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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Equality Health.

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Portugal showcases national telehealth plan with patients at the center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Making use of technology has emerged as a natural way to leverage new solutions that best meet society’s needs,” Monteiro said. Real-time teleconsultations have been shown to work well between healthcare providers, for instance between primary care and hospitals. An array of digital tools.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. AccessHealth was awarded $439,286 for telehealth carts and network upgrades to increase clinical capacity and prevent further community spread of COVID-19 by treating primary care patients remotely for COVID-19, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and other diseases and illnesses. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Moving ahead, Testa knows he and his team must make sure patients and clinicians must always be able to connect digitally. "We have shown our patients this all can be done, and we need to meet them with the consumer-grade digital experience they have rightfully come to expect." " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital.