Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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JANUARY 16, 2025

To prevent patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications, the DEA is offering three types of special registration: Telemedicine Prescribing Registration - authorizes qualified clinician practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed draft guidance to establish a framework for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine. Telemedicine prescribing registration allows qualified practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances via telemedicine.

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APRIL 1, 2025

LifeBridge Health, based in Owings Mills, Maryland, faced two primary telemedicine challenges: improving operational efficiency and increasing patient adoption. From that experience he knew an efficient telemedicine operation would reduce friction for patients, making it easier for them to adopt the new process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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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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MAY 19, 2022

The telemedicine company contends this approach is twice as effective as traditional care. " Antidote Health said its telemedicine healthcare services are priced lower than many insurance copayments and deductibles. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

The following is a guest article by John Funk, Creative Consultant at SevenAtoms Telemedicine has completely changed the healthcare game, allowing you to chat with your doctor from the comfort of your couch goodbye waiting rooms, traffic jams, and awkward small talk! Just you, your Wi-Fi, and the doctor on screen.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Whether the need arises to expand server capacity to support telemedicine initiatives or to deploy additional virtual machines to manage a surge in patient data, hyperautomation ensures system resilience, minimizing downtime and guaranteeing continuity of care even during periods of peak demand.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Heidi West, head of healthcare at Zoom, to discuss telemedicine's future, hybrid in-person/telehealth care, communities that could be hurt without virtual care, and challenges to telemedicine becoming fully mainstream. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. The fact that telemedicine hasn’t been permanently enshrined into law yet is just a function of our democracy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. As healthcare providers look ahead to 2023, being at the forefront of what's next in telehealth and strategically integrating the technology necessary to stay there may be critical to future success.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Inpatient telemedicine at health system Providence provides critical access to care to more than 100 hospitals across nine service lines. She reports that her inpatient telemedicine programs are "growing like gangbusters." First, in broad terms, please talk a bit about inpatient telemedicine at Providence.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Like a lot of health systems, MedStar rapidly launched new telemedicine technology in response to COVID-19, which resulted in 100,000 video visits in the first two months of use. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Both specialize in telemedicine. Healthcare IT News sat down with the men to discuss main players in the U.S. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends. telemedicine sector and where do they stand?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

"This increases pre-existing strains on rural healthcare systems due to provider shortages, limited hospital beds and other resource constraints." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. But many provider organizations have yet to embrace a virtual-first approach, eschewing a telemedicine front door for traditional, in-person care first. This is invaluable for everyone in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

" "What it does mean is that many healthcare systems, public and private, are developing virtual care models or hybrid models of care," Emerson said. Rather than an all-digital model of care, a care model that makes sense to a patient's situation is ideal to bridge the gap in healthcare access. Telemedicine adoption.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. Telemedicine is too important now to take for granted. What is one of the most important telemedicine predictions you have for 2024?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

South Korea expands telemedicine pilot Starting 15 December, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will be introducing additional measures to its national telemedicine pilot. According to a media statement, the programme is now allowing the conduct of telemedicine services at night and on holidays.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This requirement could arbitrarily prevent qualified practitioners from effectively serving patients via telemedicine." " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

"Prioritizing health equity is key to the future of healthcare because there is a significant opportunity for healthcare providers to improve and dismantle inequalities and help people be their best selves," Land believes. He wanted to make sure we are keeping the human in healthcare. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics , the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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. "I hope to show that EMS telemedicine works and that it works in rural Nebraska.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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MAY 8, 2023

Telemedicine as the main vehicle to deliver care These patients would traditionally be admitted to observation in-hospital. Hybrid care is safe care Observation at Home is a simple program that shows how through a combination of in-person visits and telemedicine the health system can care for these patients safely at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report pointed out that most telemedicine services were conducted by neighbourhood clinics (accounting for 93.6% of all participating healthcare providers and 86.2%

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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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MARCH 24, 2025

This acute care telemedicine service – built by and for Providence – seamlessly integrates with clinical workflows and processes to provide quality care to any hospitalized patient in the Providence hospital ecosystem. " And finally, the Telemedicine Resource Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

In certain scenarios, patients were not offered and not considered for telemedicine visits because of providers' lack of knowledge about the resources that existed to support patients in getting connected. "Henry Ford Health created patient technical support roles as a result of our own assessment," she said. to 2:30 p.m.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Click here to read the special report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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