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Will virtual primary care become a new model of healthcare delivery?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans received care from their primary care physicians via telemedicine. And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. Q: What is virtual primary care? How is it different from in-person primary care?

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. "Upon completion of the visit, the encounter information is automatically sent to Memorial via Epic's Care Everywhere and Telehealth Anywhere functionality.

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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Paving the Digital Roadmap for the Patient Journey

Healthcare IT Today

Dragged into this rapid shift, healthcare organizations adopted a plethora of communication endpoints without assessing their core attributes: adaptability, functionality, interoperability, effectiveness, and reliability. The result of these data silos is decentralized data tracing, distributed workforce, and lack of interoperability.

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Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Erin Jospe at World Wide Technology about how these initiatives also have a positive impact on patients and the community.

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Weekly Roundup – August 12, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time. posted to Healthcare IT Central. Hospitals consume 2.5