Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. For smaller practices looking to prepare for ongoing telemedicine needs, Lacktman says there are opportunities to think creatively.

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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. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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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. "Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics , the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. As Amazon consolidated and repositioned its own telehealth offerings this summer, for instance, it announced $49 pay-per-visit consults. Why is that?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2023

Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations, clearly – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations, contended Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, vendor of a patient engagement platform. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. But the only way to deliver more targeted care is to have a better understanding of the patient prior to treatment through proper screening, and to assess patient progress throughout the entire course of treatment to adjust treatment as needed.

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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. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Clinicians and other experts at telehealth technology and services companies across the country are raising their hands, saying they could be at least one part of the solution to physician burnout. How can telemedicine be used to combat it? Physicians are burning out and leaving the front lines of healthcare in big numbers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. Healthcare IT News interviewed Berg to gain some of his telehealth and mobile health expertise. What is telehealth's impact on in-person doctor visits, and how does telehealth affect waiting times?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2021

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. Q: You said that your patients have not really embraced telehealth, which surprised you. Was telehealth operating successfully?

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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. It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits.

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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

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. ON THE RECORD.

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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

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

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform. Telehealth consultations are CSC’s new normal. Another telehealth benefit to HIE participation is the newfound ability to reconcile medications. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Calling digital health a "blessing and a curse," authors pointed to telemedicine and virtual care as particularly at risk, with organizations sometimes spinning up patchwork solutions without prioritizing security. "Cyberattacks are nothing new to the healthcare industry. THE LARGER TREND.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Telemedicine took a huge leap forward during the pandemic as more providers and patients embraced remote delivery of healthcare services. We interviewed him to discuss the intersection of telemedicine and AI. Q. What is the problem in telemedicine that you think Al is especially suited to address?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

"Healthcare is more confusing, more complex and more costly than ever before, despite all of our efforts," said Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference this week. However, Tullman predicted, telehealth by itself won't be enough going forward.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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

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 its research, the group came across Hale Health, a telemedicine technology and services vendor. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Smartfuture's white-label telehealth platform. Khumaidi wanted to find out how AlteaCare differentiates itself from other telemedicine applications. In the course of the teleconsultation, he also used a blood pressure (BP) monitor – which was connected to the Doctor Tool Hub – enabling the doctor to see his BP reading.

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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

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

JUNE 16, 2021

Telemedicine can have long-term health equity benefits, including allowing providers to reach more patients in remote regions without travel requirements and see an increased number of patients in need who have historically avoided care due to stigma. We have cleft palate speech therapy courses in English and Spanish, with French on the way.

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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. Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time.

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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

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. " None of that is a coincidence, of course. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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