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How one gastroenterology practice uses hybrid virtual care to improve patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Three 2023 telemedicine trends that advance the 'new normal' in healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. As healthcare providers look ahead to 2023, being at the forefront of what's next in telehealth and strategically integrating the technology necessary to stay there may be critical to future success.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore. Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years. The office.

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Stanford researchers: Telemedicine optimization requires training, interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The rapid growth in care, they said in an article published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , has also inspired discussions on the best way to use telemedicine for disease management. Optimization of clinician and patient experience, including through provider training.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A. MARKETPLACE.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Our community health workers and social workers were not aware of the resources that existed for patients to overcome their digital barriers. "Organizations can think about how to make their frontline staff aware of resources that exist to address some of their patients’ digital needs to be able to inform them."

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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. What does the survey show about telemedicine addressing patient care barriers and seeing more patients?