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APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

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MARCH 28, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS The plan, which extends through the rest of this decade, is organized around four key goals to improve the experiences and outcomes for health IT users and the policy and technology aspects needed to support health IT and electronic health information users.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2023

Wisconsin's Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network is striving to meet the challenges of healthcare in part by building healthcare information technology and healthcare services around people and their lives, expanding digital health initiatives beyond its Epic EHR , and diving into app-embedded digital therapeutics.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SA Health and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) recently announced the first go-live of the South Australia Statewide Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program. She also detailed how they are maintaining cybersecurity for both patients and clinicians amid growing threats.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2022

The question is: How will hospitals provide more robust, timely and cost-efficient care moving forward? Some health systems are beginning to reconfigure care models to proactively care for patients with chronic conditions and illnesses, and a key component of this is implementing remote patient monitoring services.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. RTM can empower patients toward better health and reduce extra in-person visits, making it easier and less costly for people, such as those in rural areas, to receive care. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S.

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MARCH 28, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS AWS accelerators are technical, business and mentorship programs that help startups advance their digital solutions using the cloud, such as last year's AWS accelerator focusing on health equity. A digital triage and consultation platform for use across primary and emergency care. and EMEA. Babblevoice. Rose Health.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 29, 2024

Becky Watkins, Senior VP of Client Solutions of ResultsCX When interacting with industries such as retail, hospitality, and finance, we’ve all become accustomed to quick, effective, and personalized customer service. mailed communications and calls from advocates).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And how will near-term changes in healthcare delivery affect telemedicine? What kinds of operational changes will healthcare see in the next six to 12 months, and how will they impact telemedicine? Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Today, healthcare businesses must compete with digital start-ups targeting lucrative niche audiences who are far less encumbered by red tape and insurance protocols. Today’s healthcare consumers are savvier than ever, leveraging the internet to research hospitals, physicians, medications, treatments, surgical options, and more.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, has a special patient experience project coinciding with the opening of the Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care. The organization is bringing new capabilities to improve patient experience, lower cost and improve outcomes. Mercy, a massive health system based in St.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 16, 2024

serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Like many hospitals and health systems, it has been facing many challenges with behavioral health. THE PROBLEM Behavioral health is an interesting story for several reasons, said Jeff Johnson, vice president of innovation and digital business at Banner Health.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The initial phase of a new research program at Mayo Clinic is seeing the Minnesota health system working with Memora Health to explore new ways to extend care to postpartum patients at home. The aim is to more effectively triage patient-reported symptoms and concerns to the appropriate care team members. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

” The digital health paradox. Dr Brigitte Seroussi, director in charge of digital health ethics, DNS, French Ministry of Solidarity and Health joined the conference via livestream to explain ‘the paradox of digital health.’ “Our task must be to switch from dirty production to clean production.”

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 31, 2023

Virtua Health, the largest health system in South New Jersey, saw an uptick in virtual care appointments and digital communications during the pandemic as patients sought care at home. With this shift in patient engagement, many health systems, including Virtua, saw an incredible influx of messages to the care team.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. How can telehealth be used as a patient engagement tool in inpatient settings? And how will telehealth evolve beyond its current use today? Please explain.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. Please explain how, and the value virtual primary care adds here. How, exactly? We interviewed Kelly Bliss, president of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Victoria invests in new centre supporting digital health innovators. million) to establish a centre for supporting digital health innovators. It is funded through the state's Australian Medtech Manufacturing Centre and Biotechnology Fund and is being delivered by digital health accelerator ANDHealth.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Mercy Hospital, a tertiary surgical hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand, has deployed a bedside terminal platform by Rauland Australia. It supports patient engagement through features including telehealth, on-demand patient education, patient information, electronic meal ordering, patient communications and entertainment.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. For example, Northwell Health implemented health chats with its patients. Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It has more than 1,000 care sites serving 20 million patients in 21 states. At CommonSpirit, the acceleration of new mediums of care delivery enables patients to live healthier via virtual asynchronous care and evidence-based, digital-enabled therapies. THE PROBLEM.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

THE PROBLEM Patient access is a top priority for AdventHealth, a health system based in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines. Providers using Epic®’s EHR system can search and request Sunoh.ai

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 9, 2022

The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Before we dive in, let’s discuss QR codes related to patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. . Patient verification. Patient marketing.

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GoMoHealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“I am thrilled to collaborate with GoMo Health on their ongoing development of consumer-driven digital health products that will play a key role in shaping the future of healthcare. To learn more, visit www.gomohealth.com.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When it comes to something like healthcare, "it's very important to build trust and to develop a representation of our patients so they feel seen and heard," he said, noting they may have had mistrust or been underrepresented in healthcare. Revitalizing maternal health education.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Today's traditional and digital marketing technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to reach physicians and other health care professionals cost-effectively—and at scale.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 30, 2023

What about securing increased patient volume through in-office appointments? It is important to understand the features and functions they want, need, and expect—and how to marry them with engaging design elements and high-quality, useful content. Proper Planning 1. Is it more brand awareness or recognition?

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