Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Partnerships DeepScribe deepened its integration with Epic , now pushing documentation into specific fields of a patient’s chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mend

MAY 5, 2022

Reducing the time they wait for staff to enter the data into their electronic health record (EHR). Provides a Better Patient Experience. For many patients, attending an in-person doctor’s visit is worrying. Visits to the doctor are less scary for the patient, and their medical documentation is ready before they get there.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Learn more about preparing your organization for enterprise content management and the adoption of a document management and imaging (DMI) platform.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This partnership will make both platforms more accessible to organizations across the country, enabling them to not only optimize virtual care delivery and quality, but also alleviate the burden of session documentation for providers conducting virtual appointments.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This partnership will make both platforms more accessible to organizations across the country, enabling them to not only optimize virtual care delivery and quality, but also alleviate the burden of session documentation for providers conducting virtual appointments.

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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. ” "One example is dictation, saving our providers 8-10 minutes per patient that would have otherwise been spent writing progress notes on patient visits."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools. But there's no question that technology could do better helping solve the problem.

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Mend

JUNE 14, 2022

With more engagement comes: Better health outcomes: When patients are actively engaged, they are more likely to attend doctor appointments and recommended screenings. Improved patient experience: Simplified, easy to use and understand engagement opportunities equal more satisfied patient experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. Traditionally, patient experience has been defined by a paper survey at the end of a visit and employee experience as an annual engagement survey with a myriad of questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

Even if physicians had time to go through all the scanned documents in the EHR, most documents do not have meaningful names, and procedure dates may be listed incorrectly. Many of them are working after hours preparing for visits, documenting earlier visits, and complying with contracts they have with insurance companies.

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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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Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

Our innovative healthcare management system lets you automate patient billing when integrated into your PMS or EHR. Your patients get a digital check-in experience whether they are visiting in-person or virtually. When patients have this reminder to pay at their fingertips, payments are collected quickly.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The water is muddy, according to the report, because few vendors distinguish between telemedicine – a replacement for an in-person appointment – and virtual care – a broader set of services. Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

Advances in EHR and clinical decision support systems that can “talk to” telehealth service platforms. This integration boosts efficiency, eases documentation, and reduces the risk of error. STEP 3: Document the business case. Key questions: Will the telehealth platform link to our EHR? How will we fund it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

Their technology is based on real-world data from hundreds of millions of patients. NLP can extract details such as what treatments the patient has already tried, and their reactions. Patients are evaluated on the contents of the EHR, pharmacy data, and claims data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. ” UCHealth wanted a caregiver to be able to stay within Epic to join the video consult room, see his or her schedule, document, and bill – all in one place. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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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 Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas. We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. " PROPOSAL In 2019, Horizon had deployed telemedicine technology from vendor Amwell. Then COVID-19 hit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. AI-powered clinical documentation boosts patient satisfaction and physician well-being.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience. With single-screen/multi-screen workflows, documentation can occur during the visit, saving more time. Once the patient completes the forms, Mend can move the forms to the EHR automatically.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2023

Enhanced Data Security If a paper document gets lost or falls into the wrong hands, your practice could face HIPAA violations. Digital intake forms help tighten security by ensuring that only authorized care teams can access patient data. Digital forms reduce the manual touchpoints for patient data, reducing the chances of human error.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

The challenge is always how to distribute that needed care in the most efficient manner for the specialist clinicians, in a way that best optimizes their time while enhancing that patient experience and value. The telemedicine technologies staff proposed were twofold. MARKETPLACE. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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