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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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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. " Hunter asked.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2023

Telemedicine in these areas provides chronic patients, for example, with access to medical specialists without traveling an extended distance, and can allow providers to identify particular social determinants of health such as lack of access to food. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2024

A patient sees their primary care physician, who then issues a referral. "How do we care for more patients with the same clinical workforce we have today? How do we meaningfully increase productivity? We interviewed him as part of our series talking with top voices in health IT about artificial intelligence.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location. Health disparities from the digital divide.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prisma Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in South Carolina, says that by integrating digital patient communications, it's decreased no-shows to the tune of $4 million in savings within the first two years. "As a result - we’re seeing more and more patients show up for their appointments.

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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. "We first started with pre- and post-discharge chats with the goal of preventing readmissions and helping patients better manage their care after leaving the hospital.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has partnered with Vital to integrate an artificial intelligence-driven tool called ERAdvisor that can improve the patient-family experience with clarity and predictability. Vital said it offers four AI tools to serve hospital emergency departments, inpatient stays and ongoing care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. Google, which turns out to be dangerous and risks people’s health," Pope said.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

All care delivered through UpDoc's artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. The continuously updated risk signal helps physicians and care teams align.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022. Amazon Clinic users nationwide can get help for 30 common health concerns such as urinary tract infections, pink eye and erectile dysfunction.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. "What we learned is that we needed data," he continued. "There is a term called 'virtual first' that we use," he added.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And with healthcare organisations mandated to have an EMR implemented by the end of the year, it's an exciting time to be in health IT in Indonesia. Former CIO of several health systems in the US, heart attack and cancer survivor, youngest child of Holocaust survivors, best-selling health IT author, combat medic – the list goes on.

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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 1, 2023

Whether at home, on vacation or in the hospital, patients and care providers want access to innovative technologies that can expedite the delivery of medical advice, prescriptions, referrals and action when it is needed most. "It was not a situation where we supplied a standard solution, it was an opportunity for us to listen and learn.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hackers stole 18 GB health files from Pinnacle. In an update, the Pinnacle Midlands Health Network disclosed new information about the data that was stolen from its third-party IT server during a breach in late September. About 23 GB of data did not contain health information while the remaining data are still being classified.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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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. But this did not happen.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, says good communications with patients about cybersecurity protection is essential – even as risks to protected health information are on the rise, from external bad actors and insider threats.

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APRIL 21, 2023

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Dr. Telita Crosland, Lieutenant General, director of the Defense Health Agency. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Epic representatives gave a sneak peek at the company's plans for the HIMSS22 Conference and Exhibition this March – including the announcement of Cheers, a new customer relationship management system. "Cancer screening rates dropped during the pandemic, and we haven't seen those rates recover," she noted.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Quality of life changes dramatically with the compounding effects on mental health; comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, diabetes or obesity; the ability to work; and financial security. healthcare system. " Dr. Isaac L.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic. But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

This includes the likelihood to recommend a hospital, plus multiple key indicators such as doctors and nurses treating patients with courtesy and respect and discussing new medicines and possible side effects. Patients perceive kindness as a combination of positivity, helpfulness, and a gentle and comforting approach.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Broadly speaking, how can provider organizations, C-suite executives and other health IT leaders promote responsible use of AI? What are we seeing other organizations doing in this space?

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. Eric Cheung, a family medicine specialist practicing in Foley, Alabama, who serves as chief of staff for South Baldwin Regional Medical Center and clinic medical director for South Baldwin Medical Group.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Recognizing the need for a streamlined hospital-at-home supply chain network, Cardinal Health Inc. At the same time, Cardinal Health is also making major strides in its overall mission to be a driver of at-home care. Broadly, Velocare technicians deliver hospital-grade products and services to patients’ homes.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Patients at Emory Healthcare could have less chance of adverse drug events and know what they will pay for prescriptions at the pharmacy before they leave the doctor's office or hospital with AI-driven insights. Cameron Deemer, CEO of DrFirst, said in the announcement. She said that on-time refill rates doubled.

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APRIL 15, 2024

In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care. We interviewed Kelly Bliss, president of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

Health disparities have the potential to negatively impact rural Americans much more than urban Americans. Dr. Richard Watson is co-founder of Motient, a health IT vendor that equips health systems, accountable care organizations and individual facilities with tools and data designed to help ensure quality in medical transports.

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JULY 26, 2023

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. Pivot Point is a health IT consulting firm and No. Please explain why.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 7, 2022

ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Topics included the workforce shortage and burnout , increasing access to telebehavioral health , expanding critical and emergency care on demand, cybersecurity, and telehealth waivers and licensing. So telemedicine helps bridge that gap in rural or other markets that may not have adequate resource availability.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

On the first day of class, we learned the fundamental concept of the 4 Ps of marketing. To help my audiences understand the intrinsic value of the 7 goals of marketing, I would often begin with this metaphor: The 7 Ps of marketing are like a ship’s compass. The 7 tactics of marketing can help you: Develop a competitive advantage.

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