Conference, Patient Experience, Telehealth and Telemedicine

Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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Telehealth is past the 'tipping point' – how's it doing with interoperability?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. The industry can help evolve these standards and make medical devices work seamlessly as part of video conferences."

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How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. ATA’s CEO Ann Mond Johnson and team turned on a dime over the past few months, migrating the already-planned live conference scheduled in early May to this week, all online. In the U.S.,

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How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider. The experience was often frustrating. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the market today.

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At Nicklaus Children's, successful telehealth expansion depends on customer input

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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Firefly Health adds digestive care to telehealth network; eVisit unveils reporting dashboard

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2022

"Together, we can transform the patient experience for the many people who are desperate for effective digestive health treatment." Patients connect with specialized providers via telehealth visits, their care plan is continuously informed and refined by their symptoms, food and bowel movement monitoring.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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American Well to preview TV-based telemedicine for the home at HIMSS20

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

At HIMSS20, prominent telemedicine technology vendor American Well will preview its new home TV system, dubbed CarePort, which will be commercially available at a date yet to be announced. The idea behind CarePort, powered by American Well and its vendor partner Solaborate, is to transform a patient's home into a virtual hospital room.

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What has Telemedicine done for You Lately?

eVisit

JANUARY 11, 2019

You’ve discussed it in strategy meetings, you’ve overheard your competitors talking about it at conferences, and maybe patients have even asked about it: telemedicine. For one, a Cisco global survey found that 74% of patients are interested in access to virtual healthcare services. Why do you need it in your organization?

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Creating a High-Quality Patient Experience in the Virtual Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now, a video conference call with a doctor is […]. The Virtual Health Revolution is Here A virtual health revolution is occurring. Before Covid-19 few of us interacted with our healthcare providers in any way other than face-to-face.

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Takeaways from ATA’s 2019 Annual Conference and Expo

InTouch Health

APRIL 29, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its 2019 Annual Conference and Expo from April 14-16, 2019 in New Orleans, LA. InTouch staff members attended, eager to tap into the latest news and information in regard to the telehealth industry. Telemedicine also provides potential cost savings for providers.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMSS Annual Conference.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Radiology and radiologists play starring roles in our health care, with he core work flow of diagnostic imaging supporting prevention, disease detection, diagnosis, delivering and monitoring therapy, linking specialists to other providers in telehealth, and as a medium for teaching clinicians, patients and caregivers. In the U.S.,

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Her interview here in HealthLeaders speaks to her vision, recognizing, “It’s just stunning that there’s such a lag between what is possible in telehealth and what is actually happening.”.

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and.

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Telehealth: Key To Improving Patient Care and Reducing Physician Burnout

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

At this point we are all very familiar with telehealth. However, telehealth is only useful if it is accessible. It doesn’t matter how well the hospital and your staff are prepared to deliver remote care if the patients do not have the means to access it, whether that’s due to poor service or lacking the technology necessary.

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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." " Here he offers a peek at the session's themes and goals.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Connected heart health is a big segment for digital health at CES, including blood pressure, The CES 2024 Innovation Awards have anointed several heart-health innovators before the conference, seven of which are shown here in the diagram titled “Heart Health” curated from company press releases in advance of the meeting.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., health citizens. health citizens.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

It’s these very consumer-facing technologies featured at CES that can bolster information-gathering at the N of 1 patient, self-caring in the Age of Corona at home. More recently, Withings has offered virtual health and telemedicine services, applications that have been fast-growing from the emerging pandemic in 2020.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

In that regard, Thailand has begun development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces since March this year. Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019. ii) Patient experience. iii) Unlocking the value of AI.

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What you might not know about telehealth that could change your PT practice

In Hand Health

JULY 16, 2018

Today, many people associate telehealth with only Skype-like interactions. Was that telehealth? But even today, perceptions of what telehealth really is and how effectively it can be used are dated and inaccurate. Thinking of telehealth as only a live video-based interaction is a limited view of its capabilities.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. Philips has seen a surge in demand for such solutions, with fast-growing demand for telehealth that helps to scale care outside of the hospital walls. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S.

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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company discussed this program at the recent White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, which I detailed here in Health Populi to update the growing food-as-medicine trend. The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

At the insistence of customers and prospects, technology offerings (beyond telehealth) will be required in all of these settings, especially at home -- and so as long-predicted , they must proliferate and improve. Medical practices are now offering choices to patients – in person or telehealth ?

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Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Samsung has worked most intensively in virtual care and wearable tech in health along with digital imaging and telemedicine. Microsoft has had a strong focus on health systems and providers especially via clinical decision support, EHR, data analytics, and voice (think: Nuance).

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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5 Trends from the American Telemedicine Association Conference 2019

Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Didn’t make it to the ATA conference this year? Get a recap of the most noteworthy insights from this year’s discussions and learn what telehealth industry leaders have to say about the future of digital health. Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans.

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Collision Conference: Encouraging Signs for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Collision #CollisionConf , one of the world’s largest tech conferences, wrapped up last week in Toronto, Canada. The Decline of Telehealth? Over the past few months, there has been a lot of data showing that the usage of telehealth is declining. Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) June 22, 2022. Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) June 23, 2022.

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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, we are still missing the mark with patient involvement to make durable healthcare change towards a culture of patient centricity. On the positive side, COVID-19 gave rise to an already more educated patient, due mostly to the power of the Internet. Connect with her at [link]. Did you enjoy this post?

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Surprising Perspectives from ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Healthcare organizations that offer this form of care may want to step up their efforts so that patients are more aware of this option. If they don’t, patients may opt to seek care elsewhere. Be sure to check out all of our coverage of the ViVE conference.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. RSA 2019: Insider's look at the premier cybersecurity conference. Collection. Collection.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Telehealth is past the 'tipping point' – how's it doing with interoperability?

How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era

How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth

At Nicklaus Children's, successful telehealth expansion depends on customer input

Firefly Health adds digestive care to telehealth network; eVisit unveils reporting dashboard

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

American Well to preview TV-based telemedicine for the home at HIMSS20

What has Telemedicine done for You Lately?

Creating a High-Quality Patient Experience in the Virtual Health Revolution

Takeaways from ATA’s 2019 Annual Conference and Expo

Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Telehealth: Key To Improving Patient Care and Reducing Physician Burnout

RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Value-based healthcare – what it means for Thailand

What you might not know about telehealth that could change your PT practice

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

5 Trends from the American Telemedicine Association Conference 2019

Collision Conference: Encouraging Signs for Healthcare

Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Surprising Perspectives from ViVE2023

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

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