Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Suki this week announced new plans to partner with Zoom Video Communications for artificial intelligence-enabled telehealth. Suki's technology will help power ambient clinical documentation during Zoom telehealth visits and in-person visits. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There has been a rise in pharmaceutical, medical device and digital therapeutics companies investing in telehealth. What are the factors driving more pharma and medical device companies to invest in telehealth? How is telehealth helping pharma improve access to rare and complex disease care?

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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The service gives patients of MedStar's Baltimore facilities a "seamless, monitored transition" home, according to Dr. Ethan Booker, MedStar's chief medical officer for telehealth. The company also offers same-day or next-day care upon referral from a telehealth visit, according to MedStar.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Avihai Sodri is CEO of Antidote Health, a telehealth services provider. He points to greater accessibility, data integrity and consistency, improving healthcare outcomes, and greater affordability. How does a virtual-first approach to healthcare help hospitals and health systems enable greater accessibility to care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2025

The DEA has had a responsibility to create a telehealth prescribing registry under the 2018 Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act, known as the SUPPORT Act. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. The Alliance for Connected Care asked U.S. Kennedy, Jr.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. " Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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MAY 2, 2024

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes. .'"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Last year, David Higginson, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital, told Healthcare IT News how the provider needed a hands-free, telehealth-capable device in 750 exam rooms and partnered with the Alexa Smart Properties program to develop it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. " she said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

" National Taiwan University Hospital's telehealth system incorporates AI National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has integrated speech-to-text AI into its telehealth platform. Optimised for healthcare, Chunghwa's technology was trained on voice data collected by the NTUH Telehealth Center.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

"This technology helps power Zoom's healthcare offerings and aligns with our mission of leveraging AI to drive employee productivity and enhance patient experiences," Ricardo Anzaldua, Zoom Ventures' head of corporate development, added. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs is offering new access to telehealth and virtual care options. WHY IT MATTERS For veterans living in areas with very limited internet availability, the VA's telehealth and telewellness services are typically out of reach. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2024

There has been a lot of discussion around the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used in telehealth, balancing the need for efficiency with patient security and privacy. Howard Hu, CEO of Whereby, vendor of a videoconferencing API for telehealth platforms, knows quite a bit about this niche. It's very exciting.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. How can increased telehealth services address and minimize this gap?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

A new private collaboration in Malaysia aims to equip rural clinics with telehealth capabilities over the next two years. Rural broadband service provider MEASAT and local health IT company Mudah Healthtech have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable the delivery of digital healthcare services in rural and remote communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 1, 2025

Together, they say they'll create an advocacy organization, the Advancing Digital Health Coalition, designed to help ensure that telehealth, virtual care and DTx interventions become dependable options for care delivery. healthcare system." " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association and ATA Action in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks to preserve pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities that it says are responsible for improving access to healthcare across the U.S. Maintain coverage for audio-only services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modern identity systems must support a wide range of devices and accommodate telehealth, which means the patient should be onboarded without having to come into the clinical office. Learn more about Okta: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2025

"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. "We already have experienced that over the last 10 years," she said. "AI helps us do that."

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But telehealth can help in a significant way. Esterly, formerly the chief growth and strategy officer at Centria Healthcare, was hired for his deep experience and acute understanding of provider organizations, combined with his proficiency in leveraging technology to reach vulnerable populations. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

PROPOSAL Chase began looking into telehealth vendor Avel eCare's emergency service line for the ED after one of the hospital's APPs came to Cyboron with a video about the technology and service and said they loved the idea of having someone live to help with questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. "Upon completion of the visit, the encounter information is automatically sent to Memorial via Epic's Care Everywhere and Telehealth Anywhere functionality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The government seems to be also keen on utilising telehealth in addressing accessibility issues in mental healthcare. APHA CEO Michael Roff further discussed this upcoming telehealth trial with Healthcare IT News. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI and virtual care models continued to be the craze in healthcare, owing to their clear support for improving clinician productivity and patient outcomes. Healthcare IT News sought predictions from and expectations of healthcare providers and technology vendors in APAC for health IT this 2025.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2025

Free telehealth launched in Sydney The state government of New South Wales has extended free virtual healthcare service to Sydney. Free telehealth has been part of government initiatives to address ED pressures. The 40-year-old aged care provider runs 13 homes and five retirement villages, manned by over 1,300 staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Private providers in Thailand, Russia sign telehealth collab Two large private healthcare providers in Thailand and Russia have partnered to cooperate in such areas as telehealth and medical tourism.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

ORLANDO – Telehealth technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years, and while it's both popular and promising, it has also shined a light on the contrast between patient populations with and without adequate access and digital health literacy, the latter of which are less likely to engage in this type of medical care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Members of the Healthcare IT Today community highlighted the need to enter BAAs, strengthen monitoring, and leverage OAuth2.0 SONU Allergy Device Review.

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