KevinMD

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After attending the first telehealth awareness week hosted by the American Telemedicine Association, I’ve become aware that there are more possibilities to improve clinical operations and patient experience with telehealth. Read more…. What if technology can help doctors make more accurate clinical decisions?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2025

However, there has been a persistent call to measure success through a new lensthe patient experience. But through observation and personal reflection over time, Ive realized that patient experience is the lifeblood of a thriving healthcare practice. Theres another side to this thats sometimes overlooked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power assessed two categories of telehealth vendors: direct-to-consumer (DTC) and payer-provided.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The post Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Suki this week announced new plans to partner with Zoom Video Communications for artificial intelligence-enabled telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS The companies say Zoom will use Suki’s AI engine, Suki Platform, to generate clinical notes and will integrate other automation tools to boost provider experience and patient care.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Intriguingly, most patients would be comfortable getting that coronavirus test in their doctor’s office, which many would still be uncomfortable accessing other care from their personal physicians in the bricks-and-mortar office. What’s the work-around to ensure that patients can access care from their personal physicians?

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: For the patient-member-consumer, the digital experience “is” the overall experience given the growing use of online scheduling, online access to portals and EHRs, use of telehealth and virtual care platforms for clinical encounters, and bill paying, among other digital health care interactions.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Laura Cooley, senior director of education and outreach at the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, dishes out tips to improve the telehealth experience at the Patient Experience Summit this morning.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

"By enabling our care teams to care for more patients post-surgery in the ICU, we have been able to reduce the number of transfers to other facilities. "Also, we have improved our patient experience," she continued.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 8, 2025

Telehealth has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, fundamentally reshaping how patients and providers connect. While telehealth services have existed for decades, their adoption was relatively limited before the COVID-19 pandemic, with only 11% of consumers reporting use.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association).

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

While most patients have had some experience using digital tools in their medicines-life-flows, one-half said they had to use more than one digital health platform, lacking a more integrated omnichannel approach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

Zoom's funding will help the seven-year-old company better tackle documentation burnout, improve patient experiences, and expand its team. Nearly 140,000 healthcare organizations use Zoom for telehealth, the company noted in October when it announced its genAI clinical notes integration partnership in October.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. Q: You've said that personalization will influence telehealth engagement. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. What does your survey show in the area of expected growth and investment in telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., In Singapore, approximately ten telehealth companies are active in this space and employ inhouse doctors or a panel of doctors to offer the service. What more should/can be done in telehealth? chat, video conferencing, etc.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

Researchers from West Virginia University have set out to determine the optimal frequency of telehealth appointments for patients with chronic conditions. In a study published in E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks , the team reviewed other work concerning telehealth and chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share. Retail giants in the United States appear to be betting big on telehealth, even amidst looming uncertainty about its regulatory future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $23 million to four universities to develop cancer care telehealth centers as part of NCI's Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence initiative. MSK explores telehealth for precision oncology.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. for one year’s membership. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" Most, if not all, patients with chronic GI conditions benefit from these conservative yet proven interventions, he added. "Frequent touchpoints with a registered dietitian or a GI psychologist are easier to deliver via telehealth , much to patients' convenience," Pavlou noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs. Ensure the best potential to address organizational workforce, clinical, business and IT needs while improving access to care, patient experience and quality outcomes. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. Telehealth technologies became part of the clinical care delivery model. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved. MEETING THE CHALLENGE With the EHR integration of telemedicine, all patient encounters now are in a single system. Operations changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). The largest positive change in adoption was seen in telehealth and remote monitoring, and.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2023

Together, telehealth consults and an array of emerging digital health tools are helping streamline access to care and improve the patient experience for oncology and other specialty care. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care Enterprise Taxonomy: Like what you hear?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2022

The American Medical Association this week released a report outlining key steps that organizations and policymakers should take in order to work toward equity in the telehealth landscape. Design functionality, content, user-interface and service-access best practices, in partnership with patients from marginalized groups.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. "Upon completion of the visit, the encounter information is automatically sent to Memorial via Epic's Care Everywhere and Telehealth Anywhere functionality.

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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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