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. What is it about oncology that makes it a good fit for telemedicine?

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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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 Today

AUGUST 7, 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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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

The patient attrition rate, or churn rate, measures the rate at which your patients are no longer interacting with you. In healthcare, it fluctuates for several reasons. Patients may change residences, need different specialized care, or no longer require frequent care. In turn, this improves patient retention rates.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 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 Today

MAY 23, 2022

One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas. If you’re on Twitter, then you’ve probably seen him tweeting from his account @WearablesExpert where he shares great digital health content.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"In May and June 2022, MaineGeneral has achieved a CMS-CHF readmission rate of 0%, compared with 20% and 26.7% There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 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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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

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." The new importance of telemedicine. " Creating the in-person experience virtually.

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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 27, 2022

The company’s thoughtful approach to patient experience, enterprise workflows, and clinical content is helping healthcare organizations do more with less — clinicians use technology to engage millions of in-need patients to improve outcomes and reduce encounters in expensive, supply-constrained medical settings.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

More technology means increased security As healthcare providers implement more technology into their practice, the need for data security also increases. The American Medical Association found that in 2022, over 75% of patients expressed concern about protecting the privacy of personal health data.

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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 11, 2024

Despite their benefits, many patients aren’t using these portals. In 2022, a study highlighted a stark difference: only 60% of Black and 57% of Hispanic patients used these portals, compared to 70% of white patients. But there’s a catch. It’s not just a matter of preference; it’s a complex issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ECG Management Consultants found that over 30% of patients are willing to switch to a provider who offers digital booking. When you simplify your staff’s experience, you simultaneously optimize your patients’ experience. For example, take patient engagement. Providers are feeling the squeeze.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Company’s proven family engagement platform integrates parents simply and seamlessly into the child’s care team, addressing bonding, patient progress and treatment communication, feeding, and focused education. In 2022, AngelEye is on pace to deliver nearly 10 million virtual bedside visits. About AngelEye Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

million in 2022 and 16.3 The enrollment numbers stayed consistent from 2017 to 2021 staying between 11.5 The past two years have seen the enrollment numbers surge to 14.5 million this year. This increase has brought back the payers that exited the public market.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Benefits for providers include improved patient outcomes, tracking of evidence-based outcomes across the continuum of care, and a reduction in clinician fatigue. Benefits for populations and payors include better mental healthcare access, lower costs, and higher productivity. Originally announced November 15th, 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2019, Horizon Health Services received grant funds from local Western New York grant foundation agencies to work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell to implement a new virtual care department at Horizon. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What are the problems in the field of neurology that you feel telemedicine can help overcome? There are two key problems in neurology that telemedicine can help address. Telemedicine can help address both problems. First, there are not enough neurologists to care for the growing population of persons with neurologic disease.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

She sat down for a conversation with Healthcare IT Today about the role technology can play in helping to retain physicians and reduce clinical cognitive load. Physician attrition, #PhysicianBurnout and workforce are top concerns for healthcare right now. Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) June 22, 2022. The Decline of Telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago. Sherry discusses top examples of health equity in action in 2022 and what more needs to be done to break down barriers to care. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. To get that new angle, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what interesting angles they could think of to this problem. Although it can be an entry point to deeper patient engagement, it is not an equalizer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

" There was an intentional dependency on technologies for asynchronous communication, or messaging, that superseded one-on-one scheduling of staff time, was reactive in nature, provided educational and other resources outside the traditional in-person visit, and was more aligned with the patient's convenience and schedule, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 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. Unfortunately, it can be extremely challenging for patients across the country to access affordable treatment that actually works.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

"In response to the immense need of our patients, we created the Condition Management Program to meet people where they are," Fields said. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Improving provider effectiveness through automated data collection and patient interactions.

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Mend

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The average no-show rate in 2022 for Mend telemedicine visits was 7.4%. Patient Wait and Travel Times Like providers, patients are busy. Measuring healthcare metrics relating to wait and travel times can reveal important insight into patient behavior and satisfaction. Recent data shows that U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 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 Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 providing a 151-day extension on some flexibilities granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency once the PHE ends, providers and other healthcare professionals engaged in telehealth are eager to prepare for the expiration date. What's at stake. The bill H.R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The past year has been like no other for healthcare provider organization executives. Relying on telemedicine. "As we move forward to 2021-2022, maybe the pundits were correct, just with a different reason on why it's moving in a remote direction." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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