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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep The health IT landscape is highly competitive and noisy, creating obstacles for startups to gain a foothold.

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Virtual sitters at Lee Health guard against danger to patients, help trim costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"This was generally used for retired clinical nurses or others who had the time and desire to sit next to a patient," he continued. When that happened, we would generally have to re-assign an even more critical individual, such as a nurse or a patient care technician, to help protect that patient.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. This kind of technology-enabled workflow can take a tremendous burden off of some of our most important care team members.

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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California. healthcare.

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Check out our community’s healthcare business and value based care predictions. It’s time to clean out the garage: simplification and consolidation of health IT is our next step toward optimization.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

High-profile health system Geisinger and its affiliated entities serve 45 predominantly rural counties throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania, 31 of which are a part of Appalachia, a unique region of the Appalachian Mountains that cuts through the western part of the state. THE PROBLEM. In fact, it has doubled in the last 30 years.

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Wellvana Health Announces $84 Million Capital Raise to Drive Innovation in Value-Based Care Enablement

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems. geographies.

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Polyclinics and the Labour party's Digital Health plans for the NHS

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. They can also be a good option for patients who need to see a specialist, but do not have a primary care doctor.

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More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, they are essential for billing and receiving reimbursement for patient care from insurance providers. However, EHRs have also produced a generation of doctors, nurses, and others who have had to become both caregiver and data-entry clerk. We determined that providers saved an average of 5.1 minutes per patient encounter.

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. Burchett, chief medical information officer at Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work. ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients. Partnerships.

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Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Telehealth, mobile health apps, and other digital platforms will be leveraged to provide remote consultations, health monitoring, and health education, in addition to ensuring patients are better connected to their care partners.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage.

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Central Maine Healthcare’s telehealth program succeeds in satisfaction and call completion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The strategy for deployment of the Innovaccer telehealth platform focused on primary care. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. To read this special report, click here.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. Collection.

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Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Qualtrics is partnering with the DAISY Foundation by adding a prompt for patients completing feedback forms to nominate a nurse for a DAISY Award. Products Luma Health released Luma Bedrock , which assesses data from more than 650 healthcare organizations to provide insight into when and how to most effectively engage with patients.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Cornell Scott-Hill's clinical leadership and IT collaborated to identify viable, HIPAA-compliant platforms that were rapidly rolled out across the health center. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Value Based Contracting Can Drive Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Incentivizing the capture of this information in a value-based contract with urgent care and primary care providers is an important first step. Many of these individuals receive home-based services either from a nurse or other caregiver. Paul has a Ph.D.

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Sema Sgaier, founder of Surgo Health, points out that different factors are important for different conditions. For instance, vulnerability to COVID-19 was closely associated with housing density (with residents of nursing homes and prisons clearly suffering the most). and the world.

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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

When done right, revenue integrity management supports the delivery of high-quality care, enabling providers to reinvest in staff, infrastructure, and technology, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves.

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Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO at KeyCare One trend to look for in the new year is a wider use of virtual care beyond primary care.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. Linus Health announced the availability of its brain health platform , which combines cognitive screenings and decision support tools to help detect dementia in its early stages.

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

It's been a relentless 16 months, and healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders can no doubt use a breather. Of patients with an assigned primary care provider, 55.51% of patients are enrolled in the portal. Rollins of Freeman Health System said 2020 was a great year for health IT for many reasons.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A visiting nurse can look in the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, for instance, to find out whether the patient has enough food and what its quality is. Estimated Costs of Intervening in Health-Related Social Needs Detected in Primary Care. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.1964)

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Normally, it would have taken three to six months to roll out this type of platform to more than 650 providers, but we did it in less than two weeks – a testament to our amazing leadership and staff. "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s no longer built on volume services but rather creates a focus on driving enhanced health for all. A federal staffing mandate would potentially result in an additional cost of $11B to a sector that is already struggling to provide frontline care.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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. Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology."

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The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

How well does the technology integrate into a surgical practice compared to a primary care setting?” ” Gaines and Cindy Koppen, chief nursing officer at care.ai , ask on a very concrete level, “How many clicks does this solution require?”

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Completes Majority Share Acquisition of CareCentrix

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

—the leading independent home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers. CareCentrix will also play a critical role in Walgreens Health integrated offerings to manage population level risk for benefits management and post-acute spend and outcomes.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s crucial to have secure communication platforms that enable care teams to align quickly on patient status and care, eliminate roadblocks in their workflow, and ultimately reduce time to treatment.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

The organizations featured on this list offer benefits and opportunities for employees to build successful careers above and beyond the average healthcare provider or company; they encourage professional development and promote leadership from within. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Virtual sitters at Lee Health guard against danger to patients, help trim costs

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

Wellvana Health Announces $84 Million Capital Raise to Drive Innovation in Value-Based Care Enablement

Polyclinics and the Labour party's Digital Health plans for the NHS

More than Productivity: Include User Experiences when Assessing the ROI of AI-Based Solutions

How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Central Maine Healthcare’s telehealth program succeeds in satisfaction and call completion

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Value Based Contracting Can Drive Health Equity

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service

Walgreens Boots Alliance Completes Majority Share Acquisition of CareCentrix

The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

150 top places to work in healthcare

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