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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. Outside of PSHs, their time spent documenting in the EHR increased from 4.29

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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019."

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Telemedicine vs. In-Person Visits: Which is Higher Quality?

GlobalMed

But inevitably they’ll worry that the quality of the virtual visit just isn’t as good as an in-person visit – that telemedicine is “impersonal.”. Consider what the Annals of Internal Medicine found: Physicians spent 27 percent of their office day on direct face time with patients and 49 percent on EHR and desk work. Beyond 11 Seconds.

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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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Stopping Referral Leakage with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

S ooner or later, ROI comes up in every telemedicine conversation. But there’s one virtual care benefit that doesn’t get the spotlight quite as much: stopping referral and patient leakage. But there’s one virtual care benefit that doesn’t get the spotlight quite as much: stopping referral and patient leakage.

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Top Six Healthcare Executive Challenges in 2019

Henry Kotula

Healthcare organizations that are most successful in 2019 will know what challenges and changes are coming down the pipeline, and they will prepare accordingly. To help ensure you don’t get left behind, we’ve assembled the top six challenges the industry will face in 2019. That will need to change in 2019. Primary care.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."