Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Larrison, Co-Founder & CCO at Firstup Three years after the start of the pandemic, nurses are beyond burnt out. Despite being hailed as “healthcare heroes,” nurses feel overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated. According to a recent survey by Jarrard Inc., In the same Jarrad, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2025

This week, Healthcare IT Today is attending HIMSS25 in Las Vegas! For those not familiar, HIMSS is one of the biggest events in health IT, bringing together global healthcare leaders, CIOs, executives, and innovators to discuss the future of healthcare technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2025

Nurses, case managers, and financial leaders found themselves working in alignment, unified by a shared vision and a clearer understanding of how their roles contributed to the hospitals success. This change incentivized facilities to act quickly, improving the flow of patient transitions. What was the result?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

For decades, my leadership team has stressed the importance of melding together three key areas of focus "people, process and technology" in order to drive successful projects. For instance, we commonly seek those with nursing, pharmacy, revenue cycle and physician experience as part of our recruiting process.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jane Jeppson, RN, MBA, Head of Clinical Operations at Nursa In 11 years of nursing, I’ve watched too many colleagues I respect leave the profession. The exodus of nurses is a crisis within the U.S. healthcare system. It’s heartbreaking to see so many talented clinicians walk away.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Beyond the news that overall provider burnout rates did not increase with this year's survey, KLAS researchers found the following factors have improved: High levels of trust in organizational leadership around the EHR correlated with a lower percentage of providers reporting burnout. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask them – what can be done to train your staff from becoming a vulnerability to your healthcare organization? The human factor remains a top vulnerability in healthcare, necessitating comprehensive security training for staff is crucial.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 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. By doing so, they can reduce transfer times by up to 34%, ensuring patients receive the right care promptly while allowing nurses to focus on their core competency: delivering quality care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In the following interview with Sammie Mosier, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, HCA Healthcare, we dive into HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda aimed at improving the nurse experience. What is HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda? The Cohesive Nursing Agenda is a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. They’re right that nurse call data holds the keys to informing the clinical decision-making process.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

For the 109th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are back with everyone’s favorite game, Health IT: Buy or Sell! We’ve got a number of hot topics for this episode included TEFCA, QHINs, Homecare, Healthcare Workforce, and Hospital Robots vs Nurses. IT salaries in healthcare will continue to go up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"This was generally used for retired clinical nurses or others who had the time and desire to sit next to a patient," he continued. When that happened, we would generally have to re-assign an even more critical individual, such as a nurse or a patient care technician, to help protect that patient. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… CHIME 2024: Perspectives on AI, Cybersecurity, Leadership, and More. Read more… Implementing Healthcare AI Responsibly.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Even though skilled nursing facilities, long-care homes and retirement facilities are highly regulated, Charnetski says that regulators don’t really understand the industry’s needs. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2023

For the 58th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Carol Boston-Fleischhauer, JD, RN, MS, SVP, Chief Clinical Officer at Banyan Medical Systems to talk about virtual nursing! Next, we discuss how virtual is transforming the current nursing models. We release a new CIO Podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2024

For the 78th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Yolanda VanRiel, PhD, RN, MEDSURG-BC, OCN, CNE, ANEF, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Nursing at North Carolina Central University (Also available at NCCU Online ) to talk about the state of nursing in healthcare today!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 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. In 2025, I’m bullish on AI as a catalyst to unlock healthcare’s data potential. Bedside staff can coordinate care in addition to delivering it. Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, o ne thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. By 2030, one million nurses are expected to retire. With nursing shortages looming, rapid onboarding has become a major focus for the healthcare industry to help hire and retain nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For the 108th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we decided to mix things up. Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. We asked ChatGPT the following question “ Can you come up with 4 questions for a podcast on healthcare IT (technology)?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"Like many other health systems, the need to control operating costs while at the same time improving patient safety was a challenge for our leadership team," said David Smith, associate vice president of virtual medicine at UMass Memorial Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For the 149th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the recent Epic UGM Conference ! Next, we talk about some of the areas we can potentially see experience Epic disruption such as payer platform, nurse scheduling, virtual rounding and virtual sitting, etc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. "Our value-based services nursing team then monitors these patients in between MH@H visits," Rubin noted. When a nurse sees an alert, they contact the patient directly to see what is happening.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The nursing station is now called a “health care hub” and coordinates multi-disciplinary teams. Kara speaks of “flexible spaces that could adopt to the evolving needs of healthcare” and optimize workflows. Virtual nurses are a key part of the hospital staff.

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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 following is what they had to share with us.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2021

For the 7th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we’re sitting down with Pamela S. In this episode, Banchy offers a really unique insight into the role of CIO given her background as a nurse. Banchy RN-BC PMP CHCIO FCHIME, CIO and VP Clinical Informatics at Western Reserve Hospital. Plus, she […].

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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. Endpoint protection is essential for securing the array of devices that healthcare professionals rely on daily.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. IT, clinical and operational leadership collaborated to create workflows to facilitate the transition to telemedicine and establish virtual connections. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hospitals are using Artisight’s capabilities for remote support of nurses, but they are expanding to other disciplines as well. When you leverage nurses at the bedside and others watching over video, each can focus on different aspects of care. The physically present nurse has more time to spend with the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Operations became even more complex after COVID-19, with more per-diem and travel nurses filling in, more staffers taking sick days, and overall turnover increasing. Our doctors, nurses, and staff are able to focus on providing amazing care, rather than fighting against outdated processes and applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While hospitals could have done more, the truth is none of these technologies fundamentally could change how doctors and nurses cared for patients inside a hospital. Already we see AI’s power in accessing and synthesizing vast amounts of information as a wondrous moment for doctors and nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2019

"By having a psychiatric nurse assessor interact with the patient to address immediate concerns and gather information first, the telemedicine psychiatrist receives a more thorough background and review of the patient’s unique needs. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

" "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., "Also, 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., MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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