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UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We were one of those organizations that flipped over to telemedicine pretty seamlessly. We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. We were doing about 250 daily consumer facing telemedicine visits pre-pandemic. million telemedicine visit for ambulatory care last year.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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Telemedicine Today: August 2016

American Well

Telemedicine Today: August 2016. Welcome to the August 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! 90% of Large Employers Will Offer Telehealth in 2017. Telehealth Success Depends on EHR Integration. Today, we see many different EHRs and EMRs, but the challenge is now enabling telemedicine through those platforms.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. These can cover us head-to-toe, inside and outside as the drawing from RAND’s report on IoB illustrates.

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6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

From misplaced faxes and handwritten notes to EHR systems requiring more than a dozen documentation steps, patients often fall through the cracks – or wait so many months for a specialist appointment that they forget about it. Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017. adults were online health information hunters. These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S.