Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2019

The skilled nursing sector has undergone a major transition over the past ten years. Because of shifting demographics and the challenges they place on hospitals, skilled nursing facilities are receiving patients who are struggling with more significant health concerns than in the past. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

PAVES brings EMS-focused telemedicine services to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedic staff treating patients across Georgia. Telemedicine brings the specialists to the patient WCRMC is a rural hospital located in Washington County, Georgia.

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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 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. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

"The savings that result from telemedicine versus an office visit for the long-term care supports and services provider that operates IDD residences is significant." “Station MD, our telehealth vendor, was providing similar telemedicine triage service to nursing homes on Staten Island that housed medically frail residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? While the concept of the digital front door has been a popular topic in healthcare for some time, telemedicine has the potential to expand its impact beyond simply acquiring new patients or providing a digital entry point for care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

Virtual nurse and virtual doc triage To make this happen, the health system implemented a virtual nurse and virtual physician triage program designed to get patients moving through the ED process sooner rather than later. The tests included physicians, nurses, technicians, scribes, EKG techs, etc.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Inpatient telemedicine at health system Providence provides critical access to care to more than 100 hospitals across nine service lines. Recently, the large health system launched a tele-infectious disease program and a virtual nursing program called CoCaring. And it has been improving quality and access across the health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

The healthcare industry can't afford to lose these highly skilled clinical workers to other industries. On this note, Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Pooja Aysola, a practicing emergency department clinician in Boston and senior director of clinical operations at Wheel, a virtual care company. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. Going beyond a global pandemic with a critical need to support patients remotely, there are many other situations where telehealth plays an important role in a person's healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2024

" Recognizing having two EMTs or paramedics available for every call is not a feasible option, especially during the pandemic when officials sought to limit in-person interactions, Nebraska DHHS turned its attention to telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. While telemedicine has undoubtedly come a long way, it still has significant limitations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

“Zoom also provided our health center with an easy-to-implement telehealth option while we researched an integrated telemedicine option for our electronic health record, which would be more permanent.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE. ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We tried to build our model around the notion that each patient will now have two nurses coordinating their care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. You attended the HIMSS23 in April.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite. Last year, it expanded to having one of its onsite physicians also doing telemedicine sessions with one of its other offices in a different city. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"Patients seeking testing call a hotline nurse – who then triages patients based on symptoms, exposure history and medical problems, and directs qualifying patients to a drive-up COVID testing center. "This physician can either be on site using an iPad, or one of the physicians off site at the Avera eCARE telemedicine hub.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2022

Half the country is a member of both the Nurse Licensure Compact and the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact , with 16 more states claiming membership in one. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Eric Demers, CEO of Madaket, vendor of a provider data management platform, to discuss his point of view on how to streamline telehealth licensing and ensure top-level, on-demand care for the patients who need it most. All these elements combine to offer full control of healthcare administrative ops.

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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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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. Valley Health could have tried to keep riding out the intensivist shortage by hiring locums, which is very expensive. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"The high demand for pediatric specialty providers and the constraints many families face regarding transportation, time off from work and school, and finances, made it obvious that traditional models of outreach healthcare were not sustainable," said Morgan Waller, director of telemedicine business and operations at Children's Mercy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2020

A telemedicine technology vendor is offering a new way to use its platform to virtually treat potential COVID-19 patients – even when those patients and clinicians are in the same facility. It cut its teeth on using telemedicine approaches to improve communication between providers and patients when they speak different languages.

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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. Even countries closer to home such as Indonesia and Thailand have adopted telemedicine to reach patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Caregility is embedding virtual support directly into hospital rooms, helping to improve patient monitoring and give overworked nurses some much-needed relief. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with two senior leaders from Caregility to find out more. Key Takeaways Virtual nurses save time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a way to continuously monitor patients at every moment of their hospital journey, according to the announcement. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care. During the last two years, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association held its 28th annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, this past week in Phoenix. The goal was to gather innovators, changemakers and healthcare providers to lead efforts to improve access to quality care with telehealth and remote monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Goulburn Valley Health, a regional healthcare provider in the state of Victoria, has tapped telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor for additional virtual emergency doctor support. Also, the additional service lends support to their onsite emergency department doctors and nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

At HIMSS20, prominent telemedicine technology vendor American Well will preview its new home TV system, dubbed CarePort, which will be commercially available at a date yet to be announced. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. CarePort is designed to smooth the transition between the hospital and the home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Patients also have access to a registered nurse via telephone if needed while in the VCAH. MEETING THE CHALLENGE "We complete our telemedicine video visits using the Epic EHR," said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas. I'm hoping we are in this latter stage now."

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