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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the gas pedal on the use of virtual care, particularly synchronous video chats. Talking points: The transition of care to "virtual-first" The evolution of the definition of telemedicine. The use cases of telehealth beyond synchronous video calls. Looking at different disease processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2024

With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. Today, Geisinger Behavioral Health serves more than 45,000 unique patients annually, with more than 80% of services offered via telemedicine.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 30, 2022

To better understand the critical role interoperability plays in telemedicine, we spoke with Tom Foley, the Vice President of Growth at AMD Global Telemedicine. He also touched on the current demand for integrated telehealth solutions and how AMD has specifically adapted to the healthcare landscape with its telemedicine offerings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Heidi West, head of healthcare at Zoom, to discuss telemedicine's future, hybrid in-person/telehealth care, communities that could be hurt without virtual care, and challenges to telemedicine becoming fully mainstream. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Telemedicine – the practice of providing consultations and medical assistance to patients through video calls – should be a lasting way of administering health care, according to the American Medical Association, particularly for patients with […]. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

Before the introduction of telemedicine, there were times when Chase had to contract physicians in other towns to be available by phone – even though sometimes a physician may not have been needed. We were already familiar with Avel, having used its pharmacy telemedicine system for several years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2022

A study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that receipt of video-enabled tablets during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with more psychotherapy visits and reduced emergency department use among veterans. WHY IT MATTERS. As the researchers noted in their piece, U.S.

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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. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A novel telemedicine platform receives significant funding, with video appointments and remote data sharing among its key features.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2023

Telemedicine as the main vehicle to deliver care These patients would traditionally be admitted to observation in-hospital. While enrolled in this program, the patient can have blood drawn in the home and have medicines administered by the paramedic by orders from the provider, who is seeing them via a live telehealth video visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Waller, RN, says she and her team were well invested in telemedicine way before COVID-19 – and have not yet paused their journey to improve access to highly sought-after medical professionals via virtual care technology. You describe your telemedicine program as mature if not advanced.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

He is in an excellent position to comment on the report and the potential here for telemedicine, so Healthcare IT News interviewed him to get his perspective on the issue. We can meet patients where they are at, whether it is on the phone, video call, chat or streamlining scheduling of an in-person appointment.

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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. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. While telemedicine has undoubtedly come a long way, it still has significant limitations.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

"They thought to let the interaction or the clinical situation dictate the level of care that is needed… If they can handle [visits] over telemedicine and take care of the patient, the patient doesn't need more expensive care. "I think our goal with telemedicine is how we utilise it when it makes sense.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%). Counterbalancing the lack of in-person visits, thousands of physicians have pivoted to virtual care and telemedicine platforms. On the payor front, large U.S.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2021

"Our program staff connect with clients via an array of audio or video connections," said Shelby LaRock, executive business partner at BHSN. "While we predominantly use Zoom for telemedicine encounters, we also frequently use a variety of other modalities, including Skype, Teams and the telephone."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2024

At HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum, Stanford Healthcare representatives discussed the care system's implementation of a virtual fast track program in its emergency department.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

"Unlike many other specialties, behavioral health rarely requires physical examination – making it perhaps the purest, most perfect use case for telemedicine services," said Chris DiGiusto, vice president of ambulatory services at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. Telemedicine expands access to healthcare, providing patients with convenient options for education and clinical interventions. The following is what they had to share.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Another important trend that is an umbrella over more granular forecasts is the consumer’s embrace of services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"Our journey started well before COVID; we leveraged video visits to offset the increased demand of urgent care and look to reduce over utilization of the emergency departments." "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Themes addressed a range of digital health items such as access to medical information via smartphone, wearable health trackers, digital assistants, telemedicine, AI in medical treatment, robotics for medical care, and sharing health data, among other factors. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine. The new rules allow for some audio-only options that can help people who do not have access to computer equipment or video phones. How can healthcare provider organizations tackle privacy issues related to HIPPA when it comes to telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In collaboration with EyecareLive, Visibly will launch real-time video visits between optometrists and patients, allowing for more comprehensive vision consultations. As the developer of the world’s first FDA-cleared online visual acuity test, Visibly is committed to growing convenient access to quality vision care nationwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Digital Innovation Showcase, organised by Zoom and HIMSS, required startups to offer solutions that leveraged video or video conferencing. Once the patient has recorded their vitals using either video or picture format, the information will be stored in both the patient app and the doctor portal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2024

PROPOSAL The proposal was to have a standalone video visit kiosk within the urgent care locations to offer patients with lower-acuity problems an alternative to the longer wait for being seen in person. Oliver, Baptist Health With this robust telemedicine device, from vendor TytoCare, the visit is more than a simple video connection.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

The vast majority of doctors are using electronic health records, and four in ten have adopted telemedicine in their workflow. Just over half of clinicians view telemedicine as transformational, and another 4 in 10 doctors cite AI and wearable devices as transformational in the next five years.

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