Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. This is a story worth watching.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. In October 2023 the company created the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATco) to collaborate with health systems in re-imagining and implementing a blueprint for “interoperable” health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2023

Only recently, the paramedic and nurse strikes stemming from a lack of pay reflect the current standards of healthcare that are present today. One key element that has been frequently cited in relation to this newfound technological innovation is the concept of interoperability. HIC is more than just a consultancy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Washington.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. Process intelligence can be especially helpful here since healthcare organizations tend to operate across multiple systems that sit within interoperable siloes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

They also plan to offer APIs to labs and public health organizations, delivering test results securely through an app along with advice about how to handle the risk. A number of tests, including the PCR test for COVID-19, require nurses or other trained staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

Read more… Looking at Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability. Scott Turicchi at Consensus Cloud Solutions told Colin that the ubiquity of fax shouldn’t be ignored as the industry aims for interoperability, especially since faxes can easily be converted to structured, digital documents. Pear Suite raised $2.5

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Senate to permanently extend the telehealth flexibilities and waivers put in place during the public health emergency. Interoperability and workflow platform Edifecs launched a point-of-care prior authorization tool. Dartmouth Health deployed Qstream , a microlearning platform, to help properly insulin to diabetic patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: . Agile Technology Tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Remote monitoring firm Health Recovery Solutions and CommonWealth Purchasing Group are collaborating to bring telehealth to nearly 1,000 community health centers and FQHCs. Interoperability engine Infor Cloverleaf Integration Suite is now available in AWS Marketplace. Providence chose Luna for in-home physical therapy services.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

The Rapid Response Team, comprised of intensive care specialists and nurses, can monitor COVID-19 patients and easily consult with other doctors in real time through the 55-inch touch screen monitor of the RRS named BESTBoard. SNUBH launched a home grown personal health record application named Health4U since 2013.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

Jason Considine, Chief Commercial Officer at Experian Health Staffing shortages will continue to be a major pain point for providers in 2024 and have a direct impact on their bottom line. According to a recent McKinsey study, 45% of inpatient nurses (who make up about nearly half of the 4.2 million nurses in the U.S.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Deloitte concludes that consumers still want the benefits of in-person health care services — personalized relationships with clinicians. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The pandemic revealed rough spots and “warts” in the U.S.

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HIStalk Weekender

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Change Healthcare acquires the API and blockchain assets of interoperability vendor PokitDok. FDA names Flatiron Health Chief Medical Officer Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD as principal deputy commissioner. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Monday Morning Update 12/17/18.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. These new players and classifications in healthcare, coupled with a drive to create interoperability, highlight the need for a robust identity management strategy for both consumers and providers. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But looking ahead, it's worth taking stock of what lasting digital health changes might emerge from this ongoing crisis. Interoperability has to be improved and expanded, with data silos broken down and easier cross-system communication. " A key must-have toward that pop health goal, of course, is interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

ONC released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 3 (USCDI v3). As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For acute care in particular, the patient’s full care team – which includes various specialists, nurses, EMS, and others – must have access to the platform from anywhere at any time, including via mobile devices, to collaborate and communicate faster throughout the entire patient journey, not just at one specific point of care.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

All general acute care hospitals, physician organizations, medical groups, skilled nursing facilities, health service plans and disability insurers, Medi-Cal managed care plans, clinical laboratories, and acute psychiatrist hospitals were required to sign the CalHHS data sharing agreement (DSA) by January 2023. Who must participate?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). The rest of this series examines what companies and public health agencies are doing in these areas of SDoH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Dialogue’s multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals consists of nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, care coordinators and allied health professionals who all work together to deliver complete patient care. This is especially the case when treating patients with complex acute and chronic conditions.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Interoperability. Telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. Elsewhere? We’ll have to see.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

Physicians, hospitals, and health care providers across the country are rushing to adopt new hardware, new software, and new workflow processes that make all of these initiatives possible. Health IT vendors are working hard to build the kind of technology that will realize true electronic interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In July, HHS triggered concerns among public health experts and " chaos" at hospitals when it directed health systems to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when reporting COVID-19 patient information.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 17, 2019

Former National Coordinator David Brailer, MD, PhD urges support for HHS’s proposed interoperability rules, saying that the federal incentive program should have made sure that EHRs could share information and defined medical information as belonging to the patient. Best Reader Comments. Disruption Please ). Monday Morning Update 5/13/19.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Interoperability Year: More Technologies in the Marketplace Drive the Critical Need for Interoperability: In the rapidly evolving landscape of clinical trials and the myriad of technologies going to market, the imperative for interoperability will become increasingly evident. Enter academia.

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