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Weekly Roundup – January 21, 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. Who better to talk to the Healthcare IT Today community about interoperability than the National Coordinator himself? million investment.

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Where are EHRs headed in 2023?

Healthcare IT Today

This means optimizing the EHR so that it fits more seamlessly into their daily routines and helping customers take advantage of underutilized technologies like surveillance-based toolkits as well as patient portals. NextGen Healthcare – David Sides, CEO and President.

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The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It’s Impact on the World of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey. "We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said.

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Randomized Controlled Trial Shows RPM Improves Patient Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

A randomized controlled trial across 8 acute care hospitals showed patients that were part of a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program after surgery, were 5.3% less likely to report pain 7 days after surgery, and 24.2% less likely to be readmitted, 13.9% safer because medication errors were detected early on.

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Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare. In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.