Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. " Interoperability is important for folks on both sides of the video screen, the ATA added. WHY IT MATTERS. but worldwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

"To optimize patient and provider experience through telemedicine, stakeholders need to focus on enhancing technology interoperability and usability and providing sufficient training for efficient telemedicine use," wrote Sun, Blayney and Hernandez-Boussard. Embedded quality, value and patient-reported outcome metrics.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Sahni and colleagues published the data-details in an article published by McKinsey & Company , the top-line of which appears in the first graphic from the publication. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers. health care dollar.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We have made a lot of strides in healthcare looking for ways to recenter the patient in our decisions, inventing technologies like AI to reduce the clinician burden on our staff, and so much more. In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The company will scale development to simplify integrating the patient voice across all healthcare activities, while simultaneously automating the manual burden of security and compliance processes needed in the increasingly complex landscape of health data access.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

hospitals still rely on fax or mail to send and receive patient records. Only 40 percent of hospitals electronically integrate data from other hospitals outside of their system and only a distressing 30 percent of skilled nursing facilities exchange data outside of their walls. Notably, between 30 and 47 percent of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Tools such as wearables can provide a holistic view of a patient's care journey beyond information gathered in a clinical visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. Meaningful data, measured and analyzed. This, along with other technologies, will be used for clinical decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Discussing Data Quality and Migration With e4health. Krista Hawk and Todd Goughnour sat down with John Lynn to explain the challenges of improving healthcare data quality when 58% of data is in legacy systems , of which most health systems have close to 300. Read more… 2025 Predictions: Patient Experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Using AI to improve efficiency was a key theme, as was making imaging more mobile to improve the patient experience. Read more… An Interoperability and EHR API Deep Dive with Brendan Keeler. Colin interviewed Eric Musser at NCQA about efforts to advance USCDI and reach consensus on necessary data sets.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One very important finding in this study is that access to one’s health data demonstrates consumers are more collaborative with their clinicians — and are more open to sharing their data. 84% of consumers with access to personal electronic health data want their health care professionals to have access, as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). That said, the industry as a whole needs to find new ways to share data where the economics and the values are balanced.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many IT companies have tried to create solutions that advance interoperability in healthcare. While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders. These are just two of the many use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Kroger Healths Chief Commercial Officer, Jim Kirby, discusses the companys latest initiatives, such as a partnership with bitewell to introduce a simple food scoring system that helps patients make healthier choices while reducing overall healthcare costs and working with healthcare providers to integrate nutrition data into patient care records.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. health consumers place in pharmacists, they can play an important role in building back patients’ trust in vaccines and the vaccination process.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Reasons for the Shift Complexity Reduction: Patients often found managing multiple point solutions to be overwhelming. Re-bundling simplifies the healthcare experience. Data Integration: Digital health platforms can integrate data from various sources, providing a more holistic view of a patient's health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Use cases described by the Healthcare IT Today community included incorporating public health data, improving behavioral health, peering into patient registries, and focusing on n=1 health. Read more… The Value of Health Data for Business Intelligence. That depends on data quality and consent management, she said.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Nine in ten clinicians have recommended digital health tools to patients, and 8 in 10 clinicians strongly concurred that the pandemic resulted in helpful changes including the adoption of telehealth. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today, Reimer is in the middle of a $350 million virtual care initiative, working to overcome health IT workforce challenges, and building a modern data ecosystem – emphasis on modern. You have been focused on building a modern data ecosystem. The most significant opportunity and common currency across all of those is data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

One of the big challenges healthcare faces is sharing data between healthcare organizations who need that data. Healthcare interoperability, as we call it, has been a challenge for a long time. To better understand where healthcare interoperability […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. This session introduced me to a new term I’d never heard before when they talked about some people calling nurse call data “digital dust.” Here’s our summary of the session along with some additional commentary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ensure the best potential to address organizational workforce, clinical, business and IT needs while improving access to care, patient experience and quality outcomes. Finally, the technology is integrated with the EHR, ensuring all clinically relevant data is captured for a holistic view of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

The alignment between UC Health and PocketHealth on patient centered care accelerated the implementation. PocketHealths patient-friendly platform enhanced patient engagement by providing full control over their medical imaging. It was great to work with a health system that prioritized the patient experience, state Nayyar.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Antoine Joussain and I brainstormed the future of health/care at home through various Withings’ offerings which in 2025 fall into 3 categories: devices, data, and services. A physician, Pak spoke about Samsung Health’s growing Home AI ecosystem for supporting consumers in their health goals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Envision Radiology wanted more control over how healthcare information was shared so they could focus on delivering outstanding patient experience and outcomes. The platform also allows them to quickly adapt to changes in those data connections. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

(She cites other factors as well, such as bigger workloads, sicker patients, and safety concerns.) Hospitals are always deploying new technologies, and these often increase the burden of recording and sharing data unless they are all integrated. They also can provide data on patient needs, staffing levels, and staffing response time.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

The paper’s central thesis is that improving patient support is a critical step in the biopharma value chain, illustrated in the first diagram from the report. But lack of interoperability has been a barrier to bringing the data together. Utilizing wearable technologies and remote monitoring among patients.

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