Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. The 39 telehealth-eligible eCQMs for the 2021 performance period can be found here.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

To combat this challenge, McLaren has implemented what it calls its Clinic to Clinic telehealth service in several of these locations, connecting physician specialists from tertiary sites to patients in the rural sites. 24/7 urgent care. " Cheryl Ellegood, McLaren Health Care. ” Documenting virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. The FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

At the first peak of the pandemic, when telehealth was on the rise and Monument physicians were more pressed for time than ever before, Nuance debuted a new product called Dragon Ambient eXperience , or DAX. She expects to see an immediate reduction in physician workloads and a seamless transition to telehealth visits. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Janine Cox, Operations Director – Health System Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia We are hoping to see an improvement in the utilisation of video telehealth within residential aged care homes. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. Like most physicians, PCPs spend considerable time on administrative documentation and managing capacity. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The future potential of telehealth hinges on how it's reimbursed. Virtual care may be popular among patients, but if providers can't get paid for their services, it's unlikely they'll be able to continue to provide them. "Many of my clients who weren't even telehealth providers before have jumped into the fray."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened Tuesday to discuss the future of virtual care. Policymakers and stakeholders emphasized the importance of balancing access to care with addressing concerns around fraud and overutilization. Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

The second table from the PwC report details patients delaying care by consumer segment, health, and insurance status. In the first months of the pandemic, patients postponed many forms of care, including prevention, primary care, and even cancer care. The cost of services is another key driver of medical trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND In August, Cerner added Suki's ambient voice technology to complete documentation with bidirectional sync and in September partnered with MEDITECH to integrate Suki Assistant into the company's Expanse EHR. Suki also said that its AI voice assistant delivers nine times the return on its investment in the first year.

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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 News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. The FCC telehealth funding program awarded the clinic $917,255 for mobile hotspots, tablets and laptop computers for providers and patients, telehealth and conferencing equipment. A group of core staff convened to research and vet technology solutions, ultimately deciding on vendor OTTO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs and retail giant Walmart have opened the latest location as part of a joint effort help Vets in rural areas get better access to medical services, the first location for a new telehealth pilot program. million video telehealth encounters with more than 490,000 Veterans last year. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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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. Suki helps clinicians across specialties and settings save time on clinical documentation so they can redirect time to other aspects of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. At the same time, patients have turned to telehealth as a way to avoid in-person transmission and address medical needs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

"Patients seen this way showed a variety of symptoms and this method helped decide which cases may be more appropriate for an urgent care setting or perhaps even a referral back to primary care. The Southcoast region has been no exception to these challenges.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In The Rural Health Safety Net Under Pressure: Rural Hospital Vulnerability, the Chartis team documents the erosion of these small, remote institutions which provide the only inpatient resource for health citizens living in their geographically large service areas. Telehealth, too, can serve rural U.S. have 70% of the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent study found that primary care physicians (PCPs) spend 28.9 Customizing the view of an individual’s workflow, along with the use of voice recognition templates, greatly aids in minimizing documentation time. The ability to access information efficiently can substantially lessen physician burnout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

The phone number listed on official Care Medical documents automatically redirects, as of March, to the customer service line for Amazon Care. Business Insider has also reported that Care Medical contracts exclusively with Amazon Care. Box in downtown Seattle as its address. Carena was acquired by Avizia in 2017.).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Access to specialty care is tough for these patients for several reasons, including transportation, child care, challenges with missing work and prolonged waiting lists for appointments. According to the clinic's ROI calculations, numerous positive impacts on healthcare costs have resulted from using the telehealth platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Access to primary care has been an issue for Baptist for the last eight years, and that got Oliver thinking of other ways to become more efficient with workflows. Asynchronous telehealth really appealed to Oliver because of its 24/7 access, anytime, with a low burden on clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With the boom of telehealth caused by the pandemic, patients by and large are more comfortable than ever looking for telemedicine advice and care. What is The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, and how does it reach the underserved in areas that lack specialty care? He determined Alan was an excellent candidate for a repair.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

There will be a growing acceptance among providers and payers to embrace new technology offerings, particularly as we find ourselves in a COVID-centric era that is so dependent on telehealth and other digital tools to support behavioral health providers and the continued surge in patients seeking care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Check out our community’s Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications predictions: Trea Zemaitis, Senior Security Engineer at Core4ce The integration of IoT devices in healthcare has transformed patient care, enabling continuous monitoring and personalized treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR. "In the month of April, our patient visits were 20% telehealth, 80% in-person. In May, it was 50-50.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Telehealth technology opened the doors to new hope that we would survive, and that we would have the ability to serve our patients' needs in a safe and convenient way." With telehealth technology, they could be attended from the comfort of their own home and not risk getting exposed to illness in the lobby.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. "Lack of care opportunities due to transportation, limited primary care locations and inadequate income opportunities can send many patients running to the emergency department. THE PROBLEMS. " Sean E.

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