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Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. How to move forward?

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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TeleHealth 1.0 is dead. Long live TeleHealth 2.0

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: TeleHealth 1.0 is Generalist TeleHealth , TeleHealth 2.0 is Specialist TeleHealth. The focus is shifting towards TeleHealth that offers a more specialised and tailored approach to patient care. There's been a lot of talk about the decline of TeleHealth recently. Telehealth 2.0

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. Of patients with an assigned primary care provider, 55.51% of patients are enrolled in the portal.

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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F.