Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). As we bring value and proven solutions to our clients’ information technology initiatives, we help meet their goals in a cost-effective, efficient manner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “I have been using athenaTelehealth exclusively in my family medicine practice for several weeks now and the interface is embedded right within the athenaOne EHR, making documentation much faster and easier.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

“The Caregility UHE platform would allow us to immediately integrate telehealth into our Epic EHR platform and quickly roll out virtual visits to clinicians and patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Lee Health’s 600 ambulatory physicians were systematically turned on to start virtual patient-appointments within the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” To support staff and patients, the health center began reviewing a telemedicine application called Otto that could integrate with its NextGen EHR. ” "Our health center also has purchased information technology services and equipment that will integrate our telehealth technology with our existing EHR."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Through a partnership with local St. It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. We were able to expand to meet the demand, supporting a 5,500% growth in telehealth visits in less than one month.” To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

NextGen announced several AI initiatives at their annual User Group Meeting, including the launch of their Ambient Assist product to help with clinical documentation. The roller coasters and thrill rides in Orlando, FL were the perfect backdrop for the 26 th edition of NextGen Healthcare ’s annual User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “The team of clinicians at Whole Life thoroughly enjoys the athenaTelehealth solution as it allows us to meet with patients virtually and talk to them while having the ability to document at the same time, and offers an embedded image for video conferencing.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2024

81% of patients with type 2 diabetes do not meet their HbA1c, blood pressure and cholesterol goals, and this partnership represents an exciting opportunity to assist providers in driving improved glucose outcomes for this population.” Rimidi’s best-in-class platform will seamlessly integrate Eversense data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the case of the step-down units, Geisinger wanted to be able to connect that staff to its eICU nurses and physicians for added support. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. At the touch of a button on the app, the nurse in the room with the patient could access an experienced critical care nurse or provider. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2023

MEETING THE CHALLENGE Evara has the MH@H team take the RPM kit with them to the patient's home, help the patient get it set up, take the initial set of readings and answer any questions. "Our value-based services nursing team then monitors these patients in between MH@H visits," Rubin noted.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE St. Luke's. After a competitive review of vendors, St.

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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 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.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"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. The platform launched using WebEx Meetings and later migrated to Microsoft Teams."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

"Our program uses a comprehensive and coordinated approach of clinical operations, EHR integration, mobile technology, best-practices algorithms and population health monitoring to address this key contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality." " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

On a related note, Cannon Memorial Hospital in Linville, North Carolina, also is part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, and it has been using telemedicine vendor Telehealth Solution for three years, for both daytime rounding service, with a physician assistant or nurse practitioner, and full nocturnist coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Most of the vendor functionality is tied directly to Epic EHR integration. This was work directly with our integrated video vendor inside of our Epic EHR, which also included improved IT support pathways."

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). EHRs have multiple benefits. EHR workloads have become a significant cause of physician burnout.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. The process.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 20, 2023

This virtual care system creates a scalable, flexible workforce that keeps patients engaged and their needs met, while providing relief to nurses by leveraging virtual staff to instantly tend to patients’ needs and perform administrative tasks that do not require licensure. ” About CareView Communications, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Additionally, 87% of users said the device helped them meet their health and fitness goals, while 40% of users with a chronic condition said the device simplified management of their health and improved their quality of life. Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. The main reason: 60% say navigation services employer’s existing carriers don’t meet employer needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. Notably, the service was successfully launched just two months later, beginning on January 17, 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

One challenge is that many doctors and nurses are skeptical that IT is going to help alleviate their burnout. Clinicians views are skewed because of how EHR software has impacted them and their work lives. Unfortunately, this is a reasonable feeling for clinicians and other healthcare workers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

"ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued. Because care plans are integrated into the EHR, this approach supports consistent care and communication across care settings, including in the emergency department.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We set up virtual meetings where we could chat on progress and deal with any issues that occurred. Most staff supporting this effort were virtual.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations. Just over half of those surveyed indicated that they are able to meet their career goals in their current role.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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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. Provide supportive services in med/surg units to allow nursing staff to cluster care activities to reduce utilization of PPE and potential staff exposure. The crisis sets in.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 21, 2022

For nurses specifically, the integration of a new telehealth system needs to be seamless, easy to use, and simple to learn. Nurses juggle both medical and administrative responsibilities and are often bogged down with maintaining EHRs and paperwork; adding a new system to that can worsen burnout. Book a demo with us today.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

At this year’s event, now part of Oracle World, John learned about Oracle Health’s plans to go international, build a bridge between EHRs and ERPs, and transition Cerner infrastructure to the cloud. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Reporting From the Epic User Group Meeting and Civitas Conferences.

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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 studied 12 different platforms and was impressed with how SilverCloud could meet its needs.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health. Why EHRs Haven’t Caught On in Behavioral Health.

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