Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. Evans, VA Office Of Connected Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. The risk of infection from face-to-face clinical interactions forced health providers to give their patients alternative channels to receive care, making virtual visits commonplace. Patient and provider response to telehealth has been quite positive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM.

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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. Fisne offers a personal example.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 12, 2019

A patient has presented to the emergency department with a ruptured ovarian cyst; before you operate, you use the surgical suite’s telemedicine platform to consult with the patient’s gynecologist, who provides valuable history. Telemedicine is on the rise. Providers turn to telehealth apps that don’t integrate with the hospital EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen. Triaged patients often are sent for testing (for example, labs, imaging, etc.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Telemedicine is a hot topic in healthcare, with consumers more willing than ever to see a doctor remotely. In a national study of over 2,000 consumers , 64% said they would be willing to have a telehealth visit with their doctor via video. Furthermore, research on telemedicine also shows a pattern of positive outcomes for patients.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Pitt presents the flaws in the common approach to telemedicine and how it must change to address the business objectives, including: Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Reducing internal costs for patient care. Telemedicine as a brand is flawed. Strategies for increasing revenue. Read more here.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Pitt presents the flaws in the common approach to telemedicine and how it must change to address the business objectives, including: Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Reducing internal costs for patient care. Telemedicine as a brand is flawed. Strategies for increasing revenue. Read more here.

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American Well

MARCH 30, 2020

As the scope and speed of COVID-19 transmission became clear in early March, telehealth emerged as a key part of the response and has become even more critical as social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders have taken effect. For example, a beneficiary can visit with their doctor before receiving a prescription refill.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A major difference between GlobalMed and other telehealth vendors is the way our products fit so well into providers’ needs. That’s because our team brings hands-on clinical experience to our product design and development – and no one is a better example of that than our Chief Clinical Officer, Gigi Sorenson. So I Googled it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

” These challenges prompted Mayo Clinic to develop a tele-neonatology program that allows neonatologists to establish a real-time audio/video telemedicine connection with care teams in community hospitals during these high-risk, low-frequency neonatal emergencies. ” PROPOSAL. " Dr. Jennifer Fang, Mayo Clinic.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Telemedicine is a hot topic in healthcare, with consumers more willing than ever to see a doctor remotely. In a national study of over 2,000 consumers , 64% said they would be willing to have a telehealth visit with their doctor via video. Furthermore, research on telemedicine also shows a pattern of positive outcomes for patients.

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The discussion, which was moderated by Sylvia Romm, MD, medical director at American Well, included the following panelists: Bruce Rosenthal, MD , Medical Director, Consumer Telehealth Services, UPMC. Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Build a telehealth program on what already exists. “We

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American Well

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The discussion, which was moderated by Sylvia Romm, MD, medical director at American Well, included the following panelists: Bruce Rosenthal, MD , Medical Director, Consumer Telehealth Services, UPMC. Will Daines, MD, Medical Director, Intermountain Connect Care. Build a telehealth program on what already exists. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Abnormal results trigger telehealth RN follow-up."

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

That’s a big promise and vision, so to kick the tires on such a Holy Grail I had the opportunity to meet, virtually, with two key leaders of Philips’ health care business: Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader Connected Care, and Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Patient Care Experience Kyle Ryan, Chief Technology Officer at Tebra As telehealth continues to expand, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is becoming a more widely used option to improve the patient care experience, and better connect providers with patients outside the doctor’s office.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

As healthcare leaders and the general public increase their AI literacy, they can apply their learnings to improve equity in healthcare with investment in AI-driven medical and telehealth systems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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