Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. NYU Langone Health launched its telehealth initiative more than two years ago, but study co-author Dr. Paul Testa told Healthcare IT News that patient use skyrocketed in March.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

Historically, they've faced a lack of resources, a lack of strategic decision-making, a lack of time and attention to devote to telehealth, and a lack of reimbursement opportunities, said Lacktman. Such centers acted as the "backbone of early growth of telehealth in the country," he said.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The American Board of Telehealth announced this week that it is launching a Teleprimary Care Certificate program, geared toward helping primary care providers develop future virtual health strategies. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

There are numerous facets on employer-sponsored health care to explore in the KFF report’s 220 pages, but I’m going to focus in on a few issues with which I’m working these days: on prescription drugs, telehealth, and mental health. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity. But when the crisis made itself evident, explained HMFP Director of Telehealth?? "We hope it sustains virtual care for many years to come!"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

" The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 " The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 The VA currently manages 1,800 ICU beds nationwide. billion VA budget for IT for next year – 12% more than in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What were some of the changes you saw at CareCloud during the pandemic when it came to telehealth? Did some specialties see a greater increase in numbers?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 10, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked an unprecedented upswing in the use of telehealth technologies. And, of course, existing problems with phishing are only exacerbated by individuals' hunger for knowledge about the pandemic. "There's nothing inherently riskier about telehealth technology," Riley said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

However, a rush to develop and implement telehealth technology, and a host of other digital health services, could make it even easier for cybercriminals looking to gain access to private medical records in the coming year," read the report. "Cyberattacks are nothing new to the healthcare industry. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Subsequent steps delve into details of telehealth program implementation: designing workflows, change management for care teams and scaling up. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

At the start of the pandemic, emergency declarations and insurer policies encouraged the shift to telehealth. Telehealth usage has skyrocketed, often leading patients to grow accustomed to relying on virtual care for its convenience and cost-efficiency. Now, as states across the U.S. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2021

But Valley View and most FQHCs were limited here because FQHCs were unable to bill for most telehealth services. Early on in the pandemic, Valley View applied for and was awarded $451,400 from the FCC's telehealth funding program. Our new telehealth care delivery has been successful. New technologies popping up every day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

Q: You talk about the long-term health equity benefits of telehealth, including reaching more patients in remote regions without travel requirements. A: Last summer, I developed an all-Spanish cleft palate speech therapy graduate course for my students at Teacher's College, Columbia University. Can you elaborate?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

"This is what created the need for the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program, where patients are discharged to receive courses of intravenous antibiotics at home, often for weeks," said infectious diseases physician Dr. Joseph Sassine, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

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MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. Patient and provider response to telehealth has been quite positive. However, increased telehealth adoption and use also is elevating patient expectations. Questions that he answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring. “During the first week of April, 74% of our visits were being conducted via telehealth. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

In Tullman's view, the telehealth revolution spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic has unmistakable advantages, especially for people who may not have had access to care in the past. However, Tullman predicted, telehealth by itself won't be enough going forward. "Technology creates abundance," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. Telehealth seemed to be a natural fit for my patients. "Telehealth is very personal to me, and a passion of mine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those with acute clinical conditions. Many previous large studies of telehealth use have relied on Medicare data. A study of 40.7 WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. Rush’s KPIs for telehealth are “beyond our wildest dreams,” Truesdell said, especially given Rush serves a state lacking payer parity.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 29, 2020

Following up on our episode from a few weeks ago, host Jonah Comstock sits down (virtually of course) with Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, medical director and vice president of mental health services at Teladoc Health to discuss findings from a recent survey on COVID-19 and behavioral health, as well as his own experiences seeing patients via telehealth during (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

He also highlighted a major new priority at OIG: telehealth. "As policymakers, we want to look at what telehealth might look like after the pandemic," said Vanlandingham. How to make sure that patients are getting good quality care from telehealth? How will this impact their expenditures for healthcare programs?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth revolutionized the way people receive healthcare since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been many benefits to greatly expanded telehealth. What should people look out for when choosing a telehealth provider? What should people look out for when choosing a telehealth provider?

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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. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders.

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Clocktree

AUGUST 25, 2017

Of course, if you use popups and log onto Clocktree from a shared device, we do not recommend that you allow notifications on that device due to privacy concerns. Turn this switch on, then click on Allow in the message from the browser that shows up right afterwards. Your clients also have the option to receive popup notifications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring was a logical additional step, said Doug Smith, CEO of Greene County Health Care. Ten years ago, Greene County piloted a telehealth program and kept at it. "We have $157,000 in outside funding for this, and we have provided another $300,000 or so over the course of the three years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

There's one session titled, "From Preventative To Proactive: How Partnerships are Reimagining Telehealth's Role In Healthy Aging." " None of that is a coincidence, of course. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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AMD Telemedicine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Over the past decade, telehealth has become increasingly popular as a means to provide care to patients. However, the adoption of telehealth services has become more of a priority for healthcare providers since the onset of the pandemic. Deploying a telehealth solution doesn’t end after running an initial training session.

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