Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In late 2021, we were fortunate to be awarded one of the FCC telehealth grants, which gave us the funding to initiate an RPM program." "Our value-based services nursing team then monitors these patients in between MH@H visits," Rubin noted. "We had applied for a number of grants to start up a program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

However, once the pandemic started, the rules and demand for care changed in a way that let us quickly deploy telehealth services. "The regulations started to quickly change, and on March 20, 2020, Ohio released an emergency telehealth rule," McGlade recalled.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. When telehealth is not up to par. "Our EHR platforms are utilitarian and are what they are.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

These actions include leadership support and resources to shift the organization’s culture toward behavioral health needs, patient and family engagement tactics, and warm handoffs to pediatric mental health services in the community, among many other constructive recommendations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. Telehealth platform Hydreight Technologies updates its Wellness App , enabling healthcare users to better manage product inventory and payments while also improving patient booking.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The simplified delivery models and systems they implement require a more lightweight technology package, and for Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this translates to a simple, cloud-based system. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem. This is just the beginning.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers , including schools and community clinics. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT’s Role in Leadership.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As an industry leader in healthcare data and clinical workflows, Cerner presents unique value for becoming the foundation for which Oracle will build their next generation EHR. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Telehealth plans quickly changed. "What we thought would take months took us days, and we leveraged the capability of our Epic EHR to stand up on-demand and scheduled video visits using Zoom for Healthcare and our own providers. We quickly looked for a telehealth solution to prevent unnecessary transfers and keep care local.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. National Association of Letter Carriers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

Drug Enforcement Administration's stance on prescribing via telehealth has been evolving, with hints toward an appetite for lasting flexibilities. All eyes are on the DEA currently, but when you think beyond telehealth prescribing, what other aspects of telepsychiatry are you keeping an eye on?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Sue Feldman, RN.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. Since launch, the health plan has seen nearly 17X growth in telehealth registrations and 16X growth in visits. Cleveland Clinic. Indiana University Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed three CIOs and a telehealth director at four of the most prominent pediatric care institutions in the country. Jude employees working remotely during the initial pandemic response, we also had to look at effective leadership through a different lens." "We expedited our telehealth offerings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

Rapidly prototyping telehealth. For Cherry of Lexington Medical Center, the lessons he and his team learned when rapidly prototyping their telehealth solution were very important. "That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. Christopher J.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work. Another 85% of clinicians said they were open to practicing on weekends using telehealth , especially therapists, and 64% were interested in working night shifts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

According to Cindy Gaines, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon , many organizations just adapted their paper process to their new EHR and didn’t realize the efficiencies they expected. The opposite can happen too easily, as the industry saw after the adoption of electronic health records in the 2010 decade.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Although the full training process can take up to several years to complete, this human-centric approach both improves AI in healthcare’s accuracy and impact, as well as provides a solution to other prevalent issues such as cost and the nursing shortage. Width: Understand the healthcare IT landscape and its many stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

All around the globe, healthcare systems are beginning to strain and fray as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals leave their positions or scale back their hours. She also believes that improving interoperability will help reduce the burden on physicians and nurses. There is no silver bullet. Worrying Trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

"Our vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer said, 'We have worked downtime out of our processes.' "Our vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer said, 'We have worked downtime out of our processes.' " Beth Lindsay-Wood, Moffitt Cancer Center.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Digital Health Data Platforms: Rollups can integrate companies specializing in electronic health records (EHRs), patient data analytics, and clinical decision support tools to develop integrated data platforms that improve patient care and outcomes. Telehealth: Telehealth is another area that is ripe for rollup activity in 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"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." Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Springboard Enterprises Director Rebecca MacKinnon details how her firm helps with leadership development for female entrepreneurs. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. by May 10, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year. The previous telehealth technology was app-based and cumbersome to download and use for both clinicians and patients.

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Health System CIO

JUNE 17, 2015

Telehealth pilot MU reporting metrics — “They’re still mostly very adult-driven.” In this interview, she talks about how Cook Children’s is partnering with vendors to make EHR systems more pediatric-friendly, what they’ve done to dramatically increase portal usage, and the groundbreaking work her team is doing with medical homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions And now, check out our community’s Value Based Care predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Dr. Ben Barlow, Chief Medical Officer at Experity Providers can utilize EHR documentation provided by social workers, community health workers, case managers, or nurses – all who are members of the community hearing firsthand from patients the health disparities they face.

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