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Patient Portals Improve Healthcare Outcomes. So, Why Don’t Patients Use Them?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. In an age where data breaches are common, some patients are hesitant to put their health information online. Then there’s the worry about privacy.

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The Intersection of Digital Patient Engagement and Care Outcomes

Xealth

The shift empowers patients and care providers with innovative tools, paving the way for potentially enhanced health outcomes through more personalized and accessible care. Xealth worked with Medbridge to create a customizable plan within the EHR. They turned to Xealth to centralize both vendors within the EHR.

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What is Child Abuse Clinical Decision Support?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

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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When Social Determinants of Health Limit Virtual Care Access

GlobalMed

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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Therapy Notes: How Does It Work and Is It Effective?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Therapy notes software such as therapy tech, mobile health applications, electronic health records (or EHR), video coaching, and many others are available to help with practice management. TherapyNotes includes electronic health records (EHR), features like medical billing and patient scheduling, as well as patient portals.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized. Time to look at what comes next.

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Examining the Influence of DrKumo’s Patient Monitoring in Mitigating Hospital Readmissions among Chronic Patients

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Ethical Considerations and Patient Privacy Ensuring data confidentiality and consent Maintaining patient privacy and obtaining informed consent are essential ethical considerations in the implementation of DrKumo’s system, ensuring that patient data is protected and used responsibly.

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