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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MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. The battle for talent in healthcare today is broader than the shortage of physicians and nurses.

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MAY 10, 2021

"Developing clinical implementation knowledge for community dwelling individuals who experience [multiple chronic conditions] in relation to the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and the patient experience will be crucial to realizing the promise and potential of telehealth," wrote researchers in the study.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

One of the biggest areas of opportunity within value-based care is working with skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other post-acute organizations. The referral is made, and the patient arrives at a SNF without the right information being communicated. The first three days at a SNF are when they are at higher risk for a readmission.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With hospital-at-home , this process piles on several additional layers of complexity, such as remote patient monitoring devices, patient-reported outcomes, nursing care, physical therapy, food, medication deliveries and more. And this home care orchestration is done on a daily basis for the patient in their home.

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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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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. "As an organization, we are focused on the patient and provider experience, so a user-friendly platform was a necessity. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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

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. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin.

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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. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of

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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. "We've also been able to integrate the platform with other systems we have in place to improve the patient experience," he continued.

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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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JUNE 16, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a detailed listing of numerous telemedicine vendors. “The athenaTelehealth solution met the challenge we were facing by allowing us to initiate video conference calls with our patients to continue treatment and care,” Miller stated. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

After all, the ways that new technology improves the care of our patients and improves the work life of our staff is the sole reason we implement it. We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them – what novel ways are you seeing AI being applied to healthcare?

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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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MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. "For example, blood transfusions and glycemic control, both of which we thought were going well, were actually not up to standard," he said.

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APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

We’re told that different AI applications and tools can reduce administrative burden and clinical burnout, improve patient experience and outcomes, and so much more. This way we are prepared for all of its shortcomings, failures, and reasons that may make patients and staff members distrustful.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In nursing homes, for example, devices can check patients’ blood pressure and collect data on their movements. AI can aggregate this data for a remote clinical team who can sound an early warning alert for nurses at the home if a patient’s condition appears to be worsening.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2021, more than 330,000 healthcare providers left the workforce— 117,000 physicians, 53,295 nurse practitioners, 22,704 physician assistants, 22,032 physical therapists, and 15,578 licensed clinical social workers. This, in turn, can improve the patient experience while helping practices get paid in full. .

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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 Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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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. Healthcare IT News has published a special report detailing many of the vendors and their products. MARKETPLACE.

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JULY 28, 2020

Just as telehealth has never been more important, it’s never been more important for healthcare provider organizations to make sure their telemedicine technology is finely tuned, so that patients are getting the best distance care and the organizations are getting the most out of their tech investment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. " "Before COVID-19, the level of cognitive overload and burnout among nurses and doctors was alarmingly high," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to do a deep dive into DE&I and healthcare’s workforce challenge with Ebrahim. Importance of DE&I in Healthcare. The inability to find and keep both clinical as well as non-clinical staff has strained healthcare organizations around the world. Unconventional Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. Left behind are staffing shortages and workload problems that drive up billions in costs and degrade the patient experience.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. For care teams, communicating with patients is efficient and effective, so each member of the team contributes appropriately as they guide patients toward the best outcomes, while avoiding adverse events.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No hospital or health system is immune from the challenges of the nationwide nursing shortage. As organizations look for ways to reduce the administrative burden on nurses and improve engagement and satisfaction, virtual nursing is one consideration. What is the national nursing shortage like today?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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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. " RESULTS.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Digital transformation is the topic du jour in healthcare today. Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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