Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

The companies selected for the newest AWS Healthcare Accelerator will focus on three critical needs in the healthcare space: retention, deployment and training, says Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of International Public Sector Health & the Global Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups team at AWS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

With a rugged mobile health center that can deliver "advanced and customized care delivery," rural healthcare workers would be enabled to "perform functions beyond their usual training," ARPA-H said. "Telehealth revolutionized access to primary care and mental health services," Ku noted.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

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. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to help us identify the technology that lets organizations make the most of their cloud deployments.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. It is a problem that people have been fighting for since the very beginning but we still have not found the solution to achieving health equity. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. The following is their ideas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2023

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. Georgia-based St.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

He said that they’re already trained to practice evidence-based medicine. Alleviating the Mental Health Crisis Another plank in the AdvancedMD platform is to integrate mental and physical health. I asked Costantino how we can encourage doctors to rely on analytics. What can we do to address the gap?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

But there are many issues to be aware of here, beyond remote prescribing, that require foresight and creativity on the parts of provider organizations and virtual care companies. Mental health patients are waiting hours, days, and, in some cases, weeks in emergency departments to receive care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The provider organization uses the outpatient electronic health records system from eClinicalWorks. “With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. Therapists are supported by a psychiatrist and a specialized behavioral health pharmacist.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

"One method proven through research to be effective is virtual sitting, which enables a single, trained employee to monitor multiple patients simultaneously via AI-enabled mobile video-and-audio connection," said Kristin Townley, RN, clinical supervisor at St. Providing training to St. Luke's. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? We asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community these questions and the following is what they had to share. Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. Most “mental health” apps are actually “mental wellness” apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

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. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

"This was accomplished over several weeks early in the pandemic and without that, VA care teams may not have been able to maximize video use during this period of time." " "Oh, and one more thing; it wasn’t just video care to the home that VA was able to rapidly scale," Evans added. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. The mission at United Physicians is to advance physician performance to improve patient health outcomes. THE PROBLEM. In fact, they'll worsen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. Healthcare IT News interviewed Emerson to have him expand upon his predictions for the year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Justin to learn what he learned on his travels. He talks about where providers are excelling with virtual care, where they are facing challenges, the experiences of Global Medical Response, and what he thinks 2022 will bring in the world of telemedicine. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

An impressive 7,500 nurses responded, and completed rapid training to bring the cohort up to date. More than 35,000 health workers have been infected (of which 60% were nurses), particularly in the elderly care home sector.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

"Many others have contracted this service out to a third-party vendor, which I believe sacrifices patient care quality and safety," he added. "Our assets included an engaged leadership team that supported our virtual health strategy and was willing to invest in it," he said. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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. Digital health will be critical for advancing health equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Patients residing in relatively remote areas who previously didn't have easy access to a local medical or behavioral health provider now can receive regularly scheduled treatment services at home," said Dr. Ece Tek, chief medical officer, mental health and addiction services at Cornell Scott-Hill. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. United Way was getting many calls, and it needed a partner in the community to shift mental health-related calls to.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. 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. Chuck Whinney, VP of Healthcare Strategy at Infor.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Fortune and Great Place to Work listed BayCare Health System as one of the country’s Best Workplaces in Healthcare, Best Workplaces for Millennials and Best Workplaces for Women. Additionally, Tampa Bay Times named the health system a Top Workplace. BayCare Health System notably raised its minimum wage to $10.50

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