Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. The experience was often frustrating. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Thus, systems that offer reliable, asynchronous communication methods and provide relevant education are ideal for cancer patients. This way, patients can report side effects following treatment and ask their care teams if this is something that is to be expected. So, suppose your nurse or physician is with another patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

A great telehealth program is true to the core values of the healing arts. The rise of computing has brought video meetings from the boardroom to the living room. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all. What are the benefits of telehealth?

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

You provide excellent medical care and deliver a high-quality patient experience. But you lost revenue, and patients fell behind on their regular care routines. So what are some creative ways to increase patient volume using telehealth programs? Today, patients need to feel your telehealth program is: • Secure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“This acceleration also was made available by the opportunities to be reimbursed for telemedicine-related services and relaxed CMS guidelines that waived penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers that serve patients in good faith through everyday communications technologies.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Pre-pandemic, we had occasional telemedicine visits that we arranged manually via Google Meet," Merok recalled. "Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

The healthcare landscape is quickly changing and we’re entering a new era of patient-centered care delivery – one that is not bound by location. Healthcare providers have been forced to adapt and scale virtual consultations and telehealth at a rapid pace. Telehealth today. Telehealth isn’t new for Cisco.

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Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

But in today’s telehealth market, it’s crucial to also focus on how to improve patient satisfaction. Virtual medical and mental health professionals are prioritizing patient satisfaction with Telemedicine more than ever before. A high satisfaction rating can drive more patients to your practice. Privacy concerns.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

eVisit purchases Bluestream Health's telehealth eVisit announced it has acquired Bluestream Health to add digital front doors and other tools to its telemedicine platform. Verisma HITRUST certified technology integrates with existing electronic health records and ScanSTAT offers HIPAA-compliant partnerships with many EHR systems.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Similar to retail customers, patients seek more convenient and accessible ways to interact with healthcare providers. The digital side door encompasses various online touchpoints – from websites and patient portals to mobile apps and telehealth services. 4 Ways to Attract New Patients Through the Digital Side Door 1.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

" "With these core values in mind, we set out to find a solution that could disrupt the current delivery care model patients are used to and reinvent it using a tech-friendly solution that would meet all our core values and provide a better experience for patients across the continuum of care," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Healthie enables healthcare providers and startups to build the virtual services consumers demand–providing the feature sets to build back-office operations and deliver a modern patient experience. They provide plans that scale for unlimited growth and that meet patient privacy standards, including HIPAA, SOC-2, and PCI Compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. "When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

Smartphones and tablets are among the mobile technologies in focus, which can be combined with telehealth video conferencing and healthcare wearables, as well as the deployment of electronic health record-based patient portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

If you don’t understand the needs of your customer, whoever that might be, then you can’t meet those needs. With their understanding of both clinical needs and technology, they can more easily implement technology to positively impact clinicians’ time and effort and better inform the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Salesforce Health Cloud introduced a suite of new technologies this past week designed for remote patient monitoring, connected health, medication management and more. WHY IT MATTERS. The tool also integrates with RxNorm to link clinical drug vocabularies across multiple pharmacy management and drug interaction platforms. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More families face difficulty paying all of their, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote in their December 2022 look into Making Ends Meet in 2022. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. But it appears that while healthcare providers’ spirits are willing, their flesh (that is, actions) are weak.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Metadata from medical images and medical devices can be read alongside clinical information, yielding more powerful results when a provider or researcher searches and queries patient information, Microsoft said. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon. This week, Health 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. But in-person interactions are often not the root cause of patient dissatisfaction. HIPAA regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. For instance, UniDoc designed a modular virtual clinic that offers a private physical space for telehealth visits that offer full diagnostic capabilities.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

Pick Two and Meet Me in the Futures The two that make me most nervous because they’re so bloody important, and for which I’m also quite uncertain, are these two: America’s social ethos on one end individualistic and at the other, community-driven; coupled with, Health care financing, thinking mostly public-sector driven versus private/commercial.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As we look toward healthcare trends for 2024, one of the most pivotal developments is the rise of remote patient monitoring (RPM). This innovation is not just enhancing the way healthcare providers deliver care; it’s revolutionizing the patient experience by making healthcare more accessible, personalized, and efficient.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

Features and capabilities The DrKumo RPM system offers a range of features and capabilities, including remote vital sign monitoring, medication adherence tracking, symptom management, and secure communication channels for patients and healthcare providers.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 29, 2019

InTouch staff members attended, eager to tap into the latest news and information in regard to the telehealth industry. Tech Giants Are Targeting Telehealth Nate Gladwell, MHA, RN, Clinical Operations Officer at the University of Utah, discussed successful health system motives in direct-to-consumer (DTC) applications.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Nutrition literacy, with more clinicians prescribing food and recipes to promote self-care and healthy eating for patients and their families. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA. Consumerism and payor pressure will grow the landscape for care, everywhere.

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care innovations

JANUARY 9, 2019

Though Roth makes it clear that “virtual care” is often used synonymously with other terms for digital healthcare delivery like telehealth and telemedicine, it’s specifically the “virtual” aspect that many experts see as the real harbinger of things to come. Leveraging Technology to Make the Patient Experience Better’.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Telehealth is the obvious example here. Pre-covid, most health systems saw telehealth as a nice-to-have feature, something their few digital native patients would vibe with. Nowadays, it’s the primary way providers see patients. This example is so obvious that many investors aren’t even excited about telehealth anymore.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. The Health Resources and Service Administration and the Bureau of Labor are working on memorandums to address this issue and to ensure that health experts are available to meet the demands of patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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