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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Within that training, staff members found that they needed to give their patients peace of mind as well as comfort. THE PROBLEM. Williams, CFO and senior vice president at AccessHealth.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. In 2017, the VA announced a new initiative called "Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care," followed by bipartisan legislation enabling interstate telemedicine for VA providers and patients.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's already responsible for the biggest telemedicine infrastructure in the nation, and use of its telehealth services is surging. The sprawling provider network continues to seek new ways to deliver better care to its members where they live, in their communities and their homes. Evans, VA Office Of Connected Care.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care.

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Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” 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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Why Temporary Telehealth Policies Should Be Made Permanent

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Therefore, while the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, industry groups report that healthcare providers across the nation have made significant changes in their practices to safely treat patients remotely long-term. Many of them worry about technical problems associated with telemedicine that could cause patient mismanagement and distrust.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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." The new importance of telemedicine. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. "We went ahead.