Bill Siwicki

The university health network helped employees better cope with anxiety, while saving $17 in face-to-face mental health costs for every dollar spent on the digital program.

The telehealth devices help vulnerable patients nervous about going to the hospital during a pandemic stay in touch with their physicians.

The pandemic has shown the crucial role Internet access plays for telehealth, and for the overall health and wellbeing of a population, says CEO Tom Mihaljevic.

SUNY Upstate Medical University has used AI-powered predictive analytics to, among other things, increase usage of OR minutes during business hours and improve the hygiene of its Epic EHR.

The goal of its Nuance deployment is to significantly reduce after-hours “pajama time” charting while introducing the voice of the patient to the EHR, says its CIO and CMIO.

The provider is integrating translation technology to successfully communicate with its many monolingual Chinese patients to gain further efficiencies.

The Cerner technology has helped decrease patient transfers to other locations and reduce average transfer time. It also helps track COVID-19 metrics for individual facilities across the health system.

Using FCC funding, the agency has transformed its telemedicine offering – and has since seen decreases in no-show rates for individual counseling and evaluation and management appointments.

In this sixth story in our burnout series, five physicians who have been overseeing telemedicine programs during this unprecedented surge discuss stress and ways to survive it.

The latter company’s portfolio includes interfaces to improve communication and integration among different IT systems, migration tools and more.