Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Rather, a single application programming interface connection would integrate OTTO with our EHR, practice management and patient portal, creating a streamlined user experience,” Yu explained. “The platform is easily accessible for our patients because it does not require an app or specialized hardware.

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Telehealth EHR Telemedicine Remote care 166

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions. Practices should ensure that their EHR has a fully integrated patient portal that will allow patients to manage their care in a secure and HIPAA-compliant way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. " PROPOSAL In January 2023, Memorial began working with KeyCare, an Epic-based virtual care company (Memorial uses Epic for its EHR). Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telehealth Primary Care Interoperability Patient Experience 172

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

The OpenNotes Lab will bring transparency, collaboration, and innovation to the intersection of healthcare AI and patient-centered care. They were the champions of open access to doctor’s notes for patients and worked tirelessly to share stories from healthcare organizations who had successfully implemented an open approach to notes.

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Healthcare IT EHR Health Information Patient Experience 85

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

"In 2020, we converted the internal acute care services to the Amwell Hospital platform," said Brian Wayling, telehealth services associate vice president at Intermountain Healthcare. The visits are conducted via personal devices and can be dynamic or scheduled to improve patient access. Secured and protected.

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Telehealth EHR Patient Experience Leadership 175

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"Fortunately, we already had started to explore remote patient monitoring solutions that integrated with our Epic EHR, were easily accessible and required minimal effort by the patient," Yarrington noted. Boston Medical Center serves a population largely reliant on Medicaid to support healthcare access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years." Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Connected Health Telehealth Telemedicine Leadership 213

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Telemedicine Telehealth EHR Patient Experience 165

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained.

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Telemedicine Telehealth EHR Primary Care 173

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

"Horizon needed to outfit our clinical staff with hundreds of pieces of equipment to allow them to attend to patients virtually." "Within one week, we had our whole organization shifted from bricks-and-mortar to a virtual healthcare provider. Items specifically addressed: Removing the required patient username/password.

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Telehealth Mental health Telemedicine Patient Experience 125

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"And we didn't want to create a divide between tech-savvy patients who could easily engage in telehealth and those who needed more assistance than we could consistently provide." " Second, the organization needed to provide multiple channels (text, email and chat) to easily communicate with patients, he added.

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Telehealth EHR Patient Experience Leadership 181

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " 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. MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Primary Care HIPAA 143

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.

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Hospital IT Digital Health Telehealth Leadership 216

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"During the pandemic, we ensured convenient access to care for our patients and families in a wide range of services, and have worked to create innovative hybrid models of virtual care," said Terrell. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health HIPAA 110

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now that I’ve shaken off the holiday malaise and gotten back to business, I’ve begun to wonder which areas of healthcare will become the new hotness for the coming year. After tossing off a short LinkedIn post on this subject, I decided to dig in further and share my conclusions with you. By the way, […].

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Healthcare Innovation Patient Experience EMR EHR 55

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

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.

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eCare Digital Health Drug Development Healthcare IT 88

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL.

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Healthcare IT Patient Experience EMR EHR 74

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. We will explore ways to make efficiencies on the staff side as well, with EHR integrations and more. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telehealth Telemedicine eCare Primary Care 144

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

This data is then automatically entered into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) in a structured format, which can be easily searched, analyzed, and shared among healthcare providers. AI-powered charting software uses NLP algorithms to identify and extract key data points, like medical conditions or drug dosages.

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Nursing Life Science EHR Health Data 87

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Over the past several years we began to notice that many health IT conferences were focused on breakthrough and disruptive innovations that may help healthcare organizations a decade from now. We saw a real need for healthcare organizations to discover practical innovations that can […].

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Health IT Patient Experience EMR EHR 53

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

"By design, this program broadens access to care by providing devices that do not require the patient to have any additional technology or Wi-Fi and by servicing patients in their homes," Fields explained. Improving provider effectiveness through automated data collection and patient interactions. MARKETPLACE.

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Digital Health EHR Patient Experience Healthcare IT 162

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system. " EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools.

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Health IT Nursing Telehealth EHR 218

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

because it was website-based, required no downloads for our patients, allowed flexibility with our staff and was affordable.” ” NFP uses an Epic EHR (through OCHIN, a health center-controlled network) and had access to Zoom through Epic’s MyChart patient portal, but determined it would be too difficult for its patients.

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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Primary Care 195

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

"Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telehealth Telemedicine Psychiatry EHR 134

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

Founded within the innovation department at Boston Children’s Hospital and spun out in 2020, Dock addressed an internal need to better collaborate between the clinical and administrative halves of care delivery. “We

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HIPAA Accountable Care Patient Experience EHR 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

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Interoperability Health IT FHIR EMR 104

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Pre-pandemic Medicaid numbers stayed steady in the 74 – 76 million beneficiaries’ level between 2017 and 2020. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Medicare FHIR Healthcare Improvement EHR 62

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs.

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Health IT Nursing HC Patient Experience 102

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

So we looked for a solution that did not require office staff to train the full range of patients on how to use the technology, and rather leave that up to Apple, Samsung, Google, etc.," " In fact, one of the biggest struggles with EHR-based portals is adoption, and the best only get into the 60-75% range, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software.

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EMR Leadership Patient Experience Health Technology 66

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

million in 2020. There are many drivers behind the acceleration of digital transformation going on within the healthcare industry, with a few that stand out including the need for: Increased productivity by leveraging digital health records. For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically.

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Telehealth Digital Health EHR Nursing 120

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s what patient portals promise – a simple, digital way to access medical records, book appointments, and chat with doctors. Despite their benefits, many patients aren’t using these portals. But there’s a catch.

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Health Information Patient Experience EMR Health Data 109

Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

They're backing companies that integrate with existing healthcare systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to ensure a smooth flow of data and improve care coordination. billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.4% Integration is key: Investors are wary of siloed solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

The second reason is that they would soon run out of healthcare workers to hire and from a fiscal and operational standpoint, program expansion no longer made sense to continue without automation. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MARKETPLACE.

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Nursing Primary Care EHR Healthcare IT 175

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 183