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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

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. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"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. " RESULTS. Metrics were critical to measure the program's success. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Clinical Messaging Apps: What is the right business model?

Lloyd Price

In addition to these general business models, clinical messaging apps may also generate revenue from other sources, such as: Integration fees: Some apps charge healthcare providers a fee to integrate with their electronic health records (EHRs) systems. Zinc: Zinc is a clinical messaging app that is specifically designed for use in hospitals.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. I’d like to see organizations apply the same rigor they do to improving the provider experience and patient throughput to enhancing the day-to-day for nursing and support staff.

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4 reasons why the healthcare industry is vulnerable to cyber attacks

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Many hospital appointments across the country were cancelled, EHRs became inaccessible, radiology systems went down, and the COVID-19 testing referral system rendered unavailable for a number of days. Doctors and nurses rely on these machines to monitor patient health and to serve as a partner in diagnosis.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "We experienced first-hand that this was never about a pivot," he related.