Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

CME conferences are great. But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. The ATA (American Telemedicine Association) conference, along with offering some qualifying CME sessions, is made up of more broad topic discussions, meant to bring value to many different industry roles and professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead at Zoom, shared virtually in the keynote session, "The Rise of Digital First and Decentralized Healthcare," at the HIMSS22 APAC conference. Recently commissioned research by Zoom found that patients who have used telehealth once prefer a hybrid mode of care post-COVID-19. Telemedicine adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

We interviewed her to talk about why she believes this is so, the relationship between telehealth and health equity, and how a hybrid future for telemedicine is important. The door to telehealth has finally been opened, and I don't think it will ever return to its original state.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Data Policy in the Context of Telehealth Policy The ATA has been publishing policy statements on complex technical topics since they launched a good 30 years ago.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. Subscribe to HITN's new Telehealth Connect newsletter here. How telemedicine can help close the maternal health gap.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

Many healthcare professionals are now providing telemedicine calls and video conferences as an option to their patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The article 4 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Your Telemedicine Services appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the "substantial" information security concerns around telehealth. The authors, led by organizational cybersecurity researcher Mohammad S. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Montana state senators this past week unanimously voted to pass a telehealth expansion bill out of committee. Rhonda Knudsen, R-Culbertson, by request of the state auditor, would safeguard telehealth coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montana bill would: Prohibit contract provisions that impose site restrictions on telehealth.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. Healthcare IT News sat down with Doug Duskin, Avel eCare's chief executive, to get a debriefing on the conference and find out the major themes and learnings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. in his opening remarks for a panel at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo this month.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

MARCH 29, 2018

“I go to five to six conferences per year, and this was by far the most interesting, beneficial and relevant to me. This is what one attendee had to say about the third annual Telemedicine & Telehealth Service Provider Summit (SPS), held in October 2017. Thank you for offering more advanced and in-depth content.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2021

Experts have repeatedly predicted that telehealth would present a major challenge for healthcare cybersecurity in the coming year. But it's not enough to know telehealth is likely to be an issue. "FDA does not regulate telemedicine," she reminded co-panelists. "The key here is going to be people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. Instead, as the spokesperson said, they are related to Walmart's interest in offering telehealth. As Livingston notes, it also plans to expand into Florida this year. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

"Healthcare is more confusing, more complex and more costly than ever before, despite all of our efforts," said Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference this week. However, Tullman predicted, telehealth by itself won't be enough going forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2021

As the United States approaches its one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic beginning to disrupt normal healthcare operations, a question continues to endure: What's next for telehealth? Telehealth tools, he said, "can beam [provider input] in to support rural hospitals and their efforts to engage patients.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. The country's health spending has also been raised to $13.39

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2021

But what they do have in common, said two legislators who co-presented at a HIMSS21 session on Thursday, is a telehealth strategy that proved to be wildly popular among residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine, on the other hand, was a much bigger hit – something in which Kennedy takes pride. million, she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2021

A new report from analytics firm Trilliant Health suggested that telehealth use is starting to taper in the United States "post-peak pandemic," with use spiking in April 2020 and petering off from there. Telehealth has generated significant interest during COVID-19, but the picture of who relied on it most heavily is still emerging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. The most prevalent platforms providers used for telehealth engagement were via Zoom, the EHR provider (with Epic MyChart and Cerner broken out separately), or FaceTime.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Across the globe, telehealth growth has been impressive. Driven by the need to reduce contact in the early days of the pandemic, telehealth is now predicted to become a quarter trillion dollar industry. With increased access, convenience, and lower costs, telehealth growth is fueled by telecommunication speed and reliability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This is where telemedicine comes in: It provides CCRLC a gateway for mental health providers to offer these services at the rural campus. By having a Polycom device on every unit, the patient would not need to travel across the campus to receive their telemedicine service. ” PROPOSAL. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

"Telehealth is now a household world," said American Telemedicine Association president Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote address Monday, the first day of the virtual ATA2020 conference. But at the same time, providers and those pushing for telehealth expansion shouldn't rest on the laurels of success, he warned.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 28, 2020

Telemedicine (also called telehealth, virtual care, or virtual health) is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to gain access to health care services remotely. What conditions can telemedicine treat? Telehealth can also be used for chronic disease management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

B2B software comparison website Capterra has published the results of a study with over 1,000 Australians, detailing their perspectives and considerations about telehealth. According to Capterra’s survey findings, 92% of telemedicine users in Australia had experienced telemedicine for the first time during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found a "plateau" in the growth of telemedicine visits, accounting for a relatively small percentage of rebounding ambulatory care services. In mid-April, according to the report, telemedicine visits accounted for 14% of the number of visits in the baseline week – compared with 0.1%

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