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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 15, 2025

Caregiving and other demands of an aging population gained significant government attention and new initiatives during 2024, all approved, with only reimbursed telehealth access remaining to be approved. 115-406) and empower public health departments to implement effective dementia interventions in their communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. value-based).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

"Some physicians may have been nimbler than others in making the transition [to telehealth], potentially influencing patients' experience of physician access and availability," wrote the research team. Early adopters (those who adopted telehealth during the week of March 15). WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

She works as part of Smile Train's Global Medical Advisory Board developing the Cleft Palate Speech Training Project, which provides workshops in Spanish and English for parents and colleagues who work with children with repaired clefts. Smile Train has a very different approach. Can you elaborate?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Training the tech support. These bolster, Education, from early childhood through vocational training and higher ed. Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Connectivity. Applications. Food systems, and finally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Telehealth, a modern innovation in healthcare, has rapidly become an essential component of the medical ecosystem. By leveraging technology to deliver care remotely, telehealth has revolutionized how patients access medical services and how providers deliver them. Telehealth plays a critical role in facilitating this.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. " Lionel Yu, Garfield Health Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

"Digital literacy, access to technology, and the ability to effectively communicate with providers through virtual platforms have now become critical social determinants of health," they added. The data emerging from telehealth patterns amid the pandemic has suggested that virtual care use may be a complicated issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2023

Te Whatu Ora seeks rural telehealth service providers Te Whatu Ora, in collaboration with Te Aka Whai Ora, is seeking providers of rural telehealth services. " This comes following a recent consultation with rural health sector stakeholders where the mounting pressure on practices was raised.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2020

“During the pandemic, we have experienced a significant decrease in patient volume; we could not perform elective procedures; and, we substantially increased our telehealth utilization. “While most patients have heard of telehealth, far fewer had experience using it, particularly the elderly. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. for the next two years, assuring several aspects of access for health citizens across the country. The six pieces of telehealth policy cover: The Preserving Telehealth. Yesterday, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. " THE LARGER TREND.

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CiscoHealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In just three months, DPH onboarded 1,200 telehealth providers to the Webex platform. Webex was the answer. .

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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. ” A telehealth surge.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2022

The company has identified the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh to launch telemedicine facilities that will provide healthcare via telehealth. It will offer about 20 medical specialties via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Sara Hendren, Global Telehealth Lead at MobilTeK by Care on Location. MobilTEK , launched its first international telehealth program in the department of Chuquisaca Bolivia in March of 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Adoption of digital health in the various healthcare ecosystems had not been well established. In the public health sector, contact tracing is predominantly carried out manually with the transfer of information performed manually as well. A low testing capacity is also another issue which the nation faces.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

Recently, Axena Health – a medical device company focused on female pelvic health – launched telehealth services with UpScriptHealth to connect women with prescribing clinicians who can evaluate their incontinence symptoms and, if appropriate, prescribe the Leva System. With the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will deliver regular health checks and provide greater access to professional help while also giving incentives to further encourage patients to self-manage their own conditions at home. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Other patients, such as seniors and those with chronic conditions, may be homebound due to health complications. Telehealth alleviates the challenges these patients face in managing their health by creating access to routine and specialty appointments from wherever is most convenient for them. MARKETPLACE.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Will organizations take the next step and fully integrate their telehealth programs? Telehealth has been at the top of discussion; however, some organizations are hesitating to integrate Telehealth. Patients all over the country have now had an experience, or are familiar with, telehealth and its benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2023

Backed by an A$80,000 (over $50,000) investment, the region-wide rollout comes following a successful trial at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service – believed to be the world's first application of the technology in a virtual medical setting. Its rollout for home visits will follow soon.

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