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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. Our initial pilot quickly evolved into four active telehealth services. We anticipate volumes will continue to rise in 2023.

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Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Bonus Features for October 1, 2023: 45 Percent of patients prefer telehealth for minor but urgent issues and much more. Avel eCare, a leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, acquired Fident Health , a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider.

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Bonus Features – December 24 , 2023 – 74% of orgs automating RCM operations, per-physician revenue exceeding expenses at U.S. hospitals, plus 19 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Clinician-to-clinician telehealth platform Avel eCare is making its Crisis Care services free to law enforcement officers. Data from Brightside Health showed all patient subgroups saw a decline in symptoms of anxiety and depression following enrollment in the company’s Crisis Care telehealth program.

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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Michigan-based Baraga County Memorial Hospital and Baraga County Sheriff’s Department chose Avel eCare to support their Virtual Crisis Care program, which responds to calls for behavioral health crises. Arizona-based veterans’ living facility Waymark Gardens chose Iveda telehealth and fall detection technology.

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Telehealth Brings Expert Sexual Assault Exams to Rural Patients (SANE Services)

Telebehavioral Health Institute

by Arielle Zionts / Kaiser Health News January 3, 2023. Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle County, Colorado, went to her car and called a telehealth company to arrange an appointment with a sexual assault nurse examiner, or SANE. Avel eCare, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been providing telehealth services since 1993.

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Telehealth Brings Expert Sexual Assault Exams to Rural Patients

Telebehavioral Health Institute

by Arielle Zionts / Kaiser Health News, The Daily Yonder January 3, 2023. Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle County, Colorado, went to her car and called a telehealth company to arrange an appointment with a sexual assault nurse examiner, or SANE. A local teenage girl had been sexually assaulted and needed an exam.