2019, EHR, Healthcare IT and Primary Care

EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

EHR

EHR Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care

Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Further, the healthcare organization adapted its hospital space and added the technology and processes to safely replace in-person care with home-based care, both for patients and by providers, she added. That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019."

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Telemedicine Primary Care

Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Primary Care

Primary Care EMR Healthcare IT EHR

Telehealth tech and FCC grant help clinic maintain visit volume

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. The clinic also purchased other software licenses enabling patients and healthcare providers to access the technology and connectivity necessary for remote delivery of primary care, behavioral health and dental care to patients sheltering in place, as well as patients facing access barriers.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care EHR Mental health

More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). Healthcare has highly specialized requirements for AI and other technologies.

EHR

EHR Primary Care Nursing EMR

The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. The pandemic exacerbated all of these issues and its impact is still resonating throughout healthcare. If anything, the issue is getting worse. The issue plagues every specialty in every state.

EHR

EHR Primary Care Nursing EMR

AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

In an interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr. Anderson asserted that, “We have this great promise of AI: that it’s going to enable people that traditionally don’t have easy access to healthcare to be able to have access to patient navigator tools.

EHR

EHR ePatients Public Health Health Data

HopeHealth turns around blood pressure and blood glucose problems with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

"Lack of care opportunities due to transportation, limited primary care locations and inadequate income opportunities can send many patients running to the emergency department. "In 2019, we could only provide 156 telehealth visits for nutrition education and psychiatry," Whitfield recalled. MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Psychiatry EHR

VA looks back on 2019, sees 'year of improvements and continued progress'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Earlier this month, the VA and Walmart opened its latest telehealth pilot site, part of the department's Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations, or ATLAS, initiative, which will provide clinical services including primary care, mental health and social work.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Interoperability

Telehealth enables health center to tackle rural and COVID-19 challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“This was only ever seen as a bridge solution, as there is no opportunity for EHR integration with the non-connected peripherals, or any way for a provider to take live, real-time, synchronous inputs from non-connected peripherals,” Stinson explained. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Primary Care Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. as Chief Medical Officer.

RCM

RCM HIE Healthcare IT Primary Care

6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Overall, we can positively say that a new mindset has been established: healthtech is no longer seen as a nice-to-have “add-on” to healthcare. It is a key ally in the effort to make healthcare more accessible, agile and effective. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the obvious solution to the issue.

Interoperability

Interoperability EHR Health Data Primary Care

Portugal showcases national telehealth plan with patients at the center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

The plan was launched in early November 2019 by the Shared Services of the Portuguese Ministry of Health (SPMS) to advance telehealth, by elaborating on a current vision of the field in the country and defining strategic axes for the 2019-2022 term. Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Insights are HIMSS Media publications.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telecare Primary Care Interoperability

Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Primary Care Leadership

FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." "We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Public Health Primary Care

Bonus Features – January 15, 2023 – 80% of consumers want a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, USCDI update would add 20 more elements, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care Interoperability

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? by May 10, 2019.

Nursing

Nursing Leadership Patient Experience EHR

Consortium uses FCC COVID-19 funds to bring telehealth to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

” The pandemic has made telehealth crucial for many types of care – especially primary care – and patients and providers now are more open to the idea than ever, Mullaney noted. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of them, with detailed descriptions. MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Primary Care Healthcare IT

For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. "Care delivery options included urgent care, primary care, behavioral health services and chronic care management." MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth Patient Experience Primary Care HIPAA

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. "In 2019, One Health met representatives from vendor TytoCare at the ATA conference and was impressed by their solution," Compton recalled.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Remote care

AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

DocuSign, NextGen and Care Message were also used in order to have necessary documents signed, co-payments collected and appointment reminders sent. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

Mental health

Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care

IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

In this seventh installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature series, Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era, four top IT executives from provider organizations nationwide share what they've learned during the past year and discuss how they're applying these lessons to improve their organizations.

Telehealth

Telehealth Health IT EHR Primary Care

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Blog Login Sign Up 9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry Enzyme Health Team March 27, 2019 In an industry that can feel isolating, it’s important to keep connected. Only 20% are listed here. Sign Up to see them all. For Understanding Telemedicine Technology 5.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice

At one urban health center, ‘regulatory change was critical’ to telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. application and one for the Epic EHR. THE PROBLEM.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Primary Care

Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Jennifer J.

eCare

eCare Primary Care RCM Patient Experience

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

“While a key element to the entire proposal was RelyMD’s ability to integrate with our existing wayfinding and patient engagement app, it was necessary to work with our Epic EHR,” Barlow said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE. Overall, the service is able to operate fairly autonomously.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care EHR

How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. We designated each of these rooms as a ‘resource’ in the EHR that was directly linked to the scheduled service. It is a culture of continual quality improvement. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

Mental health

Mental health Telehealth HIPAA EHR

Average multiples in HealthTech M&A 2023

Lloyd Price

JUNE 2, 2023

The acquisition will give Amazon a major foothold in the primary care market. Amazon has been expanding its healthcare business in recent years. Amazon is also working on a number of other healthcare initiatives, including a virtual care service and a program to help employees find and book appointments with doctors.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telehealth Healthcare IT EHR

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. The COVID-19 pandemic did not slow down hackers.

Hospital IT

Hospital IT Digital Health Telehealth Leadership

Connected Health Pulse

EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

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Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Telehealth tech and FCC grant help clinic maintain visit volume

More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers

AI: Patients Included

HopeHealth turns around blood pressure and blood glucose problems with RPM

VA looks back on 2019, sees 'year of improvements and continued progress'

Telehealth enables health center to tackle rural and COVID-19 challenges

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Portugal showcases national telehealth plan with patients at the center

Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Bonus Features – January 15, 2023 – 80% of consumers want a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, USCDI update would add 20 more elements, and more

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Consortium uses FCC COVID-19 funds to bring telehealth to the underserved

For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

At one urban health center, ‘regulatory change was critical’ to telehealth success

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

How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Average multiples in HealthTech M&A 2023

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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