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. " Dr. Brett A. MARKETPLACE.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

Executive Summary: The future of telemedicine is poised to be promising and transformative, driven by advancements in technology, changing patient preferences, and evolving healthcare needs. Telemedicine is likely to become an integral part of healthcare delivery, expanding across various medical specialties and regions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. This represents a shift more to “me care” in 2020 with the sharp uptake of digital platforms and wearable tech. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. By connecting patients with providers through a virtual-first experience, it is improving access, outcomes, satisfaction and the quality of life for patients and successfully helping providers meet today’s challenges in complex clinical and financial environments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. More than 10 years in the making. Recent technology upgrades this summer. COVID-19 isolation rooms.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Psychiatry EHR 141

Mend

JULY 8, 2021

Telemedicine providers are changing healthcare worldwide. More and more practices are adopting telemedicine. There are many telemedicine software options to consider, making it challenging to narrow down your options. What is telemedicine? Healthcare providers can use telemedicine to diagnose and treat patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

A survey conducted on behalf of Kyruus, a patient-experience software vendor, found that the majority of consumers say they still prefer in-person care for long-term needs. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. ON THE RECORD.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 3) Staff Training.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

"The focus of our session is how technology enables and enhances clinical workflows and patient experiences and outcomes, especially when applied to an emerging area of telemedicine like remote patient monitoring," he explained. " Here he offers a peek at the session's themes and goals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., chat, video conferencing, etc.) Healthcare institutions' motivations for innovation are to improve patient experience, stay relevant and support the changing care model (i.e., billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

It suggests that Doctor on Demand’s video-based visits are often leading to rewarding relationships between patients and physicians and to improved patient satisfaction. For the study, the researchers sought a qualitative assessment of patient-visit feedback after virtual visits. ' And I didn't expect that."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health. "Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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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. "We use Epic with Zoom as the video solutions," Sarantis said.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans. Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. 2019 feels like the tipping point where the notion of “patient experience” is being supplanted by the “consumer experience.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What are the problems in the field of neurology that you feel telemedicine can help overcome? There are two key problems in neurology that telemedicine can help address. First, there are not enough neurologists to care for the growing population of persons with neurologic disease. Telemedicine can help address both problems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. It needed a universal solution for patients.

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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Primary Care 200

Lloyd Price

MARCH 21, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

Also, patients had a continued need to reach out to their primary care physicians to get questions answered about COVID-19. Suddenly, thousands of MedStar Health clinicians now needed an alternative pathway to care for patients who could not be seen in offices due to COVID-19 concerns. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. One-third of the states cover telehealth via synchronous (real-time) channels, and a few for only video visits. With the patient-as-payer in the current U.S. State level.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“When seen virtually, patients can request a visit and see a provider often within 30 minutes,” he explained. “With drive time, a trip to an urgent care or primary care clinic could take upwards of half a day. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. The Bluestream Health system allowed for multiple entry points over either video or phone/audio. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology vendors on the health IT market today.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Patient Experience 208

Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In January 2015, Stanford Medicine launched ClickWell Care, a new type of Primary Care clinic which leverages technology to allow patients to virtually connect with their own Stanford primary care clinicians and wellness coaches via video or phone visits. ClickWell staff have seen 1,223 patients.

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Primary Care EMR Patient Experience Connected Health 28

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead. Equality Health. First Stop Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. Technology + Primary Care. Marcotte and the team at Lotus are bringing a Direct Primary Care approach to Canada – creating primary care practices that emphasize patient AND physician experience.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience Digital Health 94

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

There’s an interesting and important nuance in this study which has implications for health systems’ planning beyond the pandemic era: telehealth services increased across all delivery methods — video calls, text messaging and chat, phone calls, alike.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. It comes as little surprise that the top story on this list explores the dimensions of a theretofore much-discussed but underused modality of care: Telehealth. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call).

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