Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

He also needed an EHR that could grow with him and that had open, well-published APIs. We wanted to know which EHR vendor he chose to partner with, the criteria he used to make his decisions, what problem BluByrd was created to solve, and what challenges lie ahead for practice owners. Only one vendor delivered. Davis, MD(Dr.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

In healthcare, for example, it signed its first healthcare AI partnership with Microsoft last year. In August, the Australian company joined a consortium developing the area – situated near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam's south – into a hub for biotechnology and semiconductor industries.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience. On the practice management and EHR front, where other vendors separate these products, the DrChrono platform offers seamless integration of both, Cheng said. “We had evaluated 15 EHR products prior to deciding on DrChrono’s platform,” he recalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For example, its clinics' providers also are certified health coaches who help patients develop personalized preventative care plans. "Because our clinics operate in both rural and urban communities, the ability to access patient data quickly and efficiently in one place via an EHR was imperative to our growth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. Progressive Therapeutics found vendor Azalea Health, which offered a proposal for an EHR solution that came fully integrated with telehealth. " Security aside, the integration with the EHR came with other benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003. For example, Raman used his mobile phone to view a previous telehealth encounter for one of his patients with abdominal pain.

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TheraNest

MARCH 5, 2025

These slower moments can become stepping stones for growth, especially when you tap into the rich insights hidden in your EHR (Electronic Health Record). Think your EHR is just a digital filing cabinet for client notes? Make data work for you Using your EHRs reporting features can help you grow without piling on extra stress.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With the mental health industry’s increasing complexity, coupled with lower reimbursement and increased administrative burden, EHRs (Electronic Health Records) are more helpful than ever. But even after you finally take the step to start using (or switch) to the right software , setting up an EHR can feel daunting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

And today, data integrity and health IT risks have morphed into cybersecurity threats and the spread of mis-information outside of EHRs. Consider the growth of TikTok in medical information, for example. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g., With 3 in 5 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For example, intelligent summarization of patient risk and what has changed in a patients health history will help healthcare professionals to better understand when to act and intervene. We have all seen examples of hallucinations in the GenAI use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically. It’s just that simple.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, we are considering using AI to support physicians in ophthalmology , such as the prediction of retinal diseases, as well as neurology and radiology. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have [started installing] telemedicine kiosks to [provide more] healthcare coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Today we are going to focus on the role of EHR systems in this goal of improving interoperability and seamless data sharing between different healthcare providers. Vijay Adapala, EVP Global Supply Partnerships at Doceree Utilizing FHIR and HL7 standards for uniform data exchange allows EHR systems to facilitate smooth data sharing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Aligning new technology and features with the Epic EHR has created more effective telehealth care pathways, Frunzi explained. "For example, a patient having trouble launching the video product on a computer could then be texted a direct link to a smartphone for a successful telemedicine visit," he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For example, with Virtual Sitter with AI assistance, a single, remote staff member now can monitor significantly more patients than an in-person sitter, helping to increase the capacity of healthcare inpatient teams and significantly reduce costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). We cannot yet draw a straight line between the Federal budget layout of $35 billion allocated toward EHR investment vis-à-vis direct economic benefits or reduction of health care costs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Each of these three examples of connected health at home has a unique vision for bolstering households’ health and well-being. A physician, Pak spoke about Samsung Health’s growing Home AI ecosystem for supporting consumers in their health goals.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Examples: Companies developing AI-powered diagnostics, gene editing therapies, or wearable devices for remote patient monitoring. Examples: Companies offering secure data storage for patient records, platforms facilitating telehealth consultations, or government agencies streamlining the approval process for new medical devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? He also talks about how HITECH made health IT and EHRs huge 15 years ago, but ponders whether today is more about digital health than EHRs. For example, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are history. Like what you hear? So are eClinicalWorks and Meditech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

A patient who experiences a stroke, for example, has a lower chance of functional independence and an increased likelihood of mortality when treatment is delayed. Do not use the EHR for clinical communication. EHRs are essential for hospital operations and most include a communication feature. Seconds matter in healthcare.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s why incorporating a scalable EHR solution like TheraNest is vital for growth, efficiency, and client care. To really level up your practice, an EHR like TheraNest can make the perfect practice management partner. TheraNest is an EHR designed specifically for mental and behavioral health practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Hospitals often rely on siloed electronic health records (EHRs) and manual processes that lack the necessary insights to optimize patient flow. According to one respondent, the technology extracts data from their EHR to assist in patient movement, capacity management, and demand forecasting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, Womens Mental Health Specialists, a clinic serving over 1,000 patients, struggled with time-consuming manual processes that slowed down referrals and data transfers. This is just one example of how Keragon is transforming healthcare operations for small-to-medium practices through HIPAA-compliant automations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Other IT innovations are helping enable team-based care and interoperability; see Validic’s work with AWS as one example in this space (in this instance, health IoT and remote patient monitoring), but that’s just one of many applications to seek out to ameliorate this crucial challenge.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Enhanced Data Insights: By analysing large amounts of data, Care Studio can identify patterns and trends that may not be apparent in traditional EHRs. For example, it can be used to share information with patients and answer their questions. This can help clinicians identify potential risks and opportunities for early intervention.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

At the 2024 NextGen Healthcare’s User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM24 ) Neighborhood Health’s CIO Tony Villanueva and NextGen Healthcare ’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert (Bob) Murry shared how the strategic use of technology, like NextGen’s EHR platform, is helping to deliver care in a more personalized way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

"The goals were to facilitate the care of emergency patients by speeding up the door-to-triage time, lowering ED length of stay as appropriate, enhancing the patient’s experience and satisfaction level, and making sure all patient data lands in the patient’s EHR," he continued. to help get to the final model.

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JULY 11, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Hastings to discuss how Ronin's RPM for cancer patients works, the roles of AI and NLP in the RPM, and how EHRs play an important part in this type of care delivery. For example, "I've been nauseous today, I have a headache, my headaches are getting worse."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. These use cases must be assessed before shortlisting devices by specialty.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Doctors, nurses, and other staff manage enormous quantities of patient data in electronic health records (EHRs), often needing to sift through hundreds or thousands of pages to find the nugget of information they need. If I log into an EHR system and I just have a question like, Does this patient have hepatitis? Diagnostic Support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative. THE LARGER TREND. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. ” "One example is dictation, saving our providers 8-10 minutes per patient that would have otherwise been spent writing progress notes on patient visits."

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MAY 16, 2019

Yet despite increased use of EHRs by clinicians and smartphones and wireless technology by patients, the fundamental approaches to managing hypertension, diabetes, and chronic lung disease have remained the same for 50 years… The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point. .

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FEBRUARY 8, 2025

For example, a telehealth platform with a large network of doctors and patients becomes more attractive to new users. Examples of HealthTech companies with strong moats: Intuitive Surgical: Their da Vinci surgical system and the associated training and support create a high switching cost for hospitals.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As one example of success, I believe partnerships that integrate portable health solutions with local outreach programs show great promise and demonstrate how trusted, localized care delivery can close gaps in access and care. This collaboration fosters a deep understanding of user needs and empathy.

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