Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. They are, in my evolving concept of the health/care ecosystem, retail health’s front-line workers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article AHIMA and AHCA Partner To Train Skilled Nursing Facilities In Coding Ahead of Upcoming Reimbursement Overhaul appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited. Beginning Oct. 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

Systems that embrace real-time orchestration will dynamically match capacity with demand across clinics, virtual care, and nursing resources to ease workforce pressures, close coverage gaps, and turn margins from survival to growth. In 2025, I’m bullish on AI as a catalyst to unlock healthcare’s data potential.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

PwC found that the top sources for gathering health information were first, local news, followed by national news and the State government (ahead of the Federal government by 5 percentage points and local government by 6 points). Our doctors and nurses are on the front-line of the “war” on COVID-19. professions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Each connected device—from medical IoT (Internet of Things) equipment to the smartphones doctors and nurses use—can serve as a weak spot for cyber criminals to breach organizations’ servers. For healthcare organizations, this is critical to prevent interruptions to patient care or breaches of sensitive health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: IT-Cerner Revenue Cycle System Analyst (Scheduling) – Nicklaus Children’s Health System IT-Cerner Revenue Cycle System Analyst (Charge Specialist) – Nicklaus Children’s Health System Microsoft Applications Lead – STERIS IT Procurement Specialist – (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

" New Zealand-based Orion Health, which also offers a clinical and medication management portal and health intelligence on its unified health information exchange platform, leverages existing technology, like electronic health records, and integrates with patient portals and other systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

"The program, using vendor Vivify Health's connected care platform, aimed to reduce readmissions." " "After hours and on weekends, the Virtual Care Center acts as a triaging nurse to Trinity's home care and hospice patients across the U.S., " Karen Joyce, RN, Trinity Health at Home.

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HealthStream

MAY 11, 2020

Using the various electronic medical record systems that are now ubiquitous in healthcare for collecting health information across an organization, nurse informaticists are managing, interpreting, and communicating data with a primary purpose to improve the quality and outcomes of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

“Station MD, our telehealth vendor, was providing similar telemedicine triage service to nursing homes on Staten Island that housed medically frail residents. “Unless it is a full-out emergency requiring immediate transfer to the ER, they refer the matter to the on-call RN nurse case manager.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

launched two applications , Kio Staff Safe Alerts for incident response and Kio Nurse for monitoring equipment. Sales Clinical staff management vendor Axuall announced three new users : Virginia’s Inova Health System, Indiana’s Community Health Network, and payer relationship management vendor PayrHealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Based on a media release, doctors and nurses at Hervey Bay Hospital are being prepared for the Queensland Telestroke Service pilot happening in the coming weeks. Queensland is the remaining Australian state to launch a telestroke service.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A nurse meets a patient at their home and sets up medication and equipment for treatment and devices for teleconsultation and remote monitoring. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. Electronic health records don't usually help, even if their impact on burnout is more complex than many realize. " EHRs: Automation can help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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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? It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Andrea Bradford, PhD, is a co-investigator. What should clinicians engaging in telemedicine know about this effort?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. This information was used to arrange for proper transportation during the evacuation.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. For example, nurses and doctors can use voice transcription to record clinical details, speeding up the EHR workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations. The Iowa Hospital Association selected PayZen as the patient finance platform of choice for its network of 17 health systems and 117 hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Sales and Company News Florida-based Lee Health selected Caregility to help expand its virtual nursing program. Montana-based Billings Clinic-Logan Health is expanding its Oracle Health EHR install to all 30 of its hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2024

The bracelet is intended for use in professional healthcare facilities, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, or at home by trained healthcare professionals. Find out more at Corsano Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. And depending on health, wealth or financial planning, many older adults will one day move to nursing homes, where the worker pool matches that in the other care services. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. In 5 years, 61% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

Convenience and the “Amazon Prime’ing” of consumers has come to health care underpinning consumerism. Trust underpins health engagement, and that directly relates to the sharing of personal health information. Surprisingly (to me), 72% of consumers said they’d share their health data with a health insurance plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Healthdirect Australia , a national public health information service in the country, recently announced that it will be working with home-grown telehealth startup Coviu, to power its government-funded healthdirect Video Call service. In April 2019, Swinburne started working with Coviu for telehealth education. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Additionally, 87% of users said the device helped them meet their health and fitness goals, while 40% of users with a chronic condition said the device simplified management of their health and improved their quality of life. Consumer care coordination company Quantum Health was certified as a Great Place to Work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2024

The bracelet is intended for use in professional healthcare facilities, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, or at home by trained healthcare professionals. Find out more at Corsano Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

How to manage the new 'data tsunami' As providers rushed to roll out new telehealth services in response to the pandemic, many weren't – and many still aren't – prepared to manage the upsurge of new data, and new data types, streaming into their electronic health records. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Thinking about their health care experiences, consumers most-highly ranked having open access to their medical records and partnering for shared medical decisions with their health care providers as key to meaningful health engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

It may be a community health center nurse sharing vitals and other health information into a portal that supports a broader patient profile. It may be a PERS device in a home that uses landline technology but feeds a dashboard to which a personal care provider can review and respond.

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