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DOJ charges four in $37M global telehealth fraud scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Justice announced this past Friday that it had charged four people, one of whom is a licensed physician, in an international telehealth fraud and kickback scheme. Woroboff, Willard and Mills allegedly agreed to pay Massachusetts-based physician Dr. Le Thu, who is also charged in the indictment, about $35 per prescription.

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Many children respond better to therapists on a telehealth screen than face to face

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. MEBS already had been using Azalea Health’s electronic health record software since 2014. In early March, MEBS began to look at Azalea’s telehealth system to help facilitate remote patient care. " MARKETPLACE.

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Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Telehealth use jumps at inpatient facilities while outpatient adoption remains flat: survey

FierceHealthIT

Telehealth adoption among hospitals and health systems is on the rise—up from 54% in 2014 to 85% in 2019—while adoption among outpatient healthcare facilities remains flat, according to two new reports.

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January 2020 Telehealth Industry Happenings

Ortholive

In the four years spanning 2014 to 2018, telehealth usage outside the hospital setting increased by nearly 1,400%. Given these trends, what kinds of telehealth-related headlines made the news last month as we entered the New Year? As we enter the new decade, telemedicine usage shows no signs of slowing down. alone by 2023.

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Survey: Telehealth on the rise in New Zealand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The Telehealth Leadership Group’s most recent stocktake questionnaire was sent to all 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) in October 2018.

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Telehealth after dark: health systems can relieve clinician workload through nighttime virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2014, she explained, Providence, a Catholic health system encompassing more than 51 hospitals in the western United States, created the telehospitalist program. Joseph Health, during the InTouch Health-sponsored session, The Telehospitalist Program. "They'd always rather see a physician by video than. not see a physician at all."