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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Is it Time to Lean into Fax for Provider-Provider Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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Maximize Value and Efficiencies with Effective Content Management

Healthcare IT Today

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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Dealing with the Elephant in the Waiting Room – Clipboards and Paper Forms

Healthcare IT Today

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations.

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Weekly Roundup – January 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Interoperability, Data, and the Cloud. Our experts agreed that interoperability isn’t a goal unto itself but will continue to support efforts to provide clinicians with context at the point of care and make it easier for organizations to advance their cloud strategies.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., Almost everything we see in healthcare tech innovation falls into two buckets: patient-focused, or operations optimization-focused. Left behind are staffing shortages and workload problems that drive up billions in costs and degrade the patient experience.

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