Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

For the 22nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re asking the question Is Consumerism the Elephant in the Room? The discussion of consumerism in healthcare is a tricky one. Many patients wonder why their healthcare experience is so different than their consumer experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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. The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. Many vendors claim a high accuracy rate.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And, of course, make sure your company participates in events such as the upcoming International Week of the Deaf and Blind Americans Equality Day. Ben regularly speaks on topics such as digital transformation, leadership, and web accessibility. Promote ongoing dialogue in Slack and Teams and make the topic a part of regular meetings.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many developers, of course, reach a point in their personal development where they want to leave their jobs for opportunities at other companies. Arnold described his consulting work for one hopspital that had been on a multi-year journey to create a world-class patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

The results, reported in April 2022 by Fierce Pharma , highlighted the need for brands to more carefully manage how they engage with healthcare providers in a post-COVID world, where in-person meetings play second fiddle to the convenience of digital communication.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

Remote Patient Monitoring and Support: Advanced remote monitoring systems can track a patient's progress between appointments, allowing for earlier intervention and course correction if needed. link] Healthcare Technology Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth & Strategy services for Founders, Owners and Investors.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

President Cheryl Dalton-Norman says they’ve found that they prevented a patient from going to the ER about 25% of the time when the patient considered doing so. One site used SDoH to ensure equity for under-served populations when there wasn’t enough of a critical drug for all patients. (Of

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

There is no guarantee that ChatGPT’s answers will not be too generic and leave behind relevant information that might be key to the patient and their diagnosis or critical to their course of care. Equally dangerous in a healthcare context, ChatGPT and related AI systems are known to “hallucinate” false statements.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

To help address these growing consumer preferences, organizations are embracing the ‘digital front door’ – which refers to the virtual approach that patients use to interact with a healthcare provider across several touchpoints, including apps and patient portals for managing appointments, messaging with a provider, and accessing testing results.

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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." These are in addition to his weekly leadership team meeting. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to chat with Sean Horman, Enterprise Resiliency Manager at CVS to learn their approach to being a resilient enterprise and how they are using advanced technologies, like GIS to help. For CVS being a “resilient enterprise” means being a lifeline to people in the communities they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic. Of course, Mitch Parker pointed out what the enforcement discretion really means and that the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While I heard stories of patients where they were the first person ever diagnosed with their disease and now they know 30 people in the world with it, there was also the acknowledgment that the rare disease community as a whole has millions and millions of members.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to. This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2020

An interview with Michael Dowling, Northwell Health President & CEO One of the unintended consequences of COVID-19 has been the media spotlight that has been placed on epidemiologists, infection control specialists, medical researchers, healthcare executives and of course, front-line staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. Instead, their case managers partner with community institutions to help patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Usability can be tracked over time to see how often patients log in relative to the number of appointments they have, which device they use, the number of interactions with features, and how long they spend in the portal. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is the sixth article in Healthcare IT News ’ Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 feature story series, and it focuses on the kinds of stresses telehealth managers face, how telehealth technology hurts managers’ abilities to cope with those stressors and how telemedicine tech helps them manage stress.

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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

They also are trying to figure out how to create the next-generation patient experience using technology.” Decentralization vs. Centralization in Healthcare IT There was a time when consolidation, aiming to eliminate shadow IT groups, was one of the larger drivers in IT, Nigrin says.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years." " Leadership believes in telemedicine.

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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 Today

MAY 2, 2023

All of the decisions made in healthcare are based on the data we gather, so we need to make sure it’s sound. Are we getting the representation needed to cover all of our patients? We reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the importance of data in achieving health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations. One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 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. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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