Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." This would have a chilling effect on access to care across the entire U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. Connected care technologies have already enabled cost efficiencies with the management of chronic conditions, the FCC points out.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

Portugal is making big leaps in telehealth development with the newly introduced National Strategic Telehealth Plan (PENTS), the first document in the National Health System in Portugal and one of the first of its kind in the world. “Many of our telehealth services are local. An array of digital tools.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In March 2020, many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving low-income patients started delivering high volumes of telehealth visits to maintain access to care. The resulting telehealth safety net services led to rapid changes to technology, workflows, and staffing to accommodate telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. Virtual care empowers clinicians with the tools and processes they need to deliver primary care at scale.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

“This has been simpler with the introduction of new, easier-to-use self-monitoring tools.” During lockdown, not only did telemedicine play an important role in continued, connected care, it also proved to be a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative, the paper stated. ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Improving care accessibility may fit nicely with an organization’s ideologica. We need to stop talking about “telemedicine” and “telehealth” as if they were ends in themselves, and begin talking about the broader opportunities of collaborative care that the technology brings.

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American Well

JANUARY 6, 2015

Improving care accessibility may fit nicely with an organization’s ideologica. We need to stop talking about “telemedicine” and “telehealth” as if they were ends in themselves, and begin talking about the broader opportunities of collaborative care that the technology brings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

New healthcare technology innovations developed outside the box offer clinicians more tools, including cloud-based telehealth, remote lab testing for infections and enhanced imaging for surgical precision. Payer and healthcare systems that are Google Cloud Partners can now purchase and deploy Pager's connected care system.

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Helping Communities in Need Access Telehealth Services. As we move further into 2020, the benefits of telehealth are well known. Health systems that use telehealth can take on more new patients, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the overall cost of care by reducing hospital readmission rates and the average patient length of stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

The partly automatised, but highly personalised care continuum. According to the recently published HIMSS e-Health Trendbarometer: Telehealth Adoption in Europe , before the COVID-19 outbreak, seven out of ten health providers targeted chronic patients when implementing telehealth services or solutions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients. Staff would offer Zoom telehealth capabilities for medical and mental health patients.

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care innovations

AUGUST 8, 2018

Back in 2014 , the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) collaborated with a network of local and national health technology leaders to build the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network, an effort to extend quality care into rural and underserved regions with high rates of chronic illness.

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Enzyme Health

MAY 22, 2019

Retailers, insurance providers, and software companies are fast and furiously forming partnerships in the telehealth space. Over the past year, insurance providers, pharmacies, and technology companies large and small have been forming partnerships with telehealth companies right and left. Telehealth in Pharmacies and Big Retail.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 3, 2022

“At the end of the day, if we give patients the tools. View this telehealth informational whitepaper to understand the way healthcare technology, and its infrastructure, have shifted to support the connected care initiatives of health-related businesses today, with a particular emphasis on remote healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

. “eVisit is the right strategic partner to further Bluestream’s mission of bringing virtual care to patients, developing innovative workflow tools, and driving better health outcomes,” said Matthew Davidge , CEO at Bluestream Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

" Others, meanwhile, are focused on remote monitoring, secure information exchange, patient engagement, mobile health workforce and training tools. A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. The nearly two-dozen firms in this new cohort are: Momo Medical. eConsult.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Philips understands the complex challenges present in acute care settings and has years of experience bringing together clinical data across multiple sources in the hospital. Telehealth: an untapped but powerful tool. About the author: Shehaan Fernando is Regional Director for Connected Care Informatics at Philips.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

EarlySense, a vendor of contact-free continuous monitoring technology, has sold some of its assets to Hillrom, which develops connected care and collaboration tools. "We look forward to bringing this critical technology to additional customers around the world as we deliver on our vision of Advancing Connected Care."

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. It’s practically a mantra at this point – the very real ability of remote communication technology to connect underserved populations to top-notch medical care. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 15, 2023

a leading provider of Connected Health Technology Solutions, is pleased to announce that the company is one of the four winners who has been awarded the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) eight-year, $1.032 billion-dollar national contract to provide Remote Patient Monitoring -Home Telehealth (RPM-HT) technology solutions.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

We’re both committed to transcending the simple video calls that previously defined telehealth by instead enabling evidence-based virtual consultations that can change lives in even the most remote parts of Argentina. Creating International Connected Care. Telehealth isn’t entirely new to Argentina. Launching TeleMeditar.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This 18-part series examines in-depth what it takes to deploy today's most necessary technology and tools, with expert advice from IT pros who are leading the charge. "And it is coming quickly to a care setting near you," said Cris Ross at Health 2.0 What you need to know. by Bill Siwicki January 17, 2019.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 2, 2023

With CCM, patients receive comprehensive care management (including care that is managed through, between and among health care providers and transition care teams), full health assessments, well visits, assistance with medication self-management and coordinated care by home-based and community-based clinical service providers.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 15, 2019

Increasing Telemedicine Adoption Rates with Internet Access While telehealth adoption rates continue to rise across the country, they’re still not growing as fast as many have hoped. One of the main obstacles to widespread telehealth adoption is the lack of access to broadband services across much of the United States.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 3, 2019

The 4 main barriers to adoption of Digital Tools by clinicians, and what is being done about them. They included doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other health care professionals that have worked at the coal face of medicine. Lack of confidence in digital tools is not new, nor surprising. Only time will tell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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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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The Digital Health Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The possibilities are indeed many in this space and the use of digital tools like genomics and artificial intelligence are accelerating our knowledge and successes. Connected care: apps: Connected care today includes such technologies as wearables and mobile health apps. Registries. Social media support.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 2, 2023

With CCM, patients receive comprehensive care management (including care that is managed through, between and among health care providers and transition care teams), full health assessments, well visits, assistance with medication self-management and coordinated care by home-based and community-based clinical service providers.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Payor, insurer and employer stakeholders can better align healthcare outcomes with health-making by more artfully designing health plans than nudge people to take better care of themselves, fund services that can address chronic healthcare conditions, and arm people with tools to share in decision- and health-making.

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