Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2021

While telehealth use has made tremendous gains since the emergence of COVID, the technology still sits largely on the sidelines. Telehealth visits are now widely available, but the providers offering these visits aren’t adding new capabilities or even integrating the technology into their overall workflow.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 10, 2024

Ovatient's team of virtual providers and care team members work closely with health system partners to provide patients with connected, coordinated and convenient virtual care. "In fact, we are home to one of the only two National Telehealth Centers of Excellence in the country," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. In October 2022, Providence St. But the tools have to be properly calibrated.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. In the latest Healthcare IT Podcast, John and Colin discussed the upcoming slate of health IT conferences. posted to Healthcare IT Central.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

That is the opinion of Ron Emerson, RN, global healthcare lead at Zoom, as he looks ahead at what he believes will be some developments in healthcare in 2022. Healthcare IT News interviewed Emerson to have him expand upon his predictions for the year. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2022

Health equity has long been a challenge, but in 2022 it promises to be a top-of-mind issue. The COVID pandemic has made it clear that health inequity has a broad impact not only on public health, but on the financial well-being of entire communities. It’s time we listen to health equity advocates and turn words […].

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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." " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients are demanding that healthcare providers improve their customer service in every way. As a result, practices are embracing technologies like telehealth, which enable them to take a more patient-centered approach. In healthcare, it fluctuates for several reasons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

" According to the company's announcement Tuesday, the partnerships enable more coordinated and personalized patient experiences and simplify healthcare for employers, providers and patients. "At a high level, we're moving into an era of consumers in charge," he told Healthcare IT News in April.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

Healthcare organizations are "greatly interested" in innovations that can modernize nursing and solve the challenge, according to Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News. " She noted that one telehealth nurse at St. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we, as healthcare providers, need to up our games in terms of the patient experience," Merok advised. "Digital solutions are the next evolutionary step in the patient experience," he concluded. ADVICE FOR OTHERS. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. million in the third quarter of 2022 – not unlike other healthcare systems in metropolitan Milwaukee and nationwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

As the program grew to more than 100 patients, the organization expanded to allowing referrals for patients with any chronic condition or COVID-19, and hired additional clinical staff. "When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health.

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Primary Care Telehealth HIPAA Patient Experience 184

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. With more than 300,000 outpatient appointments per year, Clínica Alemana Osorno is one of the largest healthcare providers in southern Chile.

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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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. Since then, the health system has seen high growth and adoption.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Telehealthcare isn’t going anywhere While some often bill telehealth as a lesser version of in-person care, it’s a versatile solution that can help reduce healthcare inequality, increase accessibility, and engage a new demographic with practitioners. So, it’s essential providers have a secure system to manage it.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Acquisition empowers health systems with modern patient experience amidst staff. Carenet Health, a leading provider of 24/7 and on-demand patient engagement solutions, today announced it has acquired Stericycle Communication Solutions, an industry leader in patient engagement technology and solutions and a service of Stericycle, Inc.

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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. That’s a huge win for nurses and patients alike, and I think more organizations will be investigating and deploying solutions like this in the coming year.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. But in-person interactions are often not the root cause of patient dissatisfaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“NeuroFlow is different because we embrace collaboration with others in the space, like telehealth partners, to get people to the most efficient and effective care possible. SEMCAP Health invests with the intention to generate outsized financial returns while advancing healthcare quality, affordability, experience, and health equity.

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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. Originally announced November 11th, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards virtual visits and telehealth? Are physician practices the eggs in order for us to have the delicious omelet of digital healthcare? We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on this topic. The vast majority of offices already know this.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"It was the dedication to quality, reliability and patient/provider experience that set Teladoc Health apart. "Without any doubt, the devices InTouch Health offered a decade ago, in conjunction with their proprietary network, delivered unprecedented provider and patient experiences," she continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go. HaH is an innovative care model that provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a full substitute for acute hospital care. The 2022 ACS data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows 11.7 million U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

"We were looking for an end-to-end system that offered patients more support, but also helped triage issues that needed direct physician intervention from those that would result in unnecessary office visits," he added. "For us, Cadence's total partnership model resonated," Cheung explained. Dr. Lynn T.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was watching the telehealth industry expand to meet the demand for patients. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"We didn't want to complete surgeries in a transactional way, without any intimacy or continued communication with the patient to ensure they were experiencing excellent results," he added. As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?Columbia

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Personalized healthcare can take many different forms. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. He was recently named to Business Insiders 30 Under 40 Changing the Healthcare Industry in 2022. million in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To enable our clinicians to thrive, SonderMind defines care expectations while providing tools such as clinical note-taking, secure telehealth capabilities, outcome measurement, messaging, and direct booking. Benefits for populations and payors include better mental healthcare access, lower costs, and higher productivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

Telehealth has been operationally implemented within Intermountain Healthcare since 2015, with pilots running for several years prior. As a result, clinical services continued to consider telehealth delivery options and expand access for patients into rural locations. Embracing the telehealth opportunity.

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