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How Automation Can Help Ease Healthcare Worker Burnout

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anna Twomey , Senior Director, Healthcare Providers – Americas at SS&C Blue Prism With rising staffing shortages and burnout among healthcare workers, digital transformation will be key to overcoming these challenges and protecting patient care. It’s estimated that the U.S.

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How Hospitals Are Reducing Medical Costs with Telehealth

American Well

This is particularly true for health systems that have become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or that are in the process of becoming an ACO. For these institutions, the mandates to improve patient care and reduce medical costs go hand in hand. [In Better Staff Utilization. Preventative Outreach.

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How Hospitals Are Reducing Medical Costs with Telehealth

American Well

This is particularly true for health systems that have become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or that are in the process of becoming an ACO. For these institutions, the mandates to improve patient care and reduce medical costs go hand in hand. [In Better Staff Utilization. Preventative Outreach.

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Carolyn Byerly, CIO, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Chapter 3

Health System CIO

I really believe that our vision around Stanford Health Partners with telehealth and virtualizing our services and e-visits and being able to interact with your doctor and your nurses is really going to be important for growing our network and competing in the next generation of healthcare delivery.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute.

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Parsing Volume to Value, Proxy Measures, and the Streetlight Effect

Docnotes

Care providers are focused on personalized, proactive care. The practice is led by health coaches, nurses, physicians, and administrators working together as teams to maximize health for the communities they serve. Reduced cost is a byproduct of great care, not a target itself. I ora Health is one such model.