Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustaining quality telehealth programs. "Telehealth will play a pivotal role in the healthcare delivery system. This, along with other technologies, will be used for clinical decision making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. ” "For these more complex visits to be successful, CIOs must also prioritize telehealth that is equipped to maintain rules of engagement for both patients and physicians. " Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Amwell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2020

This required NYPCC to get set up on a telehealth platform and to enable all of its clinicians to work remotely. When the state of emergency was declared, NYPCC realized it was imperative that it pivot to a telehealth model that allowed the organization to continue providing the vital services its communities needed.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Training the tech support. These bolster, Education, from early childhood through vocational training and higher ed. Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Connectivity. Applications. Food systems, and finally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. And the organization had been using a tele-education system to train providers in rural areas. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. Azalea Health is a health IT vendor that offers an EHR and telehealth tech, and is offering clients free telehealth services for one year to fight the pandemic. " Jill Veach, MEBS Counseling. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. But telehealth is much more. Who is my telehealth consumer?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. What does your survey show in the area of expected growth and investment in telehealth?

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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. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. Watauga Medical Center, which is the main hospital, did not use Telehealth Solution's services until it was hit hard with COVID-19.?"They To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity. But when the crisis made itself evident, explained HMFP Director of Telehealth??

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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

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.” services, using free, individual accounts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

" The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 " The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 The VA currently manages 1,800 ICU beds nationwide. billion VA budget for IT for next year – 12% more than in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S. NETCCN is a virtual health project designed to address the shortage of critical care trained clinicians. Where there are no ICU beds, there are no critical care trained clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2020

The health center did not have a telehealth platform or workflow in place since it had not been providing telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Holyoke Health Center was able to replace in-person medical appointments with telehealth appointments using a combination of Zoom and Doximity. THE PROBLEM.

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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. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. Rush’s KPIs for telehealth are “beyond our wildest dreams,” Truesdell said, especially given Rush serves a state lacking payer parity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2023

Te Whatu Ora seeks rural telehealth service providers Te Whatu Ora, in collaboration with Te Aka Whai Ora, is seeking providers of rural telehealth services. The proposal seeks one or more telehealth service providers for each rural region: Northern, Te Manawa Taki, Central, and Te Waipounamu.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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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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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. “The implementation was quick, and it was easy to train our staff on. Florida’s Orlando Internal Medicine had relied heavily on manual efforts to facilitate administrative tasks. THE PROBLEM.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Telehealth has been operationally implemented within Intermountain Healthcare since 2015, with pilots running for several years prior. As a result, clinical services continued to consider telehealth delivery options and expand access for patients into rural locations. Embracing the telehealth opportunity.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Telehealth is critical – build capability now. Help your Help Desk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care. "The speed of the wildfires left no time for evaluating commercial telehealth platforms," Nicewicz said. Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy.

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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 News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

So we looked for a solution that did not require office staff to train the full range of patients on how to use the technology, and rather leave that up to Apple, Samsung, Google, etc.," " In fact, one of the biggest struggles with EHR-based portals is adoption, and the best only get into the 60-75% range, he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The health center tried to use its existing telehealth platform, doxy.me, to reach patients. "Their expertise in both healthcare and telehealth really shined through; they were extremely diligent in pulling back the curtain on underlying issues, both on our side and on the patient's end." THE PROBLEM.

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