Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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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 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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"The high demand for pediatric specialty providers and the constraints many families face regarding transportation, time off from work and school, and finances, made it obvious that traditional models of outreach healthcare were not sustainable," said Morgan Waller, director of telemedicine business and operations at Children's Mercy.

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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. About Wheel.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2020

I was a techguy that had just started in healthcare. I must admit that it’s kind of crazy to look back at the first CES I attended about 15 years ago. So, I really just wanted to go to CES regardless, but I did keep my eyes open for any sort of technology that could […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " Creating the in-person experience virtually. The new importance of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

Also, three out of four patients who reported a decline in access in 2022 mentioned the difficulty of seeing a doctor quickly as a major pain point. In fact, patient perception of “seeing a practitioner quickly” as the biggest access challenge rose from 15% in 2020 to 27% last year.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

The following is a guest article by Yishai Knobel, CEO at RxWare From April 2020 to August 2021, the healthcare solutions company Indegene looked at approximately 7.9 He also served in Microsoft’s Startup Labs in Cambridge and completed eight years of leadership roles in the Israeli Army’s elite R&D unit.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

[link] Healthcare Technology Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth & Strategy services for Founders, Owners and Investors. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.4%

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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. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom. Once in-person visits returned, the next step for patients was relatively small.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2021

For many providers, 2020 might have felt like being thrown out of an aircraft, at 10,000 feet, with no training on using the parachute. by the close of 2020 (without subsidies), those who had already […]. The following is a guest article by Rick Halton, VP of Marketing, Lumeon. With hospital margins down to just 0.3%

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2020

This coverage and payments were granted under the President’s emergency declaration and this expanded benefit is on a temporary and emergency basis under the 1135 waiver authority and the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act starting March 6, 2020. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. million in 2020. A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ashley Perry, MPH, Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer at Socially Determined When Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 , it decoupled the Public Health Emergency (PHE) from the Medicaid program’s continuous enrollment provision, which was implemented as part of the PHE in March 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

However, according to ONC Data Brief #57 from Sept 2021 , only 38% of individuals nationwide reported that they accessed their portal at least once in 2020. When asked, customers who do not use their patient portal prefer to communicate with the medical practice or hospital directly and don’t want to view their records online.

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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." " Leadership believes in telemedicine.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

As a centralized service, it was possible to engage with a broad consortium of departments such as legal, finance, marketing, compliance and physician affairs to develop models, learn about the nuances of implementing telehealth as an embedded service and engage with clinical leadership on the opportunities. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The nonprofit Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded a roundtable on sharing SDoH data, organized and led by the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE). One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"Our new platform had to be HIPAA secure in a technical sense, but we also had to think about the unique challenges of ensuring privacy on the patient's end when family members or other people could be nearby." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. "That can quickly lead to burnout. " RESULTS.

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