Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A Buyer’s Guide to Telemedicine Platforms: Key Considerations to Help Optimize Clinical and Financial Outcomes. It’s important to approach telemedicine services with a full understanding of the possible hurdles on the path to implementation. More often than not, the obstacles lie with adoption from providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

The State Of Telehealth report found that much of the growth was pushed by accelerating digital transformation initiatives, as well as patient experience prioritization. As far as segments go, telemedicine providers, platforms and marketplaces saw their first decline in six quarters, with mergers and acquisitions at a record high.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. It was falling short of its patients' expectations in an increasingly digital world, and it was at a competitive disadvantage relative to peer organizations in the market. THE PROBLEM. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

This sudden spike in demand meant practices needed to quickly adapt to new workflows, technology, and training. Choosing the right technology and solution for your practice’s telehealth program requires a lot of research, evaluation, and training. Virtual Care Is More Than Telemedicine Video Visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For healthcare organizations, where time with patients is prioritized, DNS filtering can prevent care disruptions caused by phishing and malware, ensuring that healthcare workers maintain secure, efficient workflows, so they can provide the best patient experience possible.

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Mend

JULY 8, 2021

Telemedicine providers are changing healthcare worldwide. More and more practices are adopting telemedicine. There are many telemedicine software options to consider, making it challenging to narrow down your options. What is telemedicine? Healthcare providers can use telemedicine to diagnose and treat patients.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 3) Staff Training.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. “Another center may use telemedicine to provide follow-up care to patients after surgery to eliminate the need for travel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

One update that can significantly lighten nurses’ loads is telehealth technology in hospitals, as telemedicine solutions can not only reduce the in-person risks of disease and aggression, but also streamline daily operations. To that end, here’s what to prioritize when training nurses on new telehealth implementation: 1.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 21, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The following is a guest article by Frank McGillin, CEO at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic In the rush to rapidly embrace AI, healthcare providers risk depersonalizing the patient experience. This approach can help quell patient concerns and demonstrate AI’s potential as a tool that can empower rather than replace patient-centered care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Exec Summary: The Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) Show 2024 is likely to focus on several key talking points, including: Digital Health and Telemedicine: The increasing adoption of digital health solutions and telemedicine will be a major topic.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ever-evolving tech also means more training hours for physicians and a heavy workload for IT staff. Complicating matters further has been the increasing number of verbal and physical attacks by patients. What level of support and training will be offered during the transition? So, make sure to inquire about that, too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The survey report also uncovered that most respondents are generating less than 5% of revenue from their use of telemedicine. A smart and integrated EMR, the report's authors said, can bring in "significant efficiencies in billings and enhance the patient experience."

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients may change residences, need different specialized care, or no longer require frequent care. In many cases, these factors can be addressed by telemedicine or telehealth services , which grant patients more flexibility in how they pursue and receive care. In turn, this improves patient retention rates.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans. Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. 2019 feels like the tipping point where the notion of “patient experience” is being supplanted by the “consumer experience.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

Use cases bolster productivity, enhance workforce training (think Gray’s Anatomy in multiple dimensions or surgical training on digital humans). . Advances in VR and AR hardware can be applied to health care, with AR glasses getting more “realistic” and VR enabling the new norm of “six degrees of freedom” (6DoF).

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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. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

New patient experience expectations, coupled with a looming labor shortage in radiology, is forcing new (and in many cases, overdue) innovation in imaging diagnostics. Most of the small, rural, and underserved communities cannot afford the significant investment in equipment, staffing, and training. Scale is another key outcome.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What are the problems in the field of neurology that you feel telemedicine can help overcome? There are two key problems in neurology that telemedicine can help address. Telemedicine can help address both problems. First, there are not enough neurologists to care for the growing population of persons with neurologic disease.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the heatmap chart illustrates, health insurance ranks relatively low in peoples’ simplicity lens, akin to general insurance, media, and automotive, and below booking travel (air, train, car rental), and social media. By 2020, the pandemic-disruption was the opportunity for 3 in 4 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“Because of drive times, even the most efficient doctor could only see eight patients a day, and after years of education, training and hard work, having a physician spend hours driving around further reduced physician satisfaction and was terribly inefficient. A simple cough or cold can be treated with traditional telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The patient experience and consumer-centric healthcare. Digital Health and Telemedicine: Exploring the use of digital tools for remote patient monitoring, virtual care, and health data management. Healthcare Workforce: Addressing shortages, training, and retention challenges.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Here’s where technology can help scale the precious human resources that are physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and other trained clinicians whose well-being has eroded starting before the pandemic.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 26, 2024

Patient Experience Enhancements: Initiatives that improve patient satisfaction or outcomes. Point Allocation Criteria Impact: The potential or demonstrated impact of the innovation on patient outcomes, efficiency, or cost-effectiveness. Research and Development: Original research, publications, or patents.

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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. "These included the effectiveness of training programs and standardized processes," Aftab said.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 27, 2024

Governments, payers, and providers are recognising the benefits of VBC in terms of improved patient outcomes, reduced costs, and enhanced care coordination. Technological Advancements: Data analytics, artificial intelligence, and telemedicine are playing a crucial role in enabling VBC. billion in the previous 12 months.

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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. The majority of payers without virtual care offerings also reported planning to add them in the next 24 months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

To address this challenge at such an incredible scale and speed, within days the health system had to stand up a new telehealth system that offered rapid provider provisioning, onboarding and training, among other qualities. Telemedicine technology and services vendor Bluestream Health has served MedStar Health since 2016. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. "As an organization, we are focused on the patient and provider experience, so a user-friendly platform was a necessity. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"We ultimately chose Rimidi because their clinical management platform integrates with cellular-enabled connected blood pressure cuffs, which meant the only ask of our patients was to put on the cuff and press a single button and the data would come to us regardless of their WiFi, broadband, etc.," " she explained.

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