Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The American Board of Telehealth announced this week that it is launching a Teleprimary Care Certificate program, geared toward helping primary care providers develop future virtual health strategies. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the "substantial" information security concerns around telehealth. These relaxations have of course made it easier for many patients to access virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association and the American Board of Telehealth announced Tuesday that they were partnering to expand access to training and education for virtual care. That is to weave telehealth into the everyday fabric of healthcare. Telepresence skills. Technology. Legal, regulatory and quality. Reimbursement.

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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. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. But the only way to deliver more targeted care is to have a better understanding of the patient prior to treatment through proper screening, and to assess patient progress throughout the entire course of treatment to adjust treatment as needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. For smaller practices looking to prepare for ongoing telemedicine needs, Lacktman says there are opportunities to think creatively.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. Over the course of the pandemic, virtual care was implemented out of necessity to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 infection. Barriers to in-person care.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 23, 2023

Protecting Patients’ Access to Care and Coverage With Telehealth Telehealth has changed the face of the healthcare market. How to Add More Telehealth Options Into Your Mix As a provider, you should leverage telehealth for many reasons. Make sure you provide sufficient telehealth training and resources.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 12, 2021

Additional Resources: Telehealth Roundup: Remote Patient Monitoring. Telehealth Roundup: RPM Billing Panel Discussion. Take This Course! The post Free Course Available Now: Remote Patient Monitoring Module! Identify RPM medicare CPT codes. Explore RPM technologies. Webinar: Remote Patient Monitoring – A Mississippi Story.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With telehealth taking an increasingly prominent place in the world of healthcare, organizations are trying to figure out the best way to make this feature work seamlessly with the rest of their internal systems. Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2021

Experts have repeatedly predicted that telehealth would present a major challenge for healthcare cybersecurity in the coming year. But it's not enough to know telehealth is likely to be an issue. "FDA does not regulate telemedicine," she reminded co-panelists.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The new regulations enable abortion via telemedicine in more than half of the country. "Now patients can see a healthcare professional in a telehealth visit and then have the medications mailed to their home," Moore added. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 12, 2021

Take This Course! The post Free Course Available Now! This interactive module helps participants: Define eConsults. Discuss the benefits for clinicians and patients. Investigate potential eConsult workflows. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about eConsults! Education Brief: eConsults appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

"Healthcare is more confusing, more complex and more costly than ever before, despite all of our efforts," said Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference this week. However, Tullman predicted, telehealth by itself won't be enough going forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

At the start of the pandemic, emergency declarations and insurer policies encouraged the shift to telehealth. Telehealth usage has skyrocketed, often leading patients to grow accustomed to relying on virtual care for its convenience and cost-efficiency. Now, as states across the U.S.

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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

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. "Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

" Physically commuting was not efficient at all and telephone assessments, while more feasible, did not allow the intake team to fully assess the patient’s affect, mood and general demeanor to help determine the best and safest course of treatment, she added. Cook, DNP, RN-BC, chief nursing informatics officer at Baptist Health.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 19, 2022

Telehealth Integration: How to Maximize the Value of Your Technology Investment. The growing presence of telehealth technology in hospitals and healthcare systems has surged; in fact, telehealth usage is 38 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. Maximizing Telemedicine Solutions. Leverage telehealth to reduce costs. “No-shows”

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. Healthcare IT News interviewed Berg to gain some of his telehealth and mobile health expertise. What is telehealth's impact on in-person doctor visits, and how does telehealth affect waiting times?

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

I want to ‘do telemedicine’: What is involved, and how much does it cost? The use of telemedicine is at an all-time high, with 85% of doctors using telehealth to connect with patients. The specific medical devices you need may vary depending on the specialties you plan to service with telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Subsequent steps delve into details of telehealth program implementation: designing workflows, change management for care teams and scaling up. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

As a result, practices are embracing technologies like telehealth, which enable them to take a more patient-centered approach. As already proven through the last three years of drastic change, telehealth has improved patient engagement, outcomes , and retention. In turn, this improves patient retention rates.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Telehealth seems poised to move in that direction, too. And telehealth upgrades that will improve the overall telemedicine experience for both patients and healthcare organizations can’t come too soon. Of course, the future of telehealth got a recent kick-start. Making healthcare touchpoints more convenient.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

Anyone reading Healthcare IT Today is probably aware that during the first six months of the year, we saw a telemedicine boom unlike any before. The post Case Study: One Medical Practice’s Experience Transitioning to Telemedicine first appeared on Healthcare IT Today.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S. Some one in 4 survey respondents used telehealth in the past 3 months (about the first 90 days of the pandemic), with a vast majority of people satisfied with their virtual healthcare visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. Patient and provider response to telehealth has been quite positive. However, increased telehealth adoption and use also is elevating patient expectations. Questions that he answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Chambers' health clinics were where the telemedicine program that the system had spun up in response to COVID-19 played a new role. Before the pandemic, Bellevue had been "dipping our toes into video telemedicine," said Dr. Andrew Wallach, clinical director of ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Smartfuture's white-label telehealth platform. Khumaidi wanted to find out how AlteaCare differentiates itself from other telemedicine applications. In the course of the teleconsultation, he also used a blood pressure (BP) monitor – which was connected to the Doctor Tool Hub – enabling the doctor to see his BP reading.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Telehealth levels peaked during the pandemic, for well-established reasons. Moving forward, mobile devices can help facilitate this hybrid telehealth world. What has been the expanded role mobile devices have been playing in healthcare and telemedicine during the pandemic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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