Optimum Healthcare IT

MARCH 29, 2023

The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is rapidly changing how hospitals operate and provide care to their patients. Smart digital hospitals are quickly becoming the new standard for delivering healthcare, with technology being used to connect patients and providers better, improve patient outcomes, and increase efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How to Leverage Digital Tools to Reduce Burnout and Improve Employee Satisfaction Healthcare is in the throes of an employee burnout crisis — and the numbers are nothing short of alarming. According to a survey in the Journal of General Internal Medicine , nearly half of healthcare workers have experienced burnout.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

Exec Summary: There are a number of reasons why virtual wards are not more popular in the US healthcare system. In many cases, insurance companies do not reimburse providers for the services provided through virtual wards. Technology challenges. Virtual wards require a different skill set than traditional inpatient care.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With that data — and telehealth’s ability to expand access to high-quality providers — it’s no surprise that organizations are thinking through how to start a telemental health practice and leverage it as a long-term solution. Do we have sufficient IT support for handling technological difficulties or glitches?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Children's Mercy Kansas City is a pediatric health system with the highest-level designations in neonatal and pediatric intensive care, trauma and emergency services, fetal health and transport services. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Through utilizing the technology that we currently have available, many areas of work healthcare professionals are doing can be automated and simplified. Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Rapid City, South Dakota-based Monument Health, located in one of the current hotspots of the COVID-19 crisis, wants its physicians to be focused on caring for and engaging with patients, not typing up notes in the EHR. As virtual visits began to grow exponentially, she needed a way to support the growth in volume and create efficiencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Technology leaders at U.S. "Typically, we move at glacial pace as we look to begin using new technologies and solutions," he observed. "With the pandemic, we were able to rapidly virtualize our care environments, continue to provide excellent care to our patients and keep our staff working.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. In 2023 our MEDITECH acute care users can expect more focus on EHR optimization. As organizations continue to deal with workforce challenges, they are looking to their technology partners to help ease the burden on staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Still, since when has that stopped anyone from indulging in this pastime as the calendar turns from December to January? Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system. Supply chain: Machine learning insights.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 13, 2022

It can significantly improve the efficiency of operations by analyzing large amounts of data and vastly improving the decision-making process. AI can also be extremely beneficial in facilitating the integration of care required to manage chronic conditions. Healthcare Operational Shifts Driven by Advanced Technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Here, four C-suite executives and an innovation VP share lessons they've learned on such strategic imperatives as organizational evolution, good governance, virtual care, system localization, cloud infrastructure and underserved communities – and describe how they plan to put them into practice in the year ahead.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

They might target smaller, innovative companies with niche solutions or complementary technologies at reasonable valuations. Traditional healthcare players: Hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies are increasingly acquiring healthtech startups to improve efficiency, patient engagement, and data-driven decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The traditional role of CIOs will expand to include supporting remote teams, virtual patient care, and strategic assessment of evolving technology innovation. CIOs are at the forefront, leading transitions to new EHR vendors while managing constrained budgets. The following are their answers.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 2, 2023

When the global health crisis swept across the world in 2020, it forced companies across the industry to utilize digital platforms and technology in order to connect with potential buyers. Healthcare providers and insurance companies are now expected to use digital innovation to make care decisions straightforward and personalized.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2023

New funding led by Cobalt Ventures will support continued business growth and expansion of health plan relationships Mobile-integrated care management platform company, MedArrive, today announced $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures , a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC).

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The pandemic may have changed healthcare, but it’s telehealth technology that will continue moving the sector into the digital realm. By the end of 2022 — if not well into 2023 — chances are good that telehealth will retain its title as the most popular technology investment for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Caroline Clarke, Executive Vice President and Market Leader, Philips ASEAN Pacific shared from the perspective of a technology provider on how the Dutch giant is helping healthcare providers during the pandemic around the world, the rise of virtual care and what the future for digital health holds in a post COVID-19 world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With more than 110 years of continuous operation, the organization has grown to 13 locations offering independent, residential and assisted living; Tapestries Memory Care; respite; rehabilitation; long-term care; Bridges Hospice and Palliative Care; affordable senior housing; and live-in and in-home personal care through HomeWorks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Workflow automation that uses AI to infer clinical meaning and ML to improve its performance over time may not directly contribute to the care of my patient but improves my ability to do so. helps ensure a safe transition of care for my patient and avoid readmissions. However, it cannot fully nor successfully replace a human.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

MAY 18, 2021

The issue is not simply ensuring that the temporary fixes inspired by the pandemic successfully transition to standard practice, but rapidly building on that foundation to enable the greatest value from digitisation of all elements of healthcare provision. Changed Perceptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Glenn Hilburn, RN, vice president for information technology at Grady Health System, based in Atlanta. ( @GradyHealth ). Glenn Hilburn, RN, vice president for information technology at Grady Health System, based in Atlanta. ( @GradyHealth ). " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.). "We went ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Check out our community’s healthcare business and value based care predictions. In the last few years, with new technologies and software emerging, healthcare organizations have ended up investing in too many varied systems or offerings. Chris Sullivan, Global Healthcare Practice Lead at Zebra Technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Integrated zero trust solutions should quickly gain ground in this market as hospitals try to upgrade their networks to support modern care delivery. Health care organizations generally use other more sophisticated frameworks (e.g., As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A 2001 Institute of Medicine report highlighted the shortcomings of healthcare professional training and ongoing proficiency assessment to enhance patient care and safety (IOM, 2001). Many providers have offered virtual care for nearly three years, but how many of these practitioners were trained in telehealth?

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When it comes to transitioning from face-to-face to video visits, clinicians still have trepidation, and the onus is on leaders to assuage those fears by addressing the reimbursement and integration questions, says Joe Kvedar. It started 20 years ago with a vision to leverage technology to improve access to care and efficiency.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

examines how market forces are consolidating, rationalizing and redistributing acute care assets within the. broader industry movement to value-based care delivery. The second article , which will publish next month, examines gaps in care delivery and the related public policy challenges of providing appropriate, accessible.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JULY 30, 2019

As a result, health plans and health systems such as hospitals, physicians’ offices and urgent care centers are turning to outsourcing partners to handle critical processes to compete and thrive in the changing market. Blink and you’ll miss the latest landscape shift in healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With nearly a decade of successfully running a virtual ICU and a virtual care hospital known today as Mercy Virtual Care Center , Mercy in St. "In our ambulatory virtual programs, we manage complex chronically ill patients," said Annie Bannister, RN, executive director of vEngagement at Mercy.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 24, 2024

MEDITWIN will offer virtual twins for medical practice, helping to improve the quality of care for safer, more accessible healthcare for all. The MEDITWIN project will offer personalized virtual twins of organs, metabolism and cancer, for better diagnosis and treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. All of these challenges negatively impact clinician experience and patient care. All of these challenges negatively impact clinician experience and patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions And now, check out our community’s Value Based Care predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut is a five-hospital, seven-campus health system that includes a large physician practice, numerous ambulatory centers and a home care agency. Provide supportive services in med/surg units to allow nursing staff to cluster care activities to reduce utilization of PPE and potential staff exposure.

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