Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Holly Miller , President at Collette Health (formerly MedSitter) Amid the many challenges in healthcare, an emerging central theme is how to balance technological innovation with a compassionate human touch. with a deficit of 200,000 nurses by 2030.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

How do we improve RCM? How to can we incorporate digital solutions into RCM? The patient. 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. However, that leaves out one huge piece of RCM.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

As a result, patient care has suffered, with a recent study conducted by Weave revealing that nearly two in three patients have felt rushed, not heard, or not paid attention to by their healthcare provider in the last 12 months.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Using AI to improve efficiency was a key theme, as was making imaging more mobile to improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Further, the pandemic has caused a massive impact on the healthcare industry, accelerating transformations and hospital design needed to address the medical priorities of their populations and respond effectively to emergencies such as epidemics and pandemics, he added. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The resourceful and caring team at Reno Sparks Tribal Health Center (RSTHC) has been leveraging technology from NextGen Healthcare (NextGen) to deliver quality care to the American Indians in their community. We wanted to find out more about their use of NextGen’s EHR and how the announcement from CMS will affect how they deliver care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Delivering Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare. We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the most exciting areas of healthcare IT is the automation of so many of the mundane tasks that exist in healthcare. In many cases, our first efforts in this regard were to outsource these mundane tasks, but now healthcare AI and other things like robotic process automation (RPA) have come along to help […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One challenge is finding the right patient payer information. Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. The following is a guest post from Inovalon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"For RPM, shifting to this new care model means using collected vital signs and other patient data more strategically and efficiently," he continued. "Ultimately, we need to evolve RPM to make it as automated and seamless for patients and clinicians as feasible," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Now, for many small and mid-sized practices hamstrung by issues with claims processing, effective patient payment strategies could be the key to financial stability and a buffer against future disruptions. This can lead to unnecessary visits, improper billing, and confusing statements that leave patients feeling overwhelmed by medical bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

"Our study found that virtual visits facilitate healthcare access and relationship-building, contributing to satisfying relationship-centered care, a crucial aspect of contemporary patient experiences," wrote researchers. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Utilizing AI tools will create an environment where providers spend more time with patients and less on paperwork. Enhancing Patient Experience and Care Quality AI-powered coding tools ensure that every visit is documented thoroughly, leading to more accurate medical records that improve patient outcomes over time.

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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. One recent survey found 65% of benefits managers expect remote patient monitoring to increase this year, while the market for these technologies could reach $1.9 Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Particularly pertinent to the Healthcare IT Today blog, wellness is a goal promised by many digital apps. And as pointed out by Shanti, patient data may tell you a problem exists but not how to fix it. Do these programs give us what we seek? But your odds of feeling good are much better if you pay attention to the measures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

Under the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, TRACE aims at how best to use and sustain telehealth to provide cancer-related care. There has been growing interest in how to enhance patient care experiences through the development of hybrid models that layer in virtual care opportunities like telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. These macro trends are not new, but healthcare organizations have reached a tipping point where there is no wiggle room with operational margin. Let us know on social media.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly, clinicians have traditionally balked at patient self-scheduling because the patient doesn’t know what types of appointments are offered and how to choose the right one. So Yosi Health works with each care center to replicate its business and workflow needs. Staff are usually required to ask the right questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2025

For the 92nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Bradd Busick, SVP, Chief Information Officer at MultiCare Health System to talk about change management! Then with change often being a topic that people are resistant to, we talk about how to get around that to make innovation a reality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2022

"In healthcare, there is such a focus on seeing patients in the office, but we've learned we can provide better patient experiences by engaging patients outside of the office in a way that isn't captured by an appointment." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Maura Koehler-Hanlon, Seasoned Leader at Propeller Healthcare IT organizations are currently undertaking major initiatives to enhance patient engagement, streamline processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

At this year’s event, we decided to film a number of demos of interesting health IT products that we thought readers of Healthcare IT Today would find useful. If you want to see all of these demos as we share them, be sure to subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2019

We all know that Physician Burnout is a big problem in healthcare. Not only is it impacting physicians, but that has a trickle down effect on patient experience as well. That’s why we see so much focus on how to improve the physician experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

"The conversion allowed Intermountain to focus on healthcare delivery across all 25 hospitals and expand our collaborations with critical access hospitals across the Intermountain West," he explained. The health system is exploring options on how to best align with several other EHRs now used within Intermountain Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2025

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Narvaez at Northwell Health to hear about how deployments of smart TV and digital whiteboard solutions have created a better patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The consequences of cyber risks can be incredibly severe as healthcare data is particularly personal and sensitive," said Kelly Rozumalski, secure connected health director at Booz Allen, in a statement to Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS. "Large U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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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

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. Another challenge was how to leverage its digital billing platform to respond to the rapidly changing landscape of regulations and requirements around reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These patients find it even more difficult to understand records, which then compromises their ability to participate in their own treatment plan. How to Simplify Medical Bills? About Mona Deora Mona Deora is a Certified Medical Billing Specialist with over eight years of experience in the healthcare revenue cycle.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Once that's done, patients receive a text message showing how to access their summary via the Abridge app. UPMC clinicians, having gained experience with Abridge during the telehealth upsurge caused by COVID-19, hope soon to be able to import notes from remote visits into patients' electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2020

Moving forward, to provide the highest quality care not only to service members but also to veterans and dependents, we need to understand the requirements associated with traditional military medicine while integrating industry best practices from the consumer side to improve the patient experience and implement more preventative practices.”

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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. Hospital leaders view this program as a means of supporting nurses on the frontlines without compromising patient safety or patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

Healthcare institutions' motivations for innovation are to improve patient experience, stay relevant and support the changing care model (i.e., Generally, they are slower to innovate as they need to decide which services to digitalise, but they have the innate ability to offer more in-depth healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

Healthcare organizations are "greatly interested" in innovations that can modernize nursing and solve the challenge, according to Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

” Staff also knew that having telemedicine technology available in the future as an option could be ideal for patients for whom virtual appointments would be preferable, he added. Healthcare IT News has compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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