Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S. Together, they developed a plan to address three areas: remote workforce, revenue cycle management continuity and a new telemedicine solution. What COPE was experiencing had become a common setback with sobering consequences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. "For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." " Dr. Sujatha Raman, Cary Medical Group.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. With support for multi-cloud deployments, telemedicine and personalized health, patient and clinician devices, and IoT devices deployed in the home, perimeter security will no longer be enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

TytoCare, maker of an all-in-one modular device and platform for AI-powered telehealth, has expanded its integration within EHR giant Epic's MyChart, enabling what the virtual care vendor describes as frictionless, asynchronous workflow. TytoCare is using APIs to post patient vitals directly into a patient's EHR.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. The EHR Hits Its Stride. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19. Data makes health care smarter in 2021, especially for chronic conditions. Health care is omni-channel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. of total ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2023

"When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. "Patients were roomed by a nurse at one of our offices where the telemedicine equipment was already set up, and our providers would be at another one of our offices or possibly working from home," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT. The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a way to be creative and to extend its healthcare program to those seeking services via telehealth, Bee Busy purchased mobile phones for clinical staff and iPads for providers to engage with patients who had iOS or Android systems, but failed in attempts at expanding its EHR to be compatible to offer telehealth. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Primary care providers saw a more than 50% drop-off in volumes during the second quarter of 2020. In early March 2020, the Southwestern operations response team created a network-wide command center to increase efficiency and provide patient outreach support to its provider network. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

"Less than 1% of all ambulatory services were completed virtually prior to 2020, and only a few providers offered the service," recalled Shannon R. McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. These services also are limited in scope. Click here to read the special report. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In early 2020, when the pandemic changed the medical center's in-person workflows overnight, the facility needed a quick and easy-to-use telehealth solution that allowed staff to continue to see established patients during lockdowns. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022." " Chris Meyer, Marshfield Clinic Health System. But the vendor, according to Meyer, lacked the ability to bulk onboard providers quickly back in March 2020. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

” Initially, the other clinicians in Libby’s group practice were reluctant to use telemedicine, feeling that the personal and hands-on quality might be lost, something that is ingrained in the work values of most doctors. “Additionally, if necessary, there are ways to make referrals and connect with our EHR,” he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

" While conducting an assessment of existing IT infrastructure, staff identified gaps that needed to be addressed prior to full implementation of telemedicine services. John's plans to implement telehealth through vendor healow's technology, which interfaces with its eClinicalWorks software, including an EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Hilltop Regional Health Center in Tacoma, Washington, had two big issues going into the COVID-19 pandemic's virus spread and shutdowns. The first issue was that it did not have a formal telemedicine solution in place. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. The health system had been planning to explore the clinical and financial aspects of telemedicine, then deploy the technology where it made sense. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up the health system’s time line exponentially.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“This was only ever seen as a bridge solution, as there is no opportunity for EHR integration with the non-connected peripherals, or any way for a provider to take live, real-time, synchronous inputs from non-connected peripherals,” Stinson explained. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. Staff took a measure of all HopeHealth patients in December 2020 with these two problems: A1c or = 9 / untested, 27.8%. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Amid the chaos of the past pandemic year, there have been many valuable lessons for CIOs and health IT leaders willing to learn them. Dr. Irshad Siddiqui, executive vice president and chief of IT and innovation at Blessing Health System in Quincy, Illinois. 'Super-scaling' 'Super-scaling' telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"Another problem we had was with the number of solutions we were using," noted Jody McCloud Missmer, behavioral health network administrator, St. Luke's University Health Network. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. In 2020, St.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. While Babyl Rwanda has closed,other telemedicine platforms are operating in Rwanda, such as Telemedicine Rwanda and MediBox. Digital health technologies have had a significant impact on healthcare in Rwanda.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "This is currently not integrated with our EHR or other platforms, and that works as the users are an isolated group." "The MS Teams video visit process has been integrated into our EHR experience for providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now that I’ve shaken off the holiday malaise and gotten back to business, I’ve begun to wonder which areas of healthcare will become the new hotness for the coming year. After tossing off a short LinkedIn post on this subject, I decided to dig in further and share my conclusions with you. By the way, […].

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

“We knew at a minimum we needed to: 1) Reduce friction in the onboarding experience; 2) Make care more accessible and consumable so that members can more easily engage with their counselor and in their group sessions; and 3) Build a direct integration with our EHR in order to reduce the administrative burden on our clinicians,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care. "We now know that 2020 was the worst year ever recorded by the CDC for drug overdoses. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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