Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior housing/skilled nursing communities in the Midwest, was exploring different ideas to give its staff time back, improve resident outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. THE PROBLEM. " Brandy Armstrong, RN, CarDon & Associates. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

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. In particular, people are still hesitant to sign up for the service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Throwing too many solutions with too many workflows and too many log-ins at physicians and nurses is a recipe for failure. Here, Lotan shares his expertise with the combined forces of telehealth and EHRs. The importance of seamless telehealth-EHR integration cannot be underestimated, both in synchronous and asynchronous workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

"Having this kind of tool built into the clinicians' workflow by being embedded within the EHR is another level of convenience that is becoming table stakes at this stage." What elements of cancer care can physicians and nurses tend to with telemedicine along the cancer care journey?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. “I have been using athenaTelehealth exclusively in my family medicine practice for several weeks now and the interface is embedded right within the athenaOne EHR, making documentation much faster and easier.” The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” To support staff and patients, the health center began reviewing a telemedicine application called Otto that could integrate with its NextGen EHR. ” "Our health center also has purchased information technology services and equipment that will integrate our telehealth technology with our existing EHR."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

“The Caregility UHE platform would allow us to immediately integrate telehealth into our Epic EHR platform and quickly roll out virtual visits to clinicians and patients. Lee Health’s 600 ambulatory physicians were systematically turned on to start virtual patient-appointments within the EHR. " Jon Witenko, Lee Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2025

Wolters Kluwer Health updated Lippincott Nursing Education ‘s Ready for NCLEX-RN module to include personalized improvement plans. Specialty EHR and practice management vendor ModMed received ASTP certification for its Predictive Decision Support Intervention criterion.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. The poorly-conceived rollout of EHRs following the HITECH Act legislation and incentives, from design to implementation, led to a lot more insights about how technology can be well-intended and an epic fail for those who were meant to benefit from a shiny new thing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Staff Nurse III – Information Technology Natividad is accepting applications for a permanent, full-time Staff Nurse III in the Information Technology Department.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Caregility is embedding virtual support directly into hospital rooms, helping to improve patient monitoring and give overworked nurses some much-needed relief. Mike Brandofino, President & COO and Susan Krisiniak, Chief Nursing Officer at Caregility joined us on-camera at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas. Its about support, not replacement.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Innovative care models including fetal cardiology, seizure-rescue-medication teaching for school nurses, and virtual nurse visits to reduce post-discharge readmissions. Patient-family experience, overall, 86.3% positive (n=995), which is on par with the organization’s overall satisfaction for in-person ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Transitioning from decentralized efforts to a unified framework is one way a health system can achieve notable milestones such as significant time savings for nursing staff and securing grants for community-based care initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. They’re right that nurse call data holds the keys to informing the clinical decision-making process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Additionally, leveraging your EHR partner and solution can provide unexpected, helpful resources for any practice,” she concluded. During difficult and unprecedented times, it’s important for healthcare providers to turn to their peers to learn from their similar challenges and best practices, Coombs advised.

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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. Platforms for electronic prior authorization and virtual nursing have released some of the pressure on providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

" Integrating telehealth into the EHR. First up with the funding, in order to support the high volume of telemedicine requests, the organization needed a system that integrated directly into the EHR, Sheth said. " Nursing and ancillary staff. "They ended up manually inputting all this information every single day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2024

Connected care through the Memorial Healthcare System's mobile application gets patients engaged and taking more control of their care, and by feeding data to EHRs, can also help to save nurses time, says Jesus Diaz, director of nursing informatics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic already had remote access capability to the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Even though skilled nursing facilities, long-care homes and retirement facilities are highly regulated, Charnetski says that regulators don’t really understand the industry’s needs. Monitoring could also reduce readmissions and other costs.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2024

Patient experience monitoring company Press Ganey has taken its data integration partnership with Epic a step further, unveiling Monday an additional collaboration focused on nursing-related safety | Indicators and outcomes logged in the EHR platform will be pulled into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, which is used (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Do not use the EHR for clinical communication. EHRs are essential for hospital operations and most include a communication feature. However, O’Connor said, it is a mistake to rely on the EHR for clinical communication. EHRs are not designed to provide the real-time, contextual communication needed by clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

"With OPAT, an infusion company ships the antibiotic bags and supplies to the patient once a week and, depending on the patient's insurance plan, they receive either a once-weekly visit from a home health nurse or they go to an infusion clinic once a week to get their intravenous access dressing changed and safety labs performed."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

The other area that I think we're quite interested in, because we do own some post-acute facilities at UPMC, is the SNF at home – sort of the post-acute care type of experience that can be done at home, different from just the traditional home health nurse. Let's talk about EHRs a little bit. How can they do better?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Partnerships MEDENT and Azalea Health added Suki Platform , Suki’s AI engine, to their EHR systems. ModMed released ModMed Scribe , an AI ambient listening tool natively built into the EMA EHR platform. UbiSim VR updated its nurse education module , with v1.16

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The acquisition strengthens TigerConnects portfolio by introducing pre-hospital communication and transfer center workflows, that go beyond what can be achieved via EHR-based chat systems. About TigerConnect TigerConnect continues to transform healthcare with its comprehensive clinical collaboration platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

The latest State of US Nursing Report from Incredible Health found 89% of nurses haven’t used AI in their roles and nearly two-thirds (65%) think AI will negatively impact the industry. Additionally, the vendor released research indicating 23% of medical devices have at least one known vulnerability, along with 14% of EHRs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Patients also have access to a registered nurse via telephone if needed while in the VCAH. MEETING THE CHALLENGE "We complete our telemedicine video visits using the Epic EHR," said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The biggest news: Oracle Health previewed previewed a next-generation EHR “designed to embed AI across the entire clinical workflow,” with conversational search, voice-driven navigation, and automated chart review. Patient activation vendor Phreesia achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Health EHR Expertise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In the case of the step-down units, Geisinger wanted to be able to connect that staff to its eICU nurses and physicians for added support. At the touch of a button on the app, the nurse in the room with the patient could access an experienced critical care nurse or provider. " Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

There is a related requirement in HIPAA for ‘ Unique User Identification’ , meaning that all computer users must be uniquely identifiable, prohibiting shared generic logins like ‘Nurse’, ‘Receptionist’, etc. retained for 6 years. Whatever your sanction policy is, make sure you share it with your staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE Cardinal Glennon built its telemedicine program around its existing Epic EHR platform , which serves as the single source of truth for patient care. The tele-psychiatrists connect with patients through Epic's integrated video platform, ensuring a seamless experience for providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Most of the vendor functionality is tied directly to Epic EHR integration. This was work directly with our integrated video vendor inside of our Epic EHR, which also included improved IT support pathways."

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