Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

Without the patient, there is no one giving you the revenue you are trying to manage. So let’s take a moment and focus on the patient’s experience with RCM. We reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what RCM looks and feels like on the patient’s end.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Plus, he shares some examples of AI driven innovation including things like predictive AI along with the impact that they are having on healthcare. Then, we shift gears a little bit to learn from Jolly about some of the major cost trends in the healthcare industry. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One example involves collaboration with pharmacies to oversee prescription monitoring, ultimately providing physicians with a more comprehensive insight into their patients’ medication regimens. Watch the video for stories about the benefits of CyncHealth and their work with SES to improve patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They are not just a point of contact, they are the gateway to a healthcare facility, embodying its ethos and values from the first ‘hello.’ ’ Ensuring a positive patient experience is fundamental to the healthcare industry’s success. Patients today seek more than just medical expertise.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Most importantly, NextGen Healthcare ’s Ambient Assist solution has lived up to expectations. Healthcare IT Today was invited to cover #NextGenUGM24, held in Nashville TN. The upside for end-users is a smoother experience and better usability. Here is our summary of the event. Just Steady Improvement.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. Equity in healthcare must also take center stage to improve the overall patient experience. Amit Kapoor, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"Instead, most RPM programs today do not appear to be widely scalable or sustainable, which could eventually pose a risk to the quality of care and patient outcomes. "For RPM, shifting to this new care model means using collected vital signs and other patient data more strategically and efficiently," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The financial burden of healthcare extends far beyond medical bills. Patients often face unexpected costs, such as deductibles, co-pays, and surprise medical bills. For example, high drug costs are preventing many Americans from accessing essential medications.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – how is the integration of digital health tools, telemedicine, and mobile health applications contributing to the enhancement of population health management, and what challenges exist in ensuring equitable access to these technologies across diverse communities?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Laura Templeton , Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Compassus There’s no denying that increased delivery of patient care in the home was accelerated by the pandemic. The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As one example, she cites a longitudinal study showing that 70-80% of patients with certain shoulder problems can get well with just physical therapy, no surgery. The book is based on exhaustive research, she saysresearch about natural ways of healing that medical schools don’t teach and that most doctors never seek out.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

In a field as personal and as important as healthcare, it is vital that we are giving our patients the best experience possible. But with how often healthcare changes, it can be tricky to stay up to date and know what to focus on. What patient experience technology do you think is moving the needle the most right now?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions). Plus, he shares some innovative examples of what their customers are doing with their technology and what he sees coming in the future. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

While 65% of patients who need transportation assistance to improve their medication use may benefit from drone prescription delivery options, it could also help streamline healthcare for all patients, according to Zipline. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 8, 2021

"As with anything with healthcare, as we're trying to make changes, it's tempting to try and bolt this onto existing healthcare strategies," said Jeff Fuller, vice president of analytics solutions at CipherHealth, in an interview with Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. Evans, chief officer in the VA's Office Of Connected Care, spoke with Healthcare IT News earlier this year. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed McGillin to get him to explain his beliefs on the state of virtual care and where it is headed. Q: Is it possible virtual care technology will normalize access to leading health experts, for example, for second opinions? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2025

To help you sift through this sea of AI, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to help us assemble a list of the most promising AI applications for improving patient outcomes and streamlining healthcare operations. The way to understand the patient experience is to leverage conversation data.

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Xealth

MARCH 19, 2025

We recently came home from HIMSS25 in Las Vegas, and while this years theme was officially Where Visionaries Unite to Revolutionize Healthcare, it will be better remembered as the year digital health ROI came to play. For example, how many minutes of clinician time can be saved per patient? UPMC found that therapists saved 1.5

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By integrating Xsoliss AI platform, MultiCare Health System , for example, reduced the time to complete case reviews by an impressive 150% and saved $8 million in just one year. West Tennessee Healthcare saw similar gains. Since implementing Xsolis, they have saved $5.1

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The following are quotes from our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community on this topic. Karen Iapoce, Vice President, Government Programs at ZeOmega Social determinants of health, such as socioeconomic status, education, and access to healthcare, have a profound effect on population health outcomes and contribute to health disparities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

"Developing clinical implementation knowledge for community dwelling individuals who experience [multiple chronic conditions] in relation to the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and the patient experience will be crucial to realizing the promise and potential of telehealth," wrote researchers in the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare? Healthcare IT News sat down with Mike Brandofino, CEO of Caregility, a vendor of telehealth technology and services, to get the answers to these important questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Empathy is an irreplaceable value, capable of building trust in the most intense moments, for example, in a visit to the doctor. When the health professional provides a diagnosis or prescribes a treatment, the patient listens and accepts the message as an undeniable truth. Every day, 2.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. "As an organization, we are focused on the patient and provider experience, so a user-friendly platform was a necessity. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. The current landscape for healthcare innovations involves two entities: on one hand, healthcare institutions engaged in their own digital transformation efforts and on the other, digital disruptors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. " Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell, to discuss delivering primary care via telemedicine, and how it can help patients, cut costs and aid population health management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. "We've also been able to integrate the platform with other systems we have in place to improve the patient experience," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Eadelman to discuss the state of virtual nursing and how healthcare provider organizations can benefit from these programs. In this approach, virtual nurses focus on overseeing higher-acuity patients for potential deterioration triggers, supporting novice nurses, and conducting virtual rounding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a detailed listing of numerous telemedicine vendors. “The athenaTelehealth solution met the challenge we were facing by allowing us to initiate video conference calls with our patients to continue treatment and care,” Miller stated. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Just as telehealth has never been more important, it’s never been more important for healthcare provider organizations to make sure their telemedicine technology is finely tuned, so that patients are getting the best distance care and the organizations are getting the most out of their tech investment. Virtual observation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Mike Morgan is president of Updox, a vendor of a healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with Morgan to glean his expertise on the subject of virtual care moving forward. An example is a form. One way is to have a patient complete a paper form.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, within our own program, 38% of the diabetes diagnoses were newly diagnosed, and 25% of individuals diagnosed with hypertension were similarly newly diagnosed by their Teladoc primary care provider. These plans are growing in popularity as consumers increasingly demand and expect a virtual component to their healthcare.

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