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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

As healthcare professionals, it is our duty to keep up with and adopt new technologies in order to offer the best possible care to our patients. Patient experience has become a primary focus in our industry, and the digital transformation has provided new ways to enhance it.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH. But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe.

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Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. GLP-1 agonists have overtaken insulin in total prescriptions and cost among commercially insured patients , according to an analysis from Cedar Gate Technologies.

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Weekly Roundup – May 4, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. John Lynn attended the event, which at its core emphasizes the value of data that directly reflects that patient perspective. In part two, Andy dove into how analysis of biomarkers can influence treatment plans and provide personalized, holistic recommendations.

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Hyndman Area Health Center cuts IT bill in half with the cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since then, it has experienced a more than 150% increase in patients and has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years since it no longer relies on physical servers. This feature integrated with our existing IT infrastructure – including EHR, scheduling and more – making it an easy addition to our workflow.

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Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group

Healthcare IT Today

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice Technology – The Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

This decreases the amount of time the physician spends in the electronic health record and allows them to focus on the patient and all the non-verbal subtleties that can give physicians valuable information that will ultimately help with patient care. We are entering a new era in healthcare efficiency and patient care.