Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. and 34.6%, respectively, compared to in-person visits at 46.8%. telephone visits.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2024

While in-person groups would be ideal, this would be difficult given how far some patients might need to travel. The most important was service continuity during the pandemic; with many in-person services on hold, there was no possibility of running groups at the clinic. "Geisinger’s service area is also rural.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges: high staff turnover leading to nursing burnout, hiring of temp/travel staff requires regular onboarding and hits tight budgets, and scheduling in-person meetings and trainings can become bottlenecks.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

But first, we must understand what’s happening in healthcare and the world-at-large post-pandemic. To be clear, workplace violence experienced by healthcare workers predates the pandemic. And, for those with a pre-existing addiction, it became more difficult to get help from AAA meetings as people were unable to gather in person.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. 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

MAY 6, 2024

The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment. Doing so increases access and leads to better healthcare experiences and outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff. From providing free urgent care via video consultations to around 500 Victorians per day, the VVED now targets to accommodate over 1,000 persons a day, based on a media release.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Patients often found it difficult to access their health records, leading to a lack of transparency and engagement in their healthcare journeys. This gap in communication sometimes resulted in missed appointments, medication non-adherence , and a general sense of disconnect between patients and their healthcare providers.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The technologies make "accessing evidence-based care simpler," according to Chaitali Sinha, senior vice president of healthcare and clinical development at Wysa. While the chatbots were empathetic and did not store or transfer users' chat history or personal information, they did not, however, deliver personalized advice.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It says that it provides both patient and staff interfaces through integration with electronic health records, and that it is in use at 28 health systems and more than 100 hospitals in 19 states. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Staff wanted their patients to feel supported and heard, so instead of relying solely on post-discharge/post-transfer insights, they committed to collecting real-time feedback to better understand patient needs and quickly implement changes to improve the patient experience. THE PROBLEM. " Claude Stang, Cedars Sinai.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 26, 2023

According to a media release, the organisation took up Personify Care's solution to help reduce the burden of chasing paper forms and phone calls on staff, all while supporting the complex requirements for all its sites, workflows, and brands.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"Integrating virtual visits with a typical in-person clinic operation is far from trivial and even today we have challenges effectively implementing it within all clinics since the workflows from one clinic to another can be very different. "What we refer to here as a great digital divide that is common across healthcare."

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

THE OPPORTUNITY The COVID-19 pandemic created an immediate opportunity for UPMC Central to rethink healthcare beyond the walls of the office setting. The urgency, and patient demand for care, allowed UPMC to expand existing services and create a virtual center of excellence that has transformed healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. Why should a health system care?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The healthcare organization drives toward a standard of care that focuses on personalized patient-physician relationships and quality-driven medical care. HIMSS is the parent organization of Healthcare IT News.). Healthcare IT News published a special report detailing these companies and their offerings. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare? Please explain.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 13, 2024

What You Should Know: – Sturdy Health , a leading healthcare system in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has announced a new partnership with Notable , the AI platform for healthcare operations. This multi-site approach ensures consistent benefits for patients throughout the healthcare system.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients. Consider the role of medtech in healthcare and learn how your organization can lead by example. Providers already use AI to accurately detect diseases in early stages.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2024

This expansion aims to assist healthcare providers in optimizing referral communications, boosting patient outreach, engagement, and loyalty. Throttling Queues: This feature allows providers to regulate the timing and rate at which referral messages are sent, preventing call centers and staff from being overwhelmed.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Paul Brient , chief product officer of athenahealth, to gain his insights into how artificial intelligence can improve patient experiences and healthcare delivery, simplify healthcare interactions, and make healthcare more accessible, as well as hear how the electronic health record vendor is using AI today.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

Pinn joined Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about how hospitals could do better using wearable devices and sensors, TV monitors, machine learning for clinical notes and more. Advice for getting clinical staff onboard with and comfortable with these non-clinical processes and tools. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2024

What You Should Know: – A new study led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, reveals that patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have a less positive experience with virtual healthcare visits compared to English-proficient patients.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It does not require physical contact between caregiver and patient (though seeing a patient's affect in person can be better than via video). Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. You contend telepsychiatry will continue to grow because it enables access to mental healthcare – which is a big challenge today.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For years, UMass Memorial Health has leveraged technology as a means of augmenting in-person care at the bedside. " This compelled the decision to move forward with a remote observation technology that could deliver the same level of care as an in-person sitter, but with a much higher return on investment, he added. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2024

DAX Copilot incorporates Microsoft’s responsible AI principles, ensuring ethical and trustworthy implementation within the healthcare setting. Addressing Urgent Challenges in Healthcare This move reflects Intermountain Health’s commitment to tackling the critical issues facing healthcare systems nationwide.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

Clinicians rely on electronic health records and other healthcare information systems to give them the data they need to make informed decisions to optimally manage care. Personalizing care for every patient is key because doing so allows us to develop a treatment plan that will lead to a faster reduction in symptoms. in December 2019.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What makes this situation especially complex and troubling is that the healthcare organizations themselves may not have been aware that the Meta Pixel Tool had been embedded in its website and/or that it was tracking, comparing, and receiving data about patients, including PHI.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 2, 2024

Now that the holidays have drawn to a close, it’s time to return to your 2024 marketing plan and make adjustments that ensure your business is taking advantage of the latest trends in healthcare marketing to reach patients and HCPs more effectively and make a lasting impression.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

So, technology that would work on everyone's phones, including staff and patients." Kang referred to the new technology set-up as magical, but added staff should expect this level of sophistication in behavioral health, which is still not where the rest of healthcare is with regard to technology. " he concluded.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Continuity and access to care for patients living with chronic diseases or going through cardiac and orthopedic rehabilitation are one of the most challenging areas in healthcare. Even with clear goals, it took time and effort to get buy-in from all staff and clinicians." " Dr. Sumir Sahgal, Essen Health Care. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The state of emergency and stay-at-home orders introduced the need to keep at-risk patients out of healthcare facilities and at home whenever possible. In addition, new challenges included providing care to COVID-19 patients, preserving personal protective equipment and protecting the healthcare team's own health.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 2, 2023

Online reviews play a significant role in the success of any healthcare organization. There are many healthcare-specialized RMS providers available. However, motivated offices, staff, and providers can supplement your software-driven solutions. It’s simple. Ask, and you shall receive. But don’t just take our word for it.

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