Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS DAX Copilot is currently the only fully embedded ambient documentation tool currently operational within Epic electronic health records and has more than 55 healthcare organizations using it, Nuance said in the announcement. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Majority (those adopting March 22, 2020, or later).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

This month, one physician and IT entrepreneur posted on his Substack had posted other unconfirmed reports that suggested Optum was ending its telehealth service – and asked whether brick and mortar healthcare had the capacity to replace Optum's millions of virtual visits. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We healthcare. Despite this growth, the U.S. About Mariza Hardin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

"To date, there are no large-scale studies of emissions reductions due to telehealth across an entire ambulatory system of a regional healthcare system in the United States, nor any studies showing the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare-associated [greenhouse gas] emissions as a result of rapid telehealth adoption," they explained.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. In an emailed statement to Healthcare IT Today , MGMA shared that they were surprised at the VBC data. That same report showed a 2x increase in the number of claims denied on first submission by medical practices in 2021: Primary Care = 8.00% (4.00% in 2020).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. 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. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sweeney-Platt on the subjects of telemedicine adoption, utilization, scheduling and permanence, seeking her expertise and lessons learned from athenahealth's treasure trove of telehealth data. In terms of specialties, not surprisingly we've seen mental health and primary care use telehealth the most.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Hunter Sinclair, vice president of solution strategy at Teladoc Health, to dive into this subject. Sinclair joined the company in 2020 to grow the company’s chronic care business within the Medicare Advantage line of business. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center Telehealth Consortium announced this week that its dozens of members have conducted more than one million telehealth visits total since March 2020. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Fourth Acquisition Bolsters Remote Patient Monitoring Company’s Presence in Primary Care and Cardiology CoachCare , a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual health company, has acquired Nashville, Tennessee-based RPM company Verustat , for an undisclosed amount.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ian Tong, chief medical officer at Included Health (formerly known as Doctor on Demand), in a statement about the report provided to Healthcare IT News. Authors noted that access to affordable medical services via insurance coverage and primary care also remains an issue. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

" As Christina Farr explained for CNBC in February 2020, Amazon Care's "care providers, including the physicians and nurses, are technically employed by a separate subsidiary called Oasis Medical. Bernstein is still a medical provider at Care Medical, as per his LinkedIn and the company website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

The survey found that 62% of respondents had a virtual care visit of some kind from March 2019 through March 2020 – and for 71% of them, it was their first time doing so. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. First we launched primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But other experts who spoke at this week's HLTH VRTL 2020 conference reminded attendees, clinicians and innovators must be willing to think outside the box to fulfill telehealth's promise. "The pandemic has driven innovation in the shape and design of the traditional healthcare visit. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The deal, which is expected to be finalized by the end of the fourth quarter in 2020, builds upon the shared company culture at both organizations, said Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic. The organizations have framed the deal as a way to offer "whole person" healthcare to users. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the course of three weeks in March 2020, the virtual healthcare team trained more than 400 primary care, specialty care and therapy services providers, as well as 800 support staff, on how to use Zipnosis for virtual health encounters. In April 2020, more than half of outpatient volume was performed virtually.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

" Healthcare IT News sat down with Rush for a discussion of these home health issues and technologies. You suggest healthcare provider organization leaders need to rethink healthcare delivery for 2023 by looking at home health technology advancements. With that in mind, let’s reconsider a condition like diabetes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Reimbursement for telehealth services also was a concern, since the federal government did not issue any guidance at the beginning of the pandemic, though it has since permitted billing of primary care telehealth services," Manga said. Since April 2020, St. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found telehealth is nearly as effective as in-person primary care visits when it comes to addressing patient needs. The height of the pandemic and the years that followed proved that telehealth not only works, but it’s here to stay as a primary care source.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

By mid-March 2020, it became clear that the clinic needed to pivot to a virtual model, at least in part, to continue to maintain medical and mental health visits while reducing the number of staff and patients onsite. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Finn Brigham, Callen-Lorde 18th Street Clinic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This also has been highly effective in coordinating multiple physicians caring for the same patient on one video call, she added. "The most important result we have achieved is we have been able to meaningfully and effectively remain connected to our patients since March 2020 using telehealth solutions." " PROPOSAL.

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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%. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. degrees Celsius higher than the average for 1991-2020. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems.

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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. "Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate.

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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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The cohort study, which researchers called "the first large-scale study to characterize inequitable access to telemedical care," relied on data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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