Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GHC decided to use the OTTO Health telehealth platform, which would seamlessly integrate into the organization’s NextGen electronic health record system and enable GHC to quickly and efficiently launch telehealth services, said Lionel Yu, chief operating officer at Garfield Health Center.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for COVID-19 related 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception applications to February 1, 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

in 2020, 43.9% Within UCHealth's EHR, providers can now see previously inaccessible data, like lower-cost options. "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. WHY IT MATTERS. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2%

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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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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. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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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 18, 2023

"The state of the world after March 2020 and the sheer magnitude of subsequent lockdowns ignited the problem that many providers share in this specialized type of medicine," he explained. "Our software developers then furiously went to work to create this innovative platform and to interface with EHRs."

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2020

"As a result, Sun River's program did not typically utilize technologies that operated on non-health center network infrastructure and faced ongoing challenges in sustaining telemedicine programming." with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. To read this special report, click here. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. 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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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

E-prescribing is the electronic transmission of a prescription directly from a provider to a pharmacy using a special technology called an EHR (electronic health record). E-prescribing via EHR systems improves accuracy by making prescriptions easier to read. In this post, we aim to answer both questions. Better Accuracy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

For instance, the behavioral health department was able to contract with an outside agency that could see patients using the Geisinger telehealth platform and EHR, with providers licensed in Pennsylvania, though not necessarily physically located there. At its peak, the health system averaged more than 3,800 encounters per day.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

High administrative spending relative to the other countries, as fragmented insurance systems and payors generate too much paperwork (real “paper” and wasted digital work-flows), along with too-much-time spent by clinicians with poorly-designed EHR and other digital tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

In addition to the need for virtual care across the country as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, West Virginia's transportation constraints, as well as provider availability and dispersion, make long-term virtual services a need. McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These projections were based on InsightAce Analytic’s prediction that the current rise in stress levels and chronic health conditions worldwide, as well as the recent shift toward natural alternatives to conventional medicine, are likely to “propel” the global market expansion for psychedelic medicines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

"Although our efforts started with a few small pilot projects, during the pandemic Stony Brook Medicine, like many other health systems, immediately accelerated and expanded the adoption of telehealth in March 2020," Kelly recalled. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. 1) Cooperation with government/public health authority.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Immunization information systems (IIS) have received special focus as part of government health initiatives (Meaningful Use 1 and 2), so every state has one or more: More accurate information about the number of distinct IIS in the US: [link] — Lisa Bari (she/her/hers) (@lisabari) November 17, 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

. “Today, anyone can access care by walking into an emergency room,” they observed, “but when it comes to telehealth, patients have to use a number of proprietary portals and platforms that are health system specific.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“Additionally, if necessary, there are ways to make referrals and connect with our EHR,” he added. It also has been able to use its EHR, from Office Practicum, to identify patients who need a follow up but have a hard time getting to the office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The waiver program launched in November 2020 in response to the massive bed shortages hospitals experienced during the early waves of COVID-19. Even with the public health emergency declared over, a federal budget agreement signed into law in late 2022 extended waivers through the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health.

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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. Although integration is possible, to date we have not found it to be necessary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Another system the vendor offers is Teleisolation.

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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. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

Africa is facing a dramatic public health crisis - with high communicable and chronic disease rates, maternal mortality, neonatal deaths and a shocking number of HIV/AIDS cases. A primary factor in this crisis is the lack of access to health care. SOLVING ACCESS TO SPECIALTY CARE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Executive Director, VA Office of Electronic Health Records Modernization. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Paterson, New Jersey. Washington. Windom is leading the U.S. Coast Guard and community care providers.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 8, 2021

2020 was grim in many ways, but you can’t deny it’s offered a fast-track education in healthcare strategy. Maybe you remember an ominous report from the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health which predicted chronic diseases would cost the global economy more than U.S. $30

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

EHR Vendors Eliminate Fees; Ease Path to Interoperability The path to statewide interoperability has become a bit easier with the announcement by several electronic health record (EHR) vendors that they would eliminate fees that caused concern for some health care organizations seeking to participate in health information exchange (HIE).

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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. The company uses bots to assist employees in handling claims.

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