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In a nutshell: technology and progress in health IT

KevinMD

We have a new electronic medical health record system at our hospital. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of. Find out how.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. "The industry has been moving to cloud-based services, and those services are being leveraged now. There's still an amount of work being done in the cloud."

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

Healthcare IT Today

Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations. Additionally, data-driven analytics empower rural providers to understand the various social determinants of health (SDOH), how they affect their population, and how to customize treatments.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. But poor quality data also happens when every facility uses a different term for a social security number. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.”

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"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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