Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it). " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform integrates with EHRs and leverages AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to automate operations for inpatient, perioperative, emergency department, and command center functions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

In this way, hospitals and health systems can save costs by reducing the strain on healthcare workers making personal visits while improving patient outcomes to help guarantee the CMS program's continuation. This optimizes resource allocation and reduces the burden on healthcare workers for frequent in-person visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions). Plus, he shares some innovative examples of what their customers are doing with their technology and what he sees coming in the future. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door. Many people reading this are probably wondering why a healthcare organization’s CRM doesn’t do this already.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The following is a guest article by Doug Bierbower, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at SOLiD Americas When delivering first-rate care, every aspect of the patient experience is critical. And in today’s always-connected 5G world, much of that experience depends on pervasive, secure mobile device connectivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Click here to read the special report. " But technology is only one piece of this work.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2020

I’m convinced that health IT can solve many of health care’s problems–but only when it is designed and rolled out with the greatest sensitivity to the needs of the users. The Rolodex of failed health start-ups confirm this principle through negative examples.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sanford Health is a massive health system that serves the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Today, Reimer is in the middle of a $350 million virtual care initiative, working to overcome health IT workforce challenges, and building a modern data ecosystem – emphasis on modern.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. Owens, chief medical information officer and family medicine section chief at Metro Health. There are numerous vendors on the health IT market with telemedicine technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. There is a wide variety of telehealth technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Community Health Alliance (CHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 27,000+ patients in Reno, Nevada, is using an old-school way to encourage use of its online patient portal – by having in-person conversations about it. “We made the portal relevant to the conversation with them.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations. Innovation Examples. Hanigsberg shared three examples of innovative projects that her team is working on: Brain-computer interfaces. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“In the end, AMD’s solution allowed us to actually do a better job of gathering and trending important clinical data for each patient than we had when we sent physicians to the home,” Beckham said. “For example, the technology allowed us to take and store images of wounds so our providers could see changes over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the rare opportunity to sit down with Renee DeSilva, Chief Executive Officer at The Health Management Academy (THMA). A good example of this shared insight came earlier this year when THMA published an article summarizing their findings on technology investment by leading health systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures. in 2022 to 10.5% this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To protect patient privacy and respect patient communication preferences, these laws require certain guidelines to be followed. A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, capitalizing on increased activity demands that leaders streamline their operations—including around patient financial engagement and payment—so they can make the investments needed to set themselves apart from the competition. But finding the right approach is key.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example, Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust deployed AI-powered automation to support its back office functions that kept nurses bogged down with manual paperwork as well as supporting clinical settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

"This session will explore ways in which Henry Ford Health and other health systems have addressed the gaps and helped overcome barriers," she added. Equity is important to health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems because telehealth is not going away, she said. Why should a health system care?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

The Transformative Impact of AI Leveraging artificial intelligence in behavioral and mental healthcare could provide clinicians with a means of resolving an ongoing mental healthcare crisis. AI automates routine and meticulous tasks and accounts for improved patient experience. Below are some of the most vivid examples.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"The pandemic also presented new access to care challenges and opportunities to rethink what blended digital and in-person care could look like if built around the patient experience," Karim said. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology vendors on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

Although this type of technology can be beneficial, and the chatbot can help facilitate interaction between patients and providers, there are concerns about the accuracy of answers and whether it can consider each case’s uniqueness when being used as a summarization tool, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The programmer-doctors understand that clinicians value attention to their patients above technology. Keona Health also implements other policies that are popular among tech workers, such as flexible work arrangements. Health IT and digital app companies are small players in a highly competitive job market.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT. With 15+ years of experience in information technology, I’ve observed our collective security first mentality increasing focus on vendor management and long term system compliance and sustainability. Matt Donahue, CTO at CloudWave.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"That unification cannot be underscored enough, as it allows us to implement vendors that can be leveraged across the entire health system, rather than purchasing multiple vendors for the same end goal," Maile explained. "Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" The Android devices (administered by Sano Health) were preloaded with the UPMC Children's Hospital App and two related apps for video access – VidyoMobile and HealtheLife – as well as program-specific materials. For example, education for heart transplant or liver transplant materials could be loaded on the device.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics. Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, what was once the golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has evolved from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) into the Quadruple Aim, which factors in the clinician’s well-being.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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