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

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. This has changed how the organization will deliver care to patients and families well into the future, she concluded. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

It became clear that continuity of care for large patient cohorts required reliable communication channels and decision-support systems. “During the novel coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine facilitates workflows, freeing up local healthcare capacities. Changing the economics of health and the new patient-journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. In March 2020, it had become imperative and essential – and scores of providers or all shapes and sizes needed to stand-up durable telemedicine offerings quickly.

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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 Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This not only bridges the gap between empathy and technology but goes beyond mere observation, offering a tech-assisted safety net that enhances the overall patient experience. The patient experience has always been a top concern, but health systems constantly grapple with barriers like limited time, funds, and resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore. Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years. The office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. What does the survey show about telemedicine addressing patient care barriers and seeing more patients?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. These tools helped to keep us safe during the pandemic and are now working to ease the burden healthcare can have on people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Mike Morgan is president of Updox, a vendor of a healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with Morgan to glean his expertise on the subject of virtual care moving forward. Virtual care isn't just about mimicking the in-office experience. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

"Our community health workers and social workers were not aware of the resources that existed for patients to overcome their digital barriers. "Organizations can think about how to make their frontline staff aware of resources that exist to address some of their patients’ digital needs to be able to inform them."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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. " Then there is the patient experience. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

The State Of Telehealth report found that much of the growth was pushed by accelerating digital transformation initiatives, as well as patient experience prioritization. As far as segments go, telemedicine providers, platforms and marketplaces saw their first decline in six quarters, with mergers and acquisitions at a record high.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Further, with today's healthcare staffing challenges, even if Baptist Health recognizes a need for extra workers, it may not have the resources to upstaff appropriately. " "Where else could you receive a healthcare service with a wait time of only six minutes, especially as a walk-in patient?"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

And Ochsner has made significant investments over the last four years in building out direct-to-consumer telemedicine care delivery. Empowering patients to manage their health. "The patient experience provides convenient access to care with products and services that empower patients to manage their own health."

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

First up is Sarah Brandt, Associate Principal at Divurgent , who shared with us what she was hearing about patient experience at the conference. Plus, she shares a few ideas on what healthcare organizations should be doing now when it comes to improving the experience of patients at their organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. “Another center may use telemedicine to provide follow-up care to patients after surgery to eliminate the need for travel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

hospitals, has added American Telemedicine Association Conifer Health Solutions, which focuses on revenue-cycle management, and Gensler, the design and planning firm – bringing in three more diverse perspectives for digital health strategies. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. ” This opportunity allowed Temple to be flexible in the modality of telemedicine visits in multiple settings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. THE PROBLEM In the year after COVID-19 struck, healthcare changed. Then COVID-19 hit. Operations changed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

"Our study found that virtual visits facilitate healthcare access and relationship-building, contributing to satisfying relationship-centered care, a crucial aspect of contemporary patient experiences," wrote researchers. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Telemedicine took a huge leap forward during the pandemic as more providers and patients embraced remote delivery of healthcare services. We interviewed him to discuss the intersection of telemedicine and AI. Q. What is the problem in telemedicine that you think Al is especially suited to address?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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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. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Healthcare IT News interviewed Greenleaf to talk about the intersection of these services and telemedicine. If so, how? If not, what needs to be done?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Triall notes on its website that c linical trials have taken place by leveraging telemedicine and mobile engagement tools that capture data, doctor-patient interactions and patient reminders, enabling participation from home. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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