Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room. Of course, selecting patients along any sort of criteria is controversial.)

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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. They use AI and NLP and work with clients to create effective auto-responders to patient inquiries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Normally, it would have taken three to six months to roll out this type of platform to more than 650 providers, but we did it in less than two weeks – a testament to our amazing leadership and staff. The most difficult aspect was deploying the technology to be effective and efficient for both patients and providers.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. One of the most impactful experiences of my career was working with our hospice nurses during the height of COVID. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute. " Hospital-at-home.

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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). Sagility employs SDoH to help manage the total cost of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

This can be achieved using a data engineering framework that is flexible enough to handle structured, unstructured and semi-structured data-sets to create a Patient LHR (Longitudinal Healthcare Record) to get a 360-degree view of the patient’s health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

It can also automate the review of incoming faxes, identify gaps in care, streamline tasks with robotic process automation, and even alert providers of patients most likely to miss an appointment. I’m excited to see how it will transform clinical workflows and, in the end, create a better patient experience in 2024.

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