Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). We’re extremely excited to join this partnership, and we know our clients and teammates who are joining HPG are in great hands.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a detailed listing of numerous telemedicine vendors. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The experience was often frustrating. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” To support staff and patients, the health center began reviewing a telemedicine application called Otto that could integrate with its NextGen EHR. ” "Our health center also has purchased information technology services and equipment that will integrate our telehealth technology with our existing EHR."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Through a partnership with local St. It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

NextGen announced several AI initiatives at their annual User Group Meeting, including the launch of their Ambient Assist product to help with clinical documentation. The roller coasters and thrill rides in Orlando, FL were the perfect backdrop for the 26 th edition of NextGen Healthcare ’s annual User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

There are many vendors with electronic health records systems on the health IT market today, including Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway Health, HCS, Meditech and NextGen Healthcare. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ” Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the case of the step-down units, Geisinger wanted to be able to connect that staff to its eICU nurses and physicians for added support. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2024

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. A wide range of roles in clinical informatics, IT and system administration, and EHR support. The eClinicalWorks Bet on AI Is Paying Off for Practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 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

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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Most of the vendor functionality is tied directly to Epic EHR integration. This was work directly with our integrated video vendor inside of our Epic EHR, which also included improved IT support pathways."

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 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… QHIN Commentary at the ONC Annual Meeting. John made it to DC for the ONC Annual Meeting for the first time.

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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. The platform launched using WebEx Meetings and later migrated to Microsoft Teams."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

On a related note, Cannon Memorial Hospital in Linville, North Carolina, also is part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, and it has been using telemedicine vendor Telehealth Solution for three years, for both daytime rounding service, with a physician assistant or nurse practitioner, and full nocturnist coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

These targets may include modernizing capabilities for general diagnostics, anesthesia, EHR, or other multi-department systems (e.g. Other criteria for these targets include solutions that can aid in the most acute staffing shortages, such as patient monitoring systems that allow nurses to effectively care for more patients at a time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

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. As ambient voice has gotten a lot of attention lately, this was a good question to pose to the Healthcare IT Today community.

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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. Notably, the service was successfully launched just two months later, beginning on January 17, 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

"Our program uses a comprehensive and coordinated approach of clinical operations, EHR integration, mobile technology, best-practices algorithms and population health monitoring to address this key contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality." " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 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. Think improvements to the nurse call button, a virtual whiteboard, and actions triggered by activity in the EHR.

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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 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). Healthcare has highly specialized requirements for AI and other technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We set up virtual meetings where we could chat on progress and deal with any issues that occurred. Most staff supporting this effort were virtual.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

"There were automations built within our existing Microsoft Teams platform that allowed for seamless tele-triage screenings to be initiated by triage nurses in our ED," he continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Luke's studied 12 different platforms and was impressed with how SilverCloud could meet its needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. The process.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2020

“These technologies supported our InSight TeleICU program where specialists from our New Haven hospital remotely consult with nurses and physicians in sister locations.” ” The TeleICU program combines data from the health system’s Epic EHR and medical device data captured from the remote hospital to drive consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

"Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. "We scheduled one-on-one meetings with staff, held department meetings and hosted town halls. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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