In today’s digital age, the healthcare industry has access to more mission critical data than any other industry. Institutions within the industry are challenged to create a better patient journey and improve health outcomes for their individual patients and communities.
Having the right health information technology (HIT) consultants on your team as your organization tackles those initiatives through telehealth is essential. These experts can:
- implement impactful technology solutions for your organization
- optimize your organization’s clinical as well as business outcomes
- impacts clinical performance via claims data
- recognize how to leverage data to inform your organization’s overall strategy
As telehealth seems more and more likely to remain a staple – not just a trend – in healthcare delivery, let’s look at how HIT experts will contribute to its success.
Health information technology & telehealth 101
HIT professionals can identify opportunities for collaboration for your organization’s telemedicine/telehealth services. From the use of electronic technologies in the delivery of clinical services to the patient outreach, continuing education, and other applications central to supporting those services, these professionals are crucial to virtual care efforts.
Improving “accessibility and interoperable information systems are critical for the success of telemedicine,” projects largely led by those in the HIT field.
Integrating the depth of expertise
Healthcare organizations today know the challenge of keeping up with digital transformation. The right mix of teams must understand organizational readiness needs as well as all be prepared to tackle technology integration at any stage. Successful integrations help ensure adherence to clinical documentation and coding requirements and to secure proper reimbursement.
As patients continue to demand telehealth opportunities, the rollout and evolution of technologies required demands the adoption of industry-standard platforms and applications. These optimize the patient journey while protecting organizations’ digital infrastructure. And as HIT experts evolve and customize their approach to fit the ever-growing needs of organizations, technologies become better equipped to support the life cycle of patient care.
When it comes to the expansion of telehealth, healthcare organizations are also assessing how interoperability is essential to telehealth success. It’s clear that “comfort with technology can be increased with interoperability,” further evidence that HIT experts are vital to organizations. They are primed to support teams as interoperable telehealth platforms are put in place – platforms that can “better collect and record key patient data necessary for the approval of life-saving drugs.”
As part of the new modern healthcare landscape, telehealth must be more than functional; it must also be flexible. That includes data and how its transfer and use helps patients as well as organizations. HIT experts take on the task of assessing data investments to help organizations:
- make decisions
- improve visibility
- visualize data in real time
- predict and target population health delivery opportunities
- optimize profitability
It’s crucial to remember that “virtual care does not advance without meaningful data that is measured and analyzed for lessons learned on quality of care, cost and experience.” So having HIT experts who can collect and analyze data helps organizations put data investments into action, scale telehealth services, support data sharing, continuously optimize clinical workflows and processes.
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