Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As background, it’s worth stating that the insurance industry has settled on a ten-session course of therapy for most conditions (which of course was seen as ridiculously inadequate by the classical Freudian psychoanalytic movement, who could treat patients for years at a time).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

In fact, it seems like most healthcare situations happen after hours at really inconvenient times. Of course, on the other hand, healthcare providers can’t be available 24/7. However, we know that’s not the case. The need for medical and dental care can spring up at any time.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But one area that has held promise and hope is in the patient experience – couldn’t more engaged and satisfied patients lead to better health outcomes? What if an improved patient experience could help close gaps in care? What if the patient is unable to engage meaningfully in the care? 11/4 – TBD.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Boissy wants all of us in healthcare to chase joy and bring more of it into our lives. In an interview with Healthcare IT Today, Dr. Boissy had this to say about how her joy pie applies to healthcare: “When you ask how it applies to healthcare? In that course, we were warned about the say-do gap.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The debut installment of the new Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series debuts next Tuesday, November 10. at the Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Learn more next Tuesday, November 10, from 1-1:30 p.m.

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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. And, of course, the digital divide remains a problem.

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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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2021

Part of this activity is in response to customer demand: Companies say users are increasingly accustomed to a one-stop-shop experience, especially online, and they're starting to expect similar seamlessness from health-and-wellness tools. Another part, of course, stems from the spike in telehealth interest triggered by the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

Among the connected health trends on researchers' radar, of course: "accelerated deployment of telehealth/virtual visits, chatbot assessments, and remote health monitoring." " This term "digital front door" is not a new one, of course. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inefficiencies of this approach, prompting a reevaluation of how technology could bridge the gap between doctors and patients remotely. Innovative technologies, particularly AI , have emerged as key enablers of better patient experiences. It also enables broader access to fertility care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the rare opportunity to sit down with Renee DeSilva, Chief Executive Officer at The Health Management Academy (THMA). THMA will also be collaborating with AWS to create a new leadership development program for rising technology leaders in healthcare. I’m also getting my roller bag ready,” shared DeSilva. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Several key drivers associated with the long term enablement of telemedicine include functionality, reliability, ease of use, associated electronic health record, cost, and of course, the support available to assist either the patient or clinician with the use of the functionality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

The result is more of a bolted-on capability than an integrated whole that can truly transform healthcare delivery in ways that improve outcomes, lower costs, reduce health disparities and re-imagine the patient experience to a fully evolved and connected care journey. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2022

One of the key challenges outlined in that document is of course the postcode lottery that has been described in the UK around women’s health services. We know women will seek help throughout the course of life, but we must act now to design a fairer system where the right interventions can be made at every touchpoint. .

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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

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

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

MARCH 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jared Gillespie, Senior Director of Clinical Solutions at Academy Medtech Ventures (AMV) In the landscape of rehabilitative care, the integration of neurocognitive technology stands as a beacon of innovation, charting a course toward improved clinical quality and patient outcomes.

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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 Today

JULY 18, 2022

In fact, it’s what I love most about the health IT community we’ve built here at Healthcare IT Today and our healthcare marketing community at HITMC. However, I wondered how the crowdfunding model would work for a healthcare B2B company and one that was quite well established. That is a beautiful feeling.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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MAY 23, 2022

"We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey. "We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

Every site has multiple pressures and difficulties to solve, of course. IT salespeople are prodigious at demonstrating wonderful technologies and demonstrating that they solve problems—but are those your problems? If you’re managing a clinical site, your primary task is to settle on your chief need and define it clearly and accurately.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

Will the patient have to stay overnight? The payers and clinicians are accepting some risk in providing these packages, because patients deviate from expected courses of treatment. There is an actuarial element to the calculations, assuming that some patients will exceed the expected cost and some will cost less.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Beyond the pandemic, RPM can keep patients out of the high-cost setting of a hospital and at home, where, further, the patients will be happier, thus improving the patient experience while reducing those costs. It's clear RPM will be playing a bigger role in healthcare than it ever has before.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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