Mobi Health News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Researchers found physicians who provided more care through telemedicine also increased their time spent on after-hours EHR-based clinical and administrative work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

The explosion of telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered, in turn, conversations about how to achieve seamless electronic health record integration. Some telehealth platforms offer agnostic integration with a host of EHR systems, while some EHRs offer their own in-house telehealth option.

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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. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With telehealth a mainstream technology today because of the necessities of the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers need the technology to be a natural part of their workflow and an easy way to connect with patients. Here, Lotan shares his expertise with the combined forces of telehealth and EHRs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. "An obvious potential driver of this finding is that many clinicians delivered care virtually via telemedicine, including both phone and video visits," observed researchers. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved.

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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. Outside of PSHs, their time spent documenting in the EHR increased from 4.29

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. What is it about oncology that makes it a good fit for telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience. On another IT note, with the onset of COVID-19, it was imperative to quickly implement a telehealth solution that could integrate seamlessly with the current IT set-up and help the clinic meet the needs of remote patient care. ” PROPOSAL. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Niagara Falls Memorial chose the eClinicalWorks telemedicine system to solve the problem. “With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. " Jeffrey M. Perry, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 30, 2022

When it comes to telehealth, interoperability has various layers. To better understand the critical role interoperability plays in telemedicine, we spoke with Tom Foley, the Vice President of Growth at AMD Global Telemedicine. What does interoperability mean for telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Within the Osmind EHR, clinicians can access a suite of digital tools to meet high-patient demand, like progress monitoring and journaling tools. "As clinicians, we have a professional obligation to only use telehealth platforms that are HIPAA-compliant," she added. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The practice was an early adopter of telehealth back in 2010, implementing it as a way to care for people unable to attend in-person sessions. Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. At first, caregivers were using WebEx and Google Hangouts. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. "I believe telemedicine is here to stay, because I have proof that it works, and remote patient encounters are a viable option for physicians." " Raleigh Medical Group has more than 55,000 patients on the portal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. It's not true telemedicine." "But that model does not work in 2020, because where would staff set it up?"

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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

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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. And was the EHR created with your experience in mind?

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

We were one of those organizations that flipped over to telemedicine pretty seamlessly. We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. We were doing about 250 daily consumer facing telemedicine visits pre-pandemic. million telemedicine visit for ambulatory care last year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"User experience deficiencies highlighted the importance of easy-to-use telemedicine tools as it directly impacted the effectiveness of clinical services," he continued. "Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

Hospitals and health systems across the country are rolling out telemedicine services for patients. For the telemedicine piece, the organization needed a platform that was compatible with the app and could be integrated within the app. WakeMed Health turned to RelyMD, a telemedicine technology vendor, for the telehealth piece.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Telehealth alleviates the challenges these patients face in managing their health by creating access to routine and specialty appointments from wherever is most convenient for them. To scale for rapid deployment of services, Geisinger invested in a single telehealth platform for inpatient, outpatient and home-based services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a tool aimed at automatically identifying patients likely to need telehealth technical assistance. When telemedicine appointments skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Johns Hopkins team struggled to support patients who needed extra assistance. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Wautaga already had three inpatient teams and was looking for a telemedicine company to handle a fourth. Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. " Dr. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System. " MARKETPLACE.

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