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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. The EHR Hits Its Stride. We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. Data makes health care smarter in 2021, especially for chronic conditions.

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Telehealth Linked to Physician EHR Burden

Digital Health Wire

Telehealth is great for a lot of things, but reducing physician EHR burdens isn’t one of them, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Comparing the pre- and post-pandemic windows, telehealth use increased from 3.1% Comparing the pre- and post-pandemic windows, telehealth use increased from 3.1%

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMSS Annual Conference. As “patient engagement” emerges as a top priority for U.S.

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Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits

FierceHealthIT

Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:10.

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Clinicians have spent even more time in the EHR during COVID-19 – is telehealth to blame?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. As researchers noted in the study, clinicians in the United States already have a greater EHR burden than those outside the country , potentially (but not always ) contributing to burnout. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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7 Trends 2021 Taught Us About The Future of Telehealth

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When considering the future of telehealth, it helps to look backward. 2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. So what does the future of telehealth look like? Here are the top seven ways we think 2021 will predict how the future of telehealth will look going forward. In 2022, the U.S.