Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours." " The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the implementation of telehealth for St. John's started implementing telehealth services.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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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. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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 closely monitored Zoom from the time the pandemic hit, although we already had a signed contract with another company for synchronous telehealth services.

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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. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. Lack of data interoperability between consumer/patient-generated data and a clinician’s EHR. Note that Cigna and Humana both had a visible presences at CES 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, was facing the problem of providing quality patient care in a safe environment while most of its patient base was staying home. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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. Some operational kinks needed to be worked out, however, but our ability to connect patients to their primary care providers immediately reduced anxiety and fear associated with the pandemic."

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. economic outlook for 2020 to 2030 on July 1, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. " On March 5, 2020, St. When telehealth is not up to par. As of April 19, 2021, St.

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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%. THE PROBLEMS. High A1c levels indicate that a person might be at risk for diabetes. " Sean E.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. The deflating, lowering-cost factors will be: Consumers looking to lower-cost sites of care and. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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eVisit

AUGUST 10, 2020

With the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent spikes, and a potential second wave , many hospital and health system leaders are now conducting a comprehensive telehealth technology search with the future in mind. How do you envision enabling virtual care in our organization? . #1 Updated: Aug. Can you meet this requirement? #3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.

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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.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This can include a wide range of technologies, such as: Telehealth: Telehealth allows patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely, using video conferencing or other technology. Electronic health records (EHRs) : EHRs allow healthcare providers to access patients' medical records electronically.

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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 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients. Staff would offer Zoom telehealth capabilities for medical and mental health patients.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs recently outlined a year of milestones and service improvements, many of them executed with the aid of telehealth services, as it moves forward with its many wide-ranging wave of digitization initiatives. The VA reported that in the last fiscal year, Veterans took advantage of telehealth more than 2.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

"In October of 2020, the Sky Lakes organization, which includes the medical center, a cancer treatment facility, and primary care and specialty clinics, experienced a tip-of-a-spear Ryuk ransomware attack that hit the healthcare industry with blunt force trauma," said Gaede of Sky Lakes Medical Center.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system saw an unprecedented surge in virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” Implications of the changing telehealth landscape.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2023

The study also found that surgery volumes returned to their pre-pandemic levels nu June 2020. Virtual chronic care provider Omada Health is partnering with Castell , Intermountain Healthcare’s value-based care subsidiary, to expand the availability of diabetes management products within the Utah Medical Group.

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