Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

A whopping 100% of respondents in Experian Health’s latest survey said staffing shortages impacted their organizations and 70% of those who said payer reimbursements are the most impacted by the staff shortages say it led to higher denial rates. million nurses in the U.S.) Though these stats reflect the U.S.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

As violence towards nurses and physicians increases, this will become a more important use-case for this technology. A recent survey of healthcare workers (hospitals and long-term care facilities) found: 90% had experienced (or been in close proximity to) violence from a patient or a patient’s caregiver in the past month.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. iRhythm Technologies. iRhythm is a healthcare technology company that clinically diagnoses cardiac arrhythmias by combining wearable biosensing technology with cloud-based data analytics and machine learning capabilities.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Advocate was also named a top 10 health system for diversity and recognized as a leader in LGBT healthcare equality. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2022, 31% of people reported they chose to defer care due to cost concerns – which is both a clinical risk and a risk to healthcare entities providing a positive patient experience. In a related development, home-enabled healthcare technology is taking off and is expected to more than double by 2031.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

At Riverside Health System, a rural health network in Newport News, Virginia, a long-term telebehavioral health initiative has improved coordinated care among psychiatrists and clinical social workers, as well as replaced a chunk of services offered at the system’s nursing homes. Doubling down on digital.

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