Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

Kate Behan, chief medical officer of Arcadia , cites several examples of social determinants of health that are relevant to weight: access to healthy foods, and limited ability to exercise due to cramped housing, unsafe neighborhoods, and communities without public spaces that promote exercise.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

The best contribution that information can make to weight management is to find more effective, personalized treatments: to match the right person to the right treatment, whether it be surgery, drugs, diet, exercise, or some combination. The treatment is exercise. AI is turning up intriguing successes in this endeavor.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Julia Hanigsberg, President and CEO of Hollard Bloorview (winner of the 2022 Medigy HITMC Award for Health IT Trailblazer of the Year) to find out more about their approach to innovation. Innovation at HBRKH. This technology has been commercialized by the team at AwakeLabs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Substantial evidence from clinical trials supports the use of exercise to prevent falls, and in particular exercises that promote strength building and which challenge balance. Current evidence suggests that these interventions reduce the risk of falling by 21% or more.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

It feels like a twentieth-century school exercise in penmanship, not a professional office visit. A major goal of clinicians now is to replace paper with convenient forms that patients can fill out on mobile devices at home.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

It is also helpful to conduct physical therapy telehealth sessions in the same area of the home where patients will practice exercises independently. That way, the licensed therapist can offer guidance on using rehabilitative equipment and home features, such as walls, doorways, and furniture, within specific exercises.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

With how fast the world of healthcare is evolving, it is impossible to stay up to date on every single thing that is happening, especially once you factor in the amount of work that is required in every health IT job. Gene Scheurer, CEO at Optimum Healthcare IT I think the threats are still in the financial area.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Patients need a lot of help adopting a lifestyle that can reduce their risk, monitoring their progress, and uplaoding the results of monitoring to their portal. Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium , emphasized that medication is part of a holistic approach to health that includes exercise, lifestyle, mental state, and other health care conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Many say their own health is worse. While others don’t realize that as caregiving becomes more intense they likely won’t eat well or get enough exercise; they’ll have a hard time seeing friends and become socially isolated, they won’t get enough sleep, and they may start to drink or smoke more to cope with the stress.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

CareTracker will help to set up a large set of nonclinical and administrative steps, including medication reminders, appointment scheduling, scheduling check-ins for telehealth appointments, creation of alerts and notifications when things do not go as planned, prescription refills, and prompting for daily exercise under the care plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

The term “customer journey mapping” may sound like consultant jargon, but taking the steps to undertake a true mapping exercise will go a long way toward having a positive impact on both patients and healthcare facilities. Leverage customer journey mapping to identify and fix pain points.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For instance, it is common practice for health professionals to refer their patients to the organization’s portal in order to retrieve patient information such as discharge documents, care and exercise instructions, patient’s rights information and more. Exercise instructions. Consent forms. Test results.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

People undergoing treatment are changing in other ways too; they may choose to start an exercise program or undergo a financial change, for instance. Resilient Healthcare Employs Extensive Data Analytics Resilient Healthcare provides in-home care for conditions that have traditionally required a hospital stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

A huge part of the problem is that the healthcare system can’t get patients to follow through with their prescribed care plans. Patients are human, and human brains are wired to focus on immediate gratification. But, it’s estimated that 40% of health outcomes are actually attributed to our individual behavior.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. Most are bullish on televisits, believing that these visits have firmly established themselves, are popular with clinicians, patients, and payers alike, and will only grow over time. In the opinion of many experts, the reason U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2024

In particular, he says, “VR, AR, and gamification have the potential to revolutionize the way we approach weight loss and promote healthier lifestyles by making exercise more enjoyable, providing personalized support and guidance, and fostering a sense of community and accountability.” Figure 1 shows one of their displays.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. “Our patients for the most part took it in stride, with our video visits being one of our most positive patient experiences.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jeff Lusby, General Manager, Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics As healthcare organizations come to terms with value-based care, many are hitting the wall of unstructured clinical and administrative data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Psychiatrist Dr. Geoff Frost struggled to encourage pediatric patients with spinal muscular atrophy to do their necessary exercises.

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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

They also are trying to figure out how to create the next-generation patient experience using technology.” Decentralization vs. Centralization in Healthcare IT There was a time when consolidation, aiming to eliminate shadow IT groups, was one of the larger drivers in IT, Nigrin says.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. As a result, health IT administrators should be doubling down on ransomware recovery plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

As just one example, no biometric smartwatches can accurately and passively track beat-to-beat blood pressure during exercise, and the associated technical challenges and R&D investment toward this goal would be quite substantial. But is there any significant reason to track beat-to-beat BP during intense exercise?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

We need to start searching for how we can use technology , new or old, to fix health inequality and discrimination. We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

” Lumen also collects lifestyle information, such as steps, exercise routines, and heart rates. A study that Lumen conducted on its prediabetes program found that over 12 weeks, patients lost an average of nearly 6 kilograms in weight, and decreased their A1C levels by 0.27%.

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