Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our reporters will be on the ground to cover the exciting discussions on healthcare analytics, new models of care, and more. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… I nbound Communication Can Improve Patient Experiences. The Top Innovations at HLTH 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Where Do We Need Less – or More – Healthcare IT Regulation ? ELLKAY Selected as CommonWell’s New Technical Service Provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

The referral is made, and the patient arrives at a SNF without the right information being communicated. The post-acute EHR software out there isn’t passing the right information amongst care facilities during patient transitions. The first three days at a SNF are when they are at higher risk for a readmission.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months. The Health Center Summit is an event that is tailored specifically for eClinicalWorks’ community health and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) customers. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article addresses the entirety of the patient experience, and its interdependence with the staff experience. athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. I talked at Skyscape with Founder and CEO Sandeep Shah.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

Having the latest medication information is key to reducing medication related adverse events. The Report also showed a significant increase in the use of real-time prescription benefits which decreases the out-of-pocket cost of medications for patients. According to the latest National Progress Report from Surescripts , over 2.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

" He said those devices must also have intelligence built into them to help filter all this incoming data and guide providers or care coordinators to activities or events that requires their attention – otherwise, the data becomes noise to providers and it gets ignored, similar to alert fatigue with EHRs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Happy Halloween!

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2022

Healthcare IT Today recently had the opportunity to attend the HINT Summit – a gathering for DPC practitioners and the companies that offer solutions to DPC clinics. The event was hosted by Hint Health , makers of a platform that handles employer enrollment, administration, billing and invoicing for DPC clinics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By shifting the focus from "discharge planning" to "home care orchestration," health systems and payers can not only reduce the cost of care, but also reduce complications and earn favorable feedback from patients, caregivers and providers. This may seem like an insignificant example. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption. It may also have been that complaining wouldn’t help.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 22, 2023

Studies show that for every one hour spent directly caring for patients, physicians spend two hours on their EHR and other administrative tasks. This can lead many clinicians to spend more than six hours per week on EHR tasks, outside of their traditional working hours. But unfortunately, that’s the case these days.

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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

MAY 8, 2024

It’s easy to talk about a nurse call platform that’s able to bridge the gap from all of these devices and data sources into actionable events and alerts for the nurses. By leveraging enhanced EHR integration, virtual care integration, and reducing alarm fatigue, you can reduce the administrative burden and burnout for nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"A best practice is to develop a roadmap for virtual care platform enhancements, optimization and other technological advances, such as improved workflows, new capabilities such as integration with the EHR, and other functionalities to improve the patient experience," she said. HIMSS22 Coverage. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

The CarePort device is designed to easily connect to any TV, enabling healthcare providers to virtually come in and out of a patient's home as care is needed. “The benefits to patients are undeniable – allowing for graceful aging in the home, decreasing travel needs, especially for those with mobility issues, etc.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 17, 2023

Patient onboarding: RPA can automate the process of patient onboarding by extracting data from patient records, verifying insurance eligibility, and inputting patient information into electronic health records (EHRs). This can improve the accuracy of patient data and reduce administrative workload.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Patient onboarding: RPA can automate the process of patient onboarding by extracting data from patient records, verifying insurance eligibility, and inputting patient information into electronic health records (EHRs). This can improve the accuracy of patient data and reduce administrative workload.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

DirectTrust recently hosted their second annual Summit (recordings still available), an event focused on connecting DirectTrust members and non-members with some of the nation’s greatest healthcare and interoperability experts. The following is a guest article by Emily Burch Harris, Freelance Health Writer.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2019

The annual EXPO.health event was created to break down the silos that separate people, organizations and companies in Health IT. The event brings together smart, forward-thinking and hard-working Health IT professionals for 3 days of collaboration, sharing and conversation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Healthcare IT News and HIMSS TV covered RSA 2019 live! Why healthcare organizations need execs with social sensitivity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

You might be reassured that it is safe and easy to use on the administrator end, but is it that way on the user end for the patients? For some insights on patient engagement in communication platforms we reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community. The following is what they had to say. John Moyer, Sr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Metadata from medical images and medical devices can be read alongside clinical information, yielding more powerful results when a provider or researcher searches and queries patient information, Microsoft said. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. There are many drivers converging in healthcare that underscore the critical role patient engagement plays in determining providers’ long-term success.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Particularly pertinent to the Healthcare IT Today blog, wellness is a goal promised by many digital apps. Jim Wallace, CEO of DecisionRx , points out that physicians are not usually equipped to collect measures of wellness, nor does the typical electronic health record (EHR) have fields to store them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Myia Health had the promise of machine learning models to help staff achieve risk stratification and deliver the right intensity of care to patients: An acuity model and time-to-event model. The time-to-event model would notify staff when patients appear to be nearing hospitalization. Leverage asynchronous messaging.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Healthcare IT companies regularly release updates to fix identified vulnerabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. To support these efforts, we expect healthcare IT leaders to adopt new approaches to network management, including AI-enhanced monitoring (AIOps) and observability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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