Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. Because of the time required to process SDoH, Eye says, institutions need to prioritize which patients to contact.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." " This new payment modality has fueled RPM adoption and incorporation into various aspects of care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. > consumers are “shrugging off” Omicron.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Providers continuously pushed themselves to invest in new tools and solutions — with one overarching aim — to enhance the patient experience. Navigating multiple data-collection tools without any integration is guaranteed to result in scrambled data from different applications living in silos.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Xealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Stel was selected as the tool to deploy “hubs” that collect data from Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs and present the data in a Monitor View dashboard for researchers. Stel also developed the ability to write discrete data back to the health system through Xealth’s data write back API.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems. geographies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 27, 2023 News AI-enabled efficiencies can improve patient outcomes and reduce clinician burnout "By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice. The process.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Laura Ferrara, Chief Strategy Officer at Intus Care The focus on healthcare delivered in the comfort of one’s home has surged in recent times, particularly in light of the pandemic. Telehealth advancements, both in technology and government policy, have created greater access to care for people who might otherwise struggle to get it.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Another joint study, this one involving CareEvolution, Scripps Research, and The Rockefeller Foundation, concluded that data from wearable devices could forecast COVID-19 infection rates as many as 12 days earlier than CDC data alone. Care coordination company Quantum Health released a care navigation tool for self-insured employers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. 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. The company employs visits, phone calls, and online contacts to get the data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The company can’t engage in the gold standard of randomized clinical trials for many reasons: the difficulty of finding subjects, the time required, and the ethical quandary of denying care to half of the subjects. The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

All these digital health companies bring in expert doctors, nurses, or other clinical staff to help them design products and interact with potential customers. Showalter says that doctors and nurses can explain what’s not working for them in their current environments, but find it hard to articulate what the solutions might look like.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As health/care goes omni-channel enabling patients-as-consumers to express their service demands across a platform of virtual and in-person front-doors, so the pharmacy will be embedded in these work- and life-flows. Pharmacists, like nurses and doctors, can’t only live and work on the basis of love and trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas. Census Bureau shows 11.7

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Thanks to Microsoft for its leadership in enabling better healthcare, everywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. While 95% of organizations said digital engagement tools improve the patient experience, 42% said there are “significant gaps” between what patients expect and what they can provide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. So, naturally, many of them came here to explore their options.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 15, 2024

Key components of chronic care management Comprehensive care plan: A personalized care plan is developed collaboratively between the patient, their primary care physician, and other healthcare providers involved in their care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Huntley McNabb, Vice President at Nordis Technologies Revenue cycle management communications can play a key role in rebuilding patient trust in healthcare, which fell sharply during the pandemic. The best way to increase confidence is to collect statistically relevant data that is inclusive of leading indicators.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. It needed the ability to do an EKG.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps. Health Equality In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Connectivity that enables clinicians, researchers, executives to put that data to work. Collection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"The pandemic also presented new access to care challenges and opportunities to rethink what blended digital and in-person care could look like if built around the patient experience," Karim said. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 30, 2022

Remote patient monitoring, being a telehealth subset, creates access to patients’ vital signs from home between provider consultations. By doing consults remotely, nurses and providers, and even patients in the rural areas decrease exposure to other infectious patients in the hospital.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

Kaiser Permanente's virtual wards offer a variety of services, including: Tele-health visits: Patients can meet with their providers via video chat. Tele-monitoring: Patients can use remote monitoring devices to track their health data, such as blood pressure, heart rate, and weight. Thoughts, comments?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Becoming a patient is not something we asked for or chose; yet we try to find ways to make the best of the situation and hopefully improve our care, lower our cost, and help those trying to care for us. To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. .

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 26, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of modern healthcare, the integration of digital innovations has emerged as a powerful catalyst driving significant transformations in the delivery and experience of patient care. With technology always improving, doctors and nurses can now help patients even more than before.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research. ” The report read.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

.” The video is a virtual tour of a Kroger grocery store featuring a dozen of the company’s 23,000 healthcare employees: a pharmacist, a pharmacy tech, a nutritionist, a nurse practitioner, and even a produce representative advising a shopper on the health benefits of fruit. Kroger is taking a page right from the 2019 U.S.

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