Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The FHIR-based API will enable Te Toka Tumai Auckland's new PAS to reconcile data "within the wider information systems environment." " This means "[w]e will know when a patient’s data was last accessed from the NHI," explained Brian Biggs, customer relations and sales director for InterSystems New Zealand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

We also could get experience data back from the patients. "Then with the video analytics we can actually see the data to make sure our patients are in fact watching and engaging with the video content," she continued. "And HCT are healthcare operations experts. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2020

New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Rather than transforming healthcare practices, I like to view it as transforming the way healthcare is practiced. . Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the unique ability to process vast amounts of data and make sense of what they represent. From ‘Sick Care’ to ‘Smart Care’.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

On the flipside, and this is where regulation can really help legitimate players in an industry, telemedicine providers who experience bad outcomes or do unscrupulous things with private healthcare data could potentially set the expansion of telemedicine back substantially. Data privacy and security is paramount.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Not just speed for the individual, but blazing fast as an infrastructure moving terabytes of data for thousands of people at a time. Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

They noted that the upsurge in virtual adoption over the past year has shown not only that Americans have an appetite for at-home care, but that the data has borne out its feasibility, safety and efficacy. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Healthcare IT News published a comprehensive listing of these vendors with detailed product descriptions. Data collected included whether a visit was conducted via video or telephone, the platform used, the length of the visit, and the option to select the most common technical issues if unsuccessful. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. "Data became very important in the fight against COVID-19," he said.

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David Chou

JUNE 21, 2022

In a move that promises to shake up the healthcare industry, Oracle this month announced a bold vision after acquiring health IT giant Cerner for more than $28 billion. The combined companies will soon create a national health records database that pulls data from thousands of hospitals, said Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

However, when the cost of hospital cyber incident remediation tops $10 million and cyber insurance continues to skyrocket, IT leaders and the C-suite must take healthcare data security seriously. Hospitals Losing Cybersecurity Battle The number of healthcare data breaches of over 500 records dipped slightly in 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

" 60% said they were "very" or "extremely" prepared to manage portals, but fewer health systems were well-positioned to store high volumes of data (53%), offer provider-facing communication platforms (50%), or secure video technology to connect docs and patients (47%). Further down the list? THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now imagine that business is a hospital. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. It turned out that the backup was untouched by the cyberattack and stored a significant amount of our data. It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Connected medical devices hold the promise of improved workflows and data gathering which can lead to improve patient outcomes. How can healthcare organizations manage this?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

More than 20% of healthcare organizations that suffer a cyber attack see higher mortality rates, and the majority of healthcare organizations experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past 12 months—nearly one a week—according to a September 2022 report by Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. Healthcare is hard.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2022

Rural hospitals often lag in integrating financial information and electronic health records (EHRs) because of staffing shortfalls and the perceived cost of doing so. However, both empower providers to lessen the administrative burden and tap into data to act proactively — a move that can ultimately help reduce costs.

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