Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"To be able to show an average reduction [in depression] across all clients given that we were having very few in-person sessions speaks volumes for the healing ability of telemedicine." "In the beginning of the pandemic, we also used FaceTime and Duo under the HIPAA waiver," East recalled. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Several consumer surveys published to coincide with CES 2020 provide insights into the new consumer trust mindset across industries, but especially important for health engagement. Six in ten people told Kantar that privacy concerns like data breaches prevent them from using wearable tracking devices or using telemedicine services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. The post Down in the Delta – Up in Telehealth: MTA 2020 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! By 2020, IU Health had launched on-demand virtual psychiatry assessments in the ED and a virtual peer recovery program, going live in 14 hospitals in less than 100 days. telemedicine hubs at two locations for patients needing mental health and addiction therapy.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In early 2020, when the pandemic changed the medical center's in-person workflows overnight, the facility needed a quick and easy-to-use telehealth solution that allowed staff to continue to see established patients during lockdowns. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Clinicians create a virtual mental health appointment using Zoom's secure, HIPAA-compliant video technology, share that link with the patient and launch the online meeting directly from the Osmind patient app. "As clinicians, we have a professional obligation to only use telehealth platforms that are HIPAA-compliant," she added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

This article was originally published in October 2020 but was updated in June 2022. . The publication reported that many practices were using 20 or more different telemedicine services due to physicians and even individual departments adopting various platforms. Virtual Care Is More Than Telemedicine Video Visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. We follow HIPAA guidelines and employ strict access controls. It's the concept that got us off the ground and in front of consumers since the get-go.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. "But that model does not work in 2020, because where would staff set it up?" It's not true telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

"Operationalizing this took a significant effort, and as MCHS closed facilities due to the pandemic starting on March 16, 2020, teams from across MCHS stopped work on other projects to launch telehealth services to meet our needs for COVID-19." " MCHS anticipates a similar volume in 2021 to what it saw in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

As for telehealth, there are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus. The provider organization uses Lifesize as the video conferencing equipment for its telemedicine services. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“Very few if any skilled nursing facilities used telemedicine as a method for treating patients, citing a series of concerns, for example, poor connectivity, assumptions that patients would not benefit, and a concern that they could not support the equipment,” Kalechstein explained. Are the devices/software HIPAA-compliant?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

We use a HIPAA-compliant software that allows for two-way, high definition video and audio. Over the course of three weeks, from the end of August through early September 2020, I collected a total of 115 surveys. First, have robust and easy-to-use telehealth software and affirm that it is HIPAA-compliant.

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GlobalMed

MAY 19, 2020

As policy limitations are lifted and curiosity about virtual care increases, patients and providers alike are considering telemedicine as a way to receive and give care. Although there are many things you want to consider when looking to develop your own telemedicine program, here are a few starter questions to ask yourself.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 7, 2020

Lately, we’ve been hearing from providers who want to adopt telemedicine but haven’t run a virtual program before. So today we’re answering their most common questions – and hopefully helping those of you out there who are just beginning your telemedicine journey. What’s the difference between telehealth, telemedicine and virtual care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"The most important result we have achieved is we have been able to meaningfully and effectively remain connected to our patients since March 2020 using telehealth solutions." "Both vendors are HIPAA-compliant and work with healthcare providers nationally. " Reshma Patel Stone, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 3) Staff Training.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2024

As telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and other digital tools become more prevalent, the volume of sensitive patient data grows. Healthcare organizations that have embraced innovative tools such as telemedicine and remote patient monitoring are also investing heavily in data protection and IT security. million in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. From that point forward, all health systems will need to have a HIPAA-compliant solution at the ready.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Telemedicine was transforming healthcare landscapes by utilizing technology to provide clinical care remotely. Telemedicine ranges from simple text messaging for medical advice to advanced procedures like remotely controlled surgery. Telemedicine can also lead to better resource allocation and utilization.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 21, 2022

And telehealth upgrades that will improve the overall telemedicine experience for both patients and healthcare organizations can’t come too soon. According to the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, telehealth visits rose 3,000% between November 2019 and November 2020. Making healthcare touchpoints more convenient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. We selected Amwell as our telehealth vendor and planned to initiate implementation during the first quarter of 2020." " Then COVID-19 hit. MARKETPLACE.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 24, 2020

In late January, we published our forecast on telemedicine reimbursement this year. No industry has been more dramatically disrupted than healthcare – but the pandemic has also illuminated telemedicine in what many are calling an ignition event. Let’s look at the new reimbursement rules of telemedicine.

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Ortholive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

and founder of the OrthoLive telemedicine platform agreed on a recent MGMA Podcast episode. He says providers are using telemedicine to make their practices more efficient and to increase convenience for their patients. Can telemedicine improve your practice workflows? Michael Greiwe, M.D. Listen to the podcast here:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. There is a dedicated help line. The software is multilingual.

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