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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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a new era in medicine in which telehealth appointments are a core aspect of the patient-provider relationship and provide broader access to healthcare. Q: In your experience, what was telehealth adoption like over the past 12 months? million appointments held by 60,000 providers.

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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. " Tejal A. Raichura, Geisinger.

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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. At the same time, Consortium representatives note that telehealth expansion must not leave patients behind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. million in 2019. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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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 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. First we launched primary care.

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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

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. It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Travel to virtually any U.S.

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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

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

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

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

JULY 13, 2020

Three-quarters of patients who obtained healthcare virtually during the pandemic said they want it to be a standard part of care in the future. The result lends weight to the ongoing conversation around telehealth. 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

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

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. Otherwise telehealth won't work." " ON THE RECORD.

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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. Enhancing care coordination by allowing healthcare providers to share information and collaborate more easily.

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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. Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. " Finn Brigham, Callen-Lorde 18th Street Clinic. Maintaining visit volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2021

Deploying telehealth to improve access. In an effort to provide more accessible healthcare to Lynn County and the surrounding counties, LCHD applied for and received grants to establish telehealth hubs in Lynn County and the surrounding counties. One of those grants came from the Federal Communications Commission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, the agency had laid the groundwork for virtual care expansion through established telehealth programs in more than 50 clinical specialties. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3 million veterans with more than 11.2

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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

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

JUNE 19, 2023

Over the last few years, Medicare Advantage plans have dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth systems for seniors. While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, Colorado's Boulder Community Health had put the infrastructure in place to support telehealth, but struggled to gain adoption because of limited provider and patient demand. "During this past year, we saw a steep decline in overall visits, and we know that a lot of that was care that was necessary.

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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

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. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Britton, system program manager, UHS virtual healthcare and digital transformation. "We achieved URAC Consumer-to-Provider Telehealth Accreditation for the Virtual Walk-In in December 2019 and hold the distinction of being the first health system to receive that designation. Expanding the use of telehealth. " Sean J.

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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 1, 2022

Telehealth encounters have the potential to save $250 billion in healthcare expenditures annually across covered populations, a McKinsey & Company analysis has found. You've said that creating true value from virtual care demands that healthcare providers and health plans design their digital trajectory with intention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

" 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. The tools also integrated with Raleigh Medical Group's telehealth solutions and Phreesia check-in platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

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. " On March 5, 2020, St. When telehealth is not up to par. As of April 19, 2021, St.

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