Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. How stress manifested as telehealth visits boomed.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 21, 2017

We walk straight into the emergency room at what looks from the outside like a large, modern medical center. The doctors run every conceivable test on me over the next two hours. At every test, I am pushed to the front of the line. At every test, I am pushed to the front of the line. We have two beds.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Specific types of service (medical, surgical, X-ray, lab, radiation therapy, preadmission testing, more than 200 types). What does health care cost even mean? When politicians talk about costs, they’re referring to federal and state spending on health care. It depends. No, that would be too easy. All to figure out cost.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2023

"While a traditional hospital at home program looks to care for the sometimes sicker patients who would traditionally meet inpatient status and be admitted to the hospital, Observation at Home looks to enroll patients who don't quite meet inpatient admission criteria, but also aren't well enough to go home," he continued.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. The self-scheduling option allows patients to get care when they need it, at times that fit into their schedules.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. The self-scheduling option allows patients to get care when they need it, at times that fit into their schedules.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I’m delighted to introduce my guest, Amy Price, a senior research scientist at Stanford University in California with the AIM Lab the Anesthesia, Informatics, and Media Lab.; Chat with Amy Price of Stanford and BMJ. Research follows life. Life comes before research. My diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis preceded my need for research.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2019

People want to make health with their health care providers, and they want more than care from them: most patients are looking for support with healthy eating, exercise, emotional support, sleep, stress management, social relationships, and financial health. patients would also like to receive help in finding a higher purpose.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

The first article in this series, Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant , introduced the importance of designing web sites and other health care tools for many different types of people. They might join a focus group to engage in participatory design, or enter a lab to test interfaces.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 23, 2023

Jennifer: In order to truly care for an individual with cancer, we need to go beyond contemplating just patients’ clinical care. We know that there are stories whereby someone’s child is diagnosed with cancer and they end up selling their house and sleeping in their car outside of the Cancer Center in order to access care.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 16, 2019

Each step into the critical care setting creates more questions — entering the ICU, sitting in your loved one’s room, watching as machines are hooked up to her, eavesdropping on discussion about her prognosis and care plan. The hospital’s care team rightly centers on caring for the patient.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

In the middle of the day, I spoke about trends in health care focusing on the patient: as a payor, as im-patient, as digital, as a consumer, and as political. As such, health care spending feels like a retail event, prompting the patient-as-payor to ask, “what’s the price?” There’s surely lots of data to mine.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Scripps Translational Science Institute found that in a randomized control trial (RCT) comparing chronic care using connected devices against standard disease management models, the devices had no discernible impact on healthcare utilization, and little impact on health self-management. The Limitations of Claims Data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I heard details about problems with COVID-19 lab reporting at a state level from Dr. Paulo Pinho, vice president & medical director of innovation at Availity Clinical Solutions (formerly Diameter Health ). The result was up to 150 different ways to represent the COVID19 PCR test and 40 different ways to represent a negative test result.

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