Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories. ” Telehealth added new stress into the mix, he said. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

On December 9, 2017, an 11-year old with Type 1 diabetes set a world record when he became the youngest person to cross America on foot. He was desperate for an activity to take his mind off the stress and fear of a new diagnosis. Duncan says, “If you have ever had to stay in the hospital, you know it can be scary, lonely, and tedious.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 24, 2019

Weekly News Recap. Google promotes Glass from its skunkworks division in releasing a new enterprise version aimed at software developers. Most people do that but if you invest your time in resentment instead, you get nowhere. If I don’t, do I think my application can do it and I just need a nudge to get there?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the firm's latest report , based on a survey of 155 physician group leaders and hospital executives, is a check on the industry’s sentiments around this now-mainstream technology. Healthcare IT News sat down with him to discuss telemedicine and the results of his firm's study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With nearly a decade of successfully running a virtual ICU and a virtual care hospital known today as Mercy Virtual Care Center , Mercy in St. Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions.

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Health Populi

JULY 19, 2022

Some patients dealing with cancer at Mercy Health’s Lourdes Hospital have been supplied with gas cards. This gesture is enabling families to get to medical appointments around Paducah, Kentucky where, this week, car drivers faced regular gas priced at an average of $4.16 one year ago. a gallon compared with $2.92

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Troy Yoder, global healthcare leader at Cisco, leads healthcare innovation at the company and has helped healthcare provider organization clients double down in the last year – especially in virtual care. And then COVID-19 disrupted that healthcare technology plateau we had been walking for the last 10 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2024

with an additional 550,000 newly diagnosed each year. Heart failure hospitalizations are a leading cause of admissions for those 65 and older, totaling hundreds of billions in costs. And a new study of the device Brady presented at the 2023 American Heart Association Scientific Symposium shows promising results.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have elbowed their way into a seemingly flush market, while patient interest in telehealth has waxed and waned. Now, many patients and providers are asking: What will telehealth look like five or ten years from now?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs.

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Mend

AUGUST 9, 2022

No-shows are one of the most frustrating parts of running a hospital or healthcare practice, with missed appointments resulting in wasted time and resources. But how can you reduce your no-show rate for good? What is it that makes patients no-show in the first place? Allow Patients to Self-Schedule.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

In an in-depth interview with Numbers and Narrative , Avizia’s CEO, Mike Baird, reflects on the Telemedicine industry’s rapid growth and Avizia’s mission to reduce the costs associated with connecting the right doctor to the right patient at the right time – from anywhere. And three, we’ve hit a point where consumers are simply demanding it.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

In an in-depth interview with Numbers and Narrative , Avizia’s CEO, Mike Baird, reflects on the Telemedicine industry’s rapid growth and Avizia’s mission to reduce the costs associated with connecting the right doctor to the right patient at the right time – from anywhere. Transcript. Welcome Mike. Yes we are.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 19, 2019

Weekly News Recap. The New York Times profiles the Butterfly IQ device that transforms a smartphone into an ultrasound scanner. China’s WeDoctor provides government-required health checks to villages as a way to collect patient data to train their AI-powered systems. Healthcare data integration vendor Redox raises $33 million.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. Hospitals, Health Systems and Medical Groups.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years. Five new permanent telehealth codes have been approved for prolonged E/M services and chronic pain management.

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