Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. ” This opportunity allowed Temple to be flexible in the modality of telemedicine visits in multiple settings.

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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. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Signers also included the Connected Health Initiative, the Alliance for Connected Care, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. "The ATA and the ATA’s data work group believe that the protection of patient data is a prerequisite for connected care and a core principle for our organization.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you’re a telemedicine advocate, you know it can transform rural healthcare. Virtual care is extending emergency services to South American villages unreachable by ambulance ; it’s helping to stem the rising tide of communicable and chronic disease in Africa. Telemedicine works best when it adapts to existing healthcare strategies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

MaineHealth wanted telemedicine technology that could easily integrate into its care models and that would be highly accessible for patients to use. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " MARKETPLACE. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

But the consumer pressures, along with evidence-based self-service options for health – both for “care” and for wellness, fitness and prevention – bring us to this inflection point for virtual health. The post Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

” These challenges prompted Mayo Clinic to develop a tele-neonatology program that allows neonatologists to establish a real-time audio/video telemedicine connection with care teams in community hospitals during these high-risk, low-frequency neonatal emergencies. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Intuitive software tools can help to connect care teams and patients. It is also of note to mention, the opportunity for a physician or care team to see the environment of the patient. By meeting with the patient in their home, they are able to identify clues in their surroundings during a virtual visit. References.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With more than two decades of telemedicine experience and research, the Washington, D.C.-based based Children's National Hospital Telemedicine team identified a disparity in access to the internet and digital tools that disproportionately affects low-income and rural communities, causing a digital divide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

"In response, health care organizations across the nation have dramatically transformed and made significant investments in new technologies and care delivery models, not only to meet COVID driven patient demand, but to prepare for America’s future health care needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The task force, which was convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association, represented a broad spectrum of stakeholders who spent the summer building consensus around the challenges and opportunities for virtual care.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted to move forward with plans for a $100 million pilot program to promote telemedicine services. The FCC voted to adopt a notice of proposed rulemaking for a program dubbed the Connected Care Pilot. He cited data from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” In addition, United Methodist’s new telehealth system ensures that all residents are given the ability to remotely connect with their primary care providers in a safe and secure environment. “Studies show that more frequent contact with primary care physicians drives better health outcomes.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine. iRhythm Technologies.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 27, 2023

In her new role, Sheeza will lead the commercial team, including business development, sales, and marketing to drive growth and expand SteadyMD’s footprint in the rapidly evolving telemedicine industry. As the demand for telemedicine continues to grow, SteadyMD is well-positioned to meet the needs of patients and providers alike.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Roughly 2 in 5 healthcare leaders look to technology to connect with out-of-hospital settings, cloud-based tech to support access to information “everywhere,” decision support tech (such as AI in clinical settings), communications, workflow applications, and patient-facing mobile check-in and registration.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. Digital delivery of connected care allows services like Dario to provide a huge amount of data to the payers who fund their service. Prasad cited studies finding that 80% of patients would continue to meet online.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Below is a breakdown of the five biggest takeaways for this clinical meeting of the minds: 1. For providers, we demonstrate what constitutes a high standard of care and how we are meeting that,” says Dr. Daines.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Below is a breakdown of the five biggest takeaways for this clinical meeting of the minds: 1. For providers, we demonstrate what constitutes a high standard of care and how we are meeting that,” says Dr. Daines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. GlobalMed offers software, stations and diagnostic devices for telemedicine delivery. First Stop Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. "I think the FCC should support this new trend towards connected care, which is the healthcare equivalent of moving from Blockbuster to Netflix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. In 2017, the VA announced a new initiative called "Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care," followed by bipartisan legislation enabling interstate telemedicine for VA providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Parker is using the Healow application by eClinicalWorks for its telemedicine program. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ” PROPOSAL. ” MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here. ” Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. [For Hygiene and the clean home. In the pandemic, consumers have learned to hack new ways of making a clean, hygienic environment living most days inside.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When the meet-up convenes over 100,000 tech-folk in Las Vegas at the start of 2023, we’ll see even more health and self-care tools and services at #CES23 — along with new-new things displayed in aisles well outside of the physical space on the Las Vegas Convention Center map labeled “digital health” at this year’s CES in the North Hall.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. "We went ahead.

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American Well

MARCH 30, 2020

Policymakers and public officials have moved quickly to broaden telehealth access in order to meet the sudden demand for both COVID-19-related care and the routine medical care that must now happen remotely. Additional resources: CMS Medicare Telemedicine Health Care Provider Fact Sheet (3/17).

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To that end, a group of industry representatives recently met at a closed-door meeting at the White House to discuss “ways to increase choice and competition in telemedicine,” as reported by Politico’s Arthur Allen. In that meeting, which included White House representatives along with officials from the U.S. Giroir, MD.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Those provisions were met with approval, and also some disappointment.

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