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Improving Patient Access to Healthcare With Telehealth

AMD Telemedicine

may not be able to use telemedicine technologies effectively. Conversely, the more your providers know about their telehealth choices, the more high-quality remote care they can provide. You’ll want to know more about the reimbursement process before deciding how to structure your telemedicine services.

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Too Old for Telemedicine? Seniors Say Otherwise

GlobalMed

That weekend, your mother’s nursing home lets you know she has a minor respiratory infection – and the on-site staff is virtually consulting with a remote specialist to treat it. That isn’t the world most of us live in, of course. It’s obvious telemedicine can help older patients in myriad ways.

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Most clinicians can't access telehealth directly from EHRs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The survey is part of the Telehealth Impact Study prepared by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Workgroup, which includes the American Medical Association, American Telemedicine Association, Digital Medical Society, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, MassChallenge Health Tech, Mayo Clinic and MITRE Corporation.

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Telehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Led by researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study found that 2,656 unique providers conducted 144,940 video visits with 115,789 unique patients over the course of six weeks. "Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann.

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Greene County Health Care boosts RPM and telehealth with $1M FCC award

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"So having them on remote patient monitoring with remote care managers monitoring all of the readings was very helpful," he continued. " At Greene County, medical and behavioral health providers use the telemedicine technology. We should have 1,400 people with some remote patient monitoring going."

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The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It’s Impact on the World of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

That said, the last four years have demonstrated to us that patients will ultimately drive the need for advancements that ultimately move us towards adopting more efficient care delivery models and at scale. Improved level of care can be achieved by using both telemedicine and virtual care. So many good insights here!

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With the Silver Tsunami on its way, telehealth is ready for its moment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. " None of that is a coincidence, of course.