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. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.

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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 provider organization uses the outpatient electronic health records system from eClinicalWorks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). The largest positive change in adoption was seen in telehealth and remote monitoring, and.

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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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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 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.

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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

MAY 7, 2021

It's been a relentless 16 months, and healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders can no doubt use a breather. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." The tools also integrated with Raleigh Medical Group's telehealth solutions and Phreesia check-in platform. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Exalta describes itself as a “faith-based nonprofit healthcare center that offers accessible, compassionate care for the whole person.” ” Its primary care physicians and volunteers serve thousands of patients annually. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff.

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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. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2023

The opioid crisis has strained health systems, overwhelmed emergency responders and placed a heavy burden on social services. THE PROBLEM Before the advent of telehealth in addiction treatment, people seeking medical help for opioid use disorder faced several challenges that limited their access to care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

"Remote patient monitoring was something we had just begun to implement with a system strategy supporting it at the end of 2019 with Current Health." Because of this work, Baptist Health was able to quickly pivot to supporting COVID-19 patients with remote patient monitoring technology with Current Health.

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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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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 Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Telehealth and RPM. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Healthcare Workforce.

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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. CCA prioritizes our virtual care programming because access to technology and connectivity is a social factor that impacts health.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

In general, we will see broader adoption of behavioral health IT solutions in 2022. But the only way to deliver more targeted care is to have a better understanding of the patient prior to treatment through proper screening, and to assess patient progress throughout the entire course of treatment to adjust treatment as needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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. Emergency departments and urgent cares are over capacity nationwide, and patients often wait weeks to see their primary care physician. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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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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Health Populi

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This feature story is the first in a series that will highlight how IT leaders managed the myriad challenges of 2020 – and how they plan to build from those lessons toward a better and more resilient future, this year and beyond. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There’s something like cognitive dissonance as I prepare my 2020 Health Populi TrendCast of what to expect in the health/care ecosystem in the new year. This will be offered direct-to-consumer or as nutrition programs prescribed by health care providers, according to Teladoc’s press release.

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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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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. A patient in a rural area can use telehealth to consult with a specialist without having to travel to a major city.

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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

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar.

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