Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

The challenge now, says Dr. Joe Kvedar, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, will be integrating in-person care back into these reshaped clinical workflows. " The question is "how to optimize," he said. How do you knit these two care models together?" "Now everything is virtual.

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Ortholive

JUNE 5, 2020

Telemedicine visits are predicted to surge this year, surpassing one billion encounters, according to CNBC. The coronavirus was the tipping point for many practices to finally embrace telemedicine services as a tool to provide care while protecting patients and providers with social distancing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Chambers' health clinics were where the telemedicine program that the system had spun up in response to COVID-19 played a new role. Before the pandemic, Bellevue had been "dipping our toes into video telemedicine," said Dr. Andrew Wallach, clinical director of ambulatory care. Instead, would you like a televisit?'"

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

One update that can significantly lighten nurses’ loads is telehealth technology in hospitals, as telemedicine solutions can not only reduce the in-person risks of disease and aggression, but also streamline daily operations. Preparing Nurses to Embrace Telehealth Technology. Reducing Burnout Among Nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. How stress manifested as telehealth visits boomed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

But other generative AI scholars are not so sure ChatGPT's empathy replaces the doctors' How do doctors approach answering questions on social media? "The chatbot responses were preferred over physician responses and rated significantly higher for both quality and empathy," according to the study authors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

"When feeling the frustrations in caring for them and the barriers they face to access care, I decided to explore how technology could overcome these challenges. As long as one has a mobile phone connection, one can text or have a video visit with a provider. out of 5 for visit satisfaction." THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MAY 12, 2020

The news: an innovative pre-visit form created for the “OurNotes” study has been released before the study is completed, for other providers to use to improve televisits during the pandemic. I always try to be an engaged patient, but I found it was made easier by being given a structured way to prepare for my visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? organized, and highlight a few tips from an expert telemedicine physician traveler.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Healthcare at your doorstep. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Health System CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Recently, healthsystemCIO spoke with Barchi about how Covid affected his team’s strategy (particularly in terms of its Epic implementation), why transitioning to remote work turned out to be a positive, and how disaster planning is forever changed. Gamble: One topic that’s been prevalent through all of this is telemedicine.

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Mend

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Learning how to optimize patient attendance can help you with revenue, retention, and staff workflow. Learn here how to start immediately reducing no-shows. From providing convenient appointment times to sending reminders, there are many ways to increase the chances that your patients will show up for their appointment.

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Health System CIO

APRIL 29, 2020

As a result, the informatics and technology teams at Monument Health , a five-hospital system based in Rapid City, South Dakota, were able to operationalize extremely quickly in preparation for an influx of patients. Monument Health in “preparation mode”. * Virtual visits with chronic care patients – “They need us now more than ever.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

" ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.). Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT.

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GlobalMed

MAY 5, 2020

While healthcare workers face life or death situations often in their job, COVID-19 has brought unique challenges to how healthcare workers normally cope with the demands of their role. Virtual visits can help people dealing with these stressors receive access to behavioral healthcare.

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Mend

APRIL 12, 2023

As the PHE ends, it’s important to know what is changing so you can prepare. To help providers prepare, the OCR has provided more information on how HIPAA rules will apply to telehealth. These do not always include the security required with HIPAA compliance in telemedicine. What about telehealth HIPAA compliance?

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GlobalMed

APRIL 21, 2020

Telemedicine can bring advanced and faster care to the elderly in several ways. When people think of a hospital currently, they likely picture a patient struggling to breathe in the emergency room or someone connected to a ventilator in the ICU —all suffering from COVID-19. Immediate Access to Care For Those Most at Risk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. He sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss how telehealth and RPM can work together, the role analytics plays with RPM and the future of RPM. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. A telehealth company can schedule a time to come to your house for lab work that they collect and take to the lab on Tuesday. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage.

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Ortholive

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To kick things off, could you tell us a bit about yourself and your impressive medical career? Destiney Barker: Your connection to cruise vacations brings a unique perspective to the discussion. We’re eager to learn more about your experiences and expertise, especially in the context of OrthoLive’s work on cruise ships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. "We are performing about 400 virtual visits per day, where at peak last year we were seeing about 1,500 per day. Both patients and providers prefer virtual for certain types of visits. Working with new workflows.

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David Chou

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We are living in a time where hospital visits seem to be on the rise. Urgent care in the home is becoming more convenient than ever before, with new methods to providing at-home health care, such as virtual care visits. These changes have the potential to alter how much time patients spend in an actual hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" "We all say, 'Well, our patients are really sick,' but how do you validate that?" THE PROBLEM. First, hospitals are facing critical care staffing shortages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. — John Halamka, M.D., jhalamka) March 17, 2021.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With cold and flu season approaching fast , it is very important to prepare your staff and patients for the upcoming months and plan to manage increased demand across all ambulatory services. 2. This may include sending reminders on how to practice proper hand washing or self-care advice for simple conditions like the common cold.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

With cold and flu season approaching fast , it is very important to prepare your staff and patients for the upcoming months and plan to manage increased demand across all ambulatory services. This may include sending reminders on how to practice proper hand washing or self-care advice for simple conditions like the common cold.

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InTouch Health

JULY 20, 2020

Many hospitals are seeing over 300% growth in telehealth visits, with some having surpassed their normal telehealth visits by 10,000%. Telehealth is here to stay, but periodic upgrades and expansions to your telehealth program can be a big expense. Long-Term Care Facilities/Reduced Readmission Rates. Financial Concerns.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. More generally, how have televisits affected clinicians’ revenues, and how is the effect likely to change? The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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In Hand Health

APRIL 11, 2019

As the owner of a clinic, it’s important to ensure you’re alleviating the barriers holding your top performers back. As a result, only a fraction of hospitals and health systems have adopted telemedicine, which in the coming years could cause them to lose patients to the burgeoning market of convenient-care options.”. Continuing care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

HIPAA protects patients by limiting who can access PHI, when they can access it, and how they use it. All entities in the healthcare industry must practice caution and discretion in how they handle patient data. Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In Philadelphia, patients wait an average of 51 days to visit an obstetrician-gynecologist for the first time; in rural Texas, patients may need to book dermatology appointments almost a year in advance. What’s the longest you’ve waited for a doctor appointment? Every patient has a collection of grievances with the healthcare system.

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Ortholive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How does the body react to stress? Stress wreaks havoc on our bodies and may be impacting the productivity of your workforce. In work environments where musculoskeletal injuries are common, an increase in spine and back-related incidents is an unwanted consequence of stress that employers should prepare for. What is stress?

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

HIMSS20 is right around the corner – and GlobalMed is excited to be represented on stage on Thursday, March 12 in an education session “Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine.” Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine”. Yaya Mbaoua, CEO of The Mbaoua Group, and Krystylle L. Thursday, March 12, at 11:30 a.m.

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GlobalMed

JULY 29, 2019

Malcolm X said, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” But what about provider preparation? Healthcare delivery matters too – and delivery models are leaning more and more toward telemedicine. It’s sage advice that many clinicians might agree with.

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