Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges. Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

GNC also, in a HIPAA-certified manner (explained on the website) that they will be collecting users’ information which consumer-members can access — in the form of visit notes and prescription data, and be able to download and save this information. Here’s the list of those top-of-mind healthcare worries for U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling? Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

One McKinsey survey found more than 80% of physicians are offering virtual care services — up from just 13% in 2019 — and nearly all consumers surveyed have used telehealth services at some point during the pandemic. Accessibility : Can patients easily use the system? Virtual Care Is More Than Telemedicine Video Visits.

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Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

We define patient satisfaction as the measure of how well a patient perceives the level of care they receive from you. There is a debate about the connection between the patient experience and health outcomes. When patients visit you in your in-person office, it’s a private, intimate meeting. Schedule a Demo.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of Surescripts users found an 8% increase in the use of electronic prescriptions for specialty medications in the first five months of 2022 compared to 2021. HIPAA compliant email provider Paubox unveiled Paubox Marketing , which is designed to help provider send personalized yet compliant email marketing messages.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

Even before this year, patients were demanding better experiences from their healthcare providers. In fact, 71% of providers in this survey said that patient engagement was their top priority. And hospitals that provide superior patient experience have net margins that are 50% higher than average performers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued. "If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we, as healthcare providers, need to up our games in terms of the patient experience," Merok advised.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"Units are programmed with disease-specific survey questions to flag high-risk symptoms, and set with daily reminder alerts to take medications and record vital signs," she added. Additionally, the overall CHF readmission rate has hit 0% in four of the last nine months. Laura Mrazik, MaineGeneral Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Strategies included operationalizing a call center to provide timely support; surveying patients and families on their virtual care experience; reviewing feedback; and taking action on any improvements, explained Terrell and Aftab, who will offer a closer look at the program during their HIMSS22 panel in Orlando this March.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Acxiom will host a lunch-and-learn on “Using Data to Overcome the Barriers to Patient-Driven Experience.” Ahead of HIMSS19, Acxiom published a paper on this topic , summarizing a HIMSS survey on social determinants of health and data analytics. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ECG Management Consultants found that over 30% of patients are willing to switch to a provider who offers digital booking. When you simplify your staff’s experience, you simultaneously optimize your patients’ experience. For example, take patient engagement. HIPAA regulations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Yet these aspects of data privacy (and others) are central to the needed trust bridge between patients and the health care providers, clinicians, researchers, and teams that are meant to have peoples’ best interests in bolstering their health, and more broadly community and public health. Morning Consult surveyed 6,631 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Examples of patient education and satisfaction include: Providing patients with instructions on how to use monitoring devices and systems correctly, and helping them understand the data they are collecting.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Business Group on Health’s survey into large employers’ plans for health benefit designs in 2023 has a strong focus on value, concurring with employee benefit consulting studies from Mercer, SHRM, and WTW, among others. Costs, too, can delay patients’ seeking care, which Qualtrics learned in their recent survey of health consumers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patients’ experiences. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team.

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Mend

JUNE 8, 2022

Automating scheduling allows staff to focus their skills on patient care and other revenue-generating activities. Improves patient satisfaction. Several large surveys have shown that users prefer self-scheduling over booking a visit by phone. Using digital forms keeps patient information accurate and up to date with less work.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

Patients expect better access to their providers, more convenience, and high-quality care. Patients Desire Telehealth. In 2016, the Journal of General Internal Medicine published an eye-opening satisfaction survey. More than 1,700 patients who had at least one telehealth encounter responded. The results were clear.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

And it has become increasingly clear that people/consumers/patients are generally interested in sharing information that would help others and/or help themselves. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Not really.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Providers assign patients to specific care protocols and interventions that are tailored to condition or acuity level, which can include measuring vital signs, completing surveys, watching educational videos and participating in video visits with the virtual care team. One product is called the eCareCoordinator clinical dashboard.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

You’re bringing up a great point, which is point-of-care analytics and using technology and data to enhance workflows, patient experience, and the things that you just mentioned. It really depends on the engagement level of each individual patient. It was death by a thousand surveys type of thing as opposed to clicks.

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Mend

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This makes patient satisfaction one of the most important healthcare KPIs to monitor. There are several ways to track patient satisfaction in healthcare, including patient surveys and interviews. This allows patients to complete the form before their appointment or contact the office with questions.

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Mend

MAY 4, 2022

Post-visit care includes: booking follow-up visits, providing further opportunities to provide care expediting payment, improving health systems’ cash-flow completion of reviews, boosting a provider’s online presence post-visit surveys, which help teams find opportunities for improvement.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA. As consumers take on more self-care through apps, remote monitoring at home, and using social networks for health, people are also becoming more aware of these interactions creating data points. Congress’s greater attention to Big Tech’s privacy gaffes and gaps.

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