Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

” "It’s important to note that, in addition to the creation of a tech-forward solution, the transition to a successful telehealth model was possible through the creation of a new position at Executive Mental Health – device technician." " Dr. Ari D. Kalechstein, Executive Mental Health.

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InTouch Health

JULY 22, 2020

In the months since COVID-19’s emergence, health systems have introduced machine learning tools that can quickly scan CT and X-ray models for the presence of COVID-19 in lungs and stood-up virtual ICUs to monitor and manage patients, for example. telehealth providers accounted for $3 billion of annual healthcare spending.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

The survey, commissioned by specialist insurer Beazley , focused on 376 executives from telehealth companies in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as mobile platforms and life science technology software. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

Healthcare providers in Australia have been "slow" in their uptake of remote care technologies, such as remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics. Practitioners are also unlikely to recommend remote care due to dearth of reimbursement incentives.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. Access to Telehealth Services Private Health Insurance Coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by state and private insurance plans.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Expect more announcements moving forward, but matching reimbursement for telehealth with in-person visits was a big deal. Many other changes have been put in place, eliminating co-pays, adding coverage for telehealth for those without insurance, and many others many of them state-by-state (see Florida and California , for example).

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This portable telehealth system is making waves by providing much-needed medical care to hard-to-reach communities. In a flood-hit area, for example, a health worker equipped with the TEB can offer immediate care, taking vital signs, heart and lung sounds, and images for remote expert consultations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity. Consulting that looked into the cybersecurity landscape across Asia-Pacific, suggested having a customised assessment of medical devices for remote care based on their risk level instead of a blanket assessment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2023

Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations, clearly – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations, contended Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, vendor of a patient engagement platform. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 has pushed digital health technologies such as telehealth and remote monitoring /virtual care into the fore, and the nation-state of Singapore is no exception. Never let a crisis go to waste.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls. Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A frequently discussed consequence of the COVID-19 crisis is the uptick in reliance on telehealth, with both patients and clinicians pivoting quickly to virtual care in order to minimize in-person contact. COVID has relaxed a lot of regulations that have been [enacted] around telehealth," said Flannery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Virtual care solutions, currently underutilized as simply a replacement for in-person clinic visits, can be deployed more strategically and comprehensively to benefit both patients and clinicians. Hospitalizations, for example, do not always require the patient to be within a medical facility. Please expand on this.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The comments focused on three areas: expanding access to more telehealth services and providers, changes to remote patient monitoring services, and telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. " "It's really an issue of not being able to survive if they're delivering care for free.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. These use cases must be assessed before shortlisting devices by specialty.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added. " Dedi Gilad, Tyto Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This includes AI, machine learning, telehealth platforms, wearable devices, and more. Telehealth Platforms: Technology (King): Video conferencing, remote monitoring tools, and secure messaging apps enable virtual consultations and remote care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously. Individuals and insurance companies will see the value of telehealth as, in some ways, replacing the house call of olden days, which was an important aspect of medicine.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 23, 2023

Protecting Patients’ Access to Care and Coverage With Telehealth Telehealth has changed the face of the healthcare market. Through the use of electronic communication and information technologies, providers and organizations can deliver medical care from any distance — including halfway around the world if necessary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

However, some forms of technology – particularly those that support telehealth services – are in hot demand as they prove their worth during the national pandemic, say experts who assess information technology adoption by the nation's healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Digital is gaining momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. For example, as a patient walks into the clinic, a physician notices his gait. Preferred functionalities to manage remote care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The benefits of digitisation are becoming quite clear – especially in areas like acute or remote care – and technology that can help hospitals make this transition at a scale to unlock even greater value for both patients and the health system. Challenges in Acute Care Settings.

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care innovations

JANUARY 16, 2019

It’s official: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2019 fee schedule is in effect as of January 1, 2019, bringing with it three new CPT codes that allow for expanded reimbursement for remote care services. Care Innovations® COO Marcus Grindstaff agrees with the inevitability of widespread RPM implementation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Reimagining everything for remote care. The entire foundation of healthcare is built on in-person care. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems. "Who leveraged telehealth the most?" Yesterday, for example, the bus rolled up at 7 a.m.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2024

We interviewed Nissim to discuss diabetes treatment challenges, how RPM can help overcome some of these challenges, how AI can boost RPM technology when dealing with chronic illnesses, how adequately addressing diabetes can save taxpayers money, and what Nissim calls "the next generation of remote care."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. One article author cites the growth of digital health but swaps in terms like “remote services” and “virtual consultations.” Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology?

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2023

Telehealth provides access to many treatment techniques that translate well to a virtual platform and treat a broad range of speciality mental health conditions. Telehealth can also help patients with trauma feel more comfortable processing and disclosing information.

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