Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. Staying Ahead of Change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Like a lot of health systems, MedStar rapidly launched new telemedicine technology in response to COVID-19, which resulted in 100,000 video visits in the first two months of use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

eHealth Exchange , a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 20, 2020

HIPAA Compliant Video Chat Basics: Requirements for HIPAA after COVID Although the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has extended the public health emergency until October, telehealth providers need to look at what’s next. Once the public health emergency … Read more.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2020

Healthcare video collaboration platform Visionable has announced a partnership with professional services company Difrent to help healthcare organisations work more efficiently. The joint service will also be offered for new clients going forward.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. One of the most compelling telehealth access scenarios in the first months of pandemic will be told by consumers accessing virtual care for teletherapy and counseling.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Janine Cox, Operations Director – Health System Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia We are hoping to see an improvement in the utilisation of video telehealth within residential aged care homes. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

CTA looked at ten categories of consumer tech for the research: mobile devices, video products, audio products, computing devices, video gaming, smart homes, wearable tech, automotive tech, health & wellness, and lifestyle tech. The poll was conducted among 2,630 U.S. adults 18 and over in April and May 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2021

You’ve probably seen this if you’re on Twitter at all, but Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health put together the perfect video clip from Home […]. I know this would have been better last week for Christmas Eve, but the concept is still good a week after.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For instance, the agency has teamed with Verizon to offer veterans who are customers gain wider access to the VA Video Connect telehealth app. million telehealth episodes of care, such as a video appointment or a store and forward telehealth exchange, to more than 900,000 veterans," he said. "In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. You’ll see a lot of blue fill signifying peoples’ preference for using a phone for these various tasks — from checking social networks to reading the news and watching short videos. which 1 in 2 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. A framework for tactical action.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"The telehealth cliff is looming, casting much uncertainty and concern for the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries, and the sustainability of our already overburdened healthcare system," said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

This assurance has given clear support to the use of technologies such as mobile messaging and video-enabled services, for example. One example is the creation of an expanded team with capabilities in technology roll-out, change management and health improvement, which has led to the expansion of video-enabled consultation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

Holistic tele-care and care beyond the video visit. CMS will reimburse for 11 new telehealth services during the public health emergency. Talking points: COVID-19 reimbursement changes and which of them will stick around. Adoption lessons learned and how they’ll influence reimbursement policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2021

"As a health system, we rely primarily on phone and video interpreter vendors to cover the demand. This was possible when aligning the encounter with a staff interpreter, but not with the organization's phone or video vendors, as those interpreters operate in an enclosed environment on an on-demand basis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

Between March 24 and June 23, researchers found that Latinx patients were significantly less likely to have video telemedicine compared with audio-only visits. During the first part of the pandemic in 2020, which researchers referred to as "Phase I," white patients constituted the majority of both video and audio-only visits.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

consumers are watching live TV more often, 1 in 2 watching online streaming video more often (such as Disney+ and Netflix), and one-third are playing online video games more often as well as listening to online streaming music (like Apple Music or Spotify). For entertainment , 1 in 2 U.S. Sling TV, YouTube TV). Stay well and stay home!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "It made sense that all eyes were on the hospitals, because they were overwhelmed with sick patients," said Dr. Donna R.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The pilot involves clinics, as well as some hospitals that can only offer them to patients with rare diseases and patients who require continuous health management after surgery (those needing device checkups and explanation of test reports). Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the home as health hub, a phenomenon reinforced by the public health crisis, Best Buy Health’s (BBH) 2018 vision is meeting the moment, like the old Wayne Gretzky metaphor of knowing where the hockey puck would go and being there to meet it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The kit also comes with a digital tablet where they can upload their health data via a secure website. Those data are then reviewed by a specialist nurse who can also speak to them about their next steps via live video link at any time of the day, seven days a week.

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