Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A new report from Doximity, a telemedicine platform for healthcare providers, shows that 83% of physician telemedicine users said they prefer that virtual care remain a permanent part of their clinical practice. The research also accounted for the views of telehealth patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2025

For Medicare, telemedicine reimbursement and regulation has been about kicking the can down the road – more temporary extensions of COVID-era flexibilities. He is an expert in telemedicine policy. Healthcare IT News sat down with him for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of telemedicine reimbursement and regulation.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

You'll be talking about realizing value from telehealth programs. Other examples of telehealth-enabled support include virtual nursing, direct-to-patient video visits, and hybrid ambulatory and in-patient virtual specialty consults. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session. How can this be done?

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Telemedicine use has declined since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers can rethink how they use telehealth to get the most out of the modality and improve care.

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KevinMD

APRIL 15, 2019

Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Welcome to Telehealth Awareness Week , a campaign mounted by the ATA to remind us that #TelehealthIsHealth. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

"Many aspects of the rule are workable for the telehealth community," Zebley stated, but without changes, the provisions will create "unnecessary barriers to care." This requirement could arbitrarily prevent qualified practitioners from effectively serving patients via telemedicine."

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rock Health’s 2021 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey also found an increase in live video telemedicine and a decrease in satisfaction with telehealth compared with in-person care.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Streamlining Data for Better Care Chelmsford, MA – October 29, 2024 –AMD Global Telemedicine, a pioneer and industry leader in telehealth technology solutions for over 30 years, today announced a strategic partnership with Carefluence , an innovator in interoperability solutions.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Laura Cooley, senior director of education and outreach at the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, dishes out tips to improve the telehealth experience at the Patient Experience Summit this morning.

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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 10, 2025

Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed draft guidance to establish a framework for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine. Telemedicine prescribing registration allows qualified practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances via telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power assessed two categories of telehealth vendors: direct-to-consumer (DTC) and payer-provided.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Agenas , the National Agency for Regional Health Services, has officially launched the National Telemedicine Platform (PNT), a significant initiative under Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The platform aims to enhance healthcare accessibility and quality by integrating regional services into a cohesive national system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

And virtual care providers – online companies that specialize in telemedicine, sometimes known as "payviders" – are offering a virtual-first approach to healthcare directly to consumers. Avihai Sodri is CEO of Antidote Health, a telehealth services provider. This is invaluable for everyone in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After attending the first telehealth awareness week hosted by the American Telemedicine Association, I’ve become aware that there are more possibilities to improve clinical operations and patient experience with telehealth. Read more…. What if technology can help doctors make more accurate clinical decisions?

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 31, 2021

The deal is valued at about $194 million and will drive about a third of the telemedicine company's expected revenue moving forward.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth. called Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make It Work. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 1, 2025

LifeBridge Health, based in Owings Mills, Maryland, faced two primary telemedicine challenges: improving operational efficiency and increasing patient adoption. From that experience he knew an efficient telemedicine operation would reduce friction for patients, making it easier for them to adopt the new process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

PAVES brings EMS-focused telemedicine services to emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedic staff treating patients across Georgia. Telemedicine brings the specialists to the patient WCRMC is a rural hospital located in Washington County, Georgia.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 22, 2021

Germany's Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen has researched telehealth in various settings and locations with different users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? While the concept of the digital front door has been a popular topic in healthcare for some time, telemedicine has the potential to expand its impact beyond simply acquiring new patients or providing a digital entry point for care.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Rock Health’s 2022 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey also found non-video telehealth offerings have become more popular.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Researchers found physicians who provided more care through telemedicine also increased their time spent on after-hours EHR-based clinical and administrative work.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

According to the report, higher family incomes, more education, race and Hispanic origin were factors related to increased telemedicine use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2025

On March 31, the American Telemedicine Association's ATA Action announced it had acquired the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Together they represent a significant force in helping shape the future of telehealth and digital health. Molnar formerly was CEO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Like what you hear?

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 26, 2021

The ezOntheCall telehealth solution enables doctors to quickly retrieve patient data in real-time while conducting virtual consultations.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S. Some one in 4 survey respondents used telehealth in the past 3 months (about the first 90 days of the pandemic), with a vast majority of people satisfied with their virtual healthcare visit. and around the globe) over the past three months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2024

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services. The equipment purchased with help from a grant from the FCC telehealth grant program would allow for the expansion of services within UM's College of Health.

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