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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "We experienced first-hand that this was never about a pivot," he related.

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

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You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

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"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. " RESULTS. Metrics were critical to measure the program's success. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

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Many stories about hospitals being unable to provide rapid care to patients experiencing medical emergencies and longs delays for others are simply heart-wrenching to hear. Healthcare workers, from doctors and nurses to administrative staff, are often overwhelmed with critical patient care responsibilities and day-to-day operations.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. I’d like to see organizations apply the same rigor they do to improving the provider experience and patient throughput to enhancing the day-to-day for nursing and support staff.

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