Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 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. Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud. They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So why wasn't the healthcare organization doing this in the past? "In the past, insurance companies would only reimburse for telemedicine services if the patient was physically present at a medical facility – also known as an "originating site" – and the physician was remote," he said.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Doctors get notified of important things they can address with the patient while they’re present with the patient. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

TytoCare, maker of an all-in-one modular device and platform for AI-powered telehealth, has expanded its integration within EHR giant Epic's MyChart, enabling what the virtual care vendor describes as frictionless, asynchronous workflow. TytoCare is using APIs to post patient vitals directly into a patient's EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2021

"We work with our clinicians to demo the product to ensure that it meets criteria, such as providing clinically useful data, ease of use for the providers and support staff, and ready integration with the EHR and existing patient records. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. in Caesars Forum 131. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In their presentation Hasselberg and Richman describe how they developed the new telehealth model, which capitalized on the psychiatric skills of their colleagues in Rochester while extending their reach into rural communities. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Michael Hasselberg, Rochester University Medical Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Healthcare systems in the clinical setting can immensely benefit from risk evaluation and asking the following questions: What if healthcare providers can’t access patient data when they are using electronic health records (EHR) systems to connect with patients? About Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

During the study, nurses handling in-person triage presented patients with suspected COVID-19 who appeared well and seemed […]. A new study has concluded that by using telehealth tools to screen low-risk patients with suspected COVID-19 had a dramatic effect on emergency department lengths of stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 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… Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want. A Tribute to Casey Quinlan – Advocate and Renaissance Woman.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

All Yale New Haven Health entities are on a single instance of the Epic EHR that spans Connecticut into western Rhode Island and Westchester County, New York. The COVID-19 crisis presented several challenges to the health system that amplified the need and impact of telehealth services. " Challenges for physicians and nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. In fact, it was something he had not previously thought about. ADVICE FOR OTHERS. "Otherwise, you will not achieve the goals you desire.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Just as telehealth has never been more important, it’s never been more important for healthcare provider organizations to make sure their telemedicine technology is finely tuned, so that patients are getting the best distance care and the organizations are getting the most out of their tech investment. ” Adaptability is key.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

With more than 60 physical locations, patients saved significant time and money by being able to present to locations nearest their home, even when they need to see a specialist at a specific site. We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022."

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 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

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Geoffrey Boyce, CEO and cofounder of Array Behavioral Care, a telemedicine provider that specializes in behavioral health, to discuss the DEA, telepsychiatry challenges and much more. AI can draft the note, and the clinician can review, edit and finalize it.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

healthcare worker hand washing ) and regulatory clinical requirements (ex. Digital tools now present opportunities for unprecedented improvements in patient safety. The present popular conversations surrounding AI involve speculation whether AI will replace humans in every possible aspect of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

" "To perform the model of telehealth correctly, it was vital that the medical assistants, nurses, LPNs and other support staff were fully engaged in the intake process to ensure a smooth visit for patients." "Presently, a similar version of the original telehealth visit exists," McGlade noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

"The RPM device then automatically submits this data to the EHR with a subsequent clinical pharmacist notification. Now physicians can see and hear a patient with a telehealth presenter operating the examination peripherals from any of our centers." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

There are now four different partnership categories (note: not levels): Member Services for established integrations providing complementary value Pals for companies with new products in new key areas…like abridge for clinical conversations and Talkdesk for contact center workforce management Partners for established market leaders in specific areas…like (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

This is the ninth installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature story series. "That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. The focus this time is on speed and security, with three CIOs and an IT director chiming in.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the board. For medical professionals, whether front-office staff, nurses or physicians, digital technologies offer a multitude of time-saving tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. EHR evolution – not fast enough. You can read past installments at this special theme portal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. "At present, it is not integrated with our current Epic EHR system. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

I don't know that we highlighted how important that was to patients being able to connect them with a physician or a nurse practitioner or a nurse without having to have them leave their home." Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19. Cloud-based information storage, including the ability for later offloading to EHRs, HIEs and other systems. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Resilient Healthcare Employs Extensive Data Analytics Resilient Healthcare provides in-home care for conditions that have traditionally required a hospital stay. Payers are naturally interested in evidence that Resilient Healthcare can provide comparable care and reduce readmissions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. The Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) that have been deployed over the past 15 years do a good job at capturing health data but are terrible at sharing it. At a macro-level, the lack of interoperability hampers community health efforts. Food insecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

All of the decisions made in healthcare are based on the data we gather, so we need to make sure it’s sound. We reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the importance of data in achieving health equity. Are we getting the representation needed to cover all of our patients?

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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