Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

An example is the vCare or Virtual Care unit and their role is to provide emergency and acute care support to the 35 rural hospitals, which started in 2008. The vCare unit has also been enhanced to support the inpatients as many of the facilities do not often have doctors available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. The risk of infection from face-to-face clinical interactions forced health providers to give their patients alternative channels to receive care, making virtual visits commonplace. Patient and provider response to telehealth has been quite positive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

"Instead, most RPM programs today do not appear to be widely scalable or sustainable, which could eventually pose a risk to the quality of care and patient outcomes. "Delivering this bundle of services ensured comprehensive patient care and supported interventions after hospital discharge," he explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. WHY IT MATTERS. health systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen. Triaged patients often are sent for testing (for example, labs, imaging, etc.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

Portugal is making big leaps in telehealth development with the newly introduced National Strategic Telehealth Plan (PENTS), the first document in the National Health System in Portugal and one of the first of its kind in the world. “Many of our telehealth services are local.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. At the height of the pandemic, the use of telehealth reached just 13% of outpatient visits. Improved workflows.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Previously used telemedicine technologies for Mayo Clinic’s tele-neonatology program had issues with reliability, including ability to establish and maintain a connection for the duration of the tele-neonatology consultation. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 12, 2019

Inpatient adoption has risen from 54 percent in 2014 to 85 percent in 2019 according to Definitive Healthcare’s 2019 Inpatient Telehealth Study. Providers turn to telehealth apps that don’t integrate with the hospital EHR. Ready to see first-hand how a virtual health platform can transform care delivery? Detached and Divided.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Improving care accessibility may fit nicely with an organization’s ideologica. We need to stop talking about “telemedicine” and “telehealth” as if they were ends in themselves, and begin talking about the broader opportunities of collaborative care that the technology brings.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Improving care accessibility may fit nicely with an organization’s ideologica. We need to stop talking about “telemedicine” and “telehealth” as if they were ends in themselves, and begin talking about the broader opportunities of collaborative care that the technology brings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Philips’ strong patient monitoring portfolio in critical care provides continuous monitoring for every care setting – from the point-of-care, to the unit central station, to a virtualised care provider or team. An example of acute care at the virtual care level is the Philips eICU Program solution.

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American Well

APRIL 13, 2020

Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit integrated health system headquartered in Utah, has built a robust virtual health program that includes Connect Care , its direct-to-consumer telehealth service and Connect Care Pro , its acute care program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Abnormal results trigger telehealth RN follow-up."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2025

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, CEO at KeyCare Health systems will seek to increase patients’ access to virtual care options as a means of widening their digital front doors and catering to consumer demand for convenient care options, including on-demand 24×7 virtual urgent care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Wendy Deibert , RN, is senior vice president of clinical solutions at Caregility, a telehealth technology and services company. She has 34 years of nursing experience as a bedside critical care nurse, manager, senior consultant, operations manager and executive. What is attracting healthcare provider organizations to virtual nursing?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

Cybersecurity, particularly where medical devices are concerned, has taken on increased significance as more patients benefit from connected care. "Increased connectivity has resulted in individual devices operating as single elements of larger medical device systems," noted the FDA in its draft guidance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

NYU Langone Health experienced explosive growth in telehealth visits, online appointment booking, online physician finding, remote patient monitoring, and connecting via video inside the hospital when visitors could not be accommodated. " Dr. Paul Testa, NYU Langone Health. Taking transformation to the next level.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The discussion, which was moderated by Sylvia Romm, MD, medical director at American Well, included the following panelists: Bruce Rosenthal, MD , Medical Director, Consumer Telehealth Services, UPMC. Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Build a telehealth program on what already exists. “We

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

That’s a big promise and vision, so to kick the tires on such a Holy Grail I had the opportunity to meet, virtually, with two key leaders of Philips’ health care business: Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader Connected Care, and Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The discussion, which was moderated by Sylvia Romm, MD, medical director at American Well, included the following panelists: Bruce Rosenthal, MD , Medical Director, Consumer Telehealth Services, UPMC. Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Build a telehealth program on what already exists. “We

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Telehealth has emerged as a transformative tool in delivering these services, offering virtual consultations, continuous monitoring, and improved care coordination. This partnership between CCM and telehealth enhances patient engagement and reduces healthcare costs by minimizing emergency room visits and hospital admissions.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In a national study of over 2,000 consumers , 64% said they would be willing to have a telehealth visit with their doctor via video. The Alliance for Connected Care concludes that a telehealth visit for acute care represents $126 in savings over an in-person visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

The acquisition will considerably expand eVisit’s inpatient telehealth capabilities in facilitating quick, expert care, advancing its leadership in serving health systems across ambulatory and inpatient care settings. The leading healthcare provider in Maryland and the Washington, D.C.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For example, EHRs can be integrated with patient relationship management platforms, delivering patient-centered care that leads to stronger patient relationships. The ultimate goal is to create connected care environments where providers can focus on patient care rather than managing multiple systems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Financial toxicity is a growing concern among oncologists treating patients with cancer, for example. Connected Care: VA, Virtual Health and the Patient Experience | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18. To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Patient Care Experience Kyle Ryan, Chief Technology Officer at Tebra As telehealth continues to expand, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is becoming a more widely used option to improve the patient care experience, and better connect providers with patients outside the doctor’s office.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In a national study of over 2,000 consumers , 64% said they would be willing to have a telehealth visit with their doctor via video. The Alliance for Connected Care concludes that a telehealth visit for acute care represents $126 in savings over an in-person visit.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A major difference between GlobalMed and other telehealth vendors is the way our products fit so well into providers’ needs. That’s because our team brings hands-on clinical experience to our product design and development – and no one is a better example of that than our Chief Clinical Officer, Gigi Sorenson. Baptism by Fire.

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