Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday took several new steps to help U.S. Among them are new allowances for telehealth and remote monitoring, for what CMS is calling the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. "The patient’s home is considered part of the hospital during the admission."

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas. As we looked to strengthen our services offerings, Corridor emerged as an ideal partner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "The Advanced Care at Home Program does not limit the role of nurses in hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, implemented a patient monitoring at home, or PM@H program, using fully managed device kits prior to the pandemic. "While in the first wave of the pandemic, we used the PM@H program on only a handful of COVID-19 patients," Knudson recalled. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, the biggest worry for OLV Human Services in Lackawanna, New York – as with most agencies – was that the most vulnerable population served would possibly have interruptions to their services due to face-to face services being canceled. THE PROBLEM. "The telehealth platform doxy.me

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Product Releases and Sales Biofourmis launched its in-home services solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

A S$20 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) has been awarded to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College London to develop ways to better protect health data and wearable devices. billion by 2027 , growing at a 12% CAGR from 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2023

Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, part of the national non-profit Cancer Support Community network, and Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement company, are partnering to provide stand-alone devices configured for at-home use as part of an oncology-specific initiative to address health disparities through discounted broadband funded by a $14.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Bridge Counseling Associates is a nonprofit agency and certified community behavioral health clinic based in Las Vegas – in Clark County, Nevada, the southernmost county in the state, which is the seventh largest by land size. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 6, 2024

We do not endorse specific products and recommend consulting with a healthcare professional for personalized recommendations. With people spending more than 90% of their time indoors, indoor air pollutants can reach levels two to five times higher than outdoor pollutants, as noted by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Pasadena, California-based Heritage Clinic, a division of the Center for Aging Resources, provides mental health services in Los Angeles County to older adults experiencing substantive and persistent mental health concerns. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many services were provided in the clients' homes or elsewhere in the field.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A new look into Americans’ views on health privacy from Morning Consult provides a current snapshot on citizens’ concerned embrace of technology — worried pragmatism, let’s call it. More Boomers are concerned with health data app privacy than Gen Z consumers, as the chart illustrates. 46% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | August 03, 2023 News Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. The grant expands your research with two health systems focused on telehealth access, safety and equity. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. This, in turn, meant providers could increase access to clinically appropriate medications, including for mental health and substance use disorder treatment, said the signers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

Some 400 Classic employees – pilots, flight nurses and paramedics – will join Intermountain and continue to focus on communities it serves and the requesting agencies with which it partners, officials said. "This will benefit our organizations and the communities we each serve. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2023

Whether at home, on vacation or in the hospital, patients and care providers want access to innovative technologies that can expedite the delivery of medical advice, prescriptions, referrals and action when it is needed most. "It was not a situation where we supplied a standard solution, it was an opportunity for us to listen and learn.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

before, during and after birth and receives support from Health Care Service Corporation, Laerdal Million Lives Fund, BayCare, Parkview Health, University of Chicago Medicine, Organon and Stryker. 2 “51 Labs is designed to address gaps in investment and innovation in women’s health,” said Steven Collens, CEO of MATTER. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

And, naturally, such a significant generation will demand significant care as they age—with a resounding preference for support in the comfort of their own homes. But will high-quality in-home care be an option? Despite the challenging moment, we see cause for optimism, on multiple fronts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

MEBS Counseling, a community-based behavioral health provider, offers children and their families evidence-based behavioral health services in the Northern Kentucky area. To reach these patients, most of MEBS’s services and support are provided outside of the agency. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Now we’ll start to look at the use of technology (which has been implicated in making these conditions worse) to try to improve them. According to Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science, mPulse Mobile is always listening for a potential mental health concern or an indication that the patient is isolated.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s light music with bilateral stimulations in it, which helps them process. Telehealth is an asset, especially when patients live in a city where they struggle with transportation or stay home with their kids. They’re able to get services right within their home. We usually talk about that right away.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. Since then, multiple groups have pushed the agency to make such changes permanent. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2021

In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. Among them were new allowances for telehealth and remote monitoring, for what CMS is calling the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. Keeping patients at home. "We've got randomized control trials.

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GlobalMed

MAY 18, 2023

Telehealth has become a vital resource to support behavioral health challenges. However, fewer than half receive mental health services. The ability to connect with mental health professionals from home has changed the way we approach mental health treatment. Current data estimates that 27.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. As the pandemic graphically revealed, there are many hundreds of miles of homes without broadband.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Providers who are feeling burnout can lead to a decreased quality of care, emotional distancing from one’s personal life, and prolonged stress and overwhelmingness in other aspects of their life. It can be challenging when providers balance raising a family, longer work hours, personal life, and their mental and physical health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. Some of the patients who need support for SDoH don’t visit a PCP. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

Targeting these problems can help bring the patient back into a community. The millions of people working from home during the COVID-19 shutdown—and many are still doing so—lost the multi-layered connections they had with their fellow workers, and have found that they can’t reforge such bonds online.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

” Because residents will have the opportunity to receive primary care services in a safer environment through telehealth, Parker will contribute to public health goals of reducing the spread of COVID-19 while reducing excess burden on the hospital systems throughout New York City that may be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell, to discuss delivering primary care via telemedicine, and how it can help patients, cut costs and aid population health management. It also can help provide a medical home for patients who have no primary care physician, either due to lack of access or lack of engagement.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

GlobalMed, a telehealth industry leader, announced today their support of a $250M COVID-19 telehealth funding program offered by the FCC to eligible nonprofit and public health care providers. Long before the pandemic emerged, we supported rural American communities and other underserved areas around the world”, said Joel E.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality.

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