Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is vital to healthcare and health IT because in order to be able to address the digital inequities within a patient population, one must understand what it is and why a health system should care about it, she said. What is the landscape of your executive leaderships understanding of digital/telehealth equity? If not, why not?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. Innovation Examples. Tell us what you think.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2022

For the 36th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer at Hoag. We dive into the current state of Digital Transformation in healthcare and examine how it’s progressing. What’s an example of using digital to enhance the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

For example, people who are sick can be redirected from potentially vulnerable populations, receive the care they need, and be promptly on their way. This data can reveal valuable information to the leadership team, including blind spots or strategic weaknesses that can be optimized for better performance.

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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. Tell us what you think.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Stretched out led to stretched thin, meaning that more healthcare workers got burnt-out and quit as well. We reached out to our Healthcare IT Today community to hear their thoughts on physician burnout and the healthcare staffing crisis and see what solutions they had. So how do we get out of this cycle?

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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

JUNE 2, 2023

The KYP process is essentially designed to function in the same manner, but on behalf of healthcare organizations. For example, minimum age requirements may impact a patient’s ability to open an account. A former TransUnion executive, he brings more than two decades of product innovation and leadership experience to Jumio.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Overall, RPA has the potential to revolutionise the healthcare industry by automating repetitive manual tasks, improving efficiency, and reducing costs. This can help to improve the quality and accessibility of healthcare for all. Here are some examples of how RPA is being used in healthcare: 1.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Dr. Halamka is President of CHAI, and Dr. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work. To be able to have an advocate that, as an example, might be able to go around helping you navigate and interact with providers, advocating for your priorities, your health, your needs.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

They can also improve patient experiences and contribute to better patient outcomes. It’s no wonder 94% of healthcare companies say they’re investing in AI, and budget allocations are expected to grow from 5.7% I believe another future for AI in healthcare, however, lies in clinical decision support. in 2022 to 10.5%

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Are physician practices the eggs in order for us to have the delicious omelet of digital healthcare? We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on this topic. Everyone from practice leadership to billers should be educated about information blocking rules. Ramesh Ramani, CEO at ExpertusONE.

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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 ? It requires careful verification—not blind reliance on AI-generated content.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2022

We reached out to the Healthcare IT Community to hear their thoughts on the digital front door and how it has already transformed healthcare. To transform the patient experience, the digital front door needs to move far beyond what typical patient portals currently offer. So that is what we will be doing today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." Fisne offers a personal example. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

Robocalls Compound The Patient Care Challenge In the face of these point-of-care patient experience challenges, healthcare providers are increasingly seeking to strengthen other care channels to pick up the slack.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. Something we’ve noted at Healthcare IT Today is the number of vendors that were interested in the LTPAC space.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

The consumerization of healthcare and more to the point – the digitization of the patient experience that is required to satisfy it – is no longer theoretical. For physician practices, payers, hospitals, and health systems, the takeaway is clear.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

For example, you can prioritize the use of certified medical interpreters; in a growing number of states, healthcare organizations need to be able to demonstrate that they make an effort to access certified medical interpreters first. You also have a high degree of control over how the virtual call center routes on-demand requests.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

A human touch is very much still needed, not only to get the AI to function as it should but in order for patients to feel comfortable. For a closer look at this balance we reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. helps ensure a safe transition of care for my patient and avoid readmissions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2022

As healthcare continues to grapple with staffing challenges, organizational leaders are more keenly interested in technologies that will reduce staff workload and frustration. TigerConnect, for example, is seeing success with its new scheduling products that leverage the company’s success […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The programmer-doctors understand that clinicians value attention to their patients above technology. As an example of the kind of product that emerges from this development strategy, ModMed designed a tool for dermatologists that displays an interactive atlas of a person’s skin.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

(Side Note: Colin is covering the event from a marketing and patient experience perspective on HITMC as well) The event is particularly interesting because their product literally forces us to listen to patients and employees. Just that simple mindset shift means you have different conversations.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings. Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Keith Florance, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Payers at Clarify Health at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. We grilled him with 3 questions about the state of the healthcare industry. I’m going to use Clarify Health as an example. Learn more about Clarify Health at [link].

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

[link] Healthcare Technology Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth & Strategy services for Founders, Owners and Investors. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Focus on Specific Patient Populations: The MSK space covers a wide range of conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2024

For example, you can prioritize the use of certified medical interpreters; in a growing number of states, healthcare organizations need to be able to demonstrate that they make an effort to access certified medical interpreters first. You also have a high degree of control over how the virtual call center routes on-demand requests.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2022

Instead of hiding from the reality, leading healthcare organizations like Adventist Health are addressing the problem head-on by adopting technologies and practices that prioritize access to care. Adventist has partnered with GetWell, Kyruus, VisitPay, and Tonic Health for example, to provide consumer-like […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Smartphones, tablets, two-in-one notebooks, and other connected devices and sensors are now commonplace inside and outside hospitals and clinics, greatly expanding the potential for data-driven solutions that can improve patient care. How will it change the healthcare landscape?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That being said, while these projects have generated a lot of good information, they’ve also begun to expose some of the weaknesses of current healthcare chatbot technology. Patients may be hesitant to share personal or sensitive information with a software-based human simulation rather than an actual human.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging. One example of a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For example, when you go into the grocery store these days you now see all of these self check out options. Life is a tricky balance and is often about perspective. It’s easy to see why stores like self check-out. They only have to have 1 person there covering multiple checkout stations. That’s a lower […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Casebook can integrate with the electronic health records at a healthcare site. For example, when the clinicians request a service such as transportation, Casebook can record the steps it takes to carry out the request (order a ride share, remind the patient, etc.) and notify the clinician about the outcome of the request.

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