Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2024

There are all kinds of specialist services provided by telemedicine – telepsychiatry, teleradiology, tele-ICU, just to name a few. But there's a unique telemedicine service that has been growing that merits attention: medical device prescriptions via virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. ON THE RECORD.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024. Comments are due on this proposed rule by Feb.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. Such patients who have signed up for the government's Home Isolation scheme via LINE messaging app are continuously monitored through the telemedicine system. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2023

Regulator bars e-prescription of non-OTC drugs in India Indian doctors using telemedicine can only prescribe OTC Drugs, according to the National Medical Commission. Meanwhile, the new regulations order doctors to keep digital records, such as patient records, reports, and images, for three years from their patient's last consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2022

Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres over 2 years in India. German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer is setting up 27 telemedicine centres in 12 districts across eight states in India over the next two years through Bayer Foundation India. It will offer about 20 medical specialties via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Population and Public Health Technology Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

While telehealth can be a solution for addressing health equity and access gaps, some of the retail/consumer-driven programs may exacerbate disparities in access to medicines that can help address public health epidemics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, Thailand began development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces, according to an article by the Bangkok post. The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. What does the survey show about telemedicine addressing patient care barriers and seeing more patients?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. The government has secured the cooperation of 17 health platforms to provide virtual care, including major telehealth players Halodoc and Alodokter. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

A research team from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health is looking to implement telemedicine for managing chronic diseases in Pakistan to study whether it can be used by specialists in the cities to support health providers in rural communities.

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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. . The post Georgia Department of Public Health: Keeping Doctors and Patients Connected appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 8, 2020

Telemedicine Fraud Increases Access to telehealth has grown rapidly since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency. As access to telehealth has increased, so has telemedicine fraud. Telemedicine fraud is discussed below. Telemedicine Fraud In March, Attorney General William … Read more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” How can telehealth providers prepare for the changes expected to come at the end of the public health emergency?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CMS issued temporary measures to make it easier for people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to receive medical care through telehealth services during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

"In a matter of weeks, Geisinger went from 20 specialties to more than 70 specialties and from about 200 providers to more than 2,000 providers using telemedicine to see patients in their homes, neighborhood clinics or local hospitals," he continued. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

UAB partnered with our Alabama Department of Public Health to obtain funding and purchase videoconferencing equipment for each of our county health departments. We used these county health departments as a way to deliver subspecialty care across our state. Click here to read the special report.

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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.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 28, 2020

Telemedicine (also called telehealth, virtual care, or virtual health) is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to gain access to health care services remotely. What conditions can telemedicine treat? How Can Telehealth Contribute to Care During COVID-19?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have joined forces to issue a temporary telemedicine prescription rule to extend certain exceptions to existing DEA telemedicine regulations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 11, 2023

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have joined forces to issue a temporary telemedicine prescription rule to extend certain exceptions to existing DEA telemedicine regulations.

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GlobalMed

MAY 21, 2019

Recently GlobalMed’s Chief Clinical Officer Gigi Sorenson and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Dean Smith presented talks about disaster recovery and telemedicine at the International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency. Maartens conference focused on public health challenges after hurricanes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform. LANES combines and provides visibility of all prescribed medications so CSC providers can discuss the drugs with patients during telemedicine appointments. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Patients believe in the power of technology — as long as it benefits them,” Lavidge concludes. The Lavidge consumer study bolsters this mandate, further inspiring us to build trust in one another, with science, and with our health care providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Goulburn Valley Health, a regional healthcare provider in the state of Victoria, has tapped telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor for additional virtual emergency doctor support. The network had also engaged the services of My Emergency Doctor for this project, which ended in May this year.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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