Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In 2020, 90% of hospitals and health systems implemented an AI and automation strategy, up from 53% in 2019, and it’s only continued to increase in the following years. An important aspect of the patient experience is ensuring that patients and loved ones are comfortable and informed throughout the care journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Andrea Fox | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a. Here's how some pioneering health IT leaders are using AI today, and how they're planning for the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who has written about health IT and EHR for 18 years, I like to think there’s nothing about health IT that I haven’t written about. There’s nothing worse for a nurse or doctor than to have to search for a charged device to be able to help the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the demo video below, Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra , shares about Zebra’s efforts to enable real time health system and that impact on patient experience. This saves the nurse time and gets a quicker response for the patient.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. . “Improves resource allocation for staff” speaks to the crisis issue of clinician burnout. Burnout (translated through anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality) was already a challenge for U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

Nurse-1-1, the first conversational marketing company for healthcare, today announced the close of its $2.3 The company will use the financing to expand its team, accelerate its go-to-market efforts, and scale its current partnerships with publicly traded and nationwide digital health, at-home testing, and pharma companies. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technician instead of a nurse. This relieves the nurses of trivial tasks and lets them “practice at the top of their licenses.” Virtual nursing is also easier with seamless communications.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

health care employment since 2001, today accounting for twice as many staff as physicians and nurses. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

A trained technician or nurse is also always present and can enter the Cube to help the patient, if requested to do so. The Cube was designed specifically to meet ADA Standards for Accessible Design and international equivalents.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

No longer does a nurse have to take extra time to post a physical marker. They do display a few more facts, such as the nurse in charge of that patient. They do display a few more facts, such as the nurse in charge of that patient. Putting too much information would mean that crucial information would be missed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Providers continuously pushed themselves to invest in new tools and solutions — with one overarching aim — to enhance the patient experience. Lacking a centralized platform adds to the administrative overhead — overwhelming care providers and frustrating patients. But a digital tool does not always map to a functional solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sanford Health is a massive health system that serves the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Today, Reimer is in the middle of a $350 million virtual care initiative, working to overcome health IT workforce challenges, and building a modern data ecosystem – emphasis on modern.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Temi robot, it was the first application of an autonomous robot to assist nurses and doctors that I’d seen. At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Yaron Yoels, CMO at Temi Robot , to learn more about Dr. Temi, an autonomous robot for patient care. The Temo Robot is being used in hospitals, nursing homes, and home care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Thus, Philips asserts that health care professionals are becoming “true digital collaborators,” seeing positive impacts on the way they and their patients experience health care. The second chart details the key barriers preventing clinicians from sharing data with patients.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

Along with the evolving technology that changes the patient experience in the exam room, we also talk about how this impacts the clinician experience and things like burnout and staff satisfaction. It’s amazing how the nurse call button can be improved with the right technology and workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Owens, chief medical information officer and family medicine section chief at Metro Health. There are numerous vendors on the health IT market with telemedicine technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […]. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

However, the current program relies heavily on manual processes and in-person care, making it operationally challenging to expand as it requires patients be visited at least twice daily in person by a paramedic, and once daily, either in person or virtually, by both a registered nurse and a physician or advanced practice practitioner.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

With modern databases, it’s ridiculous for many care managers to be checking the availability and services of nursing facilities manually. They should be able to draw up a list of suitable facilities quickly and transfer data from the patient’s electronic record to a corresponding record at the chosen facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

We’ve been through several waves of health IT adoption, and are witnessing a new phase of growth (temporarily interrupted by the rise in interest rates) with exciting new ventures. Equality Health works mostly in the Medicaid space and offers its technology platform free to primary care providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

For the next step – directing patients to the portal – the health system put QR codes everywhere, from exam room walls to employees’ badges, and doubled the number of portal users in 12 months. Read more… Improving the Patient Experience With Online Scheduling and Chatbots.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With the right partner for on-demand services, organizations can ensure that an interpreter is always available for patients at every step of their care journey—from intake to encounter, and even during financial services. She began her career as a charge nurse and transplant coordinator at Emory University Hospital in 1988.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. At the same time, there simply are not enough nurses and other healthcare providers to care for the people who will need support and resources in the next five to 10 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Customers using Actium Health include Virtua Health, Catholic Health System of Long Island, Nuvance Health, and Legacy Health. Syllable’s Patient Assistant Syllable improves patient experience while reducing staff burden with AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Florence is working with leading health systems and most recently launched with Luminis Health in Maryland. “As As one of the busiest emergency departments in the country, our nurses and administrative staff immediately saw the benefit of Florence,” said Saad Chaudhry, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Luminis Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

"We've also been able to integrate the platform with other systems we have in place to improve the patient experience," he continued. There is a wide variety of telehealth technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Digital health tools can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, while telehealth can make mental health services more accessible , said Dr. Byron Crowe at Solera Health. Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), a Medicare and Medicaid program designed for individuals aged 55 and above requiring nursing-home-level care, embraced the benefits of providing care at home prior to the pandemic, enabling this frail population to remain within their familiar home environments and communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2022

When I speak with caregivers of people with dementia at nursing homes or memory care communities, they say a smile is worth 1,000 words. The following is a guest article by Hester Le Riche, CEO and Founder at Tover. Many days, caregivers and family of residents who have advanced dementia are looking to elicit a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens. One of the strengths they cite for Discern Health is the large number of doctors and nurses on their staff, providing clinical validation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data? Let’s explore some of these key questions with two of Dell Technologies’ subject matter experts in these topics, Romina Elias, Healthcare Chief Nursing Information Officer and Jeff Kenkel, Global Chief Technology Officer, Life Sciences and Edge.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a 2022 Health Management Academy Survey, the top priority themes for Chief Nursing Officers and Chief Human Resource Officers at healthcare systems are solutions for retention, burnout, employee engagement, and hiring. Vaccaro, DNP, Senior Vice President, Nursing at Novant Health. “By

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