Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. " Then there is the patient experience. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

"Our community health workers and social workers were not aware of the resources that existed for patients to overcome their digital barriers. A cautionary tale This is a real-life example of the ways in which Henry Ford Health was not able to equitably serve its patient population.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. planning to continue using these services (like Peloton or Hydro as examples). Food delivery, too, will see about 60% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Some of this creates a necessary overhaul of healthcare delivery in ways that were once thought to be short-term solutions, but now have become permanent to create an ideal patient experience. An example is a form. One way is to have a patient complete a paper form. Where can virtual care improve workflows?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

"Our urgent care centers' wait times and, hence, patient experience can be greatly impacted by these unpredictable ebbs and flows in patients presenting," said Dr. Brett A. " "Where else could you receive a healthcare service with a wait time of only six minutes, especially as a walk-in patient?"

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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. “Another center may use telemedicine to provide follow-up care to patients after surgery to eliminate the need for travel.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

Delivering Patient-Centered Care In addition to wanting to age in place, research shows older patients embrace virtual care – even more than younger age groups. of adults age 65 and older indicated using telemedicine in the prior 12 months compared to just 29% among patients ages 18-29. In a 2021 study, 43.3%

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Examples of Re-bundling Trends Super-Apps: These platforms combine multiple healthcare services, such as telemedicine, medication management, and health monitoring. Personalised medicine: Tailored treatment plans based on individual patient data necessitate integrated platforms to track and analyse information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

But at CES 2020, he sees launches of new health care products (citing examples from MedWand and Owlet, which I covered yesterday in Health Populi ) as the stuff to watch at CES 2020. His key observation of “Day Zero” was that, “CES is where the buzz isn’t.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For example, AmWell began collaborating with the Google cloud business, where the company invested $100 million to scale the alliance. Amwell also began allying with TytoCare this week, to enable home-based physical exams using med-tech designed for patients’ at-home use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Telemedicine took a huge leap forward during the pandemic as more providers and patients embraced remote delivery of healthcare services. We interviewed him to discuss the intersection of telemedicine and AI. Q. What is the problem in telemedicine that you think Al is especially suited to address?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. Healthcare institutions' motivations for innovation are to improve patient experience, stay relevant and support the changing care model (i.e., Other prominent solutions focus on pre-consultation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Chief Nephrologist at Strive Health In 2025, I hope to see physicians and caregivers doubling down on meeting patients where they are, and one example of this is empowering patients to manage chronic conditions comfortably from home. Equity in healthcare must also take center stage to improve the overall patient experience.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

When it comes to clinical telemedicine , there are two general categories that most “sharing” technologies tend to fall into: live real-time and store-and-forward technologies. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate. The most significant advantage is time.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Dr. Cosgrove recently left his CEO post at Cleveland Clinic, where he pioneered telemedicine and virtual health in and beyond the Cleveland target market to the larger healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

” "Yes, the cost savings are important, but the improvement in patient lives is just as important." Traditional telemedicine has its place as a scalable and cost-efficient tool in a physician’s armamentarium, but it has limits, he contended. A simple cough or cold can be treated with traditional telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new iPad initiative has its roots in the VA's Connected Tablet program , which launched in 2016 and, research shows, has created a more satisfying patient experience and made veterans less likely to miss appointments. " THE LARGER TREND. "In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. Centura Health was awarded just over $997,000 in grant funds from the FCC for telemedicine. MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans received care from their primary care physicians via telemedicine. And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. And are patients receptive to this kind of primary care? But it worked.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. COVID-19 indeed raised the bar for trust between patients and health care providers. How do health care providers build trust? Press Ganey asks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

UPMC Children's began working with telemedicine technology vendor Sano Health, targeting two groups of patients: those in the acute post-transplant phase and those with long-term post-transplant care needs. For example, education for heart transplant or liver transplant materials could be loaded on the device. MARKETPLACE.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For example, a HealthTech company might partner with a telecommunications provider to offer remote patient monitoring services, creating value for both companies and improving patient care. For example, software and hardware are often complements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the market today. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a detailed listing of numerous telemedicine vendors. For example, if a patient visit finishes 15 minutes early, he has 15 minutes at his desk to do something else productive. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. These are the beliefs of Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

MARCH 28, 2025

3 AI-driven digital health intervention tools to improve patient experience Digital health interventions when driven by AI have the ability to help patients manage their health in a much easier and more personalized way, thus helping improve patient experience. This is necessary for a number of reasons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Cigna’s efforts to bring virtual care to its clients and customers included: Working with telemedicine technology vendor MDLive to provide on-demand 24/7/365 access to a national network of licensed, board-certified, U.S.-based Focus on Patient Experience. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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