Conference, Patient Experience and Telehealth

Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

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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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. " Of the 125 respondents asked about the telehealth projects underway at the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The post Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Xealth’s Recap from Oracle Health Conference 2023

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It was great seeing the Oracle Health Conference in a new location (and a location that us on the conference circuit are very familiar with!).The Leverage monitoring and telehealth technology in the hospital / clinic to allow a more experienced nurse to oversee more of the treatment of patients.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). health economy includes employers, unions, public sector plans and other groups as well as the Patient as Payor — thus prompting NABIP’s Bill of Rights.

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Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

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JUNE 27, 2021

The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. The patient’s role is critical in coordinating their own care, testing, results reporting and care management. Conference Chairpersons. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. The patient’s role is critical in coordinating their own care, testing, results reporting and care management. Conference Chairpersons. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. ATA’s CEO Ann Mond Johnson and team turned on a dime over the past few months, migrating the already-planned live conference scheduled in early May to this week, all online. and indeed, in countries already impacted by the crisis).

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Telehealth is past the 'tipping point' – how's it doing with interoperability?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. The industry can help evolve these standards and make medical devices work seamlessly as part of video conferences." but worldwide.

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Creating a High-Quality Patient Experience in the Virtual Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now, a video conference call with a doctor is […]. The Virtual Health Revolution is Here A virtual health revolution is occurring. Before Covid-19 few of us interacted with our healthcare providers in any way other than face-to-face.

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Firefly Health adds digestive care to telehealth network; eVisit unveils reporting dashboard

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2022

"Together, we can transform the patient experience for the many people who are desperate for effective digestive health treatment." Patients connect with specialized providers via telehealth visits, their care plan is continuously informed and refined by their symptoms, food and bowel movement monitoring.

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How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider. The experience was often frustrating. They report less confusion with the setup compared with other telehealth options.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMSS Annual Conference.

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Quarterly Thought Conference ARCHIVED – Expanding Quality Metrics to Include Telehealth

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MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, the National Quality Forum (NQF) developed a framework that provides a guide to the development of measures that assess and evaluate telehealth in the areas of access to care, cost, effectiveness, and the overall patient/provider experience. What are the benefits of telehealth and reducing substance abuse?

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At Nicklaus Children's, successful telehealth expansion depends on customer input

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. The rapid scaling of telehealth services did pose hurdles, namely around connectivity and accessibility, said the NCHS team.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The automated Google Meet video conference invitations saved schedulers hours of time each day. "Our providers love that they can simply log into their Google Calendar to see their telemedicine appointments for the day, and joining the conference is as easy as clicking on the calendar," Merok said. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Radiology and radiologists play starring roles in our health care, with he core work flow of diagnostic imaging supporting prevention, disease detection, diagnosis, delivering and monitoring therapy, linking specialists to other providers in telehealth, and as a medium for teaching clinicians, patients and caregivers. In the U.S.,

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

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Takeaways from ATA’s 2019 Annual Conference and Expo

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APRIL 29, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its 2019 Annual Conference and Expo from April 14-16, 2019 in New Orleans, LA. InTouch staff members attended, eager to tap into the latest news and information in regard to the telehealth industry. Despite this, we can’t negate the benefits of implementing a telehealth program.

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What one provider learned from other athenahealth users about EHRs and telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19.

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Telehealth: Key To Improving Patient Care and Reducing Physician Burnout

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

At this point we are all very familiar with telehealth. However, telehealth is only useful if it is accessible. It doesn’t matter how well the hospital and your staff are prepared to deliver remote care if the patients do not have the means to access it, whether that’s due to poor service or lacking the technology necessary.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. '" Mahoney continued.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. To help me define first principles, I turned to the American father of the dictionary, Noah Webster.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Conference kicks off this week, I’m focused on finding digital health innovations that engage people — consumers, caregivers, patients, health citizens all. This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0 As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., health citizens. health citizens.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." " Here he offers a peek at the session's themes and goals.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Her interview here in HealthLeaders speaks to her vision, recognizing, “It’s just stunning that there’s such a lag between what is possible in telehealth and what is actually happening.”. I’m so keen on telehealth, I’m personally participating in three sessions at #ATA19. That “future” as Ann Mond Johnson notes is do-able “now.”

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said.

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Weekly Roundup – December 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

John Lynn and Colin recap the year that was, offering their take on the biggest trends, best conferences, and favorite interviews of 2023. Read more… Ensuring Continued Utilization of Telehealth for Outpatient Mental Health. Read more… Leveraging Connected Solutions for Improved Patient Care.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and.

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Weekly Roundup – September 10, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Perspectives from the DirectTrust and Civitas Conference. You may recall from our August 27 roundup that John Lynn was busy at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit. Read more… A Preview of the Fall Health IT Conference Season.

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Weekly Roundup – September 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… Perspectives from the Oracle Health Conference. At the same time, multiple respondents called for legislation to support a national patient identifier. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Reporting From the Epic User Group Meeting and Civitas Conferences.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Countries worldwide share perspectives on pandemic-era digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has shown in no uncertain terms the value and criticality of having a digitised and connected healthcare ecosystem: one that enables easy access to near-real-data, supports the demands of virtual care, prioritises patient experience and protects patient data. Today, as part of the HIMSS & Health 2.0

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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

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