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

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

MAY 25, 2023

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. THMA will also be collaborating with AWS to create a new leadership development program for rising technology leaders in healthcare. THMA is an example of that.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, connecting GPs or specialist consultants with patients in remote locations or when home care is preferred. . There are many other examples of how technology suppliers are supporting equal and equitable access to care, which is fantastic.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Engage with the HealthTech Community HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is increasingly being used in the healthcare industry to automate routine administrative tasks, improve operational efficiency, and enhance patient care.

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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.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 27, 2019

A more open, honest dialogue with patients. In this interview, Sue Murphy talks about how the organization has transformed rounding and discharge procedures to improve the patient experience, and how they’re leveraging data to continue to tweak those processes. Role of empathy in care – “It has to be genuine.”.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. Now we need to think about the wider ecosystem.”

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Leadership Ram acknowledged a comment made by a presenter at a previous event: the Government must pay. Though a valid point, beyond financial support, strong leadership is essential. Strong leadership is a prerequisite. You need leadership individuals in the local communities and educators capable of rallying community support.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

KYP is intended to help eliminate the risk of fraud on the front-end of the patient experience, primarily by instituting a more secure onboarding process for new patients and verifying that people are who they claim to be at the beginning of the relationship. There are several red flags that may pop up when checking an ID.

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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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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This enforced shift in patient engagement and care delivery has brought many opportunities and benefits, not least the potential to deliver physical and virtual care in a meaningful and integrated way that delivers better patient experiences and better clinical outcomes regardless of where patients are.

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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

JULY 9, 2023

The growing interest in arts and artful thinking on health care extends to philanthropy, and there is no better example of someone bridging arts and the community than Alice Walton, whose father was Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. In this video, Alice explains the role of art and medicine to extend access to under-served communities.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 18, 2023

One of the key ideas behind the restructure is around integration and enabling multiple siloed departments and services for patient care to communicate more easily with one another, thereby improving patient experience. This certainly rings true with the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) process.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Three of them are expected – access to care, patient experience, provider experience – but the fourth one is where they really excelled: Measurement. Shiuh showed how many different experiences a patient can have and spoke to the importance of driving a consistent patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Those metrics leave leadership no alternative but to look to technology to augment the lack of staff. The best employees are always looking to learn new tricks of the trade and enhance their leadership skills, so providing training and mentorship is essential to upskilling, which in turn benefits both employee and employer.

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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

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. Sixty-two percent of Americans received at least one health insurance robocall scam during open enrollment in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

They can also improve patient experiences and contribute to better patient outcomes. For example, a patient who is pregnant has a 41-week care plan, which specialists know by heart. Such AI use cases can save clinicians and administrative staff significant time. in 2022 to 10.5% this year.

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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Here are some specific examples of how virtual wards are being used today and how they may be used in the future: Today: Virtual wards are being used to care for patients with a variety of conditions, including COPD, heart failure, diabetes, and pneumonia.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Everyone from practice leadership to billers should be educated about information blocking rules. Tools that enable online scheduling, send automatic appointment reminders and provide digital intake forms are turnkey, accessible solutions for practices to integrate – and result in a better overall patient experience.

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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

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 14, 2022

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

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Workflow automation that uses AI to infer clinical meaning and ML to improve its performance over time may not directly contribute to the care of my patient but improves my ability to do so. For example, using automation with AI to replace manual data entry, lengthy progress note writing, phone calls (and faxes – still!)

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the future the hospital centric model, where everything is conducted in one central place, will need to change for many reasons; environmental impact, the cost of travel for patients as well as patient experience. It isn’t patient centred, clinically led or research driven and patients are telling us it needs to change. .

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2022

Adventist has partnered with GetWell, Kyruus, VisitPay, and Tonic Health for example, to provide consumer-like […]. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better." Fisne offers a personal example. "We have found that a lot of our patients have really enjoyed the opportunity to do telehealth, they've really gotten on board," he continued.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

MARCH 17, 2022

Can modern day technology revolutionise the evaluation of patient education? For example, we have much easier access to patients, thanks to the majority of people owning a smartphone. Having a wider data set means it is now possible to connect patient records to build up a picture of how people manage their health.

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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

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

JANUARY 20, 2023

In one survey, 90% of healthcare consumers said that a good financial experience is a deciding factor for returning to a provider. Digital solutions empower providers to create positive financial experiences–and build patient loyalty. So interesting!

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