Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

" The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 " The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 The VA currently manages 1,800 ICU beds nationwide. billion VA budget for IT for next year – 12% more than in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

Of course, these are higher risk use cases and more challenging to implement from a technical and organizational perspective, so I think we'll continue to see slower progress on this front. One of the use cases gaining the most traction is virtual inpatient nursing where remote nurses support the bedside care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

"When COVID started, and we got all of the providers onboard and trained on telehealth, we had some [Health Resources and Services Administration] funding to purchase additional webcams and sound bars," said Kaley Smith, executive director for Chambers' federally qualified health clinics.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Why the Benefits Outweigh the Initial Cost of Implementing Telehealth. Healthcare organizations around the world are faced with a lot of uncertainty right now and have to make pretty major decisions about their course of action to survive in the new hybrid model of healthcare delivery. Telehealth creates new avenues for care. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

There's one session titled, "From Preventative To Proactive: How Partnerships are Reimagining Telehealth's Role In Healthy Aging." " None of that is a coincidence, of course. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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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. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. This article answers common questions and summarizes some of the key legal issues involved.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. This article answers common questions and summarizes some of the key legal issues involved.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

"We use our nurse triage call center to recommend virtual options whenever clinically appropriate. "Without the pandemic's demands and the FCC grant, our approach would have been much more conservative, outfitting just a few practices over the course of the year as opposed to all of them." " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

During the course of the past year-plus, these executives have learned many lessons spurred by the manic pacing of the pandemic. When telehealth is not up to par. One major lesson Helio Health learned last year was that its telehealth presence was not up to par. Helio Health's methods evolved over the course of last summer.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. To supplement information provided in the webinar, the South Central Telehealth Resource Center would like to share information and resources regarding national and regional changes that may be helpful to you. Go to the Medicare Telehealth Services section.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 10, 2019

Work from home jobs for doctors and nurses can help you achieve more life balance while still serving patients either one-on-one or behind the scenes. From phone triage, to telemedicine, to medical writing, here is a robust list of work from home jobs for doctors and nurses. Concierge Medical Practice. Telemedicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

Of course, cross-border care has complicated women’s health based on the states in which they live, compromising health and potentially life ( see this piece in the New York Times providing details on five Texas women suing the state, each dealing with difficult pregnancies and situations).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off. In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. This article answers common questions and summarizes some of the key legal issues involved.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 17, 2021

As telehealth capabilities continue to develop and grow, so does the capability to provide care to patients in underserved and rural populations. In partnership with Canvas Communities, ARcare, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), has developed a telehealth outreach program for homeless shelters within the central Arkansas community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

Swinburne University of Technology, a public university located in Melbourne, Australia, has partnered with Coviu, a telehealth software platform, to further embed digital health technology in the classroom, clinic and research. What’s it about.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Gartner hype cycle on AI is now published – and predicts, of course, a future plateau in generative AI. Consider the telehealth-enabled virtual patient sitter. Many have talked about telehealth and the boost to its use provided by the pandemic. And last but not least, ubiquitous telemedicine – is it here?

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

At Iris Telehealth, it’s not unusual for our partners to use telehealth 50-70% of the time for primary care or behavioral health care services. Everyone is used to telehealth. That’s because the referring triage nurse puts in the order, and we can see the patient before the attending. We learn about their history, too.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 6, 2024

In a webinar hosted by Iris Telehealth Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Thomas Milam, Beth Engelhorn, Executive Director of Southside Behavioral Health in South Central Virginia and Iris provider Dale McQueeney, PMHNP, shared how virtual services can help optimize care delivery for patients experiencing substance use disorders (SUDs).

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American Well

JANUARY 16, 2018

As it turns out, according to a new study by the University of Rochester not only is telehealth access improving child health both in schools and at home , children are responding positively to it in all manner of settings. Telehealth access at home bridges that gap. It’s not the wave of the future.

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American Well

JANUARY 16, 2018

As it turns out, according to a new study by the University of Rochester not only is telehealth access improving child health both in schools and at home , children are responding positively to it in all manner of settings. Telehealth access at home bridges that gap. It’s not the wave of the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

" This is a significant amount of time over the course of thousands of transactions at many offices. "This program allows for patients to be admitted as an inpatient, into their own homes, while still receiving inpatient services such as oxygen, IV and nurse rounding."

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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. " "Before COVID-19, the level of cognitive overload and burnout among nurses and doctors was alarmingly high," he said.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians). This was well before the pandemic, of course. Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2020

They knew HIV care could be provided efficiently via telehealth and had been studying best practices of other facilities around the country. "Of course, all that changed in March," said Cesar Egurrola, lead clinical coordinator at Petersen. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

"Now patients can see a healthcare professional in a telehealth visit and then have the medications mailed to their home," Moore added. In addition, existing hurdles to virtual care – such as broadband access – may still obstruct access to abortion via telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Of course, they’re not infallible and it is important to use the tech to supplement and power the clinical expertise and judgment of clinicians to ensure accurate, reliable, and ethical application in the healthcare setting. Mike Brandofino, President and COO at Caregility We’ll see accelerated adoption of inpatient telehealth in 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

A chemical dependency treatment facility could fax or use a more advanced digital communication system to send a patient’s healthcare directives to a nursing home where the patient is being moved. A psychologist might verbally discuss a patient’s treatment plan with a nurse practitioner participating in the patient’s care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeon Telehealth, digital communication, and remote patient monitoring rose to the forefront during the pandemic and are now well-established care delivery options. When thinking about home care, it’s also worth mentioning how technology really empowers at-home care providers.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

How does Telehealth compare to in-person care? The amount of reach telehealth can have is amazing. My school did not approve of telehealth. I had been working in telehealth for five years because the VA hired me for telehealth. ” I would say 95% of the patients are okay with telehealth.

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