Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2023

News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation. Read more… Driving Optimal Use of Temporary Nurses.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… Perspectives from the Oracle Health Conference. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs. Read more… Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. No one likes paper forms.

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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. The Iowa Hospital Association selected PayZen as the patient finance platform of choice for its network of 17 health systems and 117 hospitals. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"Another problem we had was with the number of solutions we were using," noted Jody McCloud Missmer, behavioral health network administrator, St. Luke's University Health Network. The "#StLukeStrong" program provided consistent, valuable mental health support to St.

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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

APRIL 28, 2024

RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft. Specialty telemedicine vendor Thirty Madison is partnering with Talkspace to expand mental health support for women. Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

They explained how an initiative launched in 2016, known as the Psychiatric Assessment Officer Telepsychiatry Model , has paid dividends across the health system: lower costs through reduced resource utilization, fewer readmissions and, most importantly, improved patient care through wider accessibility and more empathetic treatment options.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This focus is missing a critical aspect of the equation because nursing and clinical support workforce is currently the most stressed and overworked and is likely to be the breaking point of healthcare organization’s ability to serve patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

"They also could help decrease the strain on health system resources that occurs when patients don't receive the right interventions at the right time. "ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

Reports More than two-thirds of health systems lack the nursing staff to handle a large-scale health crisis , according to an Incredible Health survey. A staggering 94% of executives said the nurse shortage at their organization is critical, in part because 53% of nurses have less than five years of experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. Scripta Insights is integrating Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company ‘s discounted pricing into its Med Mapper program for self-insured employers and health plans. Value-based care platform Privia Health named David S.

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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. Damian Jankowicz.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

This includes a variety of nonprofit and public eligible providers like teaching hospitals and medical schools, community medical centers, local health departments or agencies, not-for-profit hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. Train staff to help patients use EHR portals and telemedicine devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With hospital-at-home , this process piles on several additional layers of complexity, such as remote patient monitoring devices, patient-reported outcomes, nursing care, physical therapy, food, medication deliveries and more. And this home care orchestration is done on a daily basis for the patient in their home.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Partnerships Amwell Converge is using Health Gorilla to provide clinicians with diagnostic lab ordering capabilities. AdvancedMD ‘s latest EHR updates include a move to Zoom for telehealth. KLAS Research released its inaugural report on virtual sitting and nursing , with AvaSure recognized as the market leader.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago. prior to the pandemic — from Federally Qualified Health Clinics to some of the largest tertiary centers of excellence in the world, Ron explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

"First, its platform worked well with our existing EHR," he said. From a provider perspective, the telemedicine technology at Penn State Health enables multiple providers to treat patients from wherever they are located, which means they no longer have to travel to the same location to provide care.

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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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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Follow this checklist (in order) to evaluate how a telepsychiatry program would fit into your organization and determine what kind of vendor or telepsychiatry program would meet your needs: Audit Your EHR: Start by auditing your Electronic Health Record (EHR) to understand how often your organization addresses psychiatric conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

"With most of our practices closed in late March of 2020, we needed an immediate solution that couldn't wait until July," said Patrick Sustrich, director of retail healthcare at Sparrow Health System. "In the first month, we surpassed our one-year goal of 1,500 virtual visits – telephone and video," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects and interactions, the stigma to admitting that the patient has a condition (particularly concerning mental health), and sometimes even opposition by family members. Associate professor Caroline E.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations. Mental health assessment platform Aiberry added screenings for five anxiety disorders. Azalea Health completed SOC 2 Type 2 Certification for its cloud-based EHR and RCM platform.

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Xealth

JUNE 14, 2023

The multidisciplinary heart team approach (cardiologists, radiologists, imagers, echocardiographers, nurses, and research coordinators) has serious legs for value-based care, and digital health has the potential to keep the team connected. There are documented pain points in cardiology that digital health can help alleviate.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A survey from virtual care platform KeyCare concluded that 92% of patients would be somewhat or very likely to use telehealth within the next year for routine medical care such as urgent care, chronic condition management, or mental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. This included human resources, credentialing, billing, medical, support and scheduling staff, and clinical, nursing, IT, and quality team representation.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

Horizon Health Services. When launching its telehealth program in October 2019, Horizon Health Services , one of the largest providers of mental health and substance use disorder treatment in Western New York, only planned to have a few dozen of its providers use the platform to see existing patients. Cook County Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding. Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors.

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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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