Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. Increasing computerization of practice, especially due to EHR implementation. There are physician shortages for both primary care and certain specialty areas like surgery, psychiatry geriatrics and…infectious disease.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

By mid-March 2020, it became clear that the clinic needed to pivot to a virtual model, at least in part, to continue to maintain medical and mental health visits while reducing the number of staff and patients onsite. Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. The system now is accessible to all providers.

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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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Digital Health Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

An interesting research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine highlighted a grim trend in health system record keeping: EHRs frequently overlook patient deaths. That’s a major issue for plenty of reasons, which UCLA Health researchers laid out after analyzing roughly 11,700 seriously ill primary care patients across 41 clinics (2020-2022).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. increased by a relatively low 6.0% What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

AWS announced the AWS HealthScribe service for building clinical applications that use generative AI and integrating them with EHRs and other systems. The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Primary care providers saw a more than 50% drop-off in volumes during the second quarter of 2020. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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%. Most of the results go to the individual patient's primary care physician for final review."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Reimbursement for telehealth services also was a concern, since the federal government did not issue any guidance at the beginning of the pandemic, though it has since permitted billing of primary care telehealth services," Manga said. Since April 2020, St. John's Well Child & Family Center. For example, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care. with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. "Doxy.me

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Note the timing of this publication: the authors submitted the manuscript to Nature on 19th March 2020… just eight days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system. It intended to go live in July 2020, using Amwell as the technology and services vendor for virtual urgent care for an estimated 1,500 visits in the first year. to 78.8%.

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Telehealth EHR Primary Care Leadership 182

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you think about technology as simply being able to do more with less, healthcare is a great place to apply those skills” Steve Krupa , CEO, Psilos Group On March 11 th , 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the obvious solution to the issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

PROPOSAL Memorial Healthcare System works with several vendors to help it achieve its virtual care goals. "The tablet devices also allow primary care physicians to monitor patients from their home. The physician will be able to visually see the patient and identify how the patient is progressing.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

That changed during the pandemic, when members were looking for safe ways to get care from their primary care providers and specialists. HMSA’s primary goal is to give members access to affordable, quality healthcare. Cook County Health partnered with Amwell to become one of the first Cerner Connect EHR implementations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

"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. Eventually we would hope to integrate into our EHR with remote-exam devices, as well."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. Integration of Government-provided airport quarantine system into EHR. ICT infrastructures already implemented in SNUBH have been helpful in coping with COVID-19 situation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Contributing to this expected physician deficit is the expectation that 46% of doctors plan to change career paths.

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eVisit

AUGUST 10, 2020

Selecting the right virtual care platform is crucial to enhancing clinical workflows, reducing technology barriers, meeting compliance requirements, and making the most of your EHR -- all to improve patient outcomes, reduce cost and boost revenue. Updated: Aug. How do you handle multiple specialties that have unique intake questions?

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) : EHRs allow healthcare providers to access patients' medical records electronically. This can improve the efficiency and accuracy of care, as providers have access to all of the patient's relevant medical information in one place. The company went public in January 2020 and raised $575 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020. After announcing the launch of its Amazon Care service for virtual primary care and home care for all 50 states in May, Amazon revealed that it would need to hire " thousands of employees " to scale the service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, staff anticipated doing about 2,500 telehealth visits in 2020, about half of which were likely to be direct-to-patient telehealth.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Psychiatry EHR 140

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"In early November 2020, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19-positive patients, which had been shown to prevent hospitalizations in a limited number of trials," Lupu recalled. " On March 5, 2020, St. As of April 19, 2021, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As the COVID-19 infections began to spread in the early months of 2020, New York’s Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center started to notice a sizable increase in the number of no-shows and cancellations of office appointments. The center and clinic also were already using the eClinicalWorks EHR. THE PROBLEM. " Jeffrey M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. We selected Amwell as our telehealth vendor and planned to initiate implementation during the first quarter of 2020." " Then COVID-19 hit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2021

More than five years ago, the health system was facing a shortage of providers in New Mexico, widening gaps in access for primary care for patients – many of whom live in rural areas and have limited financial resources. In 2020 alone, patients completed more than 35,000 online visits through Bright.md. THE PROBLEM.

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Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Healthcare IT 167

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Earlier this month, the VA and Walmart opened its latest telehealth pilot site, part of the department's Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations, or ATLAS, initiative, which will provide clinical services including primary care, mental health and social work.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

Cybersecurity company Surfshark found the number of government requests for user data increased 4x from 2013 to 2020 among Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. While 7 out of 10,000 may not seem like a lot, a large hospital with up to 20 connected devices per patient room could have several devices at risk.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The provider organization made the switch-over from in-person care to telemedicine at the onset of COVID nearly instantaneously, literally between a Friday and Monday in March 2020. "At present, it is not integrated with our current Epic EHR system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2017, AccessHealth set goals that were modeled after the Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2020 Program. "Connected care services to be provided by AccessHealth with the grant include primary care for adults, pediatrics, prenatal care, behavioral health and nutrition services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

” Further, the hospital was seeing growing demand for having primary care providers available in its clinics in smaller towns like Chappell and Potter that are up to 30 miles away. We currently use Evident as our EHR vendor, but plan to move to Epic in 2020.

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