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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. With the shift to value-based pay and capitated rates, providers are rethinking models of care delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"The pandemic also presented new access to care challenges and opportunities to rethink what blended digital and in-person care could look like if built around the patient experience," Karim said.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 30, 2022

While 33 providers are available for every 10,000 people in urbanized areas, rural areas only have 13 providers to serve the same patient load. Transportation can be more burdensome to people in rural areas than patients in the urbanized areas. In addition, patients experience less time away from work and more privacy. .

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Firefly Health and Sprinter Health are integrating Firefly’s in-home clinical services with Sprinter’s virtual primary care. Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool. Ascension is using Qualtrics for gathering patient experience feedback.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Huntley McNabb, Vice President at Nordis Technologies Revenue cycle management communications can play a key role in rebuilding patient trust in healthcare, which fell sharply during the pandemic. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Doctors rarely aware of online feedback from patients. by HIMSS TV June 12, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The complex chronic disease service currently offers five virtual care programs: heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, lipid management and atrial fibrillation. Dr. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Organizations that focus on equity over equality ultimately better serve the wellness needs of all patients. Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Clinicians and healthcare organizations rose to the challenge, though, in being open to and adopting virtual care while ensuring that patients could still access in-person care when needed.” "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

million outpatient visits in a year, MedStar Health caregivers and patients had to address the world’s new reality that stay-at-home orders might lead to delays or cancellations for routine and non-urgent medical needs to stop the spread of COVID-19. “The speed to onboard and train providers was just as powerful,” he added.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s crucial to have secure communication platforms that enable care teams to align quickly on patient status and care, eliminate roadblocks in their workflow, and ultimately reduce time to treatment.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. 3) Staff Training. Implementing telemedicine in your primary care practice is really more about the effort you put in than the time or money you invest.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Patients are often required to find and obtain all of their past medical records to make sure the tumor board has what they need to make the best recommendation. . A nurse came to give her an injection – of penicillin. We will decide what American healthcare needs, to move toward better patient experience and outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The clinic works like any outpatient clinic where a primary care provider places a neurology consult, and then an administrative staff member calls the patients to schedule their visit. These additional resources have been vital to patient education and addressing medication adherence and side effects.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Many patients with chronic medical conditions will be managed at home using digital monitoring. More seniors will be cared for in homes and/or in PACE programs versus skilled nursing facilities. Specifically, more geared toward patient choice, shopping for services, and price competition for out-of-pocket expenses.

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