Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients are demanding that healthcare providers improve their customer service in every way. As a result, practices are embracing technologies like telehealth, which enable them to take a more patient-centered approach. In healthcare, it fluctuates for several reasons.

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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." " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2021

It's become somewhat common in the last year to see news about prescription delivery apps expanding, either to offer more kinds of services or to offer telehealth more generally. Another part, of course, stems from the spike in telehealth interest triggered by the pandemic. "Telehealth is safe.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The debut installment of the new Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series debuts next Tuesday, November 10. at the Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Digital Series. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. For cash-strapped community hospitals, that's significant.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

The pandemic-induced necessity for social distancing and limited access to healthcare facilities led to a 29% increase in remote healthcare services among U.S. This shift mirrors the medical community, with 58% of providers viewing telehealth more favorably and 84% of physicians offering virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

Among the connected health trends on researchers' radar, of course: "accelerated deployment of telehealth/virtual visits, chatbot assessments, and remote health monitoring." " This term "digital front door" is not a new one, of course.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

Rising Healthcare Consumerism More than ever before, patients expect digital and technology integration within their care experience. Improving the Telehealth Experience According to the study, digital solutions play a critical role in the patient’s experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Digitizing care delivery will enhance the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. It's clear RPM will be playing a bigger role in healthcare than it ever has before.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. " Telehealth: Now what? One exec says the basic concept of the doc-patient video visit is not enough. " EHRs: Automation can help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "UCTH treats a range of conditions with extended hours 365 days a year via browser-based video visits," said Dr. Angela Skrzynski, clinical lead for urgent care telehealth for COVID-19 remote patient monitoring and care after COVID-19 programs at Virtua Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic. OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth.

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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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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

Hybrid care is king: Patients are demanding flexibility. While telehealth boomed during the pandemic, there's a shift towards hybrid models that seamlessly blend virtual consultations with in-person care when needed. Investors are looking at companies that can bridge this gap and offer a complete care experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep As many as 91% of patients who could benefit from physical therapy (PT) do not access care, and of those who do, only 30% complete their course of care. Telehealth therapy allows them to progress in their recovery without needing to leave home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey. "We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2018

will continue to grow in healthcare, it’s exciting to see Best Buy making a bet in this way. Of course, we continue to watch and advise this space, always with the objective of helping make healthcare better for consumers who make health where they live, work, play, pray, learn…and shop.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Strikes among nurses and ambulance workers are curtailing services too, of course. But most of the delays in discharges are caused by a lack of social services—in short, the discharged patient has nowhere else to go. Delays in discharges, in turn, are backing up other services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It also helps healthcare organizations improve the profitability of their rehabilitation services by expanding access to care, standardizing care to avoid surgical complications, improving adherence, enhancing patient experience, lowering costs and reducing referral leakage. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Patients seeking neurologic care can face physical, geographical and financial challenges as they deal with chronic and disabling conditions. Telehealth is offering one way forward. You and your research team just evaluated a VA telehealth program for outpatient general teleneurology care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Metadata from medical images and medical devices can be read alongside clinical information, yielding more powerful results when a provider or researcher searches and queries patient information, Microsoft said. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

They include a tool called Remote Patient Exception Monitoring, designed to enable the remote collection of patient physical data, such as vital signs, without having to bring patients into the office. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

All of the decisions made in healthcare are based on the data we gather, so we need to make sure it’s sound. Are we getting the representation needed to cover all of our patients? We reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the importance of data in achieving health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

This number is based on reimbursement code criteria, which enable reimbursements to healthcare clinics for remote (telehealth) BP monitoring only when a sufficient number of self-measured BP measurements per month are recorded by patients and monitored by physicians [ 29 ].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

Telemedicine is making a very positive contribution to healthcare during the pandemic, and is being used in a variety of ways. But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last almost two years, healthcare has seen organizations rely on technology and the cloud to get accurate, trusted information to patients and direct them to the appropriate resources and care at scale. But what does all of this mean for the future of patient care? Access to quality care in underserved communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The past year has been like no other for healthcare provider organization executives. This time around, six top health system executives discuss subjects including telehealth, IT infrastructure, patient engagement, core competencies and collaboration. "Telehealth is truly now embedded in our future.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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