferred to another care setting.

Health Data

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Is the healthcare industry selling telemedicine short?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the firm's latest report , based on a survey of 155 physician group leaders and hospital executives, is a check on the industry’s sentiments around this now-mainstream technology. Three-plus years later, we are starting to see a different picture emerge. That thinking is dangerous, almost lazy.

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What a year's worth of telehealth data from athenahealth can teach us

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

We saw early spikes in the Northeast and the Western regions of the country, followed by the Midwest and the South. In all, we've seen telehealth go from less than 1% of total athenahealth network volumes to as high as 32%, before settling in at around 10-11%. Please elaborate on what this tells you. What did you observe?

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Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Mental health

How telemedicine can leverage the shrinking number of physicians

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Physicians are burning out and leaving the front lines of healthcare in big numbers. Clinicians and other experts at telehealth technology and services companies across the country are raising their hands, saying they could be at least one part of the solution to physician burnout. The pandemic has aggravated this problem.

Telemedicine

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mary Mulcare, chief medical officer at telehealth technology company Summus Global and an emergency medicine physician at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, has been on the front lines of the pandemic. She's seen firsthand how both physicians and patients have adjusted their expectations and processes around virtual care.

Telehealth

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As a board-certified physician in clinical informatics working for the second-largest municipal health system in the U.S., From a physician perspective, this is more than just another technology to adopt. He has been practicing in this field for over 15 years.

Health Data

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Verustat Acquires One Healthcare Solution

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Remote patient monitoring company to expand its physician and patient services. OneHS’s chronic care software will help strengthen Verustat’s commitment to providing physicians with top-tier medical technology to improve patient care while also opening up new revenue streams. About Verustat.

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NextGen Focusing on AI to Improve Workflows and on Street Medicine

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We caught up with them at their 2023 User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23) in Orlando Florida. Practical AI in Healthcare There is a lot of hype around AI in healthcare. Plus, if it isn’t going to help someone make smarter decisions then what is the point?” The response from NextGen physicians has been very positive so far.

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Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“Healthcare organizations want to get the most out of their substantial IT investments, but for community hospitals, it is absolutely critical,” said Dr. Manoj Prasad, President & Group CEO, Resilience Healthcare. “As Together, with our clients, we’re bringing next-level healthcare within reach.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

At the beginning of the surge, we had to electronically build new virtual departments for all of our COVID testing tents so our clinicians could place COVID testing orders, collect specimens and make sure they were linked to the right patients. Within one month, all of our multiple practices switched over to virtual visits.

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Anatomy IT Acquires IRIS Solutions to Expand Presence in Ambulatory Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Anatomy IT , the leading platform for healthcare IT and cybersecurity solutions, announced today the acquisition of IRIS Solutions , a respected and experienced leader in healthcare technology services for dental practices and healthcare providers. Originally announced May 30th, 2023

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Franciscan Health expands its Epic-linked telemedicine offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

"As we have moved past the pandemic, these resources still are being used to reach our patients," said Craig Miller, administrative director of ambulatory services at the Franciscan Alliance. "Through the use of remote patient monitoring and virtual visits, we are able to connect patients to the physicians in new areas.

Telemedicine

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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

Telemedicine

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"We were almost immediately able to overcome that challenge and deliver care to our patients using a telehealth solution when patients were unable to come to us face-to-face," said Reshma Patel Stone, associate vice president of planning and business development at Albert Einstein Medical Center.

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Telehealth Primary Care Nursing HIPAA

Health system uses telehealth to steer patients away from ER, urgent care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

“When we think about engaging people who seek health services, it’s not just about our services,” said Valerie Barlow, vice president of clinical and support services at WakeMed Health & Hospitals. MARKETPLACE.

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Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

Eric Cheung, a family medicine specialist practicing in Foley, Alabama, who serves as chief of staff for South Baldwin Regional Medical Center and clinic medical director for South Baldwin Medical Group.

Primary Care

Primary Care EHR Patient Experience Healthcare IT

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The vast majority of older people, across the age groups, use their smartphones every day: most commonly, to send or receive emails, to get directions or traffic information, or to surf the web for news, information, or social networking. Half of older people with a home assistant use them every day, across all age groups.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Healthcare IT

Embracing Automation to Increase Connection

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

The following is a guest article by Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Family Medicine Physician and Chief Medical Officer of the Clinician Solutions Team at 3M ’s Health Information Systems Division The release of ChatGPT has ignited dueling flames of excitement and concern regarding the potential of artificial intelligence (AI).

Primary Care

Primary Care EHR Health Information Public Health

Why Physicians Should Turn to Automated Scheduling

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scheduling physicians is complex. Manually creating the physician schedule can lead to an unbalanced workforce and general unfairness which can lead to turnover. Using a robust scheduling tool that can accommodate a multitude of input factors can help ensure a more equitable schedule with much less effort.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Patient Experience

Using RPM to manage customized, specialty care between office visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

We sat down with him to discuss managing patients not just during appointments but always, and the role RPM can play. What types of technologies and practices today can help improve health outcomes and reduce costs to the U.S. healthcare system? Changing America’s healthcare economics begins with one patient at a time.

