Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. – 8 a.m.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

With this information, the hospital convened a group of thought leaders consisting of its post-acute care services division, which is managed as part of health system Michigan Medicine's home health agency, Michigan Visiting Nurses. It started with 250 COVID-19 kits. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. ” The teams (cardiology, pulmonology, intensive care, pharmacy, nursing, care management and others) would be located in another room, viewing and interacting with the patient as the hospitalist or nurse was in the room.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. This allowed providers and staff to call into COVID-19 rooms from the nursing station.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eye-opener for what really matters in both personal and professional life. Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. Allows for Easy Patient Follow-Up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. Patients may live miles away from the nearest clinic and may not have reliable transportation or resources. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, faced many challenges with telemedicine and the ability to scale quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic grew in force last year and the organization had to close its outpatient offices for elective services. Remote patient monitoring. " Mitchell Fong, Renown Regional Medical Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Telemedicine has been particularly important because of the large, multistate service region with many rural and frontier patients, mountain passes and snow that complicate travel, and limited numbers of pediatric subspecialists in the Rocky Mountain region outside of Denver. THE PROBLEM. An improved model for multidisciplinary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The program uses technology and a nursing-care coordination model to improve patient disease management, resulting in decreased readmission rates and increased patient satisfaction and self-efficacy.” “We are very grateful to have been awarded funds under the COVID-19 Telehealth Program,” Ommen remarked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

" With the onset of COVID-19, UVA Health pivoted as an academic health center to scale telehealth technologies that addressed the challenge of clinic closures and the need to limit exposure to COVID-19 both for providers and patients, and provided critically important continuity of care. '" PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It also reduces disruptions for clinicians and other hospital medical staff, and lowers the risk of infection transmission for all involved, according to MNGHA, which notes that other positive outcomes include improved patient satisfaction, enhanced emotional support and more efficient management of hospital staff and resources.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

These new strategies have emerged over the last few years and have accelerated as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the reality of disparities in health and health outcomes among minority populations. These social needs have not always been viewed as the purview of the traditional healthcare delivery system.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

How can hospitals and health systems harness ChatGPT and other LLM-based technologies to improve patient care? In the current healthcare landscape, hospitals and health systems are navigating challenging times, with financial pressures exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic's lasting effects.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2022

From clinician burnout to nursing staffing shortages, we asked executives to share their clinical predictions to watch in 2022 and beyond. The pandemic has magnified the need for clinicians to have remote access to live-streaming patient data wherever the patient may be–from the ICU to the home. Angie Franks, CEO of ABOUT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

"The only way to ensure high-quality outcomes was to give nurse practitioners, nurses and social workers telehealth capabilities," said Chad Hartmann, director of access and palliative services at TRU Community Care. The nurse also could get on a tele-visit with the patient through the capability of the tablet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. Two additional platforms were launched in response to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, less than 1% of visits were via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. They have seen better patient engagement, lower no-show rates and higher provider and patient satisfaction."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Angela Skrzynski, clinical lead for urgent care telehealth for COVID-19 remote patient monitoring and care after COVID-19 programs at Virtua Health. "Conditions treated include COVID/URI symptoms, rashes, UTI, ear and eye complaints, musculoskeletal injuries and so much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Our physicians are now seeing an estimated 125 patients each week and they are spending more time consulting with our patients and less time on administrative follow-up.” The result has dramatically improved patient care outcomes, and, in the end, created greater revenue streams for the practice, Vangala reported.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This program uses remote patient monitoring using devices from Health Recovery Solutions so staff can follow the patient's vital signs for the next few days and up to a couple of weeks. Patients also have access to a registered nurse via telephone if needed while in the VCAH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston, Maine, the pandemic created an acute need to adopt novel tools to deliver on its commitment and ability to ensure that patients were able to receive the care they needed without increasing their risk of exposure to COVID-19. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM "My journey into telemedicine was sparked by a genuine concern for a subset of patients facing physical or psychological barriers to accessing healthcare," he said.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Over the past year, COVID-19 brought new stresses to hospital scheduling, given limited resources, physician availability, staffing challenges and physical materials. Pre-COVID, infusion centers were often nonplussed when a patient showed up early, late, or not at all. Looking Ahead.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 4, 2022

The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. Eliminating the silo effect.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

DTx can fill that void in care and provide patients with a much-needed treatment option. Garheng Kong, Founder and Managing Partner at HealthQuest Capital Hospital-at-home (HaH) and skilled nursing at home (SNaH) are two trends driving increased healthcare in the home for more acute patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

Additionally, AI-powered care navigation is transforming patient engagement by guiding them to the right care at the right time, making them active participants in their health journey. Additionally, they enable personalized treatment approaches by analyzing individual patient data and tailoring interventions to meet specific needs.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2022

RevSpring expands patient engagement and payment solution integrations with Cerner, broadening RevSpring’s platform of omnichannel and payment solutions to boost payment performance and patient satisfaction. Nurses Are Beyond Burnout, Suffering From PTSD as Spiraling Work Demands. Research/Survey Reports.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Doing so will create a synergy that maximizes benefits not just for patients but for providers and the entire health system. Organizations may unknowingly inflate their view of patient satisfaction due to inherent biases in on-site survey methods. Integration maximizes benefits for all stakeholders.

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Jane Sarashon

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Or, perhaps, you asked the pharmacist staffing your favorite grocery store Rx counter to give you the latest vaccine to keep COVID-19 variants at-bay. Millions of people received COVID-19 vaccinations from pharmacies in their communities, close to home, experiencing high levels of patient satisfaction.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless clinicians who power our health systems and their patients. Many of these involved ransomware attacks that put patients’ personal health data at risk, and jeopardized the ability of practices to access systems and provide care.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2022

At the same time, the fallout of COVID-19 has accelerated people's willingness to engage with telehealth and telemedicine. So how do hospitals and health systems deal with an influx of mental health patients seeking fast access to high-quality psychiatric care while improving patient throughput?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction. We expect to see more smart technology and automation in healthcare (i.e. Digital health is here to stay.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversely, a hospital with a burnout-reduction program would spend only $11,592 per nurse per year employed.

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