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Tele-psychiatry helps small provider expand services, treat during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As is the case nationally, psychiatry is in limited supply in the area of River Valley Health and Dental Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. No question existed in the minds of staff about the value of adding psychiatry to their continuum of care. Using telehealth for psychiatry was an obvious solution, King stated.

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Zoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem. By deploying telemedicine carts in the hospital, physicians could provide care remotely, irrespective of their location." "The telemedicine system currently is not integrated with other systems," Dawson said.

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Osmind EHR integrates Zoom for psychiatry telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the COVID-19 pandemic – especially thanks to an expansion of Medicare telehealth benefits during the public health emergency – driving increased use of virtual psychiatric care, many behavioral health providers ventured into telemedicine and onboarded digital telehealth platforms.

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Geisinger solves behavioral health access problem with telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. As a result, we're able to get people into psychiatry usually within ten days. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

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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. Why are many hospitals now using telemedicine?

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Telemedicine saves the day for Avera Health in the COVID-19 era

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Telemedicine for routine patients has become the new standard in primary care and subspecialty clinics at Avera," Burchett explained. "Endocrinology, psychiatry, dermatology and cardiology are a few specialties where virtual care has been critical." " Step-by-step for physicians.