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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. Outside of PSHs, their time spent documenting in the EHR increased from 4.29

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Telehealth, hybrid care adding to physicians' EHR workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. more medical record review minutes.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. "Then we had to ensure the correct coding and documentation was satisfactory for insurance billing purposes." THE PROBLEM. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment.

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Telemedicine boosts value-based care performance for Happy Kids

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Telehealth provides the perfect platform to address simple things that are very important, such as lab results, medication refills and follow-up care, he said. " If anything, telehealth saves time and money by eliminating transportation – not to mention the convenience that comes with telemedicine, he added.

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Telemedicine vs. In-Person Visits: Which is Higher Quality?

GlobalMed

But inevitably they’ll worry that the quality of the virtual visit just isn’t as good as an in-person visit – that telemedicine is “impersonal.”. Because that isn’t much time to devise a care plan and complete documentation, many providers want their patients to quickly get to the point of the visit. Beyond 11 Seconds.

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Telehealth boosts continuity of care, patient-provider relationships at Ellis Medicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. This significantly helped Ellis Medicine fast-track its strategic plan to offer telemedicine. MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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