Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. "Telehealth solutions need to be deployed in a culturally competent, equitable way to ensure they reach the communities that need the most support," he said.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Amazon One Medical could be the beginning of a text-based TeleHealth revolution and here's why: Focus on Messaging: Amazon One Medical emphasises text-based communication with healthcare providers, making it more accessible and convenient for patients. Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand.

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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. THE PROBLEM. " Liu Cheng, Urgently Ortho. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Patient Access Telehealth Emerging Technologies Technology Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. THE PROBLEM. So providers engaged with patients via mobile phones, on iPads and on laptop computers to address their healthcare issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association this week sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting that they continue allowing telehealth and remote care services to be treated as an excepted benefit. Chamber of Commerce, the Healthcare Leadership Council, Walmart, Teladoc Health and One Medical. Signers included the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2022

It is also looking to fill in more leadership roles as it goes international.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Telehealth carts and synchronous tech has been utilized to be able to do ward rounds on patients and 80-100 patients can receive care closer to home through the service, to ensure that patients in rural areas are getting the best quality care they can, through face-to-face and virtual methods.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. Between March 16, 2020, and March 20, 2022, it completed more than 784,000 telehealth visits. " Tejal A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Tom Milam manages a team of clinicians and guides them in telemedicine and industry best practices. We interviewed Milam to discuss: how provider organizations are using telehealth to try to curb provider burnout as demand for behavioral health services increases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. As the officials noted, the current telehealth flexibilities are tied to the public health emergency, which is renewed in three-month increments. Dozens of U.S. Led by Sens. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

"Not only was this costly and not sustainable long-term, it was difficult to find physicians to cover, creating additional stress and pressure on our one physician along with the leadership and staff to figure out this coverage," said Abby Cyboron, CEO of Chase County Community Hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

WakeMed Health turned to RelyMD, a telemedicine technology vendor, for the telehealth piece. There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus. THE PROBLEM. That was the challenge. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Additionally, it can help them track how well the connected health tools are working as part of a telehealth, remote monitoring or other virtual care program. Among the tools on offer via Xealth's platform: Babyscripts, Glooko, SilverCloud Health, Welldoc and others.

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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

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health. By implementing the telehealth model, one of St. Perhaps most important, telehealth provided the flexibility to pivot along the way and maintain a consistent care continuum for patients from wherever they were.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

IT, clinical and operational leadership collaborated to create workflows to facilitate the transition to telemedicine and establish virtual connections. ” One of the big goals of telehealth was to preserve PPE, which was successful with the use of an auto-answer feature using FaceTime on iPads. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2020

UPIC Health, which provides administrative revenue cycle and patient engagement support to healthcare clients, now is offering telehealth services for free to women who live in New York and New Jersey. Telehealth services aimed at addressing behavioral health and wellness needs have soared in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Telehealth within a week. Spurred by the urgency of the COVID-19 crisis, the healthcare organization made the shift to telehealth within a week, transitioning most of its 6,000 weekly appointments to a telemedicine platform. Zooming into telehealth. Wide support for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2022

" "The FCC telehealth funds allowed us to purchase laptops, monitors, keyboards, cameras and headsets for a large portion of our staff to work from home. Having the telehealth option just gives the organization a chance to help more individuals who would opt for that service moving forward. " RESULTS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Overall, company leadership is more bullish on digital health tools compared with workers who index relatively lower than management — by just a bit. The title of the report, “Health on Demand,” speaks to the first bar chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I think most of us agree that telehealth is here to stay. No doubt telehealth won’t remain at the inflated levels that COVID-19 and shutdowns required, but it will plateau at some reasonable level and then likely grow over time as […]. To what degree is something that will be discussed for a while to come.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2025

The mentor-nuns who demonstrated values-driven leadership Ive been many things in my career, Tom reminded me, but always in and around health care. In my early 20s, my mentors were these religious women who were the best at demonstrating values-driven leadership, and that stuck, Tom confessed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. Aligning new technology and features with the Epic EHR has created more effective telehealth care pathways, Frunzi explained. Monitoring will transition to Health Recovery Solutions. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2021

This past year, we’ve spent a lot of time covering the telehealth and RPM markets for obvious reasons.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When we first started covering the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID, we saw an explosion of live video telehealth companies. They were obviously filling the need for doctors and patients to both stay at home. Then, we started to see a lot of talk about various remote patient monitoring companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Telehealth comes with a number of important challenges. COVID did teach us that none of those challenges can’t be overcome. However, it’s not hard to see that many healthcare organizations are slipping back into old habits. You’ll often hear me talk about the powerful force that is “how we’ve always done it.”

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