Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In a new report examining the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape, KLAS found that vendors self-reported a wide array of capabilities – and it noted that different companies can meet different customers' needs. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

"CMS and state efforts to evaluate and oversee telehealth are critical to meeting Medicaid enrollees' behavioral health needs and to safeguarding the Medicaid program from potential fraud, waste and abuse," wrote OIG officials. Even so, only 11 conduct telehealth-specific monitoring and oversight. WHY IT MATTERS.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center Telehealth Consortium announced this week that its dozens of members have conducted more than one million telehealth visits total since March 2020. At the same time, Consortium representatives note that telehealth expansion must not leave patients behind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. Q: You've said that personalization will influence telehealth engagement. billion by 2026.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The American Board of Telehealth announced this week that it is launching a Teleprimary Care Certificate program, geared toward helping primary care providers develop future virtual health strategies. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

"After evaluating several options, Iris Telehealth stood out for two key reasons: Its consistent track record of delivering on promises at other institutions and its willingness to grow alongside us in a true partnership that was relationship-focused rather than transactional.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. HCA Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Circle Medical.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

In other words, relying on telehealth to manage Type 2 diabetes and hypertension could heighten nurse workloads. "Going forward, this research can provide the framework for quantifying how much time nurses spend on these telehealth tasks, especially with the current nationwide nursing shortage. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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?? Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

" Heritage Clinic uses the Doxy.me, Zoom and Microsoft Teams video conferencing systems to facilitate telehealth. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. In addition, some meetings and trainings had been conducted electronically."

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. THE PROBLEM.

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MARCH 24, 2025

"Having our virtual team be Providence providers – who meet the high quality, credentialing and governance requirements used across our system and who know our internal systems, protocols and workflows – was essential." "We don't just integrate with Providence, we are Providence," Schlegel explained.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs. For example, with Virtual Sitter with AI assistance, a single, remote staff member now can monitor significantly more patients than an in-person sitter, helping to increase the capacity of healthcare inpatient teams and significantly reduce costs.

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JUNE 2, 2021

He believes this is just the beginning for telehealth and that this style of healthcare delivery will only accelerate in growth and evolve in the years ahead. Healthcare IT News sat down with Yoder to discuss these trends and expectations and get him to offer an in-depth look at the future of telemedicine. Please elaborate.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. Where does the healthcare industry go from here with telehealth?

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APRIL 1, 2025

It explored multiple telehealth platforms, each offering a range of features. MEETING THE CHALLENGE For the telemedicine site, LifeBridge Health followed the same process it had used to set up new locations in the past. Beyond these primary challenges, the health system also encountered several technical obstacles.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Cigna announced this week that it is expanding access to telehealth services via the virtual care company MDLIVE. Beginning in January of next year, Cigna enrollees in employer-sponsored plans can get routine care, sick visits, prescription refills or follow-up services via telehealth through MDLIVE's network of primary care providers.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

MEETING THE CHALLENGE Impower still is in the early stages of using the technology and is learning more every week. "Impower was a pioneer in the use of telehealth for delivery of behavioral health services in Florida, having transitioned our practice to a fully virtual model in 2013. "AI helps us do that."

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This allowed us to change telehealth from what was 5% of services prior to the pandemic to 85% of services during." Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. They were clunky, and people wanted to meet in person," Zeigler said.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Finally, the clinical team partnered with a video platform as it began testing telehealth options, and they found it was not consistent in terms of connectivity. This solved the connectivity issues our clinicians were experiencing and enabled us to formally offer telehealth sessions on an ongoing basis." MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Within the Osmind EHR, clinicians can access a suite of digital tools to meet high-patient demand, like progress monitoring and journaling tools. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS. We are thrilled to partner to offer their industry-leading solution."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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JUNE 1, 2022

River Valley counseling Center's Holyoke Clinic in Holyoke, Massachusetts, always was trying to make ends meet with its technology. "To help, we focused on how to improve productivity and the client experience, particularly to address the lag and frozen sessions during telehealth consultations," Moss explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care. To dig deeper into this pivot point in telehealth, Healthcare IT News interviewed Joseph DeVivo, president of hospitals and health systems at vendor Teladoc Health.

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JULY 13, 2021

Geisinger Health, based in Danville, Pennsylvania, embarked on a telehealth journey to develop a single solution that could bring care closer to home for patients across the care continuum. The telehealth program now offers more than 70 specialties, including neurology, pulmonology, dentistry, behavioral health and others.

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JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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