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What one provider learned from other athenahealth users about EHRs and telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

EHR 158
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Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 In addition, 92 percent of telehealth visits occurred in beneficiaries’ homes, which generally wasn’t permitted before the pandemic.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

This article addresses the entirety of the patient experience, and its interdependence with the staff experience. athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. I talked at Skyscape with Founder and CEO Sandeep Shah.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. They will use whatever works to get to their patients. "Who leveraged telehealth the most?" "What modality proved most successful for them and their patient population? " Then, examine what worked.

EHR 197
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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“We developed a short list of telehealth solutions that could support the full spectrum of our needs – ambulatory, inpatient and direct-to-consumer,” said Jon Witenko, system director, virtual health and telemedicine, at Lee Health. “It’s as seamless as possible for patients and clinicians,” Witenko stated.

EHR 211
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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times. So why don’t patients use online health records yet? Half of U.S.

EHR 203
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Beth Israel Deaconess creates homegrown telehealth with help from Amazon

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.