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Revisiting Some of 2018’s Most Significant Healthcare IT Topics in 2020

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min In our 2018 Healthcare IT Year in Review post, we discussed the four most significant stories of 2018. The post Revisiting Some of 2018’s Most Significant Healthcare IT Topics in 2020 appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Nearly half of physicians using telehealth, up from just 18% in 2018

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Part Two: Our 2018 Health IT Wish List

Mobile Health Matters

The healthcare IT industry enters 2018 with a lot of potential, along with the need to overcome structures that have historically stunted progress. In 2018, I wish for stronger industry collaboration to improve seamless care delivery and physician satisfaction.” – Nancy Pratt, Chief Operating Officer, AirStrip.

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Abridge Aims at Transparency, Reliability, and Credibility with Their Ambient Clinical Voice Solution

Healthcare IT Today

Started in 2018, Abridge now offers analytical generative AI to more than 55 specialties and many languages. In this video CEO and co-founder Shiv Rao, MD discusses their approach to quality, and how they can help with clinical notes, ordering, coding billing, and other aspects of health care using ambient clinical voice.

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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More than 70 orgs urge DEA: Revise telehealth controlled substance rules

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Back in 2018, the Senate acknowledged the importance of telemedicine use in the fight against the opioid epidemic with the passage through committee of the Opioid Crisis Act of 2018. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Digital retail pharmacy NowRx expanding into telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual pharmacies have become an increasingly large sector of the digital health marketplace in recent years, with Amazon launching Amazon Pharmacy this past year after acquiring PillPack in 2018. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.