Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation. The virtual ICU has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries, knowing they had available to them the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

“We also needed to be able to conduct patient visits while simultaneously documenting the encounter, without disruption to our workflow,” he explained. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. " Dr. Dillon Miller, Blue Ridge Medical Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. Telehealth technologies became part of the clinical care delivery model. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved. MEETING THE CHALLENGE With the EHR integration of telemedicine, all patient encounters now are in a single system. Operations changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"We invested in our telemedicine solution – integrated into our enterprise electronic health record – to offer a convenient and cost-effective complement to in-person visits and streamline patient care." MARKETPLACE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. “No dual documentation was required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Health systems experience completion of notes up to 72% faster while increasing documentation quality, improving clinician well-being, and enhancing revenue capture. billion health system with more than 300 care locations, is a key initiative to support MedStar Health’s commitment to patient care, clinician well-being, and innovation.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Regulatory mandates for medical devices are growing , and that requires frequent updates coupled with thorough security documentation, noted Alex Rybakt at Revenera. Read more… Bonus Features for October 6, 2024: Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors; behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Thus, systems that offer reliable, asynchronous communication methods and provide relevant education are ideal for cancer patients. This way, patients can report side effects following treatment and ask their care teams if this is something that is to be expected.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. Why do you think this is?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The telehealth service, which was developed and launched by Metro North Health during the height of the pandemic in 2020, is being made available for all Queenslanders needing urgent non-life threatening care. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Quality Care Patient Access Care. Queensland expands virtual ED service statewide.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

A great telehealth program is true to the core values of the healing arts. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You could see that eCW had put a lot of focus on improving the speed of documentation including number of clicks and time spent documenting. I think time spent documenting matters a lot more than clicks even if clicks are often cited as the problem. It literally showed how much time was spend after hours documenting.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Partnerships AI documentation and coding vendor Ambience Healthcare joined athenahealth’s Marketplace Program. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement. Johns Hopkins Medicine selected Caregility for its virtual care platform and inpatient telehealth devices.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Considering the “poor health” bar in the graph, we can see the opportunity for telehealth and home visits to people who may have mobility and other challenges leaving the home space. “The positive, salutary effects of having a USC have been documented for decades,” the authors note.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

AI-Powered Tools: AI-powered features can automate routine tasks, such as data entry and documentation, freeing up clinicians' time to focus on patient care. However, its potential to improve clinical decision-making, enhance patient experience, and increase efficiency makes it a valuable tool for healthcare organisations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The platform will provide secure, decentralized data capture, document management, study monitoring and electronic consent for the clinical trial, according to the tech company's announcement. Integration with medical devices supports remote data collection, and mobile access to the platform will help Mayo Clinic manage the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

We interviewed Ben-Aharon to talk about the convergence of speech therapy and telehealth. How is speech therapy delivered via telehealth? The pandemic introduced many people to the convenience of accessing multiple healthcare services via virtual care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth.

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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

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. “Privacy” is mentioned over 500 times in the document; “HIPAA,” well over 300.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If a long-term care facility or PCP has the ACP but no copy is available to the hospital, they can’t consider it when making critical decisions such as whether to resuscitate an unconscious patient. A document detailing the ACP is valuable when a family is bickering over what to do with a dying patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. " Telehealth: Now what? One exec says the basic concept of the doc-patient video visit is not enough. " EHRs: Automation can help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Instead of bouncing between applications, providers go to a single location to provide care and document a patient encounter, provide aftercare instructions, and view and share patient data, which is integrated into their main practice EMR and billing departments. Integrate with EMS systems allowing onsite care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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