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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care

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It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups. The Ping An Family Doctor platform also provides access to EHRs, allows the uploading of medical reports, and generates AI-driven personalised health plans.

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Elation Health’s AI Assistant Can Have a Big Impact on Primary Care

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Elation Health provides an EHR along with a tightly integrated ambient voice tool, Note Assist , that generates notes on visits. ” It can suggest referrals and prescriptions to “set the care plan on the right path and enable that care plan to be followed.” Note Assist works closely with templates in the EHR.

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Improving EHR Systems with User Experience and Interface Design to Reduce Clinician Burnout and Enhance Workflow Efficiency

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A recent study found that primary care physicians (PCPs) spend 28.9 minutes on EHR per visit trying to find the time to do this for every patient in addition to all of their other tasks is very difficult. One solution to this problem lies in the EHR systems’ user experience and interface design.

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Combining Technology and Tradition to Transform Indigenous/Indian Healthcare

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Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Angie Wilson, Tribal Health Director at RSTHC while she was attending the 2024 NextGen User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM24). We wanted to find out more about their use of NextGen’s EHR and how the announcement from CMS will affect how they deliver care.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

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For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload

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While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes.

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

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WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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