Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. COVID is a terrible pandemic,” he noted as his team is, “learning our way through it. Fast forward to the COVID-19 era: an ecosystem where you take care settings outside the walls of hospitals into homes.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Telemedicine is booming, and healthcare organizations neglecting these technological innovations are missing out. Strategically Implementing New Technology in Telehealth. For executives, this may mean justifying the initial cost of implementing telehealth technologies. But those aren’t the only benefits of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jason Warrelmann, Vice President, Global Services & Process Industries at UiPath From battling COVID-19 surges to an increase in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and this year’s cold and flu season, physicians and their staffs continue to navigate one of the busiest times of the year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. Organizations also are looking to quickly access and use features of their current IT to enable them to better cope with the crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. 47% of Americans say they are excited at the potential for AI to improve medical diagnostics, and 51% believe it can help ease pressures on the healthcare system. billion by 2032. The possibilities are huge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Where were providers excelling?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior housing/skilled nursing communities in the Midwest, was exploring different ideas to give its staff time back, improve resident outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. How has telehealth evolved over the past few years? Telehealth is defined as the provision of healthcare virtually by use of digital information and communication technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. For example, in Florida, Avel eCARE partnered with EMS workers to help get Regeneron delivered to homebound patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

A report released this past week from the ANCOR Foundation and United Cerebral Palsy found that telehealth can play an integral role in transforming the healthcare system to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. The risk of infection from face-to-face clinical interactions forced health providers to give their patients alternative channels to receive care, making virtual visits commonplace.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. " But the technology solutions are only as good as the operations that support them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

Augusta University Health launched its Virtual Care at Home program in February 2021 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The Augusta University Health hospitalist team also provided night on-call coverage for when a nightly escalation by a physician was needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

Eligible providers can source the virtual care technology solutions they need for application submission. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

Many clinicians are hungry for new opportunities that allow them to continue to serve patients without dealing with long-standing administrative burdens and the aftermath of burnout from COVID-19 in their hospitals, health systems and doctor's offices. But that's not the case anymore.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, faced many challenges with telemedicine and the ability to scale quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic grew in force last year and the organization had to close its outpatient offices for elective services. New challenges caused by speed. Remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. The spread of COVID-19 has been devastating on the healthcare system in Queens. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A frequently discussed consequence of the COVID-19 crisis is the uptick in reliance on telehealth, with both patients and clinicians pivoting quickly to virtual care in order to minimize in-person contact. "COVID-19 has forced people into virtual mediums," Flannery continued. "Companies like ours.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

As COVID-19 rages on, emergency visits related to psychiatric care continue to increase. So how do emergency departments — who are already grappling with staggering patient numbers — deal with an influx of mental health patients seeking fast access to high-quality psychiatric care while improving patient throughput?

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SteadyMD

JUNE 2, 2022

Josh Emdur, for the proactive leadership and ingenuity he exhibited as a volunteer for the Colorado Innovation Response Team at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. “The COVID-19 pandemic provided an unexpected opportunity to showcase the true potential and real-world applications of emerging telehealth technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

Pittsburgh-based Curavi, which develops telehealth technology tailored for post-acute and long-term care settings, was launched in 2016 as a spin-off from UPMC (which will continue to be an investor in Arkos Health) and has built itself up with acquisitions since then. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. Actionable Intelligence.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 28, 2020

Telemedicine (also called telehealth, virtual care, or virtual health) is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to gain access to health care services remotely. This article describes some helpful basics. This article describes some helpful basics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To make matters even more complicated, many new programs, including one recently announced by Walmart, are expanding pharmacists’ roles in testing and treating illnesses. Queuing software can be used to segment visitors based on a predetermined need and match them with the appropriate store associate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. For example, its clinics' providers also are certified health coaches who help patients develop personalized preventative care plans. "At the time, we were operating five clinics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1) Lessons learnt.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

From the massive expansion of telehealth brought on by the pandemic to prescription video games, promising new technological advancements coupled with a reduced stigma towards behavioral health conditions are making mental healthcare more accessible than ever before.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

While many parts of the country have suffered from a shortage of child and adolescent providers for many years, the disruptions of COVID-19 have led to an unprecedented mental health crisis. Given this landscape, there are ample opportunities for child psychiatrists to provide help to patients across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Technology leaders at U.S. And they've discovered that teams that don't usually spend time together can co-create innovative fixes for urgent challenges. And they've discovered that teams that don't usually spend time together can co-create innovative fixes for urgent challenges. " Hospital at home.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2021

Many Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) had never implemented a formalized telepsychiatry program before COVID-19. Then, the pandemic forced them and other behavioral health organizations to adapt quickly to a world where telepsychiatry was necessary. It can seem like an overwhelming process at first!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. Tim eyes four areas of importance for value-based care in 2022: telemedicine, staff retention and provider burnout, health equity, and growth in value-based payment.

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