Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Fred Bazzoli is a contributing writer to Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Watch the interview with Sameer Khanna to learn: How hospital IT leaders can prepare for the 4x increase in the number of connected medical devices that is expected over the next 5 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? What is the market looking at now? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. Mayo Clinic Platform president Dr. John Halamka, for instance, has said he foresees a future of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Mayo Clinic Platform President Dr. John Halamka has said that he sees a healthcare future based around "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Healthcare IT News published a comprehensive listing of these vendors with detailed product descriptions. "However, for many patients who live outside our area, this technology is critical as it allows them to schedule their follow-up visits without a long drive to the hospital. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2023

The NSW Telestroke Service has been fully rolled out across New South Wales, transforming healthcare in rural and regional communities. This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

NSW to trial body cameras in hospitals The state government of New South Wales is undertaking a 12-month trial of body-worn cameras in select public hospitals. According to a media statement, the trial seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the technology in deterring and de-escalating violent incidents in hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director of EHR Systems Operations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cayuga Centers and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, agreed, predicting a new era of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2020

New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. " Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) has recently shared that it was advised that the 2024-2025 Budget also introduces temporary Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items for the admission and some subsequent teleconsultation of inpatients in private hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director of Information Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

While it’s interesting to see ByteDance acquire a hospital, it’s likely not connected to TikTok at all (Side Note: Be sure to follow @healthcareittoday on TikTok ). It would go crazy with fears over privacy even more than the ones we heard when Amazon acquired OneMedical and Google acquired Fitbit.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Joel Slenning and INNOVA People are the ideal partner based on their existing footprint in the hospital IT space. Additionally, their expertise in several other areas of hospital staffing will allow us to become a complete solution for our clients. shared Dan Charney, President and CEO at DRI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

While this growing connectivity does enable better patient monitoring within and beyond the hospital, it also raises cybersecurity risks, compromising patients' personal and medical data and disrupting treatment protocols and hospital operations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. Communities are finding that telehealth increases broadband adoption as well as improves the physical and economic health of residents.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by TJ Houske, Senior Vice President of Technology, Operations, and Engineering at OTAVA Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations doubled in the last five years, according to a new study by JAMA Health Forum. The most common victims have been health clinics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

National study gets federal grant to evaluate medication charting model involving EMRs A new federal government-funded project will involve pharmacists to validate a medication charting and deprescribing model in hospitals using EMRs. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

More than 20% of healthcare organizations that suffer a cyber attack see higher mortality rates, and the majority of healthcare organizations experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past 12 months—nearly one a week—according to a September 2022 report by Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Paragon is delivered in the Azure cloud, providing healthcare organizations with a reliable, scalable system bolstered by Microsoft’s advanced security controls. About Altera Digital Health A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to connect and inspire healthier communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With operations that span the US and EMEA, the company is experiencing record demand for its solutions from both private and public hospitals. Together, we’re driving the future of smarter and safer surgeries, making a meaningful impact on the world.” said Katrin Vatiska, Investment Partner at MTIP.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Transforming healthcare does not just have to happen in the hospital — it’s about what happens long before a hospital visit is required. Providing this level of accessible insight holds the key to a sustainable future for medicine and AI now, more than ever, is the glue that can bring all of this together.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights into this matter. We asked them – with this ongoing era of increasing cyber threats, what measures are organizations implementing or should be implementing to strengthen the cybersecurity of healthcare systems and protect patient data ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs), particularly regarding potential security risks associated with medical devices and other hardware.

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