Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Playing a crucial role in hospital-at-home programs, these technologies complement in-home visits and provide patients with a complete range of hospital services, including mental health, nephrology, and case management. I am particularly excited about digital therapies for mental health. Currently, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The debut installment of the new Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series debuts next Tuesday, November 10. Moreover, when behavioral or mental health would present at the emergency department, "there were no onsite psychiatric resources," said Hasselberg.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice. Health Populi’s Hot Points; Health citizens in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… Meet Growing Demand for Mental Health Services With Personalized Digital Solutions. Nearly half of Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals, and wait times can last months. Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

According to the American Medical Association , 62% of physicians feel like their patients have higher satisfaction since they’ve started offering telehealth as an option. At Iris, our clinicians have a similar experience with patient satisfaction.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians). healthcare system.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” Now that doctor and that nurse, the latter pictured here all smiles as she promotes “the protection that every family needs most,” are at-risk of leaving the health care workforce due to burnout, earlier-than-planned retirement, or pandemic-related stress. Think sustainability for health and health care.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

For organizations that partner with a telehealth solution like ours, patients can be seen by a psychiatrist or a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) in less than an hour of when they present. That’s the exciting part – sometimes when conducting consults in the ED, we see patients before the main team.

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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 IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

Reports More than two-thirds of health systems lack the nursing staff to handle a large-scale health crisis , according to an Incredible Health survey. A staggering 94% of executives said the nurse shortage at their organization is critical, in part because 53% of nurses have less than five years of experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While those are the right macro buckets, the clinical operational improvements are focused almost solely on physician/provider workflow optimizations (patient documentation, AI to improve diagnosis and treatment pathways, etc.).

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2023

What if we asked an artist to re-imagine what health care could be? How might Van Gogh redesign a patient room akin to his room at Arles , or Michelangelo re-think general surgery ? How might Thoreau take us on a nature walk for our mental health , or Basquiat channel his inner Da Vinci for a version of Jean-Michel’s Anatomy ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With hospital-at-home , this process piles on several additional layers of complexity, such as remote patient monitoring devices, patient-reported outcomes, nursing care, physical therapy, food, medication deliveries and more. And this home care orchestration is done on a daily basis for the patient in their home.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Digital therapeutic products are revolutionary in that they bring all three stakeholders together – payers, providers, and patients – and provide a clear pathway for improving the care patients receive regardless of ethnicity, gender, geography, or socioeconomic status. Today in the U.S.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. The number of nurses who reported a conscious and deliberate desire to find other employment came in at 41%. Complicating matters further has been the increasing number of verbal and physical attacks by patients. Even more troubling, however, is the intent to leave.

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Xealth

JUNE 14, 2023

Paige Stocks, Director, Partnerships Digital health and DTx solutions pave the way for better patient experiences and outcomes. One of the areas where I consistently hear complaints about underutilization of digital health tools is for cardiology. One out of four cardiologists reports having mental health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In addition to my discussion with Molly, you should also listen to two insightful colleagues’ conversations in the series, with: Dr. Bonnie Clipper, Founder and CEO of Innovation Advantage, sharing learnings on high-tech and high-touch in nursing; and, Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health and Purpose at FINN Partners, discussing the growing importance (..)

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke. For patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

With the lack of interoperability plaguing so many health IT developments, Apple has streamlined the ability for software developers to create digital health tools using APIs, application programing interfaces (apologies for the wonkiness).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects and interactions, the stigma to admitting that the patient has a condition (particularly concerning mental health), and sometimes even opposition by family members.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 1, 2022

Lemonaid Health has chosen SteadyMD’s comprehensive telehealth infrastructure to support them in offering high-quality telehealth experiences to their patients. The company is licensed, operating, and serving patients in all 50 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

These skills are already helping make health care better for providers in medical practice and consumers and caregivers at home for aging support, medication adherence, and mental health. Our health care human capital are trusted citizens in the U.S. Another buzzword at CES this year, as last, is “5G.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These companies have critical work ahead…[to] improve clinical outcomes; alleviating the burdensome administrative and technological roadblocks that prevent doctors and nurses from doing what they do best; and aligning performance and the interests of patients, providers, and greater society.”

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

Tele-monitoring: Patients can use remote monitoring devices to track their health data, such as blood pressure, heart rate, and weight. Tele-coaching: Patients can receive coaching from a nurse or other healthcare professional on how to manage their health. Thoughts, comments?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 30, 2022

Accessibility in health care means having a timely use of personal health services to achieve the best health outcomes. Benefits of remote patient monitoring in rural areas. Remote patient monitoring, being a telehealth subset, creates access to patients’ vital signs from home between provider consultations.

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