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.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 10, 2025

Morton is a neuroradiologist at Carle Health and Carle Foundation Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center and comprehensive stroke center in Urbana, Illinois. At that time, Carle Health had just two hospitals – but five PACSs from different vendors. Each hospital had different medical record numbering systems.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them. As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Children's Mercy supports the children of Kansas and Missouri, with the next children's hospitals being hours away in all directions. This extensive geographical region has forever been a significant challenge for patients and their families to access pediatric specialty care. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

The four key areas where organizations should focus in the months ahead to improve patient satisfaction are: Close the loop on feedback to ensure people feel heard. Digitize and humanize every experience to make stronger connections. Create memorable patient experiences that earn trust. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Queensland Hospital and Health Services is expanding access to the Virtual Emergency Department service to all individuals in the state. Approximately a year after it was launched, the service provided real-time stroke specialist care via telemedicine to more than 300 individuals. Queensland expands virtual ED service statewide.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more. “It is precisely these patients who are consuming the healthcare dollar at an increasing rate. It needed to see all of the vitals.

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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. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. Maimonides Medical Center is an academic medical center located in Brooklyn, New York.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2023

As digital health and telemedicine technologies continue to explode, patients increasingly are being drawn into their care in ways unlike ever before. And hospitals and health systems know they must find ways to engage their patients to keep them healthy and satisfied.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For vulnerable patient populations – and for those who just prefer the convenience of care at home – telemedicine has been a success. For example, the precise movements and exercises involved in physical therapy rehab are hard for a patient to accomplish remotely. But it still has its limitations.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2022

Investment initiatives at hospitals, health plans and health systems aimed at widening access to care via telehealth, including devoting resources toward improving workforce diversity. of high access, high quality, lower cost and high experience care," said AMA researchers. But different groups may not benefit equally.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2023

Providers are tasked with not only delivering a positive health outcome but also with the patient experience and level of satisfaction as they make their way through their healthcare journey. These studies all support that trust in doctors ultimately correlated with higher patient satisfaction in remote visits.

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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. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care. How, exactly?

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Healthcare Success

MAY 24, 2022

Today’s consumers expect a healthcare experience as innovative and digitally advanced as any other industry. Hospitals, health systems, and medical practices must evolve to meet these changing needs to remain competitive or risk falling behind. When done properly, healthcare marketing can: Enhance the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

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. 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.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That’s why we call on the industry as a whole to shift their perspective of digital health ROI and to view it through a holistic lens that encompasses not only financial returns but also improvements in patient outcomes, operational efficiencies, and clinician well-being over longer timeframes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S. health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. flu season, hospitals may encounter further financial challenges due to the convergence of the coronavirus with the flu virus.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. Hospitals are not logisticians (with apologies to the materials management folks working hard out there in health systems).

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2024

The bottom-line here: “trusters” are 6x more likely to stay with a provider, and subsequently voting with their feet to stay with that organization, would be more likely to recommend the provider (or plan) to peers and family which kicks off a flywheel of trust and loyalty that benefits all involved in the experience.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2024

Amy Miller, the Regional Director of Growth at AMD Global Telemedicine The burnout rate among physicians and medical teams is soaring, but it’s possible to deflate many healthcare stressors by embracing telehealth solutions. Examining what successful hospitals and clinics have done can help inform your next moves.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study. health system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

As we start at this fairly nascent moment in the hospital-to-home movement and migration in the U.S., ” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

CVS Health’s recent research report into the critical role of consumer experience in health care quantifies the return on investing in UX and CX design for improving medication adherence.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2023, hospitals must identify their financial risk and focus on employee retention and recruitment as the threat of a recession looms. Healthcare organizations must reevaluate their approach to consumer engagement and experience as external industry players vie for a larger foothold in the healthcare market.

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