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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

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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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

How to address the trust-busted technology industry? Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Initially, we had many concerns about the adequacy of the HIE’s security controls, such as how to prevent unauthorized access to patient records or detect and prevent data breaches – all of which could adversely affect patient care and operations.” Felix Aguilar, Chief Medical Officer at CSC. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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The growing practice of prescribing medical devices via telemedicine

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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Implementation best practices: Teeing up telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. How to protect vulnerable groups of people?

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon?

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Pandemic era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas, RAND study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

A new report from the RAND Corporation suggests that the biggest upticks in virtual care availability occurred in more affluent and metropolitan communities, and that telemedicine services were mostly enjoyed by patients with private insurance. The COVID-19 public health emergency has put larger questions of health equity in focus.

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Telemedicine and RPM transform care delivery in Alabama, racking up wins

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system created a telehealth program, the main problem it was trying to solve was how to improve access to care across the state. We used these county health departments as a way to deliver subspecialty care across our state. Click here to read the special report.

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. This will inevitably change the results of what we will see one year from now in 2022.

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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care. ” How to make this happen?

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected

CiscoHealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . The post Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

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Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. ” Staff also knew that having telemedicine technology available in the future as an option could be ideal for patients for whom virtual appointments would be preferable, he added.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19. Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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What happens during a telemedicine visit?

GlobalMed

APRIL 28, 2020

Telemedicine (also called telehealth, virtual care, or virtual health) is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to gain access to health care services remotely. What conditions can telemedicine treat? How Can Telehealth Contribute to Care During COVID-19?

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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Analyzing the effectiveness of different methods for delivering care is important to guide decisions about how to allocate resources, according to the study's key findings report. The researchers also found that genetics and nutrition are the specialties that made the most efficient use of telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS.

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AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

Their challenge leans more toward of how to strike a balance between online or in-person services. It is no wonder that telehealth is a key focus seeing as the global telemedicine market size is forecasted to grow to USD175.5 billion by 2026. 5G) and differentiated connectivity services.

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Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won't get left behind. however, spoke out against parity in pay for telemedicine services. Dr. Karen S.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that premise, Karsten took me on a “visit” to a neighborhood where we meet 3 different householders to see how digital health can support a health citizen’s personal demands and objectives. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection.

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Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Even now, though, after many years of experimentation, we still haven’t reached a consensus on how to take advantage of wearables’ full capabilities. The day will come when they’re widely used for remote patient monitoring and public health surveillance, but that day may be further ahead than you’d expect.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. After the dream comes work. But as they say, the devil is in the details.

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The Epidemic After the Pandemic is Stress and Anxiety in America – Learning From Ginger

Health Populi

APRIL 13, 2020

Those who survive this madness will have to figure out how to live together in the company of grief… In the coming days, we will not be able to escape the grim reality of death. Mental health will be beyond taboo; it has always been part of our overall health and wellbeing.

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AI, licensing and remote prescribing among key issues facing telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

This, among other policy shifts, has a direct impact on healthcare provider organizations and telemedicine companies delivering care virtually. On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. And that is certainly true and a significant issue.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even with fast-growth of the sector, Beazley believes that digital health is still not yet mature, with a pattern of insurance claims still emerging. How to deal? Thus, the industry must focus on the range of risks that can be mitigated from cyber-attacks to human error and system failures.

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 However, these sessions usually begin with a hurdle to be overcome – that of terminology.

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How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options. Many patients are overdue for care as the public health emergency winds down. Rural communities across the U.S.

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COVID-19: 'The digital spring' facing Italy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

“COVID-19 has highlighted that medicine needs to change," said Sergio Pillon, member of the Digital Health Working Group - European Public Health Alliance (WG-DH EPHA) and medical director of CIRM. What about local health authorities? The full recording of this webinar is available here.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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Deep dive: Tracking the past 12 months of telehealth at Yale New Haven Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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Ryan Haight Act Telemedicine: AHA Calls on DEA to Release Special Registration Now

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) urging the agency to advance its proposed rules on the Special Registration for Telemedicine under the Ryan Haight Act. AHA Stresses the Importance of Updating Ryan Haight Act Telemedicine Regulations.

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Getting Vaccinated Has Mental Health Benefits, Walgreens Finds

Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

But the pandemic will have longer-term mental health impacts for many people who will need and want to access convenient, accessible, affordable options for dealing with mental wellbeing. Mind this space: it is fast-evolving and serving unmet needs that were already in short-supply before we knew how to spell “coronavirus.”

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HIMSS20: Expanding Care to Africa’s Most Vulnerable with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

HIMSS20 is right around the corner – and GlobalMed is excited to be represented on stage on Thursday, March 12 in an education session “Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine.” Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine”. Africa confronts the world's most dramatic public health crisis.”

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Weekly Roundup – January 18, 2025

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2025

Los Angeles native Ray Lowe at AltaMed joined John to discuss how to deliver care when a medical facility is destroyed , along with the importance of supporting other public health services. Read more… CIO Podcast : Supporting Care Delivery During the Southern California Wildfires. million in seed funding.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health.

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Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. As the public health emergency of COVID is ending, state regulations are changing and fortunately telepsychiatry will still exist as part of a hybrid model. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This may include sending reminders on how to practice proper hand washing or self-care advice for simple conditions like the common cold. This is also a time to share your health system’s plan for the season including where to get flu shots without making a clinic appointment and increasing awareness of the different ways to access care.

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5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This may include sending reminders on how to practice proper hand washing or self-care advice for simple conditions like the common cold. This is also a time to share your health system’s plan for the season including where to get flu shots without making a clinic appointment and increasing awareness of the different ways to access care.

Telemedicine

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

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The growing practice of prescribing medical devices via telemedicine

Implementation best practices: Teeing up telemedicine

The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Pandemic era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas, RAND study shows

Telemedicine and RPM transform care delivery in Alabama, racking up wins

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected

Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

What happens during a telemedicine visit?

Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement

AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing?

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

The Epidemic After the Pandemic is Stress and Anxiety in America – Learning From Ginger

AI, licensing and remote prescribing among key issues facing telepsychiatry

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

COVID-19: 'The digital spring' facing Italy

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Deep dive: Tracking the past 12 months of telehealth at Yale New Haven Health

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Ryan Haight Act Telemedicine: AHA Calls on DEA to Release Special Registration Now

Getting Vaccinated Has Mental Health Benefits, Walgreens Finds

HIMSS20: Expanding Care to Africa’s Most Vulnerable with Telemedicine

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

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