Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Nurse and Physician Satisfaction and Productivity In the past, the patient’s health was always the number one concern. Charting or documenting a patient’s medical records is time-consuming for nurses to do by hand and can become a problem if handwriting is difficult to read, leading to errors or misinterpretations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? This will help establish standards, trust, and support as Virtual Nursing programs gain momentum.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients. .

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Jeff sees digital playing a huge part in making care easier for patients, so the health system took an early look to determine how future programs and therapeutics can be rolled out system-wide in a way that is scalable, repeatable and simple for providers and patients.

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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. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Healthcare organizations are dependent on data insights to provide critical and timely services to their patients, so mitigating disruptions that can have a negative impact on clinical outcomes is paramount. Almost everything we see in healthcare tech innovation falls into two buckets: patient-focused, or operations optimization-focused.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. Electronic health records don't usually help, even if their impact on burnout is more complex than many realize.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Physicians faced difficulty accessing lab results and other electronic health record content while on the call with the patient, which resulted in further delays. It was not a sustainable long-term strategy. “The platform from Andor Health integrated with Microsoft Teams provides a much smoother experience,” Vangala said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In addition, QR codes can alert doctors or nurses to a malfunction once scanned and give an option to open an IT service request. Enhancing Patient Safety The healthcare industry faces a significant barrier to interoperability: data siloes. Patient identification information is vital for all healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. Conference kicks off this week, I’m focused on finding digital health innovations that engage people — consumers, caregivers, patients, health citizens all.

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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.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For one, the platform integrates with EHR systems, supporting your clinical needs without replacing existing workflows. This alleviates some of the time and effort needed to learn a new system, giving back valuable time for healthcare workers to put toward patient care. If not, it adds even more complexities to an already complex day.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Social determinants of health are now incorporated into many EHRs now, sometimes in a structured format. Gamification is another enhancement IT offers, mentioned by Dr. Michael Wiener, medical director of strategy and planning at Babylon Health , and Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium. Machine learning can find meaning in the data.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth and Strategy mandates - Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk 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

JUNE 29, 2023

Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. When things are simple and easy to pay for, patients are happy, the staff is happy, and you are most definitely happy. Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

” This article looks at the measurements and reporting strategies used by some specific companies. Doing so presents a challenge, not just to reproduce the clinical functions that a well-furnished hospital can offer—nursing, infusions, medications, even meals—but to monitor the patient for safety reasons and measure their progress.

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SteadyMD

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With an estimated shortage of 200,000 nurses and 50,000 physicians over the next three years and with more than 50% of U.S. About SteadyMD SteadyMD is a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare in all 50 states.

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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. What Type of Patients are Best Suited to Virtual Wards?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 15, 2024

Key components of chronic care management Comprehensive care plan: A personalized care plan is developed collaboratively between the patient, their primary care physician, and other healthcare providers involved in their care. This plan outlines specific goals, interventions, and strategies tailored to the patient’s unique needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Of course, we have physicians, nurses and all the therapy professionals, but we also have programs like music, arts, participation & inclusion, and pathways to employment.”. The child (or caregiver) can then use coping strategies to reduce the anxiety before it reaches a level where more drastic measures are needed. Anxiety meter.

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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. Clinicians placed in mandatory quarantine due to exposure were able to continue to engage with patients remotely using the platform.” Get creative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

More personalised and engaging patient portals: Patient portals in 2030 will be more personalised and engaging than they are today. They will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to tailor the patient experience to individual needs. Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement? Subscribe today!

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Here are some interesting examples of use cases to bring value to patients and/or the care team. Hospital/Patient. The patient tells her bedside teddy bear Briggie (which has a built in microphone) that she is in pain, describes where the pain is and indicates if the pain is intolerable. Hospital/Clinical.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

"We are definitely moving forward with investigation of remote patient monitoring as we see this is a piece of our continued growth strategy," Mistretta added. "The level of complexity in virtual health was high and prevented a consistent approach and consistent support; it has been a complex experience for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

I don't know that we highlighted how important that was to patients being able to connect them with a physician or a nurse practitioner or a nurse without having to have them leave their home." Risk stratify the patient population. Mercy Virtual implemented four remote patient monitor program strategies.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s crucial to have secure communication platforms that enable care teams to align quickly on patient status and care, eliminate roadblocks in their workflow, and ultimately reduce time to treatment. This helps in reducing delays in care delivery and improving patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage. Unfortunately, all the recent government regulations focused on interoperability exclusively focus on liberating patient data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

This can be achieved using a data engineering framework that is flexible enough to handle structured, unstructured and semi-structured data-sets to create a Patient LHR (Longitudinal Healthcare Record) to get a 360-degree view of the patient’s health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Truly making a difference in mental health next year will require evolution and long-term commitment, otherwise, we’ll stay in the same hype-cycle and patients will continue to suffer from a lack of access to high quality mental health care. In this context, strategies and solutions that empower all stakeholders will be paramount.

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