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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

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WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

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Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

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TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. The final component – and the one most important to TriHealth – was that the platform had to be easy to use for both healthcare providers and patients.

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Telehealth boosts continuity of care, patient-provider relationships at Ellis Medicine

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Telemedicine offers several benefits that position healthcare provider organizations to deliver care in a convenient, contemporary and sustainable manner, namely, said Colleen Hammond, practice manager and manager of population health at Ellis Medicine. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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How UCHealth's Virtual Health Center has enabled innovation, scaled capability and capacity

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"Our virtual care infrastructure was not meant to support the number of home visits we were predicting, and while we had the backbone and design in place, we were pressed to build upon what we designed to meet the new demands and to train many more clinicians who were not eager to jump on the telehealth train previously," Deanda explained.

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

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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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Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

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All but one of One Health's clinic locations serve communities that meet the frontier definition. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.