Remove EHR Remove Healthcare IT Remove mHealth Remove Telehealth
article thumbnail

VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

article thumbnail

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? The organization was started by Bob Waters, a vocal advocate in the telehealth community.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. Both providers and patients usually have to negotiate diverse healthcare site-specific platforms.

article thumbnail

Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Predictive analytics and other AI may however be relevant to patient safety by gathering data from the patient’s EHR (and heaven help us one day from data sets of other systems) to predict both minor and major preventable adverse events. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).

article thumbnail

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

article thumbnail

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Healthcare IT News and HIMSS TV covered RSA 2019 live! EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say.

Nursing 64
article thumbnail

The new Digital Health model : Disruption, Engagement, Integration and Trust

Lloyd Price

However, it will help to bring down the cost of running the Healthcare IT system. Affordable EHR solutions are coming to market, such as cloud- based EHR or open-source EHR, which can help emerging markets digitise at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time.