Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This shouldn’t come as a surprise since if ambient clinical voice is effective, then it could solve so many of the EHR documentation features that put such a burden on physicians in healthcare. If you read this site, then you know that my favorite topic right now is probably ambient clinical voice. The idea of […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

“We also needed to be able to conduct patient visits while simultaneously documenting the encounter, without disruption to our workflow,” he explained. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. As researchers noted in the study, clinicians in the United States already have a greater EHR burden than those outside the country , potentially (but not always ) contributing to burnout. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Rapid City, South Dakota-based Monument Health, located in one of the current hotspots of the COVID-19 crisis, wants its physicians to be focused on caring for and engaging with patients, not typing up notes in the EHR. “Also, our physicians use Nuance Dragon Medical One to document in the EHR via voice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND In August, Cerner added Suki's ambient voice technology to complete documentation with bidirectional sync and in September partnered with MEDITECH to integrate Suki Assistant into the company's Expanse EHR. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft has announced two deals leveraging its Teams tool which could cast a long shadow over the rapidly evolving telehealth sector. The tech giant signed an agreement with Epic under which the EHR vendor would become the first such organization to use the Teams connector function.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2020

To combat this challenge, McLaren has implemented what it calls its Clinic to Clinic telehealth service in several of these locations, connecting physician specialists from tertiary sites to patients in the rural sites. The telehealth technology and services vendor McLaren used for the pre-COVID-19 period was InTouch. 24/7 urgent care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2020

For quite some time, we’ve given relatively little attention to the problem of integrating telehealth encounter data with more-traditional records generated by EHRs. Prior to the pandemic, […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. "During these visits, we pulled the Allscripts ProMobile application to see the records of those patients and document a quick assessment and plan," Raman explained. " Dr. Sujatha Raman, Cary Medical Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

Farr runs the addiction practice and is cofounder of Atadas, a telehealth medication monitoring technology company. "These are good steps; however, we believe the secret to accountability is improving the level of patient-provider engagement and keeping those practicing addiction medicine compliant with all required documentation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […]. If […].

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TheraNest

APRIL 29, 2024

In our digital age, telehealth has become an invaluable tool for mental and behavioral health providers to reach and support a larger population of individuals in need. Telehealth is a great way to reach clients beyond your physical borders and can even help you find people in mental health deserts. Let’s dive in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. Azalea Health is a health IT vendor that offers an EHR and telehealth tech, and is offering clients free telehealth services for one year to fight the pandemic. " Jill Veach, MEBS Counseling. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustaining quality telehealth programs. "Telehealth will play a pivotal role in the healthcare delivery system. This, along with other technologies, will be used for clinical decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic. In addition, Allscripts offers FollowMyHealth, which enables providers to give direct patient-to-provider telehealth services. More information about its telehealth capabilities can be found here.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

Last week I started a project to create a list of all of the telehealth options out there. Mostly, I wanted to be able to provide my friends and readers answer to the question I’m certain to get over the next year, “Which telehealth solution is best?” ” It may take me another week to finish […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

New Jersey at that time did not allow telehealth services for healthcare. The state and federal governments approved telehealth services because of the pandemic, and PBHG reacted quickly, led by its management information systems director, Jenni Pollen. Clinicians had to identify the service as telehealth or telephonic.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. EHRs have a role in addressing health equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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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. Instead, healthcare organizations should look to integration as a better solution when it comes to telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. THE PROBLEM. So providers engaged with patients via mobile phones, on iPads and on laptop computers to address their healthcare issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. Watauga Medical Center, which is the main hospital, did not use Telehealth Solution's services until it was hit hard with COVID-19.?"They It made our decision very easy."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. The FCC telehealth funding program awarded the clinic $917,255 for mobile hotspots, tablets and laptop computers for providers and patients, telehealth and conferencing equipment. A group of core staff convened to research and vet technology solutions, ultimately deciding on vendor OTTO.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 13, 2023

While licensed professionals are required to comply with all applicable telehealth laws and regulations, telehealth informed consent (IC) is by far the most useful for protecting all parties from legal entanglements. Most untrained telehealth practitioners get this wrong, so bear with me.) Why Bother With Informed Consent?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs. No, telehealth alone is not enough. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

"This historical reimbursement structure has been beneficial from a coordinated-care perspective, but until COVID, the financial feasibility of telehealth for FQHCs has been challenging." "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Geisinger already was using a telehealth ICU system from vendor Caregility and in-room AV equipment in its ICUs. “We also were able to assist with little things like documentation that required two nurses, so that only one bedside nurse needed to go into the room.

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