The importance of a common language
Delivering effective healthcare is about knowing your patients’ histories, making observations, and asking questions. Usually, provider and patient share a common language.
Stability, continuity of care, and outstanding service matter
National Patient Recognition Week occurs each year during the first week of February, coinciding with another popular event — Groundhog Day. This year, we imagine that winter’s duration is probably not the first thing on the minds of providers and patients. They’re more likely to be asking how much longer the COVID-19 crisis will last!
Topics: Patient Engagement, telehealth, TeleVisits, messenger, Patient Relationship Management, Open Access®, patient experience, telemedicine, patient satisfaction, Patient-provider relationship, healow CHECK-IN, contactless check-in, national patient recognition week, eClinicalMessenger, e check in, healow Open Access®
In the last few years, we have seen dramatic shifts in how patients have interacted with technology and taken control of their own health during a global pandemic.
Topics: telehealth, healow CHECK-IN, eClinicalMessenger, patient engagement solutions, healow TeleVists, healow Open Access®
Medical science, healthcare IT make the difference
Given the challenges of COVID-19, we are indeed living in turbulent times. From lockdowns and mask mandates to the impact on supply chains and economic growth, societies around the globe are dealing with the kind of crisis most of us have never known.
Topics: podcast, telehealth, telemedicine, healow CHECK-IN, contactless check-in, eClinicalMessenger, VAMS, healow TeleVists
Overcast with COVID-19 and scattered regulations
While much attention will remain focused on the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022, other topics of importance to healthcare providers in 2022 include:
Topics: telehealth, TeleVisits, Medicare, CMS, ePCS, healthcare regulations, mandates, No Surprises Act, 2022, information blocking, Information blocking regulations
Each month in 2022, this blog series will examine a different aspect of Population Health. We hope you enjoy this edition and check back in next month!
A definition emerges and sticks
In March 2003, an article in the American Journal of Public Health could declare that “Population health is a relatively new term that has not yet been precisely defined.”
Topics: Population Health
2022 is just a few days away, so we wanted to take a moment to look back at some of the things we’ve accomplished in 2021 to better our healthcare IT solutions for improving care for all.
Topics: remote patient monitoring, healow Payment Services, PRISMA, VAMS, eCWNC21, national conference 2021, healow pay
Lessons to meet the challenges of COVID-19 in 2022 and beyond
Despite everyone’s hopes — and the efforts and sacrifices of vaccine makers, public health authorities, and the general public — 2021 is ending much as it began, with continued disruption and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topics: Population Health, Patient Portal, ebo, CCM, HCC, care plan oversight, PRISMA, VAMS, CPO, browser
How eClinicalWorks and healow Bolster the Front Office
An October 2021 report from Fitch Ratings found that since February 2020 — when the COVID-19 pandemic began — employment in the U.S. healthcare industry has declined by 524,000 positions.
Topics: healow CHECK-IN, contactless check-in, eClinicalMessenger, healow pay, healow Open Access®, Robotic Process Automation, staffing, automation
December is a time when many people come together to celebrate aspects of their culture and bring about a collective feeling of togetherness. December at eClinicalWorks® is no exception – where eCW employees from every department and office across the United States come together to build their own gingerbread houses.
Topics: #GingerbreadHouseDay, gingerbread, gingerbread house, gingerbread house kit
The good news: The CDC reported that the 2020-2021 flu season saw much lower numbers of hospitalizations, mortality rates, and only one reported case of a pediatric flu death, despite high levels of testing and a record number of influenza vaccine doses applied. The obvious news: We need to continue these efforts into the next year and hope to see even lower numbers going forward.
Topics: VAMS, flu, flu vaccine, flu shot, #fightflu, National Influenza Vaccination Week
Linking Caring and Knowledge to Stay Competitive
A 2017 report from HealthManagement.org projected that the healthcare and social assistance sectors of the U.S. economy would add 5 million jobs between 2012 and 2022. But as positive as that trend sounded — and healthcare has indeed added millions of jobs in recent years — the report’s real purpose was to emphasize the need for ongoing education for healthcare professionals.
Topics: webinar, webinars, education, continuing education
How Interoperability Can Solve the Data Silo Dilemma
Since ancient times, humans have used silos for the storage of crops. Efficient and sometimes elegant, such silos have helped sustain and advance human civilization. In the last century or so, however, humans have begun putting data into silos, with decidedly mixed results.
Topics: Interoperability, healthcare interoperability, interoperability in healthcare
Whether you’re reserving a table at your favorite restaurant or ensuring that you have a set time to visit a busy fine arts museum, online appointment scheduling continues to become further ingrained in our daily lives. The same should be said about the way patients schedule a visit to the doctor’s office.
Topics: online appointment booking, online booking system, healow Open Access®
While lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., the death rate has steadily declined for more than 30 years, thanks to increased screening, early detection, and improvements in treatment.
Topics: telehealth, TeleVisits, lung cancer, healow CHECK-IN, contactless check-in, Customer Success Story, Lung Cancer Awareness Month
