Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

HIMSS, for example, built their Healthcare Maturity Models to provide clear adoption and implementation pathways for various technologies and capabilities that health systems need. Plus, as has been done with the EHR maturity models, the revenue cycle technology adoption model can be used to create a goal that a team can coalesce around.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

Improved EHR Help Desk Support Mitigates these Issues while Making a Positive Impact on Clinician Workflow and Patient Care. Among many well-documented pain points for clinicians is the complexity of dealing with electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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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. In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2021

"We work with our clinicians to demo the product to ensure that it meets criteria, such as providing clinically useful data, ease of use for the providers and support staff, and ready integration with the EHR and existing patient records. At Geisinger, telehealth technology can help patients and clinicians decide when to use ER services.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A recent survey from HIMSS and Patient ID Now also found that healthcare organizations are spending an average of 109.6 The result of difficulties managing patient identities, according to a whopping 70% of respondents to the HIMSS/Patient ID Now survey, are duplicative or unnecessary testing or services.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, has found that Australia is one of the few countries that is leading the way in giving people personal control of their own electronic health records (EHR).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

provider survey, which was complemented by a poll conducted among 1,024 health consumers for the patient perspective in September 2021. The most prevalent platforms providers used for telehealth engagement were via Zoom, the EHR provider (with Epic MyChart and Cerner broken out separately), or FaceTime.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

The survey was fielded in July 2020 (so a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic) among 3,543 respondents. For example, white and higher-income populations were more likely less willing to share than people in racial ethnic minority groups or consumers earning lower incomes. A new Ipsos survey of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

“While a key element to the entire proposal was RelyMD’s ability to integrate with our existing wayfinding and patient engagement app, it was necessary to work with our Epic EHR,” Barlow said. The telemedicine system includes post-consult surveys that automatically are posted at the end of every telemedicine visit.

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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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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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Redox

JULY 19, 2023

To gain insight into the buying agenda of clinical and clinical IT leaders, we asked IDC , a leading provider of global IT research and advice, to survey these roles at mid-to-large-sized U.S. Sponsored by Redox, the new IDC study reveals a promising outlook for vendors selling solutions outside of EHR solution suites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2020

KLAS surveyed nearly 200 healthcare leaders in April and May about tools they're relying on during the coronavirus crisis. For the report, it also relied on responses from 1,281 healthcare professionals to a vendor-performance survey over the same time period. Other frequently mentioned vendors included AmWell, Epic and Cisco.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 17, 2023

Behavioral health practitioners are increasingly comfortable using Electronic Health Records (EHR), particularly when accessing specialized tools such as EHR-embedded child abuse clinical decision support systems. Limitation: EHR-embedded CDS should be used to support, but not replace, clinical judgment.

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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. One example is helping with follow-up tasks such as ordering medication and scheduling a phone call in addition to generating a visit summary.

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Xealth

MARCH 29, 2024

According to Rock Health’s 2023 Consumer Adoption of Digital Health Survey , 39% of patients choose virtual care over in-person care because of convenience, and another 30% due to shorter wait times. The team liked the capabilities of building home exercise programs but did not like building them outside the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. "Many of the positive survey responses Geisinger has received specifically mention how easy the patient found it to begin their visit," he concluded.

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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 Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example. In a recent survey by medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company, […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. That may be changing in 2021, it predicted.

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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. Clinical messaging apps are becoming increasingly popular among healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

"Their technology fits into our existing workflows in our EHRs, which has been critical to provider adoption." " Dr. Eric Cheung, South Baldwin Regional Medical Center "Next, their technology fits into our existing workflows in our EHRs, which has been critical to provider adoption," he continued.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

However, 76% of responders aged 70+ in the most recent AARP survey do not think technology was designed with them in mind. Ensure that the new offering works across multiple platforms and comes in multiple form factors – voice, smartphone, web, watch, and chat for example. The real user need – a service problem solved.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years. The biggest example of the evolution in their cloud approach is highlighted in their embrace of the public cloud. This is particularly true with EHR software. Amazing that @eClinicalWorks embraced cloud 23 years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations. More than one-third (36%) of organizations have at least partly implemented AI solutions , according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, and another 25% have started AI pilots.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With the early introduction of home biometric monitoring, daily surveys and real-time access to providers, the virtual team was able to deliver high-intensity, comprehensive, individualized care that was previously not possible. "We had also introduced biometric monitoring and daily surveys early to the program," she added.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I’ll give one of my favorite examples to demonstrate. Examples include many types of medication refills, pre-authorization requests, preventive maintenance screenings, remote monitoring, and even management of mild urgent and chronic conditions. Companies need to implement tools to automate processes that they already do well.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You’ll note, as we survey the wellness solutions and measurements used, that the leading organizations in this space are payers, not clinicians. Other applications of measurements mentioned by Shanti are patient surveys on Yelp or Google, and gamification statistics that reflect patient engagement in their treatment plan.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

In Valencell’s recent survey of consumer wearable preferences , 55% of people said they’d like to monitor blood pressure, up from 46% in 2016 as shown in this bar chart from the study. Lack of data interoperability between consumer/patient-generated data and a clinician’s EHR. Unproven benefits.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider the plethora of EHR systems, scheduling idiosyncrasies, physician adoption and workflow considerations, and patient matching challenges, for example. Samsung, for example, built an American Well app into their phone. Intermountain and Mercy Virtual, too, conduct lots of visits via telehealth means.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Previously it took us two years to evaluate, select and implement enterprise-wide solutions like an EHR; and now, within the past year, we evaluated, selected and implemented five different health IT solutions across our organization, including telehealth, care management and remote patient monitoring solutions."

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They also highlight that many of the health IT and EHR vendors haven’t updated their systems in order for their users to comply with the regulation. 39% of those surveyed by CHIME said that they were concerned about receiving an upgrade of their health IT system in time to comply.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2024

In the 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey , 90% of respondents were already using mobile devices within their organizations to engage patients in their healthcare. When a device goes missing, for example, it may take days for the IT department to find out and by then the chances of recovering the device are very low.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers. CDA can be utilized in numerous medical applications.

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