Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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

MAY 3, 2021

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care.

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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

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. ” FCC funding for telehealth expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. "Even simple electronic chart review consultations of in-patients have been found to be beneficial in some contexts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours." " The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the implementation of telehealth for St. John's started implementing telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Primary care providers saw a more than 50% drop-off in volumes during the second quarter of 2020. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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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. At the Wright Center for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, Medent is both our EHR [and] telemedicine service provider."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“This solution was a good start and allowed for our doctors to deliver the beginnings of telehealth at Maple Knoll. But they were three separate systems that did not integrate with the EHR platform. “We gain access to launch telehealth sessions from within our EHR system and streamline billing.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. My firm's work with health systems on their digital health and digital transformation programs suggests that while telehealth technologies have matured rapidly in the wake of the pandemic, the implementation of virtual care programs has been a struggle.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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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

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. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, was facing the problem of providing quality patient care in a safe environment while most of its patient base was staying home. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. After athenahealth announced the FaceTime integration, Riad began to transition in-person visits in March to telehealth visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems now provide the majority of telehealth across the country. To get a perspective on the situation from a brand-new player, Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare and a primary care physician. Q: Please discuss the strong connection with EHR giant Epic.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Exec Summary: Amazon One Medical is a healthcare service that offers a combination of in-person primary care and virtual care options.It Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand. Regulatory Hurdles: Expanding text-based care may require navigating regulatory frameworks.

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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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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

WakeMed Health turned to RelyMD, a telemedicine technology vendor, for the telehealth piece. In addition to wayfinding, app users can schedule an appointment, reserve their seat in urgent cares, check up-to-date emergency department and urgent care wait times, and, with the RelyMD service, access virtual urgent care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2021

Geisinger Health, based in Danville, Pennsylvania, embarked on a telehealth journey to develop a single solution that could bring care closer to home for patients across the care continuum. The telehealth program now offers more than 70 specialties, including neurology, pulmonology, dentistry, behavioral health and others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

MedStar Health was fundamental in helping us build essential capabilities including our bidirectional and seemingly ‘invisible’ EHR integration, which is why we have the highest clinician adoption rates in the industry. Suki’s mission is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive with an AI platform that powers the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. Access to psychiatric care has been a challenge across the country. " Sandy Hall, Lighthouse Telehealth. It serves more than 23,000 individuals annually. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The Boston-based MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium was created for Federally Qualified Health Centers to come together to master telehealth so that their patients could access quality care despite the pandemic. Supporting patient-side enablement and access also is a persistent issue for FQHCs seeking to do more telehealth.

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