Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 27, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Vital , a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company, announced today that it has introduced the industry’s first AI-Powered Video Education feature, designed to auto-prescribe precise education to patients in the emergency department (ED) and inpatient settings.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. They also described a lack of EHR integration and technical support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued. The automated Google Meet video conference invitations saved schedulers hours of time each day. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This video presents the current and upcoming features of the ambient clinical voice solutions from Innovaccer , notably its InScribe analytics tool. It is currently offered in ambulatory settings and integrates with major EHRs. ” Watch the video for details for these experts’ insights on clinical workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2024

Most records that come in from other institutions arrive as faxes—even other clinical sites that use EHRs. In fact, the growing use of EHRs has increased the burden of faxing, because sending documents using this method is so easy and reliable. Watch the video for details.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Athenahealth’s clients frequently collaborated on topics such as telehealth solutions, revenue cycle management practices and ways to support their new remote patient experience,” she said. The healthcare community is filled with information and recommendations, and has created a strong sense of community, she said.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many books about design, but a recent book by Craig Joseph, MD and Jerome Pagani, Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach , applies design principles to EHRs and to IT systems in general. In this video, Dr. Joseph, chief medical officer at Nordic , explains some of the experiences and achievements that lay behind the book.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Rather, a single application programming interface connection would integrate OTTO with our EHR, practice management and patient portal, creating a streamlined user experience,” Yu explained. “The platform is easily accessible for our patients because it does not require an app or specialized hardware.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

"The patient experience was completely rethought to add a white-glove onboarding process that included improved communication, education materials and pre-visit dedicated technical outreach. The visits are conducted via personal devices and can be dynamic or scheduled to improve patient access. Secured and protected.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"And we didn't want to create a divide between tech-savvy patients who could easily engage in telehealth and those who needed more assistance than we could consistently provide." " Second, the organization needed to provide multiple channels (text, email and chat) to easily communicate with patients, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions. Practices should ensure that their EHR has a fully integrated patient portal that will allow patients to manage their care in a secure and HIPAA-compliant way.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Okta is currently integrated with a number of EHRs including Epic, allowing automatic onboarding, offboarding, and role changes for both staff and patients. A diversity of identity systems, loosely tied together, also creates more opportunities for cyberattacks, which are growing rapidly.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of course, here at Healthcare IT Today we were particularly interested in how they were using Yosi Health to administer these screenings along with improving the patient experience. First, patients prefer filling out electronic forms at their convenience much more than paper forms on a clipboard in the office.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

Amy Bender, Informatics Manager, and Richard Crews, Inpatient Informatics Analyst II, at Tampa General Hospital , describe in this video what it’s like to have the digital door sign available in their hospital. Information is often taken directly from their EHR and displayed at the entrance to the room.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

A year ago, eClinicalWorks made a big investment in AI, adding it to dozens of modules in their cloud EHR. At both Summits, the company announced bold plans to add Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to numerous areas of their cloud EHR. Watch this summary video for more. That investment is paying off.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To achieve their goal, they are proactively streamlining internal processes and optimizing their EHR to reduce physician workload. The result is more personalized encounters and improved patient experiences. We are making sure to get all the relevant patient information from hospitals and other providers,” explained de Vries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That platform will replace the MHS Video Connect service, starting at five initial sites – followed by a phased roll-out enterprise-wide. The Converge platform is already embedded into existing clinical workflows that care teams rely on, including those within the core EHR that powers MHS GENESIS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

The KLAS report was organized into three main facets of the telehealth tech landscape: virtual care platforms, video conferencing platforms and electronic health record-centric virtual care platforms. Microsoft Teams has scaled well, say customers, although the patient experience lags behind other solutions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"The landscape of medicine was beginning to shift, and it was clear that patients didn't want to travel far or wait hours to see a doctor for problems that could be addressed through a video visit," Testa explained. MARKETPLACE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2024

With the dawn of patient-centered care models came the recognition that patient experiences of pain, quality of life, and symptom relief are just as important as vital signs and other clinical observations recorded by the clinician. Watch the video for more insights on PROMs from Matt Gitelis from PatientIQ.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"Fortunately, we already had started to explore remote patient monitoring solutions that integrated with our Epic EHR, were easily accessible and required minimal effort by the patient," Yarrington noted. The pandemic magnified these challenges. " Dr. Christina Yarrington, Boston Medical Center. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 12, 2023

By transforming complex, fragmented health care data into simple, beautiful digital experiences, we’ve been able to achieve the type of growth and impact I’ve dreamed of since we founded Vital in 2019. Given this volume, Vital is poised to improve the patient experience for millions more. Of those, 18.6

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NiftyHMS

OCTOBER 4, 2024

How Dental Clinics can use WhatsApp to Automate Appointment Scheduling, Prescriptions, Reminders, and Patient inquiries. This Simplifies Communication, enhancing the Patient experience and improving clinic efficiency. Remote Consulting: Patients can instantly consult with top doctors remotely!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments. "In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

"Our urgent care centers' wait times and, hence, patient experience can be greatly impacted by these unpredictable ebbs and flows in patients presenting," said Dr. Brett A. Oliver, Baptist Health With this robust telemedicine device, from vendor TytoCare, the visit is more than a simple video connection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

Here’s a preview of the topics we will be rolling for in this episode: Artificial Intelligence Hospital Finances RPA Epic Cerner/Oracle Health ONC Healthcare Analytics Patient Experience Workforce Patient Privacy Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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