Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Patient experience platform ixlayer joined the Innovators’ Network at the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation.

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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. ” "One example is dictation, saving our providers 8-10 minutes per patient that would have otherwise been spent writing progress notes on patient visits."

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

Most importantly, we learned that telemedicine wasn’t just a pandemic trend, as more and more people continued to see their healthcare providers virtually even as in-person offices opened up. We’re also likely to see new advancements in technology and software that help digitize the patient experience from start to finish.

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Health System CIO

JULY 7, 2020

In the behavioral health space, where the no-show rate for visitors has long been a challenge, telemedicine offers a level of convenience that could be a game-changer, says CIO Kevin Wiese. EHR training with super users. Gamble: A big part of transitioning to any new solution is training.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

For the next step – directing patients to the portal – the health system put QR codes everywhere, from exam room walls to employees’ badges, and doubled the number of portal users in 12 months. Read more… Improving the Patient Experience With Online Scheduling and Chatbots.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When you simplify your staff’s experience, you simultaneously optimize your patients’ experience. For example, take patient engagement. Automation can enhance both organizational productivity and patient satisfaction, and you won’t need to hire and train new staff. 3: Branding and Visibility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"From there, we worked to train our physicians on telehealth so we could offer scheduled virtual visits with physicians in our clinics, an initiative that naturally followed in our progression toward a full virtual visit program," she added. MARKETPLACE. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Staff simply were not getting the results they needed to address patients' needs in a crisis situation, where immediate access to healthcare can make a difference between life and death. Thomas Community Health Center turned to telemedicine technology vendor Sano Health to tackle the challenge. Training and education are paramount.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

Staff training and support: Healthcare providers who work in virtual wards may require additional training and support to adapt to remote care models. This can include training on the use of technology and communication skills. It is important to ensure that virtual ward programs are designed with health equity in mind.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Exec Summary Virtual wards, also known as hospital at home, are a rapidly growing model of care that allows patients to receive hospital-level care in their own homes. This is done through the use of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices, video consultations, and telemedicine.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and technology to support remote monitoring, virtual care, distance health care, provider video consultation, clinical communications and health-related training and education. Even before this year, patients were demanding better experiences from their healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The water is muddy, according to the report, because few vendors distinguish between telemedicine – a replacement for an in-person appointment – and virtual care – a broader set of services. Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

From early telemedicine initiatives to sophisticated wearable devices and mobile applications, RPM has become increasingly integrated into modern healthcare delivery models, offering new opportunities for proactive and personalized patient care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

While fitness training and bolstering physical activity have lost traction by ten points each, the second bar chart illustrates, managing a diagnosis and sleeping better have gained consumer traction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. Doctors rarely aware of online feedback from patients. Collection. by May 10, 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Examples include electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support systems, and population health management systems. This includes a wide range of technologies, such as wearable devices, mobile apps, and telemedicine. Blockchain: Blockchain is being used to track patient data and payments.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Verustat is a health tech company that aids physicians in tracking vital patient measurements at home to help improve patient outcomes.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2023

Digital forms reduce the manual touchpoints for patient data, reducing the chances of human error. More than 98% of patients on Mend have valid contact details. Improved Patient Experience and Engagement In an increasingly digital landscape, patients want easy solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

High-quality training data that accurately reflects real-world scenarios is crucial to produce models that generalize well and avoid errors. Prior to joining Dell, Romina was a Nursing Executive where she drove quality outcomes and patient experience results by developing efficient processes in healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Mend

JULY 8, 2021

Telemedicine providers are changing healthcare worldwide. More and more practices are adopting telemedicine. There are many telemedicine software options to consider, making it challenging to narrow down your options. What is telemedicine? Healthcare providers can use telemedicine to diagnose and treat patients.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 3) Staff Training.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"Fortunately, we already had started to explore remote patient monitoring solutions that integrated with our Epic EHR, were easily accessible and required minimal effort by the patient," Yarrington noted. The pandemic magnified these challenges. " she explained. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The shift is from focusing on treatment episodes to proactive health planning, managing patient populations, striving to both improve quality of care, and lower costs.(1) 1) This shift is not a typical part of a physician’s training and day-to-day focus. Am Heart J 2017 June;188:65-72.Smith Smith HS, Criner AJ, Fehrle D, et al.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. Traditionally, patient experience has been defined by a paper survey at the end of a visit and employee experience as an annual engagement survey with a myriad of questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2022

The challenge is always how to distribute that needed care in the most efficient manner for the specialist clinicians, in a way that best optimizes their time while enhancing that patient experience and value. The telemedicine technologies staff proposed were twofold. MARKETPLACE. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. The majority of payers without virtual care offerings also reported planning to add them in the next 24 months.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mend’s industry-leading, comprehensive suite of tools — including Patient Self Scheduling, Digital Patient Intake & Check-in, Patient Payments and Telemedicine — have been shown to drive a 90% patient engagement rate while reductions in no-shows from double-digits to an average of 7.6%.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mend’s industry-leading, comprehensive suite of tools — including Patient Self Scheduling, Digital Patient Intake & Check-in, Patient Payments and Telemedicine — have been shown to drive a 90% patient engagement rate while reductions in no-shows from double-digits to an average of 7.6%.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

Advances in EHR and clinical decision support systems that can “talk to” telehealth service platforms. Key questions: Will the telehealth platform link to our EHR? How will we train clinicians and support staff? How do we ensure satisfied patients? Have we trained staff and providers?

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience. Once the patient completes the forms, Mend can move the forms to the EHR automatically. With his current setup, he works four days virtually and then sees patients in-office on Fridays.

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