Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

"It is vital the patient not only understands the information but also retains it and then takes appropriate action. "Now that we are live with the videos, we regularly meet and review analytics reports where we get to see the impact we are having on our patients. "That's an A+ in patient experience.

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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 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. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? So many technologies to keep an eye on! We could not do this without your support.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"The high demand for pediatric specialty providers and the constraints many families face regarding transportation, time off from work and school, and finances, made it obvious that traditional models of outreach healthcare were not sustainable," said Morgan Waller, director of telemedicine business and operations at Children's Mercy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

Other criteria for these targets include solutions that can aid in the most acute staffing shortages, such as patient monitoring systems that allow nurses to effectively care for more patients at a time. ER, OR, and ICU). And perhaps, we all can get better sleep.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

“Everything we do is designed to improve access to health care and health outcomes for polychronic patients by supporting their individual needs in their own homes, transforming the patient experience, especially for those who have been historically underserved.”. cities across 34 states.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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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 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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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. Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

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

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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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 19, 2020

To begin mitigating issues like staff burnout, PTSD, and depression, hospitals and healthcare systems need to build cultures of empathy and trust, where staff members know they can share concerns that will be heard and addressed by leadership. Leadership that’s viewed as supportive and approachable. Higher staff retention.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

This investment comes as Wellvana has established presence in 22 states, partnering with physicians, home-health agencies, skilled nursing facilities and health systems to transition from traditional fee-for-service payment models to value-based or full-risk capitation contracting. geographies. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

.” The additional funding will support the company’s continued national scaling of whole-child autism value-based care, as well as deeper investments in technology, data capture, clinical decision support, research, and optimization of the clinician and patient experience. For more information, visit supportuw.org.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

A human touch is very much still needed, not only to get the AI to function as it should but in order for patients to feel comfortable. For a closer look at this balance we reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. Read what they had to say down below. Colin Banas, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A nurse practitioner (NP) was telling patient advocates how to help patients prepare better for appointments. This article was co-authored by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Amy Bucher. She explained that many people with high blood pressure (BP) don’t track it before their appointment.

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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. Left behind are staffing shortages and workload problems that drive up billions in costs and degrade the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS TV covered RSA 2019 live! Why healthcare organizations need execs with social sensitivity. Practicing empathy can improve patient experience even when it happens someplace consumers don't see directly, says Fortune Magazine Senior Editor at Large Geoff Colvin. Collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Stretched out led to stretched thin, meaning that more healthcare workers got burnt-out and quit as well. We reached out to our Healthcare IT Today community to hear their thoughts on physician burnout and the healthcare staffing crisis and see what solutions they had. So how do we get out of this cycle?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to do a deep dive into DE&I and healthcare’s workforce challenge with Ebrahim. Importance of DE&I in Healthcare. The inability to find and keep both clinical as well as non-clinical staff has strained healthcare organizations around the world. Unconventional Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. Something we’ve noted at Healthcare IT Today is the number of vendors that were interested in the LTPAC space.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Gauri Puri, head of healthcare and life sciences at WNS, Skense is already being used for clinical decision-making, as well many use cases discussed in this series, and others such as nurse reviews. The company has based its applications on its AI engine since its founding, and is now integrating GPT-4.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2020

Around the same time, a nurse […]. But this is often followed by profound anxiety. Are we up to the task to help them recover at home? A daunting list forms as we get them dressed and packed.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. Just 23% of consumers completely trust the healthcare industry, according to Salesforce. Below is what they had to share on this topic!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For instance, vulnerability to COVID-19 was closely associated with housing density (with residents of nursing homes and prisons clearly suffering the most). They use AI and NLP and work with clients to create effective auto-responders to patient inquiries. and the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rutledge and Tina Burbine of Healthlink Advisors say that in-patient visits can turn up aspects of SDoH that you wouldn’t get in an office visit or even a virtual conference. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While electronic health records are commonplace today in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, a new study reveals surprising statistics when it comes to transferring patient data between these facilities. Providers are routinely sharing essential patient information manually […].

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