Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

With over 170 million Prime subscribers, Amazon’s move promises an affordable healthcare option at just $9 per month at a time when the nation faces a shortage in primary care, with demand significantly outweighing supply.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2021

COVID thrust telemedicine into the spotlight, but its beginnings date back to the 1950s when the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute first used video conferencing technology to check on patients at the Norfolk State Hospital 112 miles away and more famously […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

This role works closely with organizational stakeholders to architect and provide solutions that offer efficient patient care and provider workflows. This position requires independent decision-making, problem solving, project management, leadership, training, systems and build analysis, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Under her leadership, Hims & Hers was able to stand up multiple services during the pandemic, as well. Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? First we launched primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"Fairly shortly, we envisioned the value in our leadership and saw the vision to provide funding to expand the program significantly to essentially all qualified patients who required this service." MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 18, 2024

Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Leveraging Technology: Specialists are increasingly utilising specialised telemedicine platforms that incorporate relevant diagnostic tools or remote monitoring capabilities for their field. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Reinstating benefits for millions of Americans. However, the letter noted, those flexibilities expired Dec.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. Will this be the scenario in the U.S.?

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Henry Kotula

MAY 31, 2021

We spoke this week with a medical group president looking to deploy a more consistent consumer experience across his health system’s physician practices, beginning with primary care. The discussion quickly turned to two large primary care practices, acquired several years ago, whose doctors are extremely resistant to change.

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eVisit

MARCH 12, 2021

The staff here at The Virtual Care Blog looks forward to preparing brief, Thought Leadership-worthy content to help you keep your fingers on the pulse of virtual care. The website HealthDay reports Virtual Care may just save her life. Telemedicine has proven that it can significantly shorten this time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Meanwhile, AMA has also updated its Quick Guide to Telemedicine in Practice in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. It offers technology implementation tips, as well as a reference to CPT codes for reporting telemedicine and remote care services. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Bonnie Clipper, Founder and CEO of Innovation Advantage, sharing learnings on high-tech and high-touch in nursing; and, Gil Bashe, Chair of Global Health and Purpose at FINN Partners, discussing the growing importance of connected data in health care – think AI, machine learning, and the criticality of breaking down siloes of information.

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Henry Kotula

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While health systems’ most-exposed services, like telemedicine and primary care, were never key revenue sources (although they are key referral drivers), there are now more competitors than ever providing diagnostics and ambulatory surgery, which health systems have relied on to maintain their margins.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

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. The new importance of telemedicine. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. "We went ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem. As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Tom Milam manages a team of clinicians and guides them in telemedicine and industry best practices. More than three-quarters of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The strategy for deployment of the Innovaccer telehealth platform focused on primary care. The health system established ease of use and successful completion of a call as two of the primary telemedicine metrics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

He also said that the benefits go beyond doctors; for instance, care coordinators can be more efficient and AI can help drug development. Both believe that AI can deliver primary care through telehealth to regions that lack it and to marginalized communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model. As a lesson in the potential for telemedicine to serve disparate populations, the early results of this partnership are promising.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Future of Healthcare: Technological Disruption: AI, Big Data, Robotics, and Telemedicine will be central, with discussions on their impact on diagnosis, treatment, and overall healthcare delivery. Digital Health and Telemedicine: The increasing adoption of telehealth solutions, wearables, and remote patient monitoring was a prominent theme.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. “Normally, it would have taken three to six months to roll out this type of platform to more than 650 providers, but we did it in less than two weeks – a testament to our amazing leadership and staff.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The last 24 months has seen a lot of waiting, frustration and anxiety build up on both sides of the healthcare market as patients become “impatient” as healthcare professionals focus on addressing the ever increasing backlogs, primary care, elective care, cancer, surgery etc. Stage 3: Virtual Care – phone based or telemedicine.

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Over 80% of the veterans used the tablets About 30% used the tablets at least five times Around 50% of all interactions were for mental health issues 15% were focused on spinal cord injury care 7% targeted home-based primary care or therapy/rehabilitation 4% focused on primary care 2% centered on palliative care and hospice services.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A new survey exams the attitudes, perspectives, and plans of healthcare leadership that are shaping telemedicine’s application, value, and potential. Money also plays a role in implementation: 66% said their telemedicine budget is $250,000 or less. The survey took a look at telemedicine within certain specialty areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Utah-based palliative care practice Bristol Advanced Illness Management deployed eClinicalWorks. selected Equality Health as its technology-enabled primary care service provider. Tennessee-based Highland Physicians Inc. Providence chose Luna for in-home physical therapy services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

"FCC funding we received has enabled us to purchase five telemedicine carts from Amwell, allowing an offsite provider to control the camera's pan/tilt/zoom features and access a digital stethoscope." "iPads with a Zoom video link provided patient-to-provider and provider-to-provider connections," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 The opportunity to deliver a session for new healthcare students on the subject of telehealth is an enjoyable one.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Leadership buy-in is critical to your telehealth program’s success. “I But it’s not just CEO buy-in that’s important; all leadership should be engaged in the program. Below is a breakdown of the five biggest takeaways for this clinical meeting of the minds: 1.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

"In October of 2020, the Sky Lakes organization, which includes the medical center, a cancer treatment facility, and primary care and specialty clinics, experienced a tip-of-a-spear Ryuk ransomware attack that hit the healthcare industry with blunt force trauma," said Gaede of Sky Lakes Medical Center.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Leadership buy-in is critical to your telehealth program’s success. “I But it’s not just CEO buy-in that’s important; all leadership should be engaged in the program. Below is a breakdown of the five biggest takeaways for this clinical meeting of the minds: 1.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2020

"The leadership behind Amazon's healthcare effort is equally put off by over-complications, having been described as 'incredibly allergic to market inefficiency,'" he said. "This Amazon's healthcare forays in 2019 alone include: It introduced Amazon Care, a telemedicine app for its own employees.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Meanwhile, the American Telemedicine Association and its trade arm, ATA Action, have called on Congress to consider two other telehealth extensions : The High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) and Health Savings Account (HSA) telehealth tax provision, and the Ryan Haight Act in-person waiver for the remote prescription of controlled substances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Health system leaders value nurse innovation skills -- just not at the leadership level, study says.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

This past year, our clients have continuously risen to the occasion, demonstrating unparalleled strength and resilience while pushing the boundaries of what is possible through virtual care. That changed during the pandemic, when members were looking for safe ways to get care from their primary care providers and specialists.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 27, 2020

For hospitals and doctors’ offices, that means building on a major shift to telemedicine, new workflows to allow for more infection control and revamping the supply chain for pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment and other supplies. Some of this was already underway. PPE, staff shortages lingering.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This enabled patients with a variety of time and transportation constraints to receive convenient care from a trusted provider. Chief Financial Officer of Cano Health (Miami): As a rapidly growing primary care provider, we have found that face-to-face interactions at our offices are as essential as they are in our medical centers.

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