Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And in an era where over six billion people have smartphones, incorporating the tool in healthcare makes sense. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape. Managing Medical Equipment Healthcare facilities use a diverse range of equipment to deliver effective care to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 10, 2020

" Potentially one of the most significant changes: CMS is now allowing doctors to care for patients at rural hospitals across state lines, "via phone, radio, or online communication, without having to be physically present." Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2020

This, said panelists during a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation, can mean facilities leverage their daytime doctors for the job – leading, in turn, to burnout and decreased quality of care. "We've worked with these programs long enough … so the nurses really have no hesitation to call us for anything, big or small."

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

While at the HIMSS conference, we were able to see a demo of the tablet in action at the bedside with Zebra’s partner Oneview Healthcare. They also offer a feature called service requests which is kind of like the nurse call button, but routes requests to the right department who can solve the problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2020

It delivers care to assisted living facilities through on-site visits performed by its physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians. “It is important to also help reduce any potential surges that would overload hospitals and to assist our medical colleagues who may presently be unable to provide services to their patients.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continuous RPM platform is tied to structured operational workflows that involve home health nurses and the clinical team in a cascading alert system. As we developed the program, we relied on the heart failure physicians to map out the nurses' workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2024

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. Leaders need to be proactive to address emerging cybersecurity threats , the Healthcare IT Today community told us. Series A funding round.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

As such, patients living in communities with greater healthcare disparities often present with more advanced disease or with higher acuity illness. having access to this technology and the necessary proficiency does not always translate to using that technology for healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 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. Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud. Read more… Driving Optimal Use of Temporary Nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

What the team found out, Hasselberg says, was two-fold: New York's rural primary care doctors are voicing the need to get mental healthcare services into the state's nursing homes, and those doctors wanted the ability to present tele-cases across the board, not just for older patients. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Phase one testing was conducted by leading physicians and nurses (< 50) to ensure the agent completes all critical checklist items with the patient for a given use case. Phase two testing required testing to be completed by 1000+ licensed US nurses, and 100+ US licensed physicians talking to the AI while acting as a patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2022

The team hit the gas pedal, said Schwartz, who is scheduled to present about the experience at HIMSS22 in Orlando in March. In February 2020, the team hung the final camera on the main campus. "Our first COVID-19 patient arrived in March," she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

In a follow-up program, lead study author Jennifer Mallow, an associate professor in the West Virginia University School of Nursing’s Adult Health Department, is delivering telehealth services to West Virginians and tracking the relevant metrics. What are the nurses doing, and how long does it take them? THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After listening to their customers, Zebra heard that healthcare could really benefit from a tablet sized device that was designed for healthcare as well. Sometimes the smaller cell phone type screen wasn’t big enough for doctors and nurses or other healthcare use cases. Android 1.54

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MARCH 29, 2022

"The implementation of a telepsychiatry program expedites the treatment time for a patient presenting in the emergency department in crisis," he continued. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Expediting treatment time. FCC funds for telehealth. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

" Among the changes, CMS said it would temporarily allow physicians to care for patients at rural hospitals across state lines, "via phone, radio, or online communication, without having to be physically present." Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the hospitals still requiring full personal protective equipment, it presented a timely opportunity to reintroduce the concept of virtual observation. "In September 2020, the IT team partnered with nursing leadership and Caregility to launch a pilot for virtual observation to prove its effectiveness," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Franklin to discuss changes occurring in healthcare staffing, what he calls hybrid staffing strategies, and the results of a new LocumTenens.com survey. According to a 2021 study from Health Affairs, nearly 100,000 nurses exited the profession last year – most of them under the age of 50.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re excited at Healthcare IT Today for the HIMSS 2023 Global Conference happening next week in Chicago. We have a lot going on at the conference, including a dual-studio setup in the Healthcare IT Today booth #2481. Multi-cloud is a reality for all healthcare organizations. Please stop by and say “Hi”!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2023

Patients requiring upper or lower gastrointestinal diagnostics normally have to present to a hospital or clinic for a tube-based endoscopy. and expert personnel (doctors, nurses, technicians, administrators). Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

Because the program currently is recruiting primary care practices, including OB/GYNs, and is slated to start in June, Healthcare IT News sat down with two of its investigators to get a deeper look. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. The battle for talent in healthcare today is broader than the shortage of physicians and nurses. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." Respondents also noted that video visits assisted with visual cues and some therapeutic methods, but also presented connectivity hurdles. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

NUS Medicine to introduce holographic GI module The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has tied up with GigXR, a California-based provider of holographic healthcare training, to introduce a new mixed reality-based (MR) training module for treating and diagnosing acute gastrointestinal diseases.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

One large group practice (who wished to remain anonymous) shared with Healthcare IT Today that they went from $0 spent on staffing agencies in 2019 to over $3M so far in 2022. It was clear from the hallway conversations and session presenters that there was no silver bullet for solving either the workforce or revenue challenge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. “We were able to use iPads with the hospitalist and nurses to see patients on the COVID-19 unit, connected through telemedicine to interdisciplinary teams.” Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Candance Lemke, MS, RN, NP-C a Nurse Practitioner at Bowen Health, for example, had her comment enlarged on several signs displayed at the UGM. Patient Self-Scheduling & Engagement During the opening presentation, Dr. Murry spent time highlighting the investment the company has made in partnering with Luma Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

During the study, nurses handling in-person triage presented patients with suspected COVID-19 who appeared well and seemed […]. A new study has concluded that by using telehealth tools to screen low-risk patients with suspected COVID-19 had a dramatic effect on emergency department lengths of stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

"It is for this reason that the need arose for a strong evidence-based examination of the effectiveness of telehealth, and this became the basis for the planning of the present study," they said. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

" Lee, along with one of his InfiniteMD co-founders Babak Movassaghi, told Healthcare IT News that the surge in telehealth use is just one facet of the changes the digital health sphere will see over the next few years. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

According to a 2021 survey released by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), nearly every nursing home (99 percent) and assisted living facility (96 percent) in the U.S. is facing a staffing shortage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Delivered by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), the free virtualKIDS service connects families with a clinical nurse who helps determine the best care pathway for their children and their non-life-threatening health concerns.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2021

"A physician or other healthcare worker – hospice, pastoral care, diabetes educators, pharmacists, nurses, etc. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Using this technology, staff can bring family members into the hospital without having them come into the building, she added. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In their presentation Hasselberg and Richman describe how they developed the new telehealth model, which capitalized on the psychiatric skills of their colleagues in Rochester while extending their reach into rural communities. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Michael Hasselberg, Rochester University Medical Center.

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