Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"User experience deficiencies highlighted the importance of easy-to-use telemedicine tools as it directly impacted the effectiveness of clinical services," he continued. "Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. " In March 2020, Cary Medical Group started a drive-through clinic to see acutely ill patients – to obtain vitals, conduct examinations and run diagnostic tests on those who needed that level of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

The solution Oak Orchard found was telehealth, which it continues to use today. Telehealth has helped the health system with medical, dental and behavioral health services. "When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

We were one of those organizations that flipped over to telemedicine pretty seamlessly. We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. During the last two weeks of March in 2020 plan and the first two weeks of April, we went up to about 16,000.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

In March 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections was rapidly increasing in Washington. "Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem. By deploying telemedicine carts in the hospital, physicians could provide care remotely, irrespective of their location."

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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. And telehealth, which had not played a significant role in patient care previously, was the clear solution.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. ” PROPOSAL.

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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. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama, was headed for telemedicine. But the pandemic strapped a rocket to the provider organization's telehealth plans. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech. "But it wasn't as ideal a set-up as we wanted it to be."

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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

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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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. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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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

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. There are many telemedicine vendors on the health IT market today. Mary’s, Ohio.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Since 2020, nearly 20% of healthcare workers have left the field, and burnout rates have jumped from an average of 30% to 50% of all workers to 40% to 70%. Despite these benefits, many healthcare workers are hesitant about buying into the technology because of previous negative experiences, such as messy EHR implementations.

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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

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. " "Telehealth has improved healthcare by evolving into a care delivery model that has the potential to add value to many if not all disciplines of healthcare."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The EHR Hits Its Stride. As the EHR “hits its stride” (Trend #4), data will increasingly underpin treatment paths, personalized medicine, and predictive care (Trend #7) to manage patients’ risk upstream. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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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. This hybrid workflow was also a remaining challenge. MARKETPLACE.

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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. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

The first issue was that it did not have a formal telemedicine solution in place. Second, it did not have sufficient resources to run telemedicine for the entire organization once it procured the necessary software. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The provider organization believed telehealth was the future, but had only been using the technology in small niches, such as school-based care. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

If you’ve been around the telehealth world , you may have experienced a bait and switch when it comes to integration promises. Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. And when it comes to running a robust and clinically responsible telemedicine program , interoperability is vital.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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

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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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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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