Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Telemedicine is on an all-time high. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

With Congress providing telehealth waivers as part of its omnibus spending bill at the close of 2022, delaying the "telehealth cliff" for two years, HIMSS says it's now ready to make the case for permanent reimbursement of virtual care.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. Recently the FCC announced grant funding for expanded broadband access specifically for telehealth. Successful telehealth programs require three components: Consistent, reliable broadband service. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2022

The provider organization had four main challenges: The clinical team was looking to provide convenient nutritional support to patients who needed help but were deterred from scheduling a session due to being located several hours from a clinic location. THE PROBLEM. That was missing from our other platform.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 31, 2022

The demand for telehealth continues to grow, and if you’re an organization utilizing a virtual behavioral health solution like telepsychiatry, you understand the value of this platform first-hand. It’s clear patients and providers alike are reaping the benefits of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A new survey report in India has gauged the stances of healthcare leaders on their use of technology in an effort to yield operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery, and improve health outcomes. " Another factor is the impetus needed to drive a trend of technology use and adoption within the local healthcare sector.

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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. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the federal government to move the pandemic to a more controlled phase. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth?

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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. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

This year’s Innovation Challenge invites proposals designed to address the biggest issues faced by healthcare providers, patients and organizations. From these submissions, 15 candidates will be selected to attend and present at Pitch Day, held at Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California, on Sept. CEO of CharmHealth. “Our

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"On the one hand, I love it: It sharpens us and helps us get better," she said. " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Zachary Hughes, vice president of innovation and technology at Aspire Health Partners, a behavioral healthcare provider based in Orlando, Florida. ( @ZacharyHughes ). The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

With offerings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan and California, it delivers comprehensive, integrated and person-centered care by coordinating the services of local staff, provider partners and community organizations. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"Integrating virtual visits with a typical in-person clinic operation is far from trivial and even today we have challenges effectively implementing it within all clinics since the workflows from one clinic to another can be very different. The platform launched using WebEx Meetings and later migrated to Microsoft Teams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2021

Seattle-based Providence was forced to learn quickly in spring of 2020, with Washington State one of the early U.S. "What that means is a lot of our carryovers that were in this acute care-centric model are now going to be required to adopt technologies like telehealth." hotspots as SARS-CoV-2 spread.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

At Iris, our team of Clinical Operations Managers (COMs) serve as dedicated advocates for our providers, addressing any and all needs they may have while working at their clinic. Whenever providers need extra support, the COMs advocate on their behalf and help ensure they have everything they need to succeed in their roles.

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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. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

The CarePort device is designed to easily connect to any TV, enabling healthcare providers to virtually come in and out of a patient's home as care is needed. "One of the biggest opportunities for telehealth is to make a significant impact in the later stages of life," Schoenberg stated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2021

The Evansville, Indiana-based health system – which includes 11 hospitals with more than 900 total beds, 96 locations, its own accountable care organization, and a large 538-provider multispecialty group – serves patients in 26 mostly rural counties in Southwestern Indiana, Southeastern Illinois and Western Kentucky.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. The new platform allows for Rush’s bandwidth to provide extra buffering if the patient’s internet speed is not quite up to snuff.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For nurses, the symptoms of burnout include exhaustion, compassion fatigue, emotional detachment, workplace-related anxiety, loss of joy or purpose, and a weakened immune system, which all detract from their ability to provide care to patients. Healthcare is a demanding field and has only become more so over the past few years.

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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. ” PROPOSAL. Parker is using the Healow application by eClinicalWorks for its telemedicine program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some of these challenges included technology for providers available at scale, a platform to deliver care in a user-friendly fashion, licensure for these tools, state licensure, and expanding quality care to patients amidst the capacity and staffing challenges that all health systems were facing across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Penn State Health provides healthcare to patients and communities across 29 counties in Central Pennsylvania, with more than 2,000 physicians and direct-care providers at 127 medical office sites. " The telehealth vendor proposed starting with a direct-to-consumer telehealth service for urgent care visits.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? I was looking more into telehealth , and I noticed that with the pandemic, it had shifted. There has been a lot of new technology that helps make telehealth work. There has been a lot of new technology that helps make telehealth work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Further, the pandemic has caused a massive impact on the healthcare industry, accelerating transformations and hospital design needed to address the medical priorities of their populations and respond effectively to emergencies such as epidemics and pandemics, he added.

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Beyond Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you want to pay your bill, you can do that easily on your device. Rather than the traditional model of asking the patient to come to their provider. Finding a silver lining during COVID-19 can be difficult, but one rainbow from this storm is that the pandemic has catapulted medicine to widely accept the utilization of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 6, 2022

At HIMSS22, Schwartz gave an in-depth look at some of the challenging human factors that figured into such a momentous achievement – the cajoling and convincing and arguing and arm-twisting that it took to get the complex, paradigm-shifting telehealth program up and running. It's a full-on graduate. It's out there.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

They’ve recently released a report produced by the Intergovernmental Advisory Committee (IAC) focused on identifying and resolving barriers to telemedicine. The report, which calls telehealth “one of the most promising quality of life opportunities in the United States today,” looks closely at the lack of broadband access in rural areas.

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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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Iris Telehealth

JULY 24, 2023

How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? I knew telehealth would be a good option for me. There are many times when I felt, “Thank God that I’m on the other side where I’m safe,” and I don’t have to worry about being physically attacked. Kavita Vasu.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application. The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application. Extended Reality. Data Veracity.

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MeMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

During the pandemic, telehealth visits have seen a huge increase in their use across the country. With modern improvements in technology and a wider acceptance of telehealth, an increasing number of doctor visits are taking place virtually. Here’s a closer look at the perks of telehealth from the patient perspective… 1.

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