2021, 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

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Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a pleasant surprise to see Direct Primary Care (DPC) well represented at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. There is real momentum building for this alternate form of care. Holdsworth spoke to Healthcare IT Today about the company’s growth. They also acquired a DPC EHR aimed at the solo practitioner market.

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Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems.

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million.

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Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. In 2021, Hint acquired Equal Health, a DPC network and benefits provider.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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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.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 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. Partnerships.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

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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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.

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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. "The RPM device then automatically submits this data to the EHR with a subsequent clinical pharmacist notification. MARKETPLACE.

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Tech-enabled healthcare: What exactly is it? Funding, IPO's and Future Trends

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This data can be shared with healthcare providers to help them monitor patients' health and identify any potential problems early on. Electronic health records (EHRs) : EHRs allow healthcare providers to access patients' medical records electronically. It can also help patients to be more involved in their own care.

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Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 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. In addition.

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Providence spins off DexCare, which orchestrates capacity and digital health demand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

Optimizing digitally enabled care offerings enabled the health system to achieve operational, growth and savings goals, while providing a better experience for consumers, Vaezy reported. More specifically, she said, Providence has achieved the following improvements and results in 2021 with DexCare: Improved access to care.

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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.

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How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

A Proactive Approach to Data Incidents Data incidents significantly impact healthcare organizations. For the 12th year running, healthcare has surpassed other industries with the highest average data breach cost: $10.1 In 2021, breaches affected more than 50 million patient records , with an average of 132 days before detection.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. By all indications, the digital transformation of healthcare is fully underway and it's time to party like it's 1999. Everything is up: deal volumes, deal sizes, M&A activity, IPOs, SPACs.

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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. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 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. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare. Like most healthcare organizations, Queen's Health Systems saw a massive increase in telehealth adoption during the early days of the pandemic in spring 2020. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

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. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves.

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United Physicians finds success with telepsychiatry for virtual collaborative care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. "For the past several years, we had been looking for a way to integrate behavioral care management into the primary care medical home," Coleman said.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs.

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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.

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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.

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Cleveland Clinic's virtual second opinions shown to impact patient care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Specialty care deserts, which are areas of the country where specialists are just not available, make it difficult to schedule an appointment with the right physician for a single opinion, let alone a second opinion. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. How has access improved patient outcomes by overall numbers?

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 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. Partnerships.

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How virtual sitter services saved St. Luke’s $1.5M in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

Luke's nurse-driven elevated level of observation protocol allows the primary RN to initiate the virtual sitting program in their Meditech Expanse EHR. Luke’s Hospital in November 2021, the organization has had more than 164,842 hours of patient observation. MEETING THE CHALLENGE St. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

" "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring." "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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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022

Trending Sources

Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence

Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

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

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

HopeHealth turns around blood pressure and blood glucose problems with RPM

Tech-enabled healthcare: What exactly is it? Funding, IPO's and Future Trends

Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Providence spins off DexCare, which orchestrates capacity and digital health demand

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

How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data

A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

United Physicians finds success with telepsychiatry for virtual collaborative care

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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

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

Cleveland Clinic's virtual second opinions shown to impact patient care

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

How virtual sitter services saved St. Luke’s $1.5M in 2023

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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