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

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. THE LARGER TREND. "Diabetes patients here that participated in a remote telehealth program saw their A1C levels decline by 2.2

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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. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

As health systems have adjusted their workflows to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, they have discovered increasing value in telehealth solutions that will continue to offer benefits long after the crisis has passed. Accessing care when and where needed. Telehealth is not location dependent. Why patient activation matters.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Taskforce on Telehealth Policy released a final report on Tuesday outlining its findings and recommendations around safeguarding the future of telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. As the report notes, the COVID-19 crisis acted as a catalyst to transform telehealth from a niche passion to an in-demand modality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2019

Better access to healthcare professionals and faster service are among the top reasons senior citizens are willing to embrace telehealth technologies, according to a survey sponsored by vendor American Well. The survey of 400 American seniors (aged 65 years or older) revealed more than half (52%) are willing to use telehealth.

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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

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. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

"What this signifies is the consensus perspective on these issues from the perspective of the telehealth community," Kyle Zebley, ATA's senior vice president of public policy, told Healthcare IT News on Thursday. healthcare delivery system," Zebley said. healthcare system."

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care innovations

JUNE 27, 2018

For advocates of remote patient monitoring , virtual visit technology , and other technology-based care methods, telehealth isn’t just a current trend to be navigated, but something much more integral and long-term, reflecting the very future of healthcare delivery in the United States. By 2020 … Telehealth Is Part of the Job’.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it would be allocating more money to be disbursed to rural providers and help them establish the broadband connectivity necessary to implement telehealth and virtual care during the coronavirus crisis. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Verizon are teaming up to offer Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications giant unlimited access to department's VA Video Connect telehealth app. THE LARGER TREND. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs to use distributed tablet devices to provide telehealth benefits to patients is working. “Telehealth technology remains a vital platform to provide high-quality healthcare to all veterans, regardless of challenges they may face in accessing care,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The 400-bed hospital joint venture by Ramsay Health Care Australia and Sime Darby Malaysia seeks to "revolutionise" healthcare delivery through its latest service called Connected Care. ON THE RECORD "We want to shift from patients to people, from healthcare to health, from hospital to home.

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Health Recovery Solutions

APRIL 27, 2021

The COVID-19 Telehealth Program was created in 2020 to support healthcare providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, funding telecommunication and other connected care services.

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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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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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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients. This responds to both clinicians’ and healthcare managers’ needs for financial management as well as to consumers’ growing demand for convenience and accessible care.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The integration of Epic software will give Rush patients the ability to access their own electronic health records through Epic’s patient portal, MyChart, while simultaneously streamlining patient registration, care coordination and scheduling tasks. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

"Ultimately, implementation of the NTSP has enhanced timely disposition of the patient to match their stroke needs while at the same time elevating the care provided at the local facility to minimize the need for unnecessary transfers," read the study. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Memora Health, which specializes in virtual care delivery and complex care management, is researching how maternal care teams at Mayo can extend engagement for postpartum patients between visits and enable more connected care experience, the company says. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

A virtual training platform that connects long-term care homes and hospitals with background-checked nurses and support workers. He noted that the third critical area the accelerator attempts to address – deploying the workforce – speaks to the growing trend to reach out to patients across the care continuum.

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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.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 14, 2020

After all, GlobalMed is a telemedicine company and we should be all about expanded options for remote care. Telehealth should never be the fast food of the clinical world. Unfortunately, these convenience consults rarely add long-term gain to a patient’s care outcomes or a clinician’s insights. Closing gaps in care.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“In emergency situations where seconds count, pre-hospital emergency medical professionals face both clinical and operational challenges in trying to address the needs of patients,” said Roy Jakobs, chief business leader, connected care, at Royal Philips. Secure, cloud-based health data infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances. Healthcare without boundaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Wendy Deibert , RN, is senior vice president of clinical solutions at Caregility, a telehealth technology and services company. She has 34 years of nursing experience as a bedside critical care nurse, manager, senior consultant, operations manager and executive. What is attracting healthcare provider organizations to virtual nursing?

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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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