Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

" As Christina Farr explained for CNBC in February 2020, Amazon Care's "care providers, including the physicians and nurses, are technically employed by a separate subsidiary called Oasis Medical. Carena was acquired by Avizia in 2017.). In August 2020, Oasis filed to change its name to Care Medical, with Dr.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. We discussed other research demonstrating that the proportion of consumers who use alternatives to seeing “their” primary care provider, like telemedicine and retail clinics, is growing. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, HealthLeaders published an essay titled, “The U.S. Nurses, too, can operate at the top of their license and provide a lot of primary care. This Big Trend converges with another aging demographic: that of U.S. physicians themselves. physician workforce is getting old, fast.” were 55 years old or older.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. The Pew Research Center reports that in 2017, 67 percent of people with incomes of $30K or less had a smartphone, indicating that most Medicaid patients have a way to complete a telemedicine visit. Request a Demo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first, HomeEXCEPT was one missed at the time, emerging from a 2017 AARP Innovation Business Plan competition. The company's platform connects the specialists to patient data and collaborates with the nursing staff to provide better care plans and also, enabling patients with the care option as per their needs."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year. "ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 17, 2019

While telemedicine cannot solve the greater issues of healthcare delivery in this country, telehealth is proving to be one method of equalizing the disparities in access to care among underserved or vulnerable populations. of Americans failed to obtain needed medical care due to cost in 2017. Telehealth comes to you.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consulting firm, has set out to determine whether telemedicine, a high-growth technology, is here to stay.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 12, 2019

Learn the tremendous impact telemedicine is having on access to healthcare in correctional facilities, in schools, for the military, and for seniors. Telemedicine in Prisons. Telemedicine was first used in prisons in Florida in the late 1980s, but the technology was limited at the time and the program never gained traction.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That’s according to a number of recent reports focused on telehealth research within a few specific areas of telehealth implementation — one of them focused on primary care and mental health, the other on exploring the application of telehealth and remote care technology within skilled nursing facilities.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee participate in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). Several updates to the Arkansas Telemedicine Law went into effect on January 1, 2018. Click here to access the Arkansas Telemedicine Law course module. Regional Level. Mississippi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

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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Lloyd Price

APRIL 22, 2023

The term "femtech" is derived from "female technology," and it encompasses a wide range of areas, including reproductive health, fertility solutions, period care, pregnancy and nursing care, menopause management, sexual wellness, and general wellness. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Carry Over from 2017. Allows telemedicine providers to provide substance use disorder treatment. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Allows telemedicine providers to provide substance use disorder treatment. Carry Over from 2017. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2023

In a virtual ward, patients are typically monitored through a combination of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices and sensors, and regular communication with healthcare professionals, such as nurses and doctors.

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American Well

JUNE 25, 2017

Of the 107,000 telemedicine visits for Medicare beneficiaries recorded in 2013, approximately 40,000 of them served rural areas. Telemedicine programs are often cheaper than other options for patients. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) Currently, CMS has a narrow definition of “rural,” which leaves many patients ineligible for reimbursement.

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American Well

JUNE 25, 2017

Of the 107,000 telemedicine visits for Medicare beneficiaries recorded in 2013, approximately 40,000 of them served rural areas. Telemedicine programs are often cheaper than other options for patients. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) Currently, CMS has a narrow definition of “rural,” which leaves many patients ineligible for reimbursement.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This is done through the use of remote monitoring technology, such as wearable devices, video consultations, and telemedicine. Virtual wards are typically staffed by multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals, including nurses, physicians, and other specialists, who work together to manage patients' care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Note that Albertsons bought Plated, the subscription meal kit company, in 2017. He presented evidence for the role of self care from various healthcare settings and geographies such as post-hospital discharge care with nurses and handymen in Baltimore, hypertension and self-monitoring in the U.K.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. Let’s call out the two keywords in this phrase: Concern + Embrace. .

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The program, which went into effect at the beginning of the school year, features telemedicine stations where students can connect with a mental health counselor without leaving campus. School-based telemedicine programs help students quickly connect with care providers without missing class. Keeping Student Athletes Safe on the Field.

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Enzyme Health

MAY 22, 2019

Explore some of the implications for patients and telemedicine providers and find out what we can expect in 2019. You may be wondering, what does this mean for my patients and my telemedicine practice? In July of 2018, Rite Aid announced a second attempt at telemedicine kiosk implementation with telehealth company InTouch Health.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 16, 2019

million doctors and nurses – so if you’re looking for a place where you can have a really huge impact on a population in need, there are a few big targets for you in the 54 countries of Africa, in addition to another 1.3 Episode #026: Kate Newhouse on How to Cross Borders and Overcome Obstacles in Telemedicine. Dan Kendall.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

The National Cancer Institute reports 2017 U.S. Nurses use the TapCloud Triage Dashboard to efficiently track, monitor and respond to patients requiring an intervention. Nurses can drill down on a specific patient to see how many days since check in, recent events (e.g. Nurses (e.g. Measuring Success.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. A telephone survey of patient satisfaction with realtime telemedicine in a rural community in Colombia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. J Nurse Pract. J Nurse Pract. 2017; 7: e016242. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016242. 2017; 8: 399–409.

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HIStalk Weekender

JANUARY 18, 2019

Cerner co-founder Cliff Illig retires from the company’s board, which along with Paul Gorup’s 2015 retirement and Neal Patterson’s 2017 death, leaves no founders involved. The first chief digital officer of NHS England resigns to take a job with a vendor that provides telemedicine services to NHS. Monday Morning Update 1/14/19.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 22, 2018

January 2017 – fills four new executive positions. Project Debater argued in favor of telemedicine, saying with humorous intent that it believes in the power of technology, while the human debaters said that telemedicine doesn’t offer the hands-on power of a doctor or nurse. Get Involved. Be interviewed (providers).

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 6, 2018

CNBC reports on “why telemedicine has been such a bust so far”. Children and adults are getting the care they desperately need but cannot access, stroke victims live normal lives and when tragedy strikes, and you find yourself in the ICU it is telemedicine that helps get home quicker. T-System President and CEO Roger Davis resigns.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JULY 26, 2018

Healthcare has undoubtedly made business-to-customer strides toward 24/7 optimized experience—from nurse triage to customer relationship management and analytical population health management data collection. Both payers and providers are more proactively tracking member and patient interactions to build intelligence for future interactions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. The virtual trial, to be sure, is not a new concept: One team of researchers counted more than 1,100 trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov employing connected digital products for remote data collection in both 2017 and 2018, the organization observed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston has a unique telemedicine program in place to help pregnant and postpartum women. "With minimal training, nurses began successfully enrolling pregnant and postpartum women in LTWP." The technology vendors are REDCap and Twillio.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Bluestream Health has served MedStar Health since 2016. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Initially, MedStar Health was very focused on business-to-business telehealth in its work with the vendor. MARKETPLACE.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 24, 2018

Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. In 2017, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission noted that hospital occupancy is hovering around 62 percent, though the number of empty beds varies from region to region. When most hospitals close, it’s plain to see. But another fate befalling U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 17, 2020

the state is trying to ensure that nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities aren’t quickly overwhelmed by patients still suffering from the disease. One of those facilities is Miami Medical Center, which was shuttered in October 2017 but now transformed to care for 150 such patients. Key Role for Testing.

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