Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

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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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs.

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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. Patients did visit the health center to access labs; however, they did not visit their provider in person in an effort to ensure their safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " Tejal A.

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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. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to change how healthcare is delivered, with telehealth taking a front row seat. Rules […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. By implementing the telehealth model, one of St. Finally, make sure to get leadership buy-in from the start."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The health system quickly experienced patient volume declines as it postponed elective procedures and surgeries. Simultaneously, patients were hesitant to seek in-person care for many of their health concerns. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2025

The following is a guest article by Josh Rosaasen , Chief Operating Officer at Locke Bio The rise of direct-to-consumer ( DTC ) telehealth services has revolutionized how patients access medical care and prescriptions. Telehealth providers must align with organizations like LegitScript , which certifies compliance with regulatory standards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. IT, clinical and operational leadership collaborated to create workflows to facilitate the transition to telemedicine and establish virtual connections. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

For the 73rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Michael Restuccia, CIO at Penn Medicine to talk about health IT projects! Then we talk about what area of health IT he finds concerning and is keeping an eye on. What’s a project you were successful at and what made it a success?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2022

" "The FCC telehealth funds allowed us to purchase laptops, monitors, keyboards, cameras and headsets for a large portion of our staff to work from home. Having the telehealth option just gives the organization a chance to help more individuals who would opt for that service moving forward. " MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? To authentically contribute to societal health, it’s crucial to accept failure as an integral part of the process.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I think most of us agree that telehealth is here to stay. No doubt telehealth won’t remain at the inflated levels that COVID-19 and shutdowns required, but it will plateau at some reasonable level and then likely grow over time as […]. To what degree is something that will be discussed for a while to come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. " Centura Health's Epic electronic health record offered most features available for telemedicine services, so it eventually transitioned to Epic Video Client for virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Juan Molina, Division President at CareCloud, an operating division of MTBC. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2021

If you’ve followed Healthcare IT Today and our Health IT Interviews podcast, you know it’s pretty rare that I have the same guest on the show and when I do it’s usually a year or a half dozen years apart. However, when we finished recording the episode “What Makes Specialty Acute Care Telehealth Different?”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In this roundup, we have a number of trends happening in healthcare and health IT that we wanted to highlight. It’s been quite a while since we did a Twitter roundup on here so I though it was time to do another one. Plus, we have lots of questions about each. So, share your thoughts […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to embrace third party telehealth solutions? Would […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I’m always slightly bothered when people say that telehealth has seen a massive explosion thanks to COVID-19. While it’s true that live video telehealth visits have seen hockey stick style growth because of COVID-19, there are actually a wide variety of telehealth options.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Skyler Wason, Director of Product Management at Allscripts, and Kate Palazzolo, Vice President of Sales at FollowMyHealth. Are they developing telehealth in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. A few weeks ago, as telehealth started to explode, I realized how important understanding the telehealth market was going to be for those who read Healthcare IT Today. Keep reading for background & future plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2021

This past year, we’ve spent a lot of time covering the telehealth and RPM markets for obvious reasons.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2022

Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations. Improving patient care and maximizing profitability requires visibility into the day-to-day management and actionable insights to inform decisions and improve daily operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For the 128th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are doing a roundup focused on health IT regulatory news! For those unfamiliar with our weekly roundup article, we are gathering up some hot topics and news in the world of health IT regulations to share them with you while we dive a little deeper into the topic.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When we first started covering the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID, we saw an explosion of live video telehealth companies. They were obviously filling the need for doctors and patients to both stay at home. Then, we started to see a lot of talk about various remote patient monitoring companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2020

Telehealth providers are seeing a significant increase in demand […]. Because of the shelter-in-place protocols that have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote visits to the doctor’s office have transformed from a rarely-used novelty to a necessity in many cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine. Are they developing […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Telehealth comes with a number of important challenges. COVID did teach us that none of those challenges can’t be overcome. However, it’s not hard to see that many healthcare organizations are slipping back into old habits. You’ll often hear me talk about the powerful force that is “how we’ve always done it.”

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

Last week I started a project to create a list of all of the telehealth options out there. Mostly, I wanted to be able to provide my friends and readers answer to the question I’m certain to get over the next year, “Which telehealth solution is best?” ” It may take me another week to finish […].

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Enhance the health care experience. Shortly thereafter, I did an analysis for HIMSS’ leadership on the emergence of the patient voice and how it could play into HIMSS’s mission which, until then, was quite institutional and provider-focused. How else might we leverage technology to reduce costs per patient?

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