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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

NUS Medicine to introduce holographic GI module The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has tied up with GigXR, a California-based provider of holographic healthcare training, to introduce a new mixed reality-based (MR) training module for treating and diagnosing acute gastrointestinal diseases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2025

It can be used for telemedicine or in-person services." Another couple of months were spent testing the system and then training staff. After some initial testing and feedback, remaining staff were trained and the practice went live at the beginning of October.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2024

Like many states, Nebraska is facing a significant shortage of trained emergency medical workers. " Moreover, in rural Nebraska, new EMTs have less access to on-the-job training compared with their urban counterparts. As a predominantly rural state, many of its community fire and ambulance services rely heavily on volunteers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In the telemedicine work of the University of Montana College of Health in Missoula, services would be provided through a centralized hub at the university with synchronous and asynchronous telehealth services provided to rural and tribal communities in partnership with clinics, hospitals and pharmacies across the state. " PROPOSAL.

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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 Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A Surge in Ransomware Attacks The increasing complexity of healthcare IT systems, from telemedicine platforms to interconnected cloud services, has made the sector particularly susceptible to cyberattacks. Simulated phishing exercises and updated training materials help reduce phishing attacks by up to 70%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

She talks about physicians' newfound familiarity with telehealth and what it means for the future, the possibility of physicians working full time in telemedicine, and how virtual care can help with staffing shortages in healthcare. Do they offer ongoing training? And was the EHR created with your experience in mind?

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

"While we predominantly use Zoom for telemedicine encounters, we also frequently use a variety of other modalities, including Skype, Teams and the telephone." " Overall, through its use of telemedicine, BHSN has seen an uptick in the number of services provided and a decrease in no-show and cancellation rates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

These traits are typically found across those who don’t have access to Wi-Fi or devices, require technical support, and could benefit from digital literacy training. Does your health system offer and trainings or classes on increasing patients’ digital skills and comfortability with telehealth?" " she continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face? This leaves many doctors, nurses and other health professionals in charge of their own licensing verification and updates, a task for which they are not formally trained, nor do they have the time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2025

HOW IT WORKS Ping An Health explained that the chatbot was built using a three-tiered data training structure. The third layer involves fine-tuning from the doctor themselves, including manual annotation and training with their video content.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As far as barriers to implementation go, in addition to patient technological prowess, execs cited difficulty treating patients in rural or low-income communities; lack of available staff training; lack of access to dependable wifi for patients; and high costs as some of their biggest hurdles. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

How can telemedicine be used to combat it? Telemedicine gives us the opportunity to reimagine how we leverage this finite number of resources to the fullest potential, while also acknowledging that to keep the number of existing providers we have to keep them happy and mentally healthy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"The high demand for pediatric specialty providers and the constraints many families face regarding transportation, time off from work and school, and finances, made it obvious that traditional models of outreach healthcare were not sustainable," said Morgan Waller, director of telemedicine business and operations at Children's Mercy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

By consolidating platforms, Geisinger was able to standardize many of the workflows and training processes required to rapidly deploy a new modality for seeing patients. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With human error responsible for a significant portion of security breaches— 55% according to one report —it’s vital for healthcare organizations to invest in ongoing cybersecurity training. Training should also focus on secure communication between providers and patients, especially with the rise of telemedicine and digital health platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care. Healthcare IT News interviewed Kristin to get her expertise on the subject of the future of telemedicine and hybrid care. Please explain how you see this playing out.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

Use cases bolster productivity, enhance workforce training (think Gray’s Anatomy in multiple dimensions or surgical training on digital humans). . Advances in VR and AR hardware can be applied to health care, with AR glasses getting more “realistic” and VR enabling the new norm of “six degrees of freedom” (6DoF).

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Christina Olson, Children’s Hospital Colorado.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

The health system had been using vendor Teladoc for its inpatient telemedicine platform. "The telehealth team and operations leaders developed workflows, and training modules were designed to provide a standard practice." Adding ambulatory telemedicine. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

The post Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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. The team points to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which maintains a list of organizations providing such training and acts as a clearinghouse for such resources. Connectivity. Applications.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 7, 2022

How school-based telemedicine can help the healthcare system navigate the pandemic. Telemedicine can be a significant approach to assisting those in need who can’t receive proper care in hospitals at the moment; schools, specifically, can benefit from implementing a telehealth solution that can keep kids in school and treat them in place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

"Teleprimary care is at the forefront of the telemedicine space, but it continues to evolve and expand with the development of new technologies, innovative care models and evolving reimbursement policies," said ABT Director of Education Whitney Flanagan, RN, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2025

The expanded Avel Pharmacy team will help hospitals and health systems mitigate Pharmacist-in-Charge shortages and reduce burnout by providing 24/7 access to a team of licensed, hospital-trained pharmacists for medication order entry, reviews, and verifications of orders and other clinical pharmacy services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. “Another center may use telemedicine to provide follow-up care to patients after surgery to eliminate the need for travel.

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