Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who has written about health IT and EHR for 18 years, I like to think there’s nothing about health IT that I haven’t written about. There’s nothing worse for a nurse or doctor than to have to search for a charged device to be able to help the patient.

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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. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Athenahealth’s clients frequently collaborated on topics such as telehealth solutions, revenue cycle management practices and ways to support their new remote patient experience,” she said. At Whole Life Health Care, the advice has made a real difference, Coombs stated.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A promising trend emerging in health IT for 2024 is the integration of automation tailored for ambient documentation creation. This technology facilitates the capture of clinical documentation during most patient engagements. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

With modern databases, it’s ridiculous for many care managers to be checking the availability and services of nursing facilities manually. They should be able to draw up a list of suitable facilities quickly and transfer data from the patient’s electronic record to a corresponding record at the chosen facility.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

At this year’s event, now part of Oracle World, John learned about Oracle Health’s plans to go international, build a bridge between EHRs and ERPs, and transition Cerner infrastructure to the cloud. Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As an industry leader in healthcare data and clinical workflows, Cerner presents unique value for becoming the foundation for which Oracle will build their next generation EHR. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky. It quickly becomes evident that Dr.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

For the next step – directing patients to the portal – the health system put QR codes everywhere, from exam room walls to employees’ badges, and doubled the number of portal users in 12 months. Read more… Improving the Patient Experience With Online Scheduling and Chatbots.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Nurse and Physician Satisfaction and Productivity In the past, the patient’s health was always the number one concern. Charting or documenting a patient’s medical records is time-consuming for nurses to do by hand and can become a problem if handwriting is difficult to read, leading to errors or misinterpretations.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. Electronic health records don't usually help, even if their impact on burnout is more complex than many realize.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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Xealth

JUNE 14, 2023

Paige Stocks, Director, Partnerships Digital health and DTx solutions pave the way for better patient experiences and outcomes. If a patient has a pacemaker, they get a phone call to check in on their pacemaker. There are documented pain points in cardiology that digital health can help alleviate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Physicians faced difficulty accessing lab results and other electronic health record content while on the call with the patient, which resulted in further delays. The practice’s providers have immediate access to patient data, including labs, X-rays and other tests. “Patient outcomes are the No. ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When the patient journey proves to be too difficult, the disconnect can be frustrating. After going through the customer journey mapping process and identifying pain points, make sure that your changes are documented so that you can demonstrate to your patients that you’re listening and you’re making impactful changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For one, the platform integrates with EHR systems, supporting your clinical needs without replacing existing workflows. This alleviates some of the time and effort needed to learn a new system, giving back valuable time for healthcare workers to put toward patient care. If not, it adds even more complexities to an already complex day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. AI-powered clinical documentation boosts patient satisfaction and physician well-being. Doctors rarely aware of online feedback from patients. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JULY 20, 2023

Patients need to remain connected to care teams to stay engaged, better manage, and communicate side effects. Providers try to navigate their inefficient clinical workflows, address the administrative burden due to documentation requirements, and deal with workforce shortages. Her symptom information has required a response (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool. Primary care EHR Elation Health has integrated with Ribbon Health , a provider data management platform. ModMed received a patent for its adaptive logic software , which is used to automat documentation.

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SteadyMD

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With an estimated shortage of 200,000 nurses and 50,000 physicians over the next three years and with more than 50% of U.S. About SteadyMD SteadyMD is a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare in all 50 states.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

We talk a lot about how different AI applications and tools could save us time or how they could improve the patient experience. Additionally, they enable personalized treatment approaches by analyzing individual patient data and tailoring interventions to meet specific needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

doctors lose an estimated $125 billion in revenue each year to avoidable errors, such as incorrect patient or provider information, invalid or missing codes, duplicate billing and missing documentation. Jordan Miller, Senior Medical Director of Dermatology at ModMed U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“I can now self-schedule, and see when the patient has checked in, and when they’re ready and waiting for me,” she said. Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Partnerships Qualtrics and Epic are partnering to integrate patient experience data into the EHR. InteliChart released Family Portal , which supports patients and caregivers in long-term care or skilled nursing facilities. Product and Company News athenahealth added AI and generative AI capabilities to athenaOne.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Three leaders of ROI Healthcare sat down with John Lynn and talked about helping health systems get the payoff they want from investments in RCM, ERP, and EHR software. Read more… Tracking the Patient Experience at Intermountain Health. Read more… Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s crucial to have secure communication platforms that enable care teams to align quickly on patient status and care, eliminate roadblocks in their workflow, and ultimately reduce time to treatment. This helps in reducing delays in care delivery and improving patient outcomes.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We know you are hearing from technology vendors, such as Epic Computer Systems, as documented in this news story on CNBC about Epic’s letter to its users asking them to resist our access. Some use other EHRs. A nurse came to give her an injection – of penicillin. Some of these practices use Epic. No I don’t!” she replied.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2022

A common clinical need across the health system's footprint is how to continue patients' access to critically important specialty-based care, both for chronic condition management in the ambulatory setting and for acute care needs within the hospital setting. THE PROBLEM. The telemedicine technologies staff proposed were twofold.

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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 News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. – can share a stethoscope live stream with a consulting provider so they can hear the patient’s body sounds, assess rhythm strips, and provide potentially life-saving advice based on their exam findings.

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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 1, 2019

House VA committee Chairman Mark Takano (D-CA) chastises VA Secretary Robert Wilkie for failing to turn over documents related to the Mar-A-Lago trio’s influence on VA software purchasing decisions. The changes are reflected in the patient portal too (which is to be expected, but God knows that doesn’t always happen…). Get Involved.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Key to the potential power of this vision is that Copilot’s access to data would go across all aspects of Microsoft 365, from notes and text to apps and workflows – even within electronic health records ( more on the example of Epic EHR below ). That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter.

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