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MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword."

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APRIL 13, 2022

A study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that receipt of video-enabled tablets during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with more psychotherapy visits and reduced emergency department use among veterans. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 7, 2020

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

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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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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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JUNE 21, 2021

He is in an excellent position to comment on the report and the potential here for telemedicine, so Healthcare IT News interviewed him to get his perspective on the issue. Virtual care creates a multimodal "front door" to healthcare. Telemedicine allows physicians to access all three of these qualities, if done right.

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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. While enrolled in this program, the patient can have blood drawn in the home and have medicines administered by the paramedic by orders from the provider, who is seeing them via a live telehealth video visit.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"Our journey started well before COVID; we leveraged video visits to offset the increased demand of urgent care and look to reduce over utilization of the emergency departments." "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said. Click here to read the special report.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2021

NantHealth, a provider/payer collaboration IT vendor, and Sesame, a direct-to-patient telemedicine company, are collaborating on a program designed to give providers tools to offer patients direct access to virtual care while, the companies say, increasing practice revenue by reducing administrative costs. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"Even as patients begin to schedule in-person appointments once again, our survey indicates that not only are telehealth programs here to stay, but also that most healthcare organizations plan on investing in the expansion of telehealth capabilities," said Peter Prodromou, president at Boston Digital, to Healthcare IT News.

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MARCH 11, 2024

At HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum, Stanford Healthcare representatives discussed the care system's implementation of a virtual fast track program in its emergency department.

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MAY 24, 2021

"Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem. By deploying telemedicine carts in the hospital, physicians could provide care remotely, irrespective of their location." "The telemedicine system currently is not integrated with other systems," Dawson said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

During the pandemic, New York State became very aggressive in offering modified telehealth regulations, thus allowing healthcare organizations such as BHSN to move to a virtual care environment for the health and safety of staff and the patients they serve. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Zoom, Skype and Teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

” In this extended video conversation, Gulbis and Rishi Sarna, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at Backline , discuss the purpose and process of advance care planning (ACP). See the video for a deep discussion of how to make ACP part of medical practice without burdening your clinical providers.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most South Koreans are willing to use telemedicine again in the future, especially those living in rural towns and villages, according to a survey report commissioned by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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

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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MARCH 4, 2025

The third layer involves fine-tuning from the doctor themselves, including manual annotation and training with their video content. Users can interact with them synchronously through text, voice, or video chat. Besides genAI, Ping An Xin Yi also utilises natural language processing, machine learning, and medical document recognition.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Digital Innovation Showcase, organised by Zoom and HIMSS, required startups to offer solutions that leveraged video or video conferencing. Once the patient has recorded their vitals using either video or picture format, the information will be stored in both the patient app and the doctor portal.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

There are all kinds of specialist services provided by telemedicine – telepsychiatry, teleradiology, tele-ICU, just to name a few. But there's a unique telemedicine service that has been growing that merits attention: medical device prescriptions via virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

PROPOSAL The proposal was to have a standalone video visit kiosk within the urgent care locations to offer patients with lower-acuity problems an alternative to the longer wait for being seen in person. Oliver, Baptist Health With this robust telemedicine device, from vendor TytoCare, the visit is more than a simple video connection.

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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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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Jalali, note that the uptick in telemedicine services has undoubtedly made healthcare more accessible – but that the relaxation in regulations about virtual care combined with a heightened threat landscape can spell trouble. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND. Twitter: @kjercich.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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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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