EHR, Groups, Patient Experience and Telehealth

Cincinnati Children's puts focus on patient experience with its telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

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. " RESULTS.

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How one 500-doc physicians group scaled up telehealth to 130 clinics in a week

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Back in 2017, Millennium Physician Group, one of the largest independent physician groups in the U.S., Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

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How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting from the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The experience was often frustrating.

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How one gastroenterology practice uses hybrid virtual care to improve patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" Most, if not all, patients with chronic GI conditions benefit from these conservative yet proven interventions, he added. "Frequent touchpoints with a registered dietitian or a GI psychologist are easier to deliver via telehealth , much to patients' convenience," Pavlou noted.

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Beth Israel Deaconess creates homegrown telehealth with help from Amazon

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Most provider organizations boosting telehealth investments, survey finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. What does your survey show in the area of expected growth and investment in telehealth?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times. So why don’t patients use online health records yet? Half of U.S.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. We quickly saw value in Zoom’s flexibility and inherent familiarity for many users, both staff and patients.

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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

MaineHealth wanted telemedicine technology that could easily integrate into its care models and that would be highly accessible for patients to use. "Choosing a solution that was easy to use for both patients and care teams was a high priority so as not to exacerbate digital access and digital literacy barriers.

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How to Plan for & Profitably Operate a Telehealth Program

Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

A great telehealth program is true to the core values of the healing arts. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all.

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. 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. THE PROBLEM.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Practice merges telehealth, AI and voice to decrease admin workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. 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. THE PROBLEM. ” RESULTS.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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At one urban health center, ‘regulatory change was critical’ to telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

because it was website-based, required no downloads for our patients, allowed flexibility with our staff and was affordable.” ” NFP uses an Epic EHR (through OCHIN, a health center-controlled network) and had access to Zoom through Epic’s MyChart patient portal, but determined it would be too difficult for its patients.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., throughput rates). health citizens.

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Covenant Health uses telemedicine to get specialists to rural areas – and much more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in acute care EHR and PACS. Keystone Technologies and Sublimation Health are partnering to help transition EHRs to AWS. Supply chain vendor Advantus Health Partners formed a strategic partnership with Alliant Purchasing for group purchasing of surgical implants. For the U.S.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Senseonics Partners with Rimidi to Develop Innovative Diabetes Solution

Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2024

Rimidi’s platform aligns with Medicare’s reimbursable remote patient monitoring telehealth programs while seamlessly integrating within existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, supporting quality improvement initiatives, driving workflow optimization, increasing patient engagement and providing clinical decision support.

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout. But many nurses and hospital groups oppose laws requiring minimum nurse staffing ratios, pointing to the risk of patients being diverted when there are not enough nurses available when they arrive at the hospital.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care. Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit.

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Lean Digital: How Tracking Feeds Into Behavior Change for Weight Loss

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

DATAcc’s goal is to “break down silos in industry around how physical activity is measured using sensor-based digital health technologies,” for easy consumption by EHRs and digital apps. The consortium includes digital tech developers, patient advocates, pharma representatives, academic researchers, and other stakeholders.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Remote patient monitoring to gain big momentum in 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

Smartphones and tablets are among the mobile technologies in focus, which can be combined with telehealth video conferencing and healthcare wearables, as well as the deployment of electronic health record-based patient portals. This is the largest challenge in the RPM industry today."

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Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

These disparities are rooted in structural and social determinants of health, with Black and Hispanic groups more likely to face resource barriers: Older Blacks were one-fifth as likely to own a computer as European Americans. Improving provider effectiveness through automated data collection and patient interactions.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

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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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat.

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Tebra Secures More Than $72 Million at Over $1 Billion Valuation to Expand Digital Healthcare Technology Platform

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2022

The platform connects patients to the best providers in seconds and delivers a modern, digital-first patient experience. Built through the combination of Kareo and PatientPop, the offering includes modern websites, messaging and scheduling, telehealth, EHR, care delivery, practice management, billing, payments, and analytics.

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Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards virtual visits and telehealth? Dr. Christopher Crow, CEO and Co-Founder at Catalyst Health Group. This means staff can get more done with less stress — a huge win for office morale, practice efficiency, and patient experience. Ramesh Ramani, CEO at ExpertusONE.

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InTouch Health and NTT DATA Strengthen Partnership To Advance Virtual Care

InTouch Health

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To support the market demand for Solo by InTouch, the company’s next-generation software platform, NTT DATA will serve as the strategic systems integration partner to seamlessly integrate the virtual care platform with existing clinical workflows, EHRs, digital solutions, and IT environments for all existing and future clients.

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Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The simplified delivery models and systems they implement require a more lightweight technology package, and for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this translates to a simple, cloud-based system. 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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Weekly Roundup – September 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

At this year’s event, now part of Oracle World, John learned about Oracle Health’s plans to go international, build a bridge between EHRs and ERPs, and transition Cerner infrastructure to the cloud. At the same time, multiple respondents called for legislation to support a national patient identifier.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience. Greenway Health has launched a service called Greenway Medical Coding for its EHR clients to help relieve the administrative burden of coding and receive payments faster. Grants and Funding.

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Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

Eric Cheung, a family medicine specialist practicing in Foley, Alabama, who serves as chief of staff for South Baldwin Regional Medical Center and clinic medical director for South Baldwin Medical Group. This supports our clinicians while also supporting their patients.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. They will use whatever works to get to their patients. "Who leveraged telehealth the most?" "What modality proved most successful for them and their patient population? " Then, examine what worked.

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Philips' maternal health champion discusses digital women's health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They are an enabler for providers and payers to address both the clinical and economic aspects of this issue, not to mention patient experience for this important population. By providing these groups with the data they need to understand this, they can better advocate for maternal health. About half of U.S.

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Providence pivots digital consumer tools for COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

Among the connected health trends on researchers' radar, of course: "accelerated deployment of telehealth/virtual visits, chatbot assessments, and remote health monitoring." Other initiatives have been developed in-house at its Providence Ventures arm, such as Xealth, which has since been spun off as its own company.

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Covenant Health uses telemedicine to get specialists to rural areas – and much more

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Remote patient monitoring to gain big momentum in 2020

Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program

Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

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Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive

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