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State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Survey: Telehealth on the rise in New Zealand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The group plans to survey GPs and Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) on their use of telehealth later this year.

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Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a new survey of U.S. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Bonus Features – May 19, 2024 – Nearly 70% of hospitals plan to deploy RFID and RTLS technology in the next 5 years, mental health claims up 83% since before the pandemic, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

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. Roughly 70% of U.S.

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We are Still Learning the Lesson Charles Babbage Taught Us in 1821

Healthcare IT Today

Love the analysis that Charlie Harp did on PubMed – looking at the occurence of “Garbage-in, Garbage-out” For a long time, it was quiet but as we starting using more data the occurrence started to rise. Worse, the survey found that organizations have very little trust in data that originates from outside their organization.

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Bonus Features – January 28, 2024 – 49% of orgs likely to invest in RCM tech in the next 18 months, v2 drafts of TEFCA Common Agreement and QHIN Technical Framework out, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

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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Remote cardiac monitoring programs have potential, but they're still falling short

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"There are hundreds to thousands of stories where remote monitoring has made it easier to care for patients and, in many cases, to save lives," said electrophysiologist Dr. Christopher Porterfield, who assisted with survey development and analysis of the responses, in a statement accompanying the report. Twitter: @kjercich.

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