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. This will help establish standards, trust, and support as Virtual Nursing programs gain momentum.

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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 Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

From updating patient records, scheduling follow-up appointments, or completing insurance paperwork, administrative work can feel all-consuming. According to one report , 33% of physicians spend two or more hours completing documentation outside work hours daily, and 58% of those physicians believe that this is not an appropriate use of time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

The company says athenaTelehealth "leverages existing patient communication channels, including email and text message based on patient preferences, and delivers telehealth instructions and a seamless patient experience."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. “We also needed to be able to conduct patient visits while simultaneously documenting the encounter, without disruption to our workflow,” he explained.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

They provide remote healthcare providers with live access to the exam site, not just with video conferencing technologies but also via live streaming medical images, documents, and video. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients experience the effects of this impact through a reduction in available services, an increase in appointment wait times, and lengthy visits at the emergency department. Leverage a centralized nursing model that will provide virtual coverage of multiple patients AI technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

.” He adds that “by allowing insurance plans and policies to be queried through natural conversation, AI creates a more engaging and understandable experience for patients. This approach demystifies the often complex language found in healthcare documents.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience. That’s where virtual nursing comes into play, according to Holly Miller at Collette Health. That’s because the cloud enables secure transmission and storage of documents while making information exchange less cumbersome.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 1, 2022

In this podcast, she talks about taking on the CIO role during “interesting times,” the new bar for patient experience, and how Covid has helped improve agility. For Guthrie, the primary focus in 2022 is in three key areas: patient experience, quality and expanding virtual care. “By Key Takeaways. *

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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What elements of cancer care can physicians and nurses tend to with telemedicine along the cancer care journey? So, suppose your nurse or physician is with another patient. Communication between patient and clinician is critical during this journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 27, 2023 News AWS offers generative AI documentation through API, medical imaging at scale Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice.

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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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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Comprised on ambient listening technology as well as generative AI, allowing clinicians to minimize their time spent documenting and spend more time with their patients. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, what was once the golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has evolved from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) into the Quadruple Aim, which factors in the clinician’s well-being.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No hospital or health system is immune from the challenges of the nationwide nursing shortage. As organizations look for ways to reduce the administrative burden on nurses and improve engagement and satisfaction, virtual nursing is one consideration. What is the national nursing shortage like today?

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

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. " "Before COVID-19, the level of cognitive overload and burnout among nurses and doctors was alarmingly high," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Machine Learning has successfully assisted with back-end automation and document processing for some time, but these efforts have taken on new urgency with new interoperability regulations that have led to an exponential increase of documents coming into the chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Research from conversational intelligence vendor Authenticx concluded that healthcare organizations spend $726,000 annually to resolve disruptions in the patient experience. Clinical workflow platform Wellsheet introduced Virtual Nursing Station to optimize nursing workflows within Cerner, Epic, or athenahealth.

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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 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. An aging nurse workforce nearing retirement and student capacity limits in nurse education programs are putting additional pressure on nurse staffing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lisa Weber, Director, Healthcare Industry Practice at UiPath —a company that automates elements of the workflow in healthcare and other industries—offers a partial list of people who participate in discharging the patient: the patient themselves, patient caregivers, charge nurse, doctor, therapists, and care manager.

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

Just as in-home care allows patients to receive medical attention where they are most comfortable, virtual care offers access to team members between in-person visits, providing family members and caregivers an extra layer of support. Virtual care nurses can answer medical questions and provide expert guidance in real-time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"It was the dedication to quality, reliability and patient/provider experience that set Teladoc Health apart. "Without any doubt, the devices InTouch Health offered a decade ago, in conjunction with their proprietary network, delivered unprecedented provider and patient experiences," she continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Some sophisticated organizations offer APIs for access to data, but others still fax or mail in a scanned document. Sophisticated organizations offer an API for access to data, but many others fax or mail in a scanned document. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. But when technology is introduced to this relationship between patients and providers, there’s a decline in trust. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300.

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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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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JUNE 9, 2021

My experience caring for Sam has given me a close-up view into how his needs (and mine as a caregiver) were met pre-, during and post- surgery. I saw firsthand how effectively his hospital collaborated with VNA Care for follow up in home nursing and PT.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Launched in 2013 , the team now has about 150 health care consultants, spanning Chief Nursing Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, ex-department heads of hospitals — the range of professionals who can, as Sean said, “dig in and redesign care pathways that optimize performance through design.”

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Fully EPR integrated appointment booking, rescheduling and cancellation Managing hospital appointments is complex, expensive and time consuming for both patients and NHS staff. Our patient portal has been built from the ground up with appointment management as its core function, ensuring a secure, robust and friction free patient experience.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 11, 2018

Patients love to use it, with adoption rates by specialty of more than 50 Fully EPR integrated appointment booking, rescheduling and cancellation Managing hospital appointments is complex, expensive and time consuming for both patients and NHS staff.

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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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