EHR, Healthcare IT, Remote care and Telehealth

EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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

EHR

EHR Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care

HIMSS21 tech news: Epic/telehealth integration, acute care telemedicine, new remote care tech

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.

Remote care

Remote care Telehealth Telemedicine EHR

Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

EHR

EHR Telehealth Telemedicine Remote care

The Future of Remote Care for Connected Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2021

Electronic health records (EHR) had already been increasingly supplanting paper-based systems, and telehealth solutions were gradually gaining traction as an additional way to offer convenience, portability and easy access by patients. Telehealth brings experts in the field directly to patients, regardless of their location.

Remote care

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

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. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

EHR

EHR Telehealth Remote care Telemedicine

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care EHR Telemedicine

Telehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Healthcare IT

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

"This historical reimbursement structure has been beneficial from a coordinated-care perspective, but until COVID, the financial feasibility of telehealth for FQHCs has been challenging." "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Remote care

During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. And for physicians, it also can be helpful to see the patient in their home environment.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Remote care

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting. THE PROBLEM.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Remote care

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 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 telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Dr. Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Chief Medical Officer at BrainCheck.

Telehealth

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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. Partnerships.

HIE

HIE Nursing Healthcare IT Telehealth

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

The remote patient monitoring efforts were meant to supply support to over-stretched inpatient units by creating a means to provide care for acute patients in their home, thereby reducing length of stay while aiding in managing chronic illnesses and disease. The charge became to expand it quickly. MARKETPLACE.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Nursing Health Technology

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

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.

EHR

EHR Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 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.

Nursing

Nursing Medical Billing Primary Care EHR

HIMSS Insights Special Edition - APAC digital health trendbarometer

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which has been raging for the past year, digital health and its related technologies into the fore, with unprecedented rates of adoption in telemedicine/teleconsultation services, virtual/remote care, and accelerated measures for healthcare staff to work remotely.

Digital Health

Digital Health EMR Remote care EHR

How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. Splinters in the relationship can also begin remotely, brought about by frustrating telehealth systems.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA

Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. It has provided a total of 680 telehealth visits.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR Telemedicine Remote care

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

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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.

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Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice

Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The previous telehealth technology was app-based and cumbersome to download and use for both clinicians and patients. Clinical and IT teams advocated for a supplemental platform after deeming Virtua's EHR was not always optimized to deploy in certain rapidly evolving clinical scenarios. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telehealth Remote care Leadership

The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This was made clear when we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today community for their insights on RPM. Integrating the EHR into the RPM system will bridge communication gaps and promote interoperability. Kimberly O’Loughlin, Chief Executive Officer at HRS The time has come for remote patient monitoring.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Primary Care Remote care Interoperability

Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services, Tellus and Tyto Care. Have they been open to remote care team support? MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Then there is the patient experience.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Nursing Patient Experience EHR

What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Healthtech is a broad term that encompasses the use of technology to improve healthcare. Software: This includes software that is used to manage patient records, provide remote care, or deliver educational content. Artificial intelligence: This is a rapidly developing field that has the potential to revolutionize healthcare.

Digital Health

Digital Health Mobile Health Health Technology Telehealth

HIMSS21 tech news: Salesforce Health Cloud innovations; Vivify telehealth scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

"These new care from anywhere innovations ensure that we continue this digital transformation in healthcare and empower providers, payers, care coordinators and pharmaceutical companies to deliver care for patients wherever they are," he added. Vivify Health's remote care enhancements.

Telehealth

Telehealth Life Science Remote care EHR

A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing

At Mount Sinai, RPM provides more equal access to cancer care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2021

It meant that many vulnerable patients were either not receiving or delaying cancer care, potentially putting their treatment plans off track. Preventing potential patient exposure to infection by providing more care virtually. Bridging the digital health divide as telehealth engagement continued to rise. MARKETPLACE.

Remote care

Remote care Telehealth Digital Health Healthcare IT

How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows.

FHIR

FHIR EHR Telehealth EMR

Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition

Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

” Near the end, I reference the podcast I did last week with Dr. Ray Dorsey about remote care for Parkinson’s patients. 3:10 New ONC EHR certification proposal and continued questions about Meaningful Use Stage 2. 5:00 Prioritizing with multiple healthcare reform initiatives underway, including proposed SGR repeal.

Meaningful Use

Meaningful Use EHR Health IT Remote care

Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Kuldeep Singh Rajput is CEO and founder of Biofourmis, a remote patient monitoring and telehealth technology and services company. Lastly, integrating new initiatives, data or insights into technology workflows such as the EHR is a historical barrier that has reached the breaking point. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said.

Connected Health

Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR

Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

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?

Mental health

Mental health Patient Experience EHR Healthcare IT

CPSI gives away new telemedicine system to combat the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2020

CPSI is offering the product for free for the remainder of 2020 to help healthcare-provider organizations during the pandemic. TalkWithYourDoc.com, the company said, delivers more than remote-care appointments. The new product is billed as EHR-agnostic, secure and HIPAA-compliant and can be set up by downloading an app.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine HIPAA Telehealth Remote care

Connected Health Pulse

EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

HIMSS21 tech news: Epic/telehealth integration, acute care telemedicine, new remote care tech

Trending Sources

Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

The Future of Remote Care for Connected Health

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

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

Telehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes

Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

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

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

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

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

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

HIMSS Insights Special Edition - APAC digital health trendbarometer

How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

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

Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health

What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

HIMSS21 tech news: Salesforce Health Cloud innovations; Vivify telehealth scheduling

A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

At Mount Sinai, RPM provides more equal access to cancer care

How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition

Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

CPSI gives away new telemedicine system to combat the pandemic

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