Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Confidence in remote care technology is gaining traction in the United States, with a survey finding 56 percent of Americans currently monitor their health with at least one digital data collection tool. Accordingly, in the near future, we expect digital health to evolve in order to better fill those gaps."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Exalta describes itself as a “faith-based nonprofit healthcare center that offers accessible, compassionate care for the whole person.” ” Its primary care physicians and volunteers serve thousands of patients annually. The majority (59 percent) speak one of 18 languages other than English, primarily Spanish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"Within a week of the pandemic hitting the United States, we also rolled out Zoom Business and Doximity to our patients as a telehealth option," Raman recalled. "Both modalities allowed us to not only remotely monitor patients on their chronic conditions, but also continue to see those who had COVID-19-like symptoms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A. Jay Holmgren at UCSF, previously partnered with other researchers from Stanford, Harvard and other universities who suspected the rise of telehealth could be to blame for spiking the amount of time clinicians were spending in the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. " Of the 125 respondents asked about the telehealth projects underway at the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This portable telehealth system is making waves by providing much-needed medical care to hard-to-reach communities. Coplin Health (WV) uses their 4 total exam backpacks for primary care services. As telemedicine continues to evolve, solutions like the TEB promise a future where quality healthcare knows no boundaries.

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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. Telehealth in 2019.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Though telehealth implementation necessitates an initial time and money investment, the long-term benefits far outweigh these. But to make the most of these benefits, staff must be on-board with telehealth. Telehealth implementation is, at its core, digital transformation. Strategically Implementing New Technology in Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. "The Signify deal coincides with the ongoing trend of healthcare shifting from the hospital to the home, and as technology plays a bigger role in remote care models."

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Benefits of Telemedicine to Patients.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The comments focused on three areas: expanding access to more telehealth services and providers, changes to remote patient monitoring services, and telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. " said Rittenhouse. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient? Then COVID-19 hit.

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care innovations

APRIL 18, 2018

Demand for remote patient management services is skyrocketing among patients : A 2016 survey by the American Telemedicine Association revealed that, among those who aren’t currently using telehealth services, the majority of people still “thought telehealth would be more convenient, even though their provider did not offer virtual appointments.”.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. These laws are also important to HIPAA compliant telehealth programs, as they update protections for the digital age. HIPAA and Telehealth Platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

As health systems ramp up telehealth and, especially, remote patient monitoring programs, they're looking for technologies to help them manage multiple connected devices as they extend care delivery into patients' homes. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

As with the rest of the industry, the organisation too had to accelerate its digital transformation by embracing digital tools for delivering remote care. The transition from inpatient to community-based care focuses on shifting from reactive to proactive care, ultimately creating value for both patients and the healthcare system."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added. " Dedi Gilad, Tyto Care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With the seamless integration of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), telehealth services, and other remote healthcare technologies, geographical limitations are becoming a thing of the past. This has been particularly valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic, where remote care technology became a lifeline for many.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But did you know virtual health is making a big impact on inmate care? When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. Improved Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work. Another 85% of clinicians said they were open to practicing on weekends using telehealth , especially therapists, and 64% were interested in working night shifts.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

Virtual care has shown great promise, but audio-video options still fail to deliver the value of a doctor’s appointment and ultimately earn the trust of patients. The study also found that the Home Smart Clinic reduced ED visits by 24.1%, urgent care visits by 11.3%, and increased primary care utilization by 12%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

"With RDMP, clinicians will have access to best-in-class algorithms and care protocols and will be able to serve more patients effectively in remote care settings," he added. John Halamka in a statement. We see that all of us are carrying these super computing devices. Many of us have wearable devices.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. It’s practically a mantra at this point – the very real ability of remote communication technology to connect underserved populations to top-notch medical care. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Products ChristianaCare launched Virtual Primary Care , a subscription-based service available to residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 25, 2024

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. They often offer a sliding fee scale, based on your income.

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GlobalMed

MAY 18, 2023

Telehealth has become a vital resource to support behavioral health challenges. Instead of creating care plans in a silo, behavioral health providers can coordinate care with primary care physicians by utilizing virtual health visits with multiple clinicians, allowing for true whole-person care.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 18, 2021

In January, the American Cancer Society, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and 73 other organizations, including many major health care systems, issued a statement stressing the urgency of preventive care. “We Telehealth Solved Access Issues for Some, Not All. Telehealth was a boon for patients during the pandemic year.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? The future of healthcare continues to support the growth of the telehealth industry.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. They often offer a sliding fee scale, based on your income.

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