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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Clínica Alemana Osorno, located in southern Chile, has introduced digital communication workflows that leverage connected care. Digital workflows are helping the clinic create a better patient experience, enhance workforce efficiency and increase access to care across its 46 medical specialties and four facilities.

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How Intermountain Healthcare gets top marks for virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These services initially used an internally developed telehealth platform with TV room kits and mobile carts as patient care connection points. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty

Healthcare IT Today

With PatientPoint’s expansion into ophthalmology and optometry, PatientPoint’s industry-leading, tech-enabled point-of-care network now engages healthcare providers and patients across 20 medical specialties. PatientPoint ® is the patient engagement platform for every point of care. ” About PatientPoint.

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals avoid the discord that can exist between internal and travel nursing teams by instead opting for virtual care team support that becomes permanently integrated into the existing team. Studies show there was a 34% growth in virtual nursing program adoption in 2022 and that momentum has certainly carried into 2023.

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VillageMD Acquires Summit Health-CityMD, Creating one of the Largest Independent Provider Groups in the U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

With Investments from WBA and Evernorth, the Combined Company Will Deliver a Unique and Comprehensive Patient Experience for Optimal Individual and Community Outcomes. VillageMD announced today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD , a leading provider of primary, specialty and urgent care.

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, brought together HIEs, state agencies and interoperability experts nationwide. . In addition to this important reminder, here are three insights for HIEs and health system leadership from the Civitas for Health 2022 event. .

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger.