Audio-only telehealth visits still make up a significant portion of primary and behavioral healthcare at federally qualified health centers in California, according to a RAND Corporation study published in JAMA.Though audio-only visits have declined…
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Every time a physician or a nurse practitioner sees a patient, they create a document. It may be a clinic note or an encounter note. Similarly, every time a diagnostic physician such as a…
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Like many health systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network had been facing the problem of long wait times in its emergency departments.To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies…
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AristaMD this week announced its new unified care transition platform, which it says will enable primary care practices to provide patient-to-provider specialty matching, process electronic referrals and access peer consultations to minimize patient wait…
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Join the ONC team to learn about our recent Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit. The Toolkit is a practical, on-the-ground resource designed to aid the health IT community in the implementation of…
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Oracle Health this week announced that its Cerner Enviza life sciences division will work with John Snow Labs to develop a new artificial intelligence methodology to enhance computerized queries, or phenotyping, of digital patient…
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The following is a guest article by Bal Heroor, CEO and Principal at Mactores
The healthcare industry generates enormous amounts of data daily, from electronic health records (EHRs) to medical claims, research studies, wearables, and…
By Sarai Rodriguez April 11, 2023 – EHRs are poised to remain a crucial part of the healthcare industry, but the exploitation of patient data casts a shadow over its benefits. A recent HHS threat…
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By Hannah Nelson April 11, 2023 – Over 40 percent of hospitals observed practices they perceived to constitute information blocking in 2021, according to an ONC survey of 2,092 nonfederal acute care hospitals.
Researchers fielded the…
By Mark Melchionna April 11, 2023 – Published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, new study findings describe how researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Drexel University used a new technique to…
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