Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics , the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. As virtual care numbers come back to earth , the industry is adjusting. One recent study reported on telehealth trends in U.S. Industry experts also see the need for clarity.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Yaya Mbaoua, CEO of The Mbaoua Group, will be speaking at HIMSS20 on how telemedicine could transform Africa’s healthcare.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Leading the Next Era of Innovation and Growth for the Company Chelmsford, MA – June 11, 2024 – AMD Global Telemedicine, a leader in telehealth solutions, is excited to announce the appointment of Tim Steffl as the new President. His leadership will be focused on driving AMD Global Telemedicine into a new era of innovation and growth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges? We interviewed Chris Raphaely, co-chair of the healthcare practice group at Cozen O’Connor, to get answers to these and other questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Heidi West, head of healthcare at Zoom, to discuss telemedicine's future, hybrid in-person/telehealth care, communities that could be hurt without virtual care, and challenges to telemedicine becoming fully mainstream. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. Scottsdale Physician Group believed there had to be a better way of taking care of the patients that was scalable and effective. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group. THE PROBLEM. It needed to see all of the vitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

BinSina Pharmacy Group has just launched the new offering via its recently launched e-commerce website , with the service first being available to those based in Dubai. It will later be rolled-out across the remaining emirates, the group confirmed in a statement.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Scottsdale Physicians Group. Telemedicine services can lower the cost of care by providing a cost-effective way to monitor and treat patients with chronic diseases. Furthermore, many patients aren’t comfortable enough with technology to utilize the full benefits of telemedicine without assistance. Scottsdale Physicians Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

.' "If the patient chooses the virtual option, they are walked back to the self-service kiosk, log into their MyChart account on the tablet, and be placed in line with our group of virtual urgent care providers," he continued. " Dr. Brett A. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Medical devices Patient Access Digital Health

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

eConsult is already freely available to all medical professionals and residents and workers in Luxembourg.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi A. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How to Choose the Right Virtual Care Technology for Your Tele-Physician Group Selecting the proper telehealth technology for your physician services group is critical. Choosing the right care technology can help protect your revenue and physician services group reputation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

"Life expectancy of all Americans has decreased during the two years since the pandemic, but no group more than tribal people whose life expectancy has dropped almost seven years." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The expiration of such flexibilities, said the groups, could abruptly prevent some patients from seeing their doctors virtually – a particularly troubling matter for immunocompromised people still at risk for COVID-19. Health systems such as Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Mass General Brigham and Nemours Children's Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM "My journey into telemedicine was sparked by a genuine concern for a subset of patients facing physical or psychological barriers to accessing healthcare," he said. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

Telemedicine provider Medgate saw a 170% increase in teleconsultations in Philippines last year, with an 80% case resolution rate. Our high case resolution rate is proof of telemedicine’s efficiency as a platform for delivering quality care,” said Medgate Philippines President Stavros Athanasiou in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Private healthcare providers in the Southeast Asia region have been pushing telemedicine services given the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, either through their internally developed apps or partnering with telehealth companies in the case of Columbia Asia.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest privately owned healthcare group, last week announced that it has rolled out telemedicine services in Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, India and Hong Kong. to offer fixed prices for certain medical procedures in four hospitals operated by the group, Healthcare IT News reported. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. Such patients who have signed up for the government's Home Isolation scheme via LINE messaging app are continuously monitored through the telemedicine system. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The first phase of the Telemedicine Command Center provides first level healthcare advisory services to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Back in 2017, Millennium Physician Group, one of the largest independent physician groups in the U.S., Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2023

Regulator bars e-prescription of non-OTC drugs in India Indian doctors using telemedicine can only prescribe OTC Drugs, according to the National Medical Commission. UMP to rollout Imsight's AI-assisted CXR analysis tool Hong Kong-listed medical group UMP will soon offer AI-powered medical imaging analysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. " Dr. Russell Libby, pediatrician.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

Letter signers – whose organizations represented all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico – asked Congress to prioritize four main areas when pushing forward permanent changes to telemedicine. THE LARGER TREND. Senate HELP Committee Chair Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

"In response to this shifting environment, Geisinger was able to leverage its single platform with its integrations with its electronic medical record system – Teladoc and Epic, respectively – to rapidly deploy telehealth to providers and groups of specialties who had not previously engaged in it," Fletcher recalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. When Groups saw the gap in quality it was approaching with its previous technologies, it took a big step back to reevaluate its virtual treatment services. THE PROBLEM.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 28, 2020

With mounting concerns about safety and the financial security of physicians during COVID-19, organizers say the new group called Physicians United will take advantage of virtual platforms to pull together a large number around the issues they most care about.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2022

Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres over 2 years in India. German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer is setting up 27 telemedicine centres in 12 districts across eight states in India over the next two years through Bayer Foundation India. It will offer about 20 medical specialties via telehealth.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 23, 2018

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a slew of new bills that seek to increase access to telemedicine treatment for patients with substance abuse disorders.

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