Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. And many forward-thinking CIOs and other technology leaders see how fast AI tools are evolving, and they are looking excitedly to a future where further clinical innovation will occur at rapid speed.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2024

Jessica Rengstorf, Director of US Healthcare Strategy at Endava Augmented reality and virtual reality are innovative technologies that can provide tremendous benefits to the healthcare industry, bringing a deeper understanding of complex medical concepts to healthcare professionals and patients alike.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Personal home care providers have begun to ditch blanket approaches, instead opting for more patient-by-patient specificity. Going further to meet individual client needs enables home care to make a greater impact, while also increasing client satisfaction.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Jussi Reijonen, Account Manager at Medixine While contemporary healthcare is slowly but surely embracing novel technologies, front-line nurses are still a much under-used resource in bridging the gap between innovation and patient well-being. Still, there’s a lot that needs to change along the way.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ever since CMS released the new CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring last year, health systems have been eager to use them, but unsure of the criteria. Providers are acknowledged for the time they spend connecting with patients outside of the office. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Rick Bryant, Healthcare CTO, Veritas Technologies The healthcare industry is known for holding on to data – and for good reason. With valuable insights and patterns to be derived from patient information, more is more. Healthcare is a highly regulated industry and patient data comes with special protections and compliance rules.

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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. Thus, there has been a significant shift in the importance of remote care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2023

In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ellen Kuebrich, Chief Growth Officer of CareXM, to talk about solving for staffing while lowering operational costs. Home Health Care News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today? This article is sponsored by CareXM.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. This problem has been exacerbated by the increasing complexity of medical technology and the consequent proliferation of alarms.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

How many patients can a doctor see? Doing so will allow us to fundamentally change healthcare systems, deliver better patient care, and fully optimize existing resources. This mindset shift is essential for fostering a culture of creative problem-solving, continuous improvement, and innovation in healthcare settings.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Mike Kearns, vice president of sales at CareXM and Ellen Kuebrich, chief governance officer at CareXM. Home Health Care News: What do you see as the main challenges right now in the home healthcare space? This article is sponsored by CareXM.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Narinder Singh, co-founder and CEO at LookDeep Health The potential of AI in clinical settings is clear, yet adoption of the technology continues to lag. From a computational perspective, no particular kind of AI seems more effective than another (machine learning, deep learning, etc.). assessments) to use to later decide what to do.

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2023

Ask the right questions, get the right answers — deliver the right care. That’s the essence of how home-based care providers are finding success under OASIS-E, which took effect January 1, 2023. Smart use of OASIS-E can also help providers stave off staffing churn. That’s really exciting from our perspective.”

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2024

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Lynn Carroll, VP Product Management – EHR, Homecare Homebase, to talk about the roots of HCHB in the home-based care industry, and its continued collaboration and partnership with providers as they develop new tools, service lines and features.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

Wellness isn’t just a health care buzzword. In fact, it’s what’s driving business strategies across the senior care continuum. NYSE: HUM) and Lifespark are doing so by leveraging data, care coordination and more. Its health care services arm, CenterWell, includes pharmacy, home health care and primary care.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 7, 2022

The 2022 HIMSS conference wrapped up in Orlando and experts from around the world attended to share their perspectives and key learnings from the last two years of the pandemic, which have transformed healthcare and made a lasting impact.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Navin Gupta, Senior Vice President, Home and Hospice Division at MatrixCare, to learn about the push for technological innovation in home health care as a result of the pandemic. A big problem within acute care is alarm fatigue for nurses.

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Vie Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2023

Episode Introduction Clifford explains the two types of echocardiograms, the benefits of 3D versus 2D echoes, and why it takes $72 million and a decade to launch new medical devices in the US. So echoes, they can be broken down into two main types and they basically use a different type of probe. I guess it is invasive.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Last month on HCLDR we discussed the ideal patient discharge experience (patient separation for those in the EU and Australia). It got me thinking about another aspect of the patient journey that does not get attention – patient transfers and transitions between healthcare organizations. The Patient?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Ashley Puchalski, senior director of Care Coordination at Ohio’s Hospice, Hannah Patterson, vice president and general manager of Workforce Management at Netsmart, and Divesh Aidasani, vice president of Strategy at BAYADA. This article is sponsored by Netsmart.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

What began as an explosion of patent demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection surges that continue to test the resiliency of the healthcare system to this day. Many patients opted to defer care, which has resulted in huge backlogs for those seeking treatment.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This has impacted the well-being of the remaining healthcare practitioners 5 as well as their patients – many of whom are deferring care that is vital to disease management and overall maintenance of health, 6,7 or who do not have access to timely emergency care. Despite this, AI and ML remain underutilized in healthcare.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

The interview took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021. In 2010, he started Senior Solutions Home Care inspired with a motivation to help his own aging grandparents. This article is brought to you by WellSky. It has been edited for length and clarity. First is Kunu Kaushal.

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Health Advances

MARCH 9, 2023

and here: AI in Healthcare: Implications at the Molecular, System, and Patient Level. 1] Despite the high expenditure, the country’s healthcare system faces multiple challenges that hinder its effectiveness in delivering quality care to its citizens. trillion annually, accounting for more than 17% of its GDP. [1]

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 8, 2018

Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors. Our conversation focused on the opportunities for improving population health through ACOs. not another post-it note around.”.

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Etactics

JUNE 9, 2023

Nursing is our nation’s largest healthcare profession. With a little over 4 million registered nurses, it is about 4 times the size of the physician workforce. Nurses play an essential role in patient care, in every healthcare setting. We see new technologies, treatments, and research emerging daily.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Tim Ashe, Chief Clinical Officer, and Wes Little, Chief Analytics Officer at WellSky. The discussion took place on September 15, 2022, during the Home Health Care News FUTURE Conference in New York City. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Lexis Nexis

JUNE 5, 2023

Beyond his leadership roles, Adam is a licensed nurse and an attorney under the California Bar and uses his law license to provide pro bono support in under-served communities of color with immigration, civil rights and health equity issues. Learn more about Adam’s unique background and why he’s excited to join the team.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. At Axxess, we provide solutions for the care-at-home industry.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With attacks on healthcare negatively impacting patient care – including increased mortality rates – healthcare organizations must adopt proactive approaches to better protect their patients and sensitive information. However, there are gaps where more can be done to better protect against ransomware. Even more unnerving?

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Medical GPS

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Creating an environment that encourages patients to take an active role in their ongoing care separates the ordinary healthcare organization from the extraordinary healthcare organization. A great healthcare organization demonstrates great patient engagement. One similarity is the word “passenger” and the word “patient”.

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Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2022

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with SimiTree managing principal David Berman to learn the trends taking hold in the post-acute care space over the next few years. Home Health Care News: David, what career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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