Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " Growing telehealth capabilities. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. This is essential." " MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel. Even before the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside.

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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

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

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This ensures patient privacy and empowerment via TCPA-compliant engagement solutions. Telehealth Experiences: HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health Innovations in telehealth are key to HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " 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. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2020

CMS has announced the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth and telemedicine visits.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

According to a report by 7WireVentures , investments in at-home health companies soared from $2.2 billion in 2020 to $4.7 This shift mirrors the medical community, with 58% of providers viewing telehealth more favorably and 84% of physicians offering virtual visits. billion in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

MaineGeneral Health in Augusta had high, rising readmission rates for congestive heart failure. In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

"Our long-term goal is to advance and evolve digital capabilities that ensure optimum patient experience and benefit from innovations that allow for seamless care access and delivery. At that time, we had a department of three people, no virtual visit platform in place, and no experience training providers in telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020. Improved security of patient records. Faster access to critical patient information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

Also, three out of four patients who reported a decline in access in 2022 mentioned the difficulty of seeing a doctor quickly as a major pain point. In fact, patient perception of “seeing a practitioner quickly” as the biggest access challenge rose from 15% in 2020 to 27% last year.

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JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2021

How about a positive healthcare story from the pandemic in 2020? As COVID-19 escalated, New York City Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest safety-net health delivery system, was inundated with cases. The following is a guest article by Bevey Miner, Chief Marketing Officer for Consensus.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

Hybrid care is king: Patients are demanding flexibility. While telehealth boomed during the pandemic, there's a shift towards hybrid models that seamlessly blend virtual consultations with in-person care when needed. Investors are looking at companies that can bridge this gap and offer a complete care experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sanford Health is a massive health system that serves the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Today, Reimer is in the middle of a $350 million virtual care initiative, working to overcome health IT workforce challenges, and building a modern data ecosystem – emphasis on modern.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic forced healthcare communities across the United States into survival mode during the first half of 2020. The following is a guest article by Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder and president of Arkenea.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

.” Over the past sixty days, the business rationale for “getting people the care they need” could have been written into press releases from Sam’s Club and Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy and GoodRx, all of which announced plans in the past few weeks to extend health/care services in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2021

For many providers, 2020 might have felt like being thrown out of an aircraft, at 10,000 feet, with no training on using the parachute. by the close of 2020 (without subsidies), those who had already […]. The following is a guest article by Rick Halton, VP of Marketing, Lumeon. With hospital margins down to just 0.3%

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