KevinMD

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I often say that electronic health records (EHRs) is like Skynet in the Terminator. We practice in a time when EHR confounds us by freezing, crashing and chaining us continuously to our work, as we spend evenings and weekends on documentation. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Find out how.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. What is your prediction for the EHR market in 2023?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. THE PROBLEM. Configure additional server and data storage capabilities. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

Most Millennials have postponed health care due to cost, and nearly half of younger consumers between 18 and 29 don’t have an ongoing primary care medical home. These patients lookf or care in an episodic way, KPMG notes. There’s a continuum of care that we all age into… eventually.

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KevinMD

MAY 16, 2018

Blockchain technology has the potential to dramatically transform health care delivery by facilitating data exchange between providers and electronic health record (EHR) systems. For the health care sphere, blockchain is simply the sharing of medical information through EHRs across numerous hospital systems that.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. " Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

Primary care is complex because of the variety of patients and conditions seen. Heidi is integrated with the most popular EHRs. It can extract information from previous notes to inform the current note-taking session, then upload the final note into the proper fields of the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, raised an interesting challenge: how to ensure telehealth provision itself doesn't become overly burdensome.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

How to take a “patient-first” approach with GenAI – learning from the World Economic Forum At the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024, WEF heavily focused in on AI and its implications and prospects for society and many vertical markets, including health care. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Rapid City, South Dakota-based Monument Health, located in one of the current hotspots of the COVID-19 crisis, wants its physicians to be focused on caring for and engaging with patients, not typing up notes in the EHR. “Also, our physicians use Nuance Dragon Medical One to document in the EHR via voice. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2024

While healthcare organizations expect 38% of employees to use AI tools by 2028 , 78% say they don’t know how to train employees, according to research from Amazon Web Services. Additionally, 60% believe current AI regulations provide adequate safety measures. The good news?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Scheduling in-person appointments with primary care providers as frequently as needed for proper monitoring and follow-ups can be a real challenge for patients with chronic conditions," remarked Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

PROPOSAL "Knowing the value RPM has on improving patient engagement and outcomes , we wanted to find the right RPM technology to help us better manage our growing hypertension patient population," said Dr. Denise Gomez, a primary care physician and director of adult medicine at TrueCare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

To learn more about the ACP and how to improve collection of them, we sat down with Dr. Brian Yeaman, MD, Primary Care Physician and Healthcare Technologist, and Aaron Bull, VP Strategic Programs at Backline by DrFirst. And yet, far too many patients do not have one.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Health systems are rapidly transforming their healthcare delivery models with online access and patient engagement tools, remote monitoring and other virtual care modalities. Despite the integration with patient data in EHR systems, the apps operate as stand-alone solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. The process.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2024

At the eHealth 2024 conference, Colin Hung chatted with Amy Holmes at Harmony Healthcare IT about helping Canadian providers learn about online archive options for legacy EHR data – an opportunity that came as a surprise to a number of attendees. Read more… How to Overcome the Cumulative Effects of Change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. There are predictive analytic models in our EHR that notify our clinicians in real time if their patients are at high risk for sepsis or at risk for readmission and other measures. So much is changing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Initially, we had many concerns about the adequacy of the HIE’s security controls, such as how to prevent unauthorized access to patient records or detect and prevent data breaches – all of which could adversely affect patient care and operations.” Felix Aguilar, Chief Medical Officer at CSC.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it. Next we talk about how to help clinical teams connect patients to the resources that they need.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The novel problem that COVID-19 delivered to everyone who takes care of patients was that in the early days of the disease, caregivers did not know much about how a patient’s course would progress. In order to streamline the process for providers, UVA established a referral process that is integrated into its Epic EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

"Far too many digital tools have disregarded interoperability and integration with EHRs, and have actually added to the administrative burdens and unnecessary work that frustrate providers – and keep them from practicing at the top of their license and building relationships with patients. " Dr. Brett A.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While building a primary care practice at our previous company, we saw our providers burning out from spending over two hours a day entering data into the EMR. It really knows how to document the narrative and nuances of each patient story, not just the black-and-white medical facts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

Right now, for every hour I spend with patients, I spend two hours clicking boxes, writing paragraphs, and searching for information in the electronic health record (EHR). With a nod of respect to the primary care folks, he opined that the specialist tasks and decision-making would be automated even sooner.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months. They provide everything from primary care to pediatrics to dental, and mental health services. The 1,200 staff at MPHC handle over 400,000 patient encounters each year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

Read more… Gaining More Control With a Cloud-Based EHR. Moving to the eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR simplified the IT environment – and improved account management and authentication. Read more… One Health System’s Perspective on Digital Transformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” "In the year ahead, the industry will work to determine which virtual visits make the most sense, and where and how they should take place." " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care. Maintaining clinician satisfaction is key for virtual and in-person visits.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 23, 2017

In this interview, he talks about how his team is looking to optimize and stabilize its EHR, the federated approach they’ve adopted with data warehousing, and the ultimate goal with patient engagement. Managing at-risk lives—“We have to learn how to be competitors and partners.”. A federated EDW model. Focus on data governance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

In addition, the vendor is looking at how to support patients in managing their health outside the clinical setting. Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. Amy receives care at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), built to provide whole person care for patients like herself.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. "For the past several years, we had been looking for a way to integrate behavioral care management into the primary care medical home," Coleman said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

John Lynn attended the CHIME Fall Forum and tuned in to the CIO panel, where longtime and interim CIOs shared their thoughts on how the CIO role has changed, how CIOs can help to address burnout, and how to guide their organizations into the future. Panelists also talked about the path forward for digital innovation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing. "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Yalden: The training included a member of the Online Care Group staff coming down to my home in Florida and demonstrating the capabilities of the platform and the EHR. The EHR is very similar, and in many cases easier to use, than many of the other EHRs on which I’m trained.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies. Over the last few years, significant private capital has flowed to innovative primary care-led ventures. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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