Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. Navigating the healthcare system in America can be byzantine and time-consuming.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Whether a menu of care options including virtual health to access specialists across the U.S., post-hospital virtual visits, or hospital care at-home, a majority of Americans supports a new era of care delivery, as PwC coins the broad landscape of telehealth. I discussed this digital health supply/demand gap here in Health Populi.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

On average, it takes 26 days to schedule a new patient appointment in-office in large U.S. No wonder telehealth adoption is surging. Development and innovation in telehealth was already underway in recent years, but usage skyrocketed during the pandemic as people sought alternatives to in-person visits and it remains high today.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

A previous article, “ Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For ” discussed technological solutions to patients’ frustrating scheduling experience. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously.

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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. By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). They will use whatever works to get to their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Telehealth and RPM. Health Equity and SDoH. As we head into 2023, organizations will reach a tipping point. Healthcare AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

“We developed a short list of telehealth solutions that could support the full spectrum of our needs – ambulatory, inpatient and direct-to-consumer,” said Jon Witenko, system director, virtual health and telemedicine, at Lee Health. This gave clinical staff an opportunity to get familiar with the technology.

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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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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, I got to speak with Keith Algozzine, the founder and CEO of UCM Health. What is the patient experience like? I think that there’s some urgency to this finally; I really feel a tipping point like I’ve never felt in my 15-year career in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Telehealth and RPM. Health Equity and SDoH. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health. Health consumers demand better care experiences.

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