What You Should Know:
- Amwell ranks highest among direct to consumer brands
and Cigna ranks highest among health plans for telehealth patient satisfaction,
according to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study
- Though telehealth has been pitched as a solution to
improve access to healthcare for everyone, more than half (52%) of telehealth
users say they encountered at least one barrier that made it difficult to use
telehealth.
Patient satisfaction with
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How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement towards Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) began.
Today, there are many shops, especially those in small and medium-sized organizations, with few programmers who build new applications from scratch.
Yes, they have programmers who configure, script, and integrate various applications but very little is built. For the provider community, we have a habit of either sourcing our
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Updox, Redox Partner to Expand Network of Integrated EHRs, Deliver Seamless Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Updox partners with healthcare integration platform
Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems
- Updox is expanding its network to include the largest
inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that
support in-person and virtual care.
As virtual care
continues to increase in demand, Updox,
a provider of care
coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a
significant
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ApolloMD Partners with Cedar to Implement Optimized Online Patient Billing Experience
What You Should Know:
- ApolloMD, a multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems partners with patient engagement and financial technology platform Cedar to enabled an improved online billing experience for patients.
- With Cedar, ApolloMD can now provide a digital billing
experience built for patients, leading to better engagement.
ApolloMD, a
multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems, and
Cedar, a leading
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XRHealth Secures Patent to Incorporate Apple Watch into VR/AR Therapy
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth has just received a patent for its approach to
incorporate biofeedback from devices such as an Apple watch into its remote
healthcare therapy platform that utilizes virtual/artificial reality (VR/AR).
- XRHealth plans to incorporate their VR/AR therapy with the Apple Watch, specifically since the watch has advanced features including a medical-grade, FDA-cleared electrocardiogram (EKG) that measures heartbeat.
XRHealth, the
leader in extended
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology.
- Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more.
MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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How Data Silos Are Ruining the Modern Healthcare Industry
With new administrative requirements and an increasingly competitive market, the job of a healthcare professional is no longer just about providing care to patients. In fact, healthcare professionals now spend an average of 10 hours per week on paperwork and administrative tasks, according to a 2018 survey from Medscape. This can be frustrating, and it’s only compounded when healthcare workers have to enter the same exact information over and over again—a tedious reality for many healthcare
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2020 Virtual Care: Navigating Patient Care In A Post-COVID-19 World
Updox, the only place to
manage healthcare communications across both in-person and virtual care, today
released its 2020
Virtual Care Report: Patient Care in a Post-COVID World that details the
rapid transformation telehealth saw during COVID-19, how it is currently being
used, physician and patient expectations for telehealth post-COVID -- and how
virtual care spanning the entire patient experience will become the new
precedent.
At the start of the COVID-19
pandemic, telehealth
became the
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Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
- Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform.
- As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost.
- Self-insured employers,
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Maximizing Telehealth Success: How to Optimize Operations & Revenue Cycle Management
In COVID-19’s wake, providers’ financial recovery will be crucial yet daunting. U.S. hospitals and health systems stand to collectively lose $36.6 billion between March and June 2020 alone. Physician practices also face serious financial challenges as they recoup revenues that declined up to 55 percent and patient volume that decreased 60 percent.
Amid these hardships, telehealth has emerged as a widely accepted vehicle for care delivery – providing a way for healthcare organizations to
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