Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs. For many health systems, their first foray with virtual care came during the pandemic. Ensure the best potential to address organizational workforce, clinical, business and IT needs while improving access to care, patient experience and quality outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" Most, if not all, patients with chronic GI conditions benefit from these conservative yet proven interventions, he added. "Frequent touchpoints with a registered dietitian or a GI psychologist are easier to deliver via telehealth , much to patients' convenience," Pavlou noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. Telehealth technologies became part of the clinical care delivery model. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Operations changed.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). The largest positive change in adoption was seen in telehealth and remote monitoring, and.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering. To access this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

“We developed a short list of telehealth solutions that could support the full spectrum of our needs – ambulatory, inpatient and direct-to-consumer,” said Jon Witenko, system director, virtual health and telemedicine, at Lee Health. This gave clinical staff an opportunity to get familiar with the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

" The challenge was to provide those who seek care from the organization with the best digital patient experience – one that was intuitive and integrated, and valued their health information, he added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back-office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving their value. by November 01, 2018. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. " Lionel Yu, Garfield Health Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was watching the telehealth industry expand to meet the demand for patients. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2023

For the 120th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are taking a look at the patient experience outside of the hospital. We kick off this episode by detailing our own experiences with care outside of hospitals and clinics. We kick off this episode by detailing our own experiences with care outside of hospitals and clinics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2021

When telehealth visits increased exponentially during the pandemic, patients at Mount Sinai Health System with limited English proficiency, or LEP, were at a great disadvantage to receive equal access to services because of the language barrier. Telehealth platforms were not originally set up with LEP patients in mind.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

"We will be integrating this technology and predictive analytics with our coaches and telehealth platform as the foundation for our new all-virtual spine injury prevention program launching later this year," Schutzer noted. The founders knew patients often want more – they want to talk to a real person.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. This is essential." " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. By centralizing access to specialty care, consults and outpatient appointments, Temple has seen an increase in appointment adherence and overall patient experience, Cancilla reported. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

"Due to the rurality of Maine, the solution needed to be able to operate well in low-bandwidth areas," said Patty VonIderstine, IT director client services and telehealth at MaineHealth. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 9, 2024: Many roles with health systems, plus positions with vendors such as InterSystems and Truveta. Read more… Bonus Features for October 6, 2024: Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors; behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

While there is quite a bit that can be gleaned by a video visit with observation and asking the patient to perform particular tests, the Baptist team was looking for a technology that would provide more. Oliver, chief medical information officer at Baptist Health. PROPOSAL Baptist Health found telemedicine technology vendor TytoCare.

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