Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Health Information Exchanges (HIE) seem to be emerging where integration between systems is not available. We look forward to monitoring the progress nationally and identifying where primary care fits within this model of information sharing. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

Least likely to feel burned out are public health and preventive medicine doctors, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, psychiatrists, ENTs, and general surgeons. What contributes most to burnout, doctors told Medscape, was by far onerous bureaucratic tasks — paperwork, charting, and lack of time for hands-on patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The first would be the platform’s ability to integrate into an electronic health record. TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Integration into the Epic EHR began immediately.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This move could significantly impact the UK healthcare landscape, potentially enabling the creation of a more comprehensive and integrated health record system. Key Points: TPP's Strengths: TPP is a major player in the UK healthcare IT market, known for its electronic health record (EHR) system, SystmOne.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. during the public health crisis. The Atlantic offered this take this week].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

“Cameras were deployed into endocrinology, primary care clinics and our satellite neighborhood health clinics,” said Dr. Yousuf Khalifa, chief of ophthalmology at Atlanta’s Grady Health System, which is affiliated with Emory University. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. "Medical assistants operate the cameras."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

"As a result, Sun River's program did not typically utilize technologies that operated on non-health center network infrastructure and faced ongoing challenges in sustaining telemedicine programming." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Intellectual and developmental disabilities care software provider CentralReach announced an exclusive partnership with AI.Measures , which provides assessments for child mental health. The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs chose Relias to provide workforce training and resources for state public health leaders.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

The team points to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which maintains a list of organizations providing such training and acts as a clearinghouse for such resources.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 7, 2025

The concept of Neighbourhood Health, as outlined in recent NHS England guidelines and government rhetoric, focuses on integrating primary care, community health, mental health, and social care services into cohesive "neighbourhood teams." smartwatches) to monitor conditions like diabetes at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Because of the surge of patients caused by the public health emergency, there is an even greater need to mitigate what the World Medical Association is calling a “pandemic of physician burnout,” with more than half (51%) of physicians reporting frequent or constant feelings of burnout. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program that will waive annual fees for three years to the first five HIEs or state/local public health agencies that agree to exchange public health data. Tellingly, 70% of orgs with plans to deploy AI intend to adopt solutions via their EHR vendors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. 1) Cooperation with government/public health authority.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Chris Darland, President at Peerbridge Health Telehealth and AI-enabled remote monitoring devices are bringing care into the homes of people who struggle to access clinical services. Providers can help reduce health disparities by offering less expensive remote monitoring solutions to bridge the care gap in 2025 and beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. "We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

“The LANES technology extracts, aggregates, normalizes and categorizes relevant medical record data collected from different EHR systems such as eClinicalWorks, Cerner and Epic, to name a few,” Aguilar explained. “On the public health side, telemedicine is brand new,” Aguilar said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Equality Health. Another system the vendor offers is Teleisolation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing. If the DEA’s proposed rules become final, ATA warned in a statement , patients “will fall through the cracks, creating a significant and avoidable public health crisis.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

That said, as a large primary care office offering integrated behavioral health, it was important to expand mental health services to include specialty care for patients. Further, as a federally qualified health center, River Valley is charged with providing comprehensive, whole-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

" In primary care, and to a lesser extent in our specialty clinics, telemedicine is an option used for chronic disease management and the initial evaluation of numerous acute issues, Silvestri noted. "At present, it is not integrated with our current Epic EHR system.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Scott’s definition of population health — connecting people with resources for healthy living — encompasses health care as well as social services, and focuses on the public-private partnerships that are needed to create a holistic support system for individuals’ well-being. David Harlow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

Right now, for every hour I spend with patients, I spend two hours clicking boxes, writing paragraphs, and searching for information in the electronic health record (EHR). With a nod of respect to the primary care folks, he opined that the specialist tasks and decision-making would be automated even sooner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Digital Health Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

An interesting research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine highlighted a grim trend in health system record keeping: EHRs frequently overlook patient deaths. That’s a major issue for plenty of reasons, which UCLA Health researchers laid out after analyzing roughly 11,700 seriously ill primary care patients across 41 clinics (2020-2022).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Primary care EHR vendor Elation Health acquired Lightning MD , a cloud-based billing and claims management company.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

FHIR enables seamless data exchange by providing a standard for electronic health records (EHRs), while blockchain ensures secure and transparent transactions. AI facilitates data integration and analysis, improving clinical decision-making and personalized care.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

ADTs are simple electronic messages, typically sent by a hospital or SNF’s electronic health record (EHR), letting an assigned physician and care team know their patient has been admitted to a care setting, discharged from a care setting, or transferred to another care setting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The relaxation of state and federal regulations during the public health emergency also played a role in allowing providers to adopt these virtual practices more easily. Yet those working in direct patient care (primary care offices) were still able to leverage technology to deliver care. Conclusion.

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New Age Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2019

Each state has its own healthcare Public Health programs, schemes. The HIS/EMR market in India requires EHR and Meta Data Standards based XML wrapper objects that can help the existing systems to communicate with the external world in a Standardized format. 4 Public Sector Companies also cover Health Insurance.

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