Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 26, 2024

During my doctoral study in nursing practice a couple of years ago, I learned about a champion of nursing informatics, Dr. Nancy Staggers. Dr. Staggers assisted in developing the American Nursing Association’s Scopes and Standards of Practice. She also contributed to electronic health record (EHR) implementation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, one of our medical practice clients caught a receptionist in one office snooping in records of patients who were visiting another office. When I was the Chief Information Officer at a hospital, a nurse was fired for inappropriately accessing her former mother-in-law’s medical record. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

A patient who experiences a stroke, for example, has a lower chance of functional independence and an increased likelihood of mortality when treatment is delayed. Do not use the EHR for clinical communication. EHRs are essential for hospital operations and most include a communication feature. Seconds matter in healthcare.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

We will discuss the benefits later but let’s first talk about the 5 examples of wearable medical devices currently being used in this industry. For instance, connecting electronic health records (EHR) and wearables benefits primary care and chronic care patients. Top 5 Examples Of Wearable Technology In Healthcare.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 5, 2019

Nurse practitioner Michelle Everhart loved her career, but when she got pregnant she struggled with the decision of whether to leave the job she loved to spend more time with her son. From Family Nurse Practitioner to Urgent Care Telemedicine NP. I’ve been a nurse since 2007. What’s your background?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions). It’s amazing how the nurse call button can be improved with the right technology and workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It has been an up and down year for the ambulatory EHR maker and its customers in this ever changing climate. Candance Lemke, MS, RN, NP-C a Nurse Practitioner at Bowen Health, for example, had her comment enlarged on several signs displayed at the UGM. Their UGM was a chance to reset and chart a clearer path forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For example, AI-enabled decision-making can inform clinical decisions, improve the accuracy of financial and clinical projections, and reduce the cost of healthcare through a data-driven approach. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem. This is just the beginning.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

"ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued. Because care plans are integrated into the EHR, this approach supports consistent care and communication across care settings, including in the emergency department.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jeff Robbins, Founder and CEO at LiveData Systems for managing electronic hospital records (EHR) are critical for recording, storing, and protecting patient data. Providing surgical nurses with systems to input and track surgical status in real-time with a simple click helps achieve that goal.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

"Thankfully, the electronic health record companies and our other vendors adapted rapidly, so we got telemedicine up and running through our EHR," said Cory Harris, COO at Christ Health Center. It looks like a nursing cart in a hospital, except it has a large tablet screen on it. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With hospital-at-home , this process piles on several additional layers of complexity, such as remote patient monitoring devices, patient-reported outcomes, nursing care, physical therapy, food, medication deliveries and more. This may seem like an insignificant example.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. Here’s a look at the 2nd set of questions that ChatGPT provided us after this extra prompt: How is the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) changing the way doctors and nurses document patient care?

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Redox

MAY 6, 2024

healthcare providers via a network approach—with one business relationship and one integration go-live—as opposed to building many BAA-driven relationships and integrations with individual healthcare organizations and their EHRs. new test results) or you need to be able to write data back to their charts in EHRs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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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. " The COVID-19 crisis has been an immense challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR. Meanwhile, John spoke to Suhas Uliyar about Oracle Health’s moves to create tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. "For example, blood transfusions and glycemic control, both of which we thought were going well, were actually not up to standard," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. "Example visit types include results review, surgical follow-up visits and pre-surgical consults."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs. Read more… Addressing Nursing Shortages With Mobile Employment Technology. No one likes paper forms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. ” "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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In addition to these general business models, clinical messaging apps may also generate revenue from other sources, such as: Integration fees: Some apps charge healthcare providers a fee to integrate with their electronic health records (EHRs) systems. Subscribe today! This can help to improve the efficiency of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

"First, its platform worked well with our existing EHR," he said. "In our case, sometimes this means nurses from the ALS Association are logging into a session with a patient from their iPads," Simmons said. "Another use of telehealth is for 1-to-1 visits with ALS healthcare providers.

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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.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2022

"And we did try a process before we employed the technology, where it was a lot of secure chat through our EHR, similar to texting, in addition to a lot of phone calls and not really being able to visualize our patients," said Amy Hassell, RN, senior director for the Virtual Health Center at UCHealth.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 1, 2021

The tool’s Clinical Search feature enables nurses and doctors to simply type what they’re looking for and quickly find the specific information requested -- which might otherwise require significant time and effort to uncover. [link] The power of Search for medicine. Care Studio harmonizes medical data across different systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

"Plus, its ability to integrate with our Meditech EHR. "Technology that does all the functional ADT processes and is integrated with our EHR allows us to pull patient information directly in," he added. "We also have an opioid treatment program where we provide medication to the patient," he continued.

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Xealth

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It’s because the EHR tools they have to integrate with make even simple tasks like deploying a YouTube video in connection with a patient visit difficult. 2: Clinician productivity, especially for nurses! No one needs to be reminded of the high cost of hiring and keeping your essential nursing and MA staff.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors. This can be particularly challenging for healthcare systems that are already understaffed or overburdened.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

As more of these smart devices and sensors get connected there are many questions that come to mind, for example, how will this new technology be best used in real life? Jeff: The examples Romina shared illustrate the intelligent use of ‘active data’. A nurse by trade, she has over 17 years of healthcare experience.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Here are some specific examples of how virtual wards are being used today and how they may be used in the future: Today: Virtual wards are being used to care for patients with a variety of conditions, including COPD, heart failure, diabetes, and pneumonia.

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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. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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