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Pain management Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth

Zoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

During a year full of stay-at-home mandates and concerns about public safety, it makes sense as to why we saw such a sharp increase in the use of telemedicine solutions – virtual care offerings made it possible for us to get the help we needed while largely staying out of harm's way, and protecting ourselves and loved ones.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Psychiatry Mental health

AI, licensing and remote prescribing among key issues facing telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

For countless healthcare providers and groups, the last several months were a scramble to get compliant with what felt like overly restrictive regulations being implemented under unrealistic deadlines. But in the end, we are glad the DEA is taking the matter seriously. But in the end, we are glad the DEA is taking the matter seriously.

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Nursing

AI Synergy – How AI Collaborations are Shaping the Future

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Different AI models could predict the success rates of various research avenues, helping organizations allocate resources more effectively to the most promising projects. Focus on ethical and practical considerations For effective communication between AI systems, standardization of data formats and protocols is crucial.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals HIPAA EHR Telehealth

The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services.

Telemedicine

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., throughput rates).

Telehealth

Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Home is evolving as an impactful site for health care, we are learning from the pandemic. In 2019, J.D.

Telehealth

Telehealth Public Health Life Science Primary Care

Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We are learning and growing every day, which means we are also coming up with new ideas, technologies, and practices every day. But with all of this constant news of new technologies and changes in practices, it can be really tricky to stay on top of it all.

Health IT

Health IT Nursing EHR Telehealth

Healthcare in 2024 and Beyond – Embracing Technology and Innovation

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As we delve into the future of medical technology, several key developments emerge as pivotal in shaping the next wave of healthcare innovation. For example, VR simulations can reproduce complex surgical procedures, allowing trainees to practice in a controlled environment.

Mental health

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Telemedicine can lead to more profitable practices post-pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

This year, providers want to get back to running a profitable practice, and implementing a full virtual care strategy may very well be critical to achieving this goal. Now, as virtual care came into play so much during the pandemic, we've learned that it is here to stay. Where can virtual care improve workflows?

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient Experience Healthcare IT

United Physicians finds success with telepsychiatry for virtual collaborative care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. United Physicians is an independent physician organization in metropolitan Detroit supporting approximately 2,000 providers. THE PROBLEM.

Mental health

Mental health Psychiatry Primary Care HIPAA

An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S. Regional and national health plans, employers, and Fortune 500 organizations use Galileo to help improve population health. We offer a comprehensive and culturally inclusive specialty care team. Spanish speakers.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Primary Care Medicare Telehealth

MATTER opens applications for accelerator focused on reducing maternal mortality in the U.S.

Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We are pleased to partner with seven key industry stakeholders to help a cohort of startups advance solutions to help address the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.” The second cohort of the 51 Labs accelerator will address the question: How can we prevent maternal mortality in the U.S. before, during and after birth?

Digital Health

Digital Health Primary Care Medical Technology Medicare

How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I heard an incident from a psychiatrist friend of mine that illustrated the risk of programmers who are disengaged from clinical needs. Predictably, this did not impress my friend, who had much more urgent features to ask for. Then the physician coders write the logic specific to the medical knowledge in their disciplines.

Digital Health

Digital Health Patient Experience EHR Health IT

Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

AI: Patients Included

Trending Sources

The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools, Outlook Is Cautiously Optimistic, Finds Elation Health Survey

The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

UpStream Raises $140 Million Series B Round to Scale Value-Based Care Model Nationwide

During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Manifest MedEx Launches the California ADT Network, a Free Acute and Post-Acute Event Notification Exchange for California

Is the healthcare industry selling telemedicine short?

What a year's worth of telehealth data from athenahealth can teach us

How telemedicine can leverage the shrinking number of physicians

The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Verustat Acquires One Healthcare Solution

NextGen Focusing on AI to Improve Workflows and on Street Medicine

Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Anatomy IT Acquires IRIS Solutions to Expand Presence in Ambulatory Healthcare

Franciscan Health expands its Epic-linked telemedicine offerings

Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Health system uses telehealth to steer patients away from ER, urgent care

Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Embracing Automation to Increase Connection

Why Physicians Should Turn to Automated Scheduling

Using RPM to manage customized, specialty care between office visits

Zoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine

AI, licensing and remote prescribing among key issues facing telepsychiatry

AI Synergy – How AI Collaborations are Shaping the Future

The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare in 2024 and Beyond – Embracing Technology and Innovation

Telemedicine can lead to more profitable practices post-pandemic

United Physicians finds success with telepsychiatry for virtual collaborative care

An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

MATTER opens applications for accelerator focused on reducing maternal mortality in the U.S.

How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management

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