Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2020

One area of CARES Act funding we didn’t highlight for healthcare was $200 million in COVID-19 Telehealth funding that will be administered by the FCC. Here are the most relevant details from the announcement: About the COVID-19 […].

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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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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. UVA Health's response to COVID-19 has been multipronged. '" PROPOSAL.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

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. Everything changed in March 2020 when COVID-19 appeared. More than 500 patients enrolled in COVID remote patient monitoring.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. Over the course of the pandemic, virtual care was implemented out of necessity to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 infection.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

To combat this challenge, McLaren has implemented what it calls its Clinic to Clinic telehealth service in several of these locations, connecting physician specialists from tertiary sites to patients in the rural sites. “This program offers patients 24/7 access to primary care physicians for urgent care conditions.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

As the program grew to more than 100 patients, the organization expanded to allowing referrals for patients with any chronic condition or COVID-19, and hired additional clinical staff. MaineGeneral already had selected the RPM vendor prior to COVID-19. " PROPOSAL. in the same months the prior year.

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APRIL 5, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it presented Portland, Oregon-based Legacy Health with a multitude of staffing challenges where clinicians and staff were unable to come to work safely in the hospitals and clinics. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. Adding ambulatory telemedicine.

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MARCH 15, 2021

"In enabling our organization to provide anytime/anywhere care to patients and operate more efficiently and cost-effectively, our initiation of a telehealth platform was an important part of the strategy to achieve these goals," said Hugh Jackson, service line administrator with clinical program development at Tanner Health System.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Children's National Hospital in Washington was in the midst of an enterprise digital-transformation initiative before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020. The organization was transitioning telehealth platforms pre-COVID-19, and was using Zoom as an interim solution. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. Parker is using the Healow application by eClinicalWorks for its telemedicine program.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Federal Communications Commission today approved an additional 68 applications for funding commitments totaling $42,702,383 for Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program.

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Health Recovery Solutions

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2020, we saw countless changes to federal and state telehealth regulations—changes that expanded coverage and reimbursement, waived state licensure requirements, expedited the FDA review process, and more. One thing is certain, nearly all promoted the use of telehealth to shift more healthcare into the home environment.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. Zoom, Skype and Teams. Revolutionizing healthcare.

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APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. Between March 16, 2020, and March 20, 2022, it completed more than 784,000 telehealth visits. " Tejal A.

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American Well

APRIL 14, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented countless challenges to delivering healthcare, it has also created opportunities — particularly in establishing, expanding, and refining telehealth strategies. The FCC is now providing a second round of funding, with nearly $250 million available to eligible applicants.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles had the resources to provide large-scale COVID-19 testing, it was clear that its service area of South L.A. and Compton would be at significantly higher risk for COVID-19 infection and complications than other areas of L.A. Even before St. THE PROBLEM.

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JULY 14, 2020

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate challenge for Baltimore-based Kennedy Krieger Institute was shifting an almost-100% on-site outpatient workforce to an almost entirely remote one. Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. THE PROBLEM.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. When COVID-19 flared up, Greene County General faced a whole new set of challenges. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. At the same time, say industry leaders, vulnerable groups – especially people of color – are being left behind.

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JULY 1, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it would be allocating more money to be disbursed to rural providers and help them establish the broadband connectivity necessary to implement telehealth and virtual care during the coronavirus crisis. The Rural Health Care Program funding cap for funding year 2020 is $604.76

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. Health center patients have so far liked telehealth services – 93% rating their experience as good or excellent. WHY IT MATTERS.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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APRIL 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, Colorado's Boulder Community Health had put the infrastructure in place to support telehealth, but struggled to gain adoption because of limited provider and patient demand. COVID-19 changed everything. "In March 2020, it was clear that COVID-19 was coming to Colorado," Jefferies said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. "Bee Busy Wellness Center has used our current makeshift telemedicine program to address the needs of the patients," Mitchell said.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. But this did not happen.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. For this problem, we adopted a remote patient monitoring solution from FORA Telehealth," Whitfield continued. Second, HopeHealth's supply of telehealth hardware was out of date and lacked clinical peripherals.

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APRIL 23, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission approved the next five funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which includes health centers from coast to coast. Langone Health, for example, was awarded $983,772 to employ telehealth in operating rooms and conference-room spaces that have been converted into ICUs.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. ” Grady Health remote patient monitoring has been used to support social distancing while providing in-home COVID-19 screening through virtual assessments pushed to patients’ mobile devices.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth. Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Deploying telehealth to improve access. In an effort to provide more accessible healthcare to Lynn County and the surrounding counties, LCHD applied for and received grants to establish telehealth hubs in Lynn County and the surrounding counties. One of those grants came from the Federal Communications Commission.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

GlobalMed, a telehealth industry leader, announced today their support of a $250M COVID-19 telehealth funding program offered by the FCC to eligible nonprofit and public health care providers. This program supports our vision of a world without disparity of care.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. If anything, COVID-19 served as an accelerant to solving many of the challenges, since the organization had no alternative but to move forward.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many services were provided in the clients' homes or elsewhere in the field. "For all of these reasons, our clients are some of the most vulnerable people in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Robyn East, financial analyst at Heritage Clinic. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

"When the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in early 2020, we put a significant amount of stress on our already overtaxed technology infrastructure," he recalled. "Having a close integration with all our communication systems allowed us to provide telehealth services in a consistent and high-performing manner.

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