Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis. Temple also is a critical access point for vital public health services. ” USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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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. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

This funding is a critical milestone to defining a new, modern standard for supporting medication adherence using evidence-based public health strategies.” About Scene Health Scene (formerly emocha) brings healthcare professionals, patients, and their families together to solve the $500 billion medication nonadherence problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

b) and (b)(1) of the Hospital Conditions of Participation, which require nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the immediate availability of a registered nurse for care of any patient. " CMS has set up an online portal to expedite the submission of requests to waive §482.23(b)

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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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. The program resulted in a reduction of both trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations among patients dealing with congestive heart failure. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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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. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration. This is a story worth watching.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S. Press Ganey asks.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. On average, patients can connect to a provider within eight seconds.

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Mend

MARCH 14, 2024

Flexibility and Telehealth : In response to evolving healthcare needs and public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the regulations allow for flexibility in treatment delivery In this article, we’ll explore the recent key changes to 42 CFR Part 8 and their implications for healthcare professionals striving to combat OUD.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Be kind to your local health care providers; support their community initiatives (see previous bullet point), and ask your local hospital(s) what you or your organization can do to help the impending provider shortage (nurses, doctors).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

Navigating the patient care journey in the U.S. As a public health advocate, this is what we stand for in improvements across our healthcare communities. Through the lens of the patient, one experiences what is this “patient experience”—what we can learn from and strive to improve.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. A visiting nurse can look in the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, for instance, to find out whether the patient has enough food and what its quality is.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

That one-third of people attesting that chronic conditions make it difficult to maintain health is retail’s opportunity to partner with the legacy health/care stakeholders — with hospital systems, physicians and nurses in local communities, and with pharma and life science companies who are looking to add value “beyond the pill.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Dr. Karen S.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2023

.” In her work at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, Dr. Safo collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of data analysts, designers, and engineers, in concert with doctors and nurses. She asks: “Why isn’t there an artist on a practice transformation and improvement team?”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

To explain why I’m devoting a special section of this article to behavioral health, I must digress into a discussion of health care costs. health care costs continue to rise unsustainably is that our clinicians and public health systems have not successfully altered unhealthy behaviors in the population.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 10, 2023

We will also examine how remote patient monitoring technology can enhance patient education and contribute to improved health outcomes. The Role of Health Care Professionals in Patient Education Healthcare professionals play a crucial role in patient education.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Jim Jirjis, MD, told Colin the back-end work for the project had an unintended benefit: By streamlining documentation, nurses had patient information readily available when facilities needed to be evacuated before a hurricane hit. Read more… Tracking the Patient Experience at Intermountain Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. Reducing associated provider, payer and patient costs in value-based care arrangements. This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine.

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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. The third chart illustrates that after a decline in consumers’ willingness to share personal data before the pandemic, more people are comfortable sharing data in a crisis scenario.

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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. Many clinical data records can be exchanged between providers and regional public health agencies through health information exchanges.

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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). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In healthcare, being smart and mission-driven at the same time requires addressing the Quadruple Aim: those four pillars are to enhance the healthcare experience, to bolster health outcomes, to support clinicians (doctors, nurses, allied professionals) in their daily work and prevent burnout, and to lower per-patient costs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The most recent Gallup poll on honesty and ethics in professions in the U.S. found that nurses, doctors, teachers, and pharmacists rank in the top tier of most-trusted workers in America. Pharmacists, year-after-year, rank high in this annual poll on honest and ethics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage. Unfortunately, all the recent government regulations focused on interoperability exclusively focus on liberating patient data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The result is a high-sensitivity P-wave monitor that is comfortable for all patients during extended wear. The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

It can also automate the review of incoming faxes, identify gaps in care, streamline tasks with robotic process automation, and even alert providers of patients most likely to miss an appointment. I’m excited to see how it will transform clinical workflows and, in the end, create a better patient experience in 2024.

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