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

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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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 30, 2022

To better understand the critical role interoperability plays in telemedicine, we spoke with Tom Foley, the Vice President of Growth at AMD Global Telemedicine. He also touched on the current demand for integrated telehealth solutions and how AMD has specifically adapted to the healthcare landscape with its telemedicine offerings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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

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. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Emme, a health tech company that launched a birth control tracking smart case and app this past August, has now expanded its offerings into prescription delivery and telemedicine. Emme representatives say the service aims to be a fully integrated contraception system, including the case and app, telemedicine, and prescription delivery.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed). In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As it happens, Erica works in telemedicine, as a clinical operations specialist at VirtualMed Staff. By meeting with a virtual psychiatrist, I felt like he was being heard for the first time and was provided with a treatment plan that was specifically built for him. What is your part in the process of telemedicine?

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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. You have identified three trends in telemedicine for 2023. And the third 2023 trend you suggest is that telemedicine is more than just a check-up. What do you see?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2023

"While a traditional hospital at home program looks to care for the sometimes sicker patients who would traditionally meet inpatient status and be admitted to the hospital, Observation at Home looks to enroll patients who don't quite meet inpatient admission criteria, but also aren't well enough to go home," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Telemedicine tools can help ensure physicians and their care teams better manage patient care, and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their healthiest. We spoke with Hamilton to discuss how telemedicine can relate directly to disease prevention, preventative care and value-based care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. We can meet patients where they are at, whether it is on the phone, video call, chat or streamlining scheduling of an in-person appointment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

And virtual care providers – online companies that specialize in telemedicine, sometimes known as "payviders" – are offering a virtual-first approach to healthcare directly to consumers. Avihai Sodri is CEO of Antidote Health, a telehealth services provider. He has extensive experience in the virtual-first approach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the telemedicine work of the University of Montana College of Health in Missoula, services would be provided through a centralized hub at the university with synchronous and asynchronous telehealth services provided to rural and tribal communities in partnership with clinics, hospitals and pharmacies across the state. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

We interviewed her to talk about why she believes this is so, the relationship between telehealth and health equity, and how a hybrid future for telemedicine is important. Healthcare providers will need options to meet the needs of the communities they serve. This philosophy will be the same with telehealth, one size will not fit all.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

How can telemedicine be used to combat it? Telemedicine gives us the opportunity to reimagine how we leverage this finite number of resources to the fullest potential, while also acknowledging that to keep the number of existing providers we have to keep them happy and mentally healthy.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Stevens offers five bits of telemedicine advice for her peers: "Integration is key. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

"Since the pandemic made 'hybrid' meetings more common, we asked ourselves, How do we create a 'hybrid' style visit where the doctor and the patient are in-person but others can be brought in virtually and even on-demand? Click here to read the special report. It was immediately very popular.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Once a population health initiative is defined, the challenge becomes identifying the right individuals for outreach and personalizing the approach to meet unique patient needs. These initiatives are often outside the realm of direct care and fall into the sphere of social determinants of health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. How do we need to change our policies and practices to meet emerging requirements?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE Ultimately, it was the behavioral health leadership team that helped the IT team make progress – taking the leadership role in the development and management of the partnership.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2025

It can be used for telemedicine or in-person services." MEETING THE CHALLENGE Impower still is in the early stages of using the technology and is learning more every week. " Prep and implementation were fairly straightforward, she reported. Another couple of months were spent testing the system and then training staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

" If anything, telehealth saves time and money by eliminating transportation – not to mention the convenience that comes with telemedicine, he added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

Oliver, Baptist Health With this robust telemedicine device, from vendor TytoCare, the visit is more than a simple video connection. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The TytoClinic allows for patients to be seen virtually versus waiting for a long time in person. " Dr. Brett A.

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AMD Telemedicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Read More about EOMC's Telemedicine Program The Approach: Expanding School-Based Telehealth with AMD Technology Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center (EOMC) implemented a school-based telehealth program designed to bridge the healthcare gap in rural communities. Their customer service and technical support of our programs has been impeccable.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

If you want to know more about these issues, check out several of the panels convened at the #ATANexus conference that met this week in Phoenix — LinkedIn, Twitter, and health media covered the meeting in detail.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. THE PROBLEM. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Since 2021, AMC has offered telemedicine services to patients outside South Korea. In other related news, private hospital group Bangkok Dusit Medical Services in Thailand signed last year a memorandum of understanding to cooperate with Russian private healthcare provider Medsi Group in providing telemedicine to their patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2024

For telehealth providers specifically, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can handle initial patient intake by gathering basic information and conducting preliminary assessments before a patient meets with a clinician. What are the challenges on the behavioral health landscape today? And where do telehealth and AI fit in?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. A survey published by the Larry A. " wrote one Idaho-based clinician.

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