Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

That's why Healthcare IT News interviewed Ophir Lotan, vice president of product and customer success at telemedicine company TytoCare. Here, Lotan shares his expertise with the combined forces of telehealth and EHRs. But it's not necessarily an easy get.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. In this video, CEO Robert Krayn talks about how Talkiatry addresses the needs of patients by leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For the 108th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we decided to mix things up. Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. We asked ChatGPT the following question “ Can you come up with 4 questions for a podcast on healthcare IT (technology)?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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

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. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Click here to read the special report. It was immediately very popular. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. A few weeks ago, as telehealth started to explode, I realized how important understanding the telehealth market was going to be for those who read Healthcare IT Today. Plus, having been through the golden age of EHR software otherwise known […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience. On the practice management and EHR front, where other vendors separate these products, the DrChrono platform offers seamless integration of both, Cheng said. “We had evaluated 15 EHR products prior to deciding on DrChrono’s platform,” he recalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The survey is part of the Telehealth Impact Study prepared by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Workgroup, which includes the American Medical Association, American Telemedicine Association, Digital Medical Society, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, MassChallenge Health Tech, Mayo Clinic and MITRE Corporation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. New drugs and delivery models are going to challenge what can be delivered over telemedicine and challenge the regulations of how in-person services are delivered.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Niagara Falls Memorial chose the eClinicalWorks telemedicine system to solve the problem. “With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. " Jeffrey M. Perry, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.

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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." "Cerner, our EHR vendor, helped us with the process," he continued. " $882,000 from the FCC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

When telemedicine appointments skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Johns Hopkins team struggled to support patients who needed extra assistance. In response, the Johns Hopkins team developed what they called an automated "video visit technical risk score" tool in their Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. Progressive Therapeutics found vendor Azalea Health, which offered a proposal for an EHR solution that came fully integrated with telehealth. At first, caregivers were using WebEx and Google Hangouts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. "A lot of the elderly patients have been able to successfully use the feature without any issues and feel confident with the video capabilities."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

"They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News has published a special report detailing many of the vendors and their offerings. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Richard Tytus of Hamilton, Ontario, is a medical professional with extensive experience in delivering and promoting virtual healthcare. He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. "The initial hiccups and revelations in the world of telemedicine, while challenging, were instrumental," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. of total ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. It's not true telemedicine." So why wasn't the healthcare organization doing this in the past? Care in the home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. And it has become an increasingly important component of healthcare delivery. Here, five telemedicine technology experts offer best practices for implementing the technology. " Dr. Roy Schoenberg, American Well. End user adoption and engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Would […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"Our organization already uses a virtual nursing platform and service, so we were fortunate to have some experience in this domain as well as existing audio/video infrastructure in place to use as a starting point prior to these behavioral health use cases surfacing," Firman explained. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As a result, the health system wanted to find a telehealth system that would enable it to provide patients with an option for a visit that would be really convenient and also reduce costs to below those of a typical telemedicine video visit. " Grady Brimley, SSM Health. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2021

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. We have a single EHR. Q: You said that your patients have not really embraced telehealth, which surprised you.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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