Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare. In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About pCare pCare’s interactive patient experience solution helps healthcare providers engage, educate, and entertain patients across the care continuum. The pCare open platform integrates with existing EHR/EMR systems, patient portals, and mobile health applications to connect patients, families, and caregivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021. "Telehealth has shown to be an effective strategic imperative to enhance access to care and improve other key performance indicators, such as wait time for an appointment and patient satisfaction," she said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2022

The platform connects patients to the best providers in seconds and delivers a modern, digital-first patient experience. Tebra is the Digital Backbone for the Connected Healthcare Practice. Tebra provides independent healthcare practices with a complete operating system for practice success. About Tebra.

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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. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

This requirement, aimed at streamlining data availability for payers and patients, increased the quantity of available data to the detriment of clinical data quality , creating a lag in the utility of this data for advanced applications. billion in 2021 through its Shared Savings Program, which works with accountable care organizations.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund , a venture capital firm focused on investments in advancing healthcare tech, points out that the data with which many doctors work on a daily basis is still in Excel spreadsheets. However, automated solutions don’t need AI to help clinicians enter data into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Reviewing the national enrollment numbers since the onset of the pandemic we find that the pandemic did not cause an influx in enrollment to state and federal exchange offerings by healthcare consumers. The enrollment numbers stayed consistent from 2017 to 2021 staying between 11.5 million in 2022 and 16.3 million this year.

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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. from 2021 to 2028. Focus on Specific Patient Populations: The MSK space covers a wide range of conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. But in optimizing the process, the old instruction manuals were now outdated and adjustments needed to be made.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient dissatisfaction, and ballooning costs. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. In 2021, Hint acquired Equal Health, a DPC network and benefits provider. The existing U.S.

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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 Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Within healthcare, the technology and expertise exist to help providers, payers, public health, health information exchanges, and healthcare IT companies exchange data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Metadata from medical images and medical devices can be read alongside clinical information, yielding more powerful results when a provider or researcher searches and queries patient information, Microsoft said. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

EverHealth , providers of end-to-end solutions for healthcare providers, believes that these practices need support from partners that can take on some of the administrative, operational, and financial tasks so they can continue to deliver care to patients. The feedback has been great,” said Laskey.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 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. Studie s.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Healthcare IT companies regularly release updates to fix identified vulnerabilities.

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