Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Full coverage: HIMSS24 European Health Conference & Exhibition Video Overcoming barriers in digital health procurement for smaller countries Joint procurement initiatives can help smaller countries increase their bargaining power and.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Improving health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health What does health literacy have to do with patient safety? I would like to highlight a few.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

A Sponsored Post by Azalea Health. Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations. The Iowa Hospital Association selected PayZen as the patient finance platform of choice for its network of 17 health systems and 117 hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Healthcare providers are the front-line stakeholders who, increasingly, are taking on payment and incentives to help manage individual patient and communities’ health. But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Netalytics plans to enhance the Methasoft+SMART electronic health records (EHRs) with its integration into the Netsmart CareFabric platform with digitized, real-time referrals, patient health record history and alerts. Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Netalytics on this transaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. b.well Connected Health updated its platform to offer a configurable AI architecture.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"But perhaps none is more important than our electronic health record, as it serves as the backbone of our communications between providers and patients." " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

million clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals access our platform on a daily basis to deliver patient care to approximately 1.6 ” The company has made particular progress as a provider for skilled nursing facilities. They write to me, “More than 1.2 million patients and collaboratively share clinical data.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery. The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. Harnessing the power of human data, Myia equips clinicians with the precise information they need to both prioritize critical patients and prevent unplanned medical events. Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2025

Rural hospital financial optimization company Cibolo Health selected TruBridge as its preferred RCM partner. Urgent care software maker Experity is partnering with ChartSwap , a health information exchange platform. CliniComp announced Intrinsic AI , which brings native AI capabilities to its EHR product.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 1, 2021

Health information is incredibly complex. Important parts of a patient’s history are often scattered across multiple systems, and gaps in information can lead to medical errors or even delays in treatment. Care Studio leverages Google's expertise in organizing information to help clinicians find health record information faster.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

With technology, you can integrate data from EHRs and other data sources in real-time, apply clinical intelligence and automate the workflow, tasks, activities and events that most health systems try to achieve with people. Technology that upskills staff around the physician so everyone can operate at the top of their license.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 25, 2024

How CCM Works CCM operates by assigning patients a dedicated care manager, typically a registered nurse or healthcare professional, who coordinates with various specialists, monitors health metrics, and ensures the patient adheres to their treatment plan.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks. Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Netsmart announced today it has acquired CORE Analytics , the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare. The Netsmart and CORE teams share a mutual dedication to providing data solutions to inform and equip business decisions,” said Netsmart CEO Mike Valentine.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations. Wearable vendor Circular released Circular Ring Slim, a health and biometric monitor that weighs 2 grams and is 2.2 Health information network Availity welcomed Sean Keneally as COO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

As part of the NETCCN project, Avel eCARE worked collaboratively to develop a cloud-based, low-resource, standalone health information management system to create and coordinate flexible and extendable "virtual critical care wards." HIPAA Compliant. Survey and consent tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care. People Medicare ACO Vytalize Health appointed Sherry Slick as Chief Information Officer and Charles Colligan as Chief Financial Officer. Ambient AI documentation vendor DeepScribe added Dr.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 10, 2025

For example, if electronic health record (EHR) systems are not intuitive or do not align with clinicians’ workflows, staff might resort to manual record-keeping or use additional applications to fill in the gaps. This not only wastes time but also increases the risk of errors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

AWS announced the AWS HealthScribe service for building clinical applications that use generative AI and integrating them with EHRs and other systems. The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

This includes a variety of nonprofit and public eligible providers like teaching hospitals and medical schools, community medical centers, local health departments or agencies, not-for-profit hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. Train staff to help patients use EHR portals and telemedicine devices.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blockchain technology involves a distributed database, or digital ledger shared across a computer network, such as an advanced electronic health record (EHR). Blockchain technology can be beneficial throughout the healthcare industry to improve current EHR systems, which are riddled with issues. What Is Blockchain Technology?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Consumer engagement company Carenet Health hired Rhonda Gibler as Chief Sales Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest article by Jessica Campbell, DNP, RN, Clinical Informaticist at LogicStream Health and Tiffany McCauley, MSN, RN, Clinical Executive at Elsevier. Much of that documenting rests on the shoulders of nurses, who use health information technology to help juggle their many roles: […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Technology often produces unintended consequences, and that’s certainly true of the electronic health record (EHR) systems used in hospitals and medical practices. In general, federal regulations do not require EHR developers and users to conduct robust testing to detect usability flaws that can threaten patient safety.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

Robert Stewart, CTO and Chief Architect at apree health AI is having a transformational impact on treatment planning and patient engagement by enabling care teams to more quickly assess and interact with a patient’s clinical history and view accurate, comprehensive patient chart summaries in real time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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