Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. For more on virtual nursing, click here and here and here.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. An aging nurse workforce nearing retirement and student capacity limits in nurse education programs are putting additional pressure on nurse staffing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Caregility is embedding virtual support directly into hospital rooms, helping to improve patient monitoring and give overworked nurses some much-needed relief. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with two senior leaders from Caregility to find out more. Key Takeaways Virtual nurses save time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The simplicity of the app’s interface and the seamless call experience were standout features. Nurses spend less time coordinating phone or video calls manually, as the app streamlines the process. And the app enhances patient satisfaction, which improves hospital ratings and attracts more patients.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

The lawsuit, reportedly the first of its kind leveraged against a nursing […]. On March 15, California prosecutors sued Brookdale Senior Living, accusing the largest chain of senior living communities in the U.S. of manipulating the federal government’s Star ratings system.

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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. Similarly, the physician workforce will experience a deficit of 38,000 to 120,000 physicians by 2034.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Several key factors are reshaping healthcare today, creating new demands on the existing infrastructure and care delivery systems. Whether a home health patient is using RPM alongside virtual check-ins or it's paired with in-home services, RPM ensures they're receiving the right care at the right time – wherever they are.

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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 News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"For example, as more patients request or are assigned RPM care plans, providers are required to expand care coordination staff, typically nurses, or assign larger and larger populations to existing clinicians," he continued.

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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 Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But Mardjuki sees hospitals that use ambient voice solutions choosing to migrate scribes to more direct patient care, which improves the patient experience. Although currently “laser-focused on acute care,” they are planning expansion into hospices, wound care, nursing, and eventually general medicine.

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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. Farhad Modarai, D.O., Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

The company says athenaTelehealth "leverages existing patient communication channels, including email and text message based on patient preferences, and delivers telehealth instructions and a seamless patient experience." " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

One way to alleviate the burden on healthcare workers and potentially improve the patient experience and outcomes is remote patient monitoring. How can advances in remote patient monitoring have significant benefits for patients and providers with improved medical care and patient outcomes?

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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 ! We kick this episode off by sharing what the experience was like at Epic UGM. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. We kick this episode off by sharing what the experience was like at Epic UGM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The following is a guest article by Yasmine Mustafa, Co-Founder and CEO at ROAR Dealing with workplace violence has become a tough pill to swallow for nurses and healthcare workers. Believe it or not, more than 80 percent of nurses say theyve been on the receiving end of some kind of violence in the past year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Nuvance Health's neurologists will use a digital platform to remotely monitor patients and keep them mentally active with consistent and intense brain activities," said Dr. Paul Wright, senior vice president and system chair of the Neuroscience Institute at Nuvance Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The digital boards are updated in real-time, accurately reflect patient records, and can be used to support decision making. The nursing station is now called a “health care hub” and coordinates multi-disciplinary teams. Virtual nurses are a key part of the hospital staff.

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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 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 Today

DECEMBER 23, 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. As healthcare technology evolves, we’ll see a fundamental shift toward systems that silently augment clinical work rather than demanding constant interaction.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 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

JULY 8, 2022

Along with the evolving technology that changes the patient experience in the exam room, we also talk about how this impacts the clinician experience and things like burnout and staff satisfaction. It’s amazing how the nurse call button can be improved with the right technology and workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

While at the HIMSS conference, we were able to see a demo of the tablet in action at the bedside with Zebra’s partner Oneview Healthcare. Yerkey demonstrates their patient experience platform which strives to bring together all of the patient focused applications in one place. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technician instead of a nurse. This relieves the nurses of trivial tasks and lets them “practice at the top of their licenses.” Virtual nursing is also easier with seamless communications. Tell us what you think.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." "Our session will highlight that team structure will be important to first capture billing for the care rendered and elevate the patient experience and outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

"Since launching our app, we've been able to rapidly scale up our telehealth program both in terms of patients and providers using it and in terms of use-cases and modalities. "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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. The battle for talent in healthcare today is broader than the shortage of physicians and nurses. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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