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Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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

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Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures

Healthcare IT Today

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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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help

Healthcare IT Today

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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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

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. They obtained data down to the ZIP code for this survey, which was conducted in Washington, DC.

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Intelligent Communication: The Key to Retaining Nursing Staff

Healthcare IT Today

According to a recent survey by Jarrard Inc., the nation’s leading healthcare communication firm, only a quarter of the nurses surveyed felt very satisfied with their job and just over one in four are satisfied with their pay. Higher pay and more staffing are, of course, key solutions to improve retention rates.

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Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

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. .