Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. Evaluating This Study TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. Many vendors claim a high accuracy rate. This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Of course, if you’re a doctor with a 2 month waiting list, it’s easy to ignore these alerts. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The simplified delivery models and systems they implement require a more lightweight technology package, and for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this translates to a simple, cloud-based system. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem. This is just the beginning.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR. Meanwhile, John spoke to Suhas Uliyar about Oracle Health’s moves to create tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

One challenge is that many doctors and nurses are skeptical that IT is going to help alleviate their burnout. Clinicians views are skewed because of how EHR software has impacted them and their work lives. Unfortunately, this is a reasonable feeling for clinicians and other healthcare workers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. Electronic health records don't usually help, even if their impact on burnout is more complex than many realize.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. Healthcare systems in the clinical setting can immensely benefit from risk evaluation and asking the following questions: What if healthcare providers can’t access patient data when they are using electronic health records (EHR) systems to connect with patients?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off. In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

million telehealth episodes in 2019 and expanded to 10,000 to 120,000 virtual visits per week during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic – will enables a co-located team of specially trained critical care physicians and nurses to remotely monitor patients in the ICU regardless of patient location. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The approach has had an array of benefits – for patients, of course, but also for behavior health experts and for the financial health of the University of Rochester Medical Center and its affiliated rural hospitals. For cash-strapped community hospitals, that's significant.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Of course, we have physicians, nurses and all the therapy professionals, but we also have programs like music, arts, participation & inclusion, and pathways to employment.”. They serve children who have chronic medical conditions, disabilities, and trauma that requires complex rehabilitation programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

First Do No Harm Dr. Mitzie Meyers, Nursing Professor at Pacific College, also reminds the clinician to treat the relationship with the patient as collaborative, not patriarchal. Ortiz talks about connecting patient needs with assistance from family, friends, a nursing agency, or other help. Associate professor Caroline E.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. Before the introduction of the HITECH Act, only 10 percent of hospitals had adopted EHRs. Here are three of them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

" Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers. "Parkview Health was able to retain nearly 70% of our standard care visits with patients by using video services within our EHR and patient portal, even as the physical offices were closed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

and Chief Medical Officer at CPSI New collaboration between mobile app developer, EHR vendor and health systems decreases clinician stress The perennial challenge of clinical burnout has reached an inflection point. The following is a guest article by William J. Hayes, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

As a healthcare provider, it of course relies on its electronic health record. Now we're looking at ways to use more remote technology and integrate our medical and dental EHRs." The EHR had glitches. The provider uses the eClinicalWorks EHR and Relevant Health data-reporting software daily.

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Xealth

JUNE 14, 2023

The multidisciplinary heart team approach (cardiologists, radiologists, imagers, echocardiographers, nurses, and research coordinators) has serious legs for value-based care, and digital health has the potential to keep the team connected. AAH’s virtual monitoring team can access Digital Care in the EHR and order the appropriate program.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

Many low-cost options are sufficient for a video-only visit but don’t include any scheduling, EHR workflow, or medical device integration. Something that needs to be considered when evaluating a virtual care platform is whether the solution was designed for communication or for healthcare delivery. Form Factor Design and Mobility.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

Physician and nurse shortages will continue to intensify in 2019, creating significant operational and financial challenges for healthcare organizations. On the nursing side, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a need for 649,100 replacement nurses by 2024. Living with EHR choices. Clinician shortages.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 20, 2023

Of course, we always advocate patients to come to the emergency department if they believe they are experiencing a medical emergency.” The Ronin cancer platform takes structured and unstructured data from different EHR silos, and then cleans, calibrates, contextualizes this information to present care insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Some wondered if this may be the start of Epic slipping from it’s place on top of the EHR world. Here are 2 that I loved: They also had another that said that “ABC Chooses Epic as the Official EHR of Grey’s Anatomy.” Nursing Direct is hiring magicians. Check out the Magic Med Mash-Up One-pill wonder.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 18, 2019

With that program, we partner with the College of Business, so students take courses under the College of Business and within the College of Nursing and Health Professions. For instance, we talk about all of the EHR companies throughout the program, so students talked with individuals from Cerner, Epic, Athenahealth, and Allscripts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Doing so presents a challenge, not just to reproduce the clinical functions that a well-furnished hospital can offer—nursing, infusions, medications, even meals—but to monitor the patient for safety reasons and measure their progress. She says there is “lots of data to slice and dice.” ” The results?

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

During the course of the past year-plus, these executives have learned many lessons spurred by the manic pacing of the pandemic. Helio Health's methods evolved over the course of last summer. "Our EHR platforms are utilitarian and are what they are. The magic happens in the echo systems around the EHRs," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In reality, of course, most practices have a mix of financial classes: Medicare, commercial, casualty, Workers’ Compensation, and possibly other unique local payer contracts. Let’s take an eight-hour day as a physical therapist as an example. If you saw 100% Medicare patients, you could bill 32 units (480/15). About John Wallace.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Hospital systems across the country are in the initial stages of rolling out voice-activated digital assistants like Alexa to boost patient engagement and simplify the work of doctors and nurses. Another Alexa project coming from Northwell will allow doctors and nurses to ask Alexa for details on a patient’s electronic health record.

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