Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

At the same time, say industry leaders, vulnerable groups – especially people of color – are being left behind. "Regrettably, minority groups are being left behind by the telehealth revolution," said David Smith, executive director for the Medicaid Transformation Project, in an interview with Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.). " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

The company says that it aggregates a care team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, coordinators and others and partners with payers, providers and employers. Payer and healthcare systems that are Google Cloud Partners can now purchase and deploy Pager's connected care system. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. "Congress not only has the opportunity to bring the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

Workforce management software that autogenerates healthcare staff schedules. IoT Solutions Group. Sensor-based monitoring of activity patterns to help support elder care and specialty care. A virtual training platform that connects long-term care homes and hospitals with background-checked nurses and support workers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

"The audio/video connections for this service were built internally many years ago, with multiple technologies in the mix," noted Joe Tracy, vice president, connected care and innovation, air products center for connected care and innovation, at Lehigh Valley. to help get to the final model.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The combined company leverages VillageMD’s deep expertise in value-based care to support and accelerate the transition to more risk-based care and Summit Health-CityMD’s longstanding and deep expertise delivering multispecialty, connected care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

"Choosing a solution that was easy to use for both patients and care teams was a high priority so as not to exacerbate digital access and digital literacy barriers." Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The task force, which was convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association, represented a broad spectrum of stakeholders who spent the summer building consensus around the challenges and opportunities for virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Carbon Health , a hybrid healthcare company that combines expert care with proprietary technology for easy everyday health, announced today that it has received $100 million from CVS Health Ventures, CVS Health’s corporate venture capital platform, as part of an initial close of its Series D round.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The bill was immediately greeted with enthusiastic approval from a chorus of healthcare industry groups. "It is clear that telemedicine is part of the future of our healthcare system, and should be continued as an attainable tool post-pandemic," said Rep. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

"Healthcare providers must optimize their use of virtual care platforms and other technologies to deliver on these demands for convenience, self-service and efficiency." For example, does a patient need to visit the ER or urgent care center, or can their condition be diagnosed and treated in a virtual setting?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Centene Corporation announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Apixio , a leading artificial intelligence platform that enables value-based care, to New Mountain Capital , a growth-oriented investment firm with more than $37 billion in assets under management. Centene acquired Apixio in December 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AHT’s post-acute customer base will now have access to the industry’s most expansive dataset and the opportunity to join PointClickCare’s vision of transforming the senior care ecosystem through the creation of a connected care network during a critical period of digital transformation for the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The organization initiated focus groups to better understand barriers such as questions people encountered when they went to receive their vaccines that deterred them from moving forward. . percent on average. Another area we’re excited about as we work with our partners is assessing data quality to help advance data interoperability.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JULY 2, 2020

We talk a lot about the role of digital tech in healthcare – its ability to speed up diagnosis, manage conditions and improve both patient care and the way in which healthcare professionals connect with patients, for example. A favourite company of mine is Spirit Digital, part of the Spirit Health Group.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

How CommonWell Started The Alliance’s inception was announced at HIMSS13 to a shocked audience – a small group of competing health IT companies stood before the crowd and asserted that working together was the way towards better interoperability for the United States.

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The Digital Health Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Connected care: apps: Connected care today includes such technologies as wearables and mobile health apps. Benefits of connected care include triangulating the transmission of information (among clinicians, patients and caregivers), convenience, and timeliness. Twitter has contributed greatly in this regard.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Rapidly standing up a call center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

“Virtual care delivery models have proven to improve access, care coordination, clinical outcomes and patient engagement,” said Karen Rheuban, director of the UVA Center for Telehealth, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Telehealth driven care models not only eliminate the challenges of distance but also result in better patient outcomes and experience. This is achieved through the opportunity for timelier intervention and bringing care closer to home. About the author: Shehaan Fernando is Regional Director for Connected Care Informatics at Philips.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 17, 2022

As hospitals and doctors’ offices continue to be overburdened by staff shortages and patient overload, telehealth offerings keep pace in providing a wide-range of patient care access, overcoming racial inequality, transportation barriers from rural communities, and treating chronic medical conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

As the provider shuttles from home to home, they may face unexpected traffic or transportation delays, or they may have to take an emergency appointment across town and away from their next group of scheduled appointments. Missed appointments are a big problem, costing the overall healthcare industry between $50 and $150 billion annually.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We, of course, discussed cross-state licensure holding back wider use of remote care, a subject that is very much in the news right now. In fact, Health Data Management just published a story I wrote about, in part, the launch of the Alliance for Connected Care. Podcast: Intel’s Eric Dishman on connected care management.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

"These new care from anywhere innovations ensure that we continue this digital transformation in healthcare and empower providers, payers, care coordinators and pharmaceutical companies to deliver care for patients wherever they are," he added. Vivify Health's remote care enhancements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity. Our uninsured and Medicaid populations receive some of the most fragmented care due to the difficulty in finding consistent primary care and available specialists.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Intuitive software tools can help to connect care teams and patients. COVID-19: Telehealth and Virtual Care Best Practices. The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Impact Study Work Group. Sharing medical information in real-time is key to structuring patient engagement. Aesthetic Plast Surg. Snoswell et al.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

"Congress must act to provide more certainty to beneficiaries and healthcare providers alike, while ensuring sufficient time is taken to analyze the impact of telehealth on patient care throughout the pandemic to inform permanent telehealth reform,” said Krista Drobac, executive director of Alliance for Connected Care, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 29, 2020

More than 80 organizations led by the Alliance for Connected Care called this week for the U.S. As the groups noted in a letter to DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for providers to prescribe medication assisted treatment to patients with opioid use disorder.

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