Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth. Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes.

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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. “Fred” Thomas, director of telehealth services at Children’s Hospital Colorado. " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs. No, telehealth alone is not enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"While telehealth has evolved and scaled significantly during the pandemic, continued work is needed to ensure health equity and to bridge digital divides for future paradigms of care," observed Dr. Saima Aftab, vice president of organizational initiatives at Nicklaus Children's Health System in Miami.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Also, WebEx facilitated HIPAA-compliant video chats with more than two attendees. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Data Policy in the Context of Telehealth Policy The ATA has been publishing policy statements on complex technical topics since they launched a good 30 years ago. In 2022, it became clear that technical developments were having a large impact on social issues and would inevitably come to affect telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19. 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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.

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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 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. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 arrived in Maine on March 12, 2020. Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Before it received FCC funding for telehealth earlier this year, Portland Community was able to provide telehealth appointments using Zoom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. FCC funds for telehealth. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This was in addition to a massive acceleration of digital transformation, including a thousand-fold surge in telehealth visits from veterans from March through June 2020. Still, "the fragmentation of the healthcare industry on the supply side and the demand side is the biggest challenge we all face," said Micky Tripathi, U.S.

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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 Today

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth applications and services was on the rise. A January 2020 survey by the American College of Physicians (ACP) showed an increase in usage […].

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

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. "When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020. “In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

Healthcare organizations can consult their local utility companies and internet service providers for options. As for telehealth, there are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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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

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. It has provided a total of 680 telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

” "It’s important to note that, in addition to the creation of a tech-forward solution, the transition to a successful telehealth model was possible through the creation of a new position at Executive Mental Health – device technician." " Dr. Ari D. Kalechstein, Executive Mental Health. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

The deployment of healthcare IT has been less than optimal. Most patients feel that the technology is pushing them away and disrupting their normal expectations of the healthcare experience, Szotek said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 26, 2023

Telehealth: This refers to the delivery of healthcare services remotely, such as through video conferencing. This acquisition will help UnitedHealth Group expand its reach into the healthcare IT market. Market share: In 2020, CVS Health acquired Aetna for $69 billion.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

VP of Public Policy) talking about telehealth, the end of the Public Health Emergency, and virtual care going forward. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health , an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. Listen and read the full text here!

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

VP of Public Policy) talking about telehealth, the end of the Public Health Emergency, and virtual care going forward. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health, an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. Listen and read the full text here!

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