Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a 17 percent jump in telehealth visits compared with the previous fiscal year, and says the VA delivered more than 2.6 million episodes of telehealth care in FY 2019. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs and retail giant Walmart have opened the latest location as part of a joint effort help Vets in rural areas get better access to medical services, the first location for a new telehealth pilot program. million video telehealth encounters with more than 490,000 Veterans last year. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

By mid-March 2020, it became clear that the clinic needed to pivot to a virtual model, at least in part, to continue to maintain medical and mental health visits while reducing the number of staff and patients onsite. Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Maintaining visit volume.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. This setup has worked well for the mental health center over the last few years. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

About eight years ago, Joe Clubb arrived at Allina Health, a non-profit health system serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Today he is vice president of operations in mental health and addiction services. Allina Health was inconsistent in how it provided that psychiatric coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. There was some discussion about AI, but it seems like Oracle Health is waiting to release something more than window dressing.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

Although research supported the efficacy of video telepsychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health-funded study notes, only 5% of psychiatrists in the Medicare program had ever provided a telemedicine visit. Telehealth has also allowed behavioral health providers to connect with patients in underserved areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Why AI’s Risks and Remedies Are Different in Healthcare. Read more… Taking Social Determinants of Health to New Heights.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

Believing in “self-service” and “trusting the patient,” AdvancedMD focuses on things that should improve both efficiency and the patient experience in their document. So analytics must be based on firm research and be documented to show the ties to research. What can we do to address the gap?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022? How will the conversation about telehealth in behavioral health evolve this year?

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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 Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Experts have documented an urgent and critical need for behavioral health services in the US,” said Steve Sloane, Partner at Menlo Ventures. Dixie Casford, LPC, MBA, MLS, is the Co-CEO at Mental Health Partners , which rolled out Eleos earlier this year. The company plans to hire more than 50 people by the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2024

"Groups serve as an important component for many with mental health and substance use disorders, including some of Geisinger Behavioral Health’s sickest patients who often are enrolled in the intensive outpatient program," Gonzales explained. At this time, scheduling groups and documentation are not integrated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system. Telehealth plans quickly changed. We quickly looked for a telehealth solution to prevent unnecessary transfers and keep care local. A major FCC telehealth grant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

That said, as a large primary care office offering integrated behavioral health, it was important to expand mental health services to include specialty care for patients. Further, as a federally qualified health center, River Valley is charged with providing comprehensive, whole-person care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

This article represents Singh’s thoughts and don’t necessarily represent the views of Teladoc Health. The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. As AI evolved, so did its applications in telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

He noted that many of the startups are helping providers "reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing basic tasks to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions and supporting well-being and flexible work arrangements."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

” Additionally, VIM has a vibrant mental health program, she added. VIM staff knew continuing to support their patients’ mental health needs would be crucial during this highly stressful time. And there are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Where to Find Healthcare IT Today at HIMSS 2023. You can visit Healthcare IT Today at Booth #2481 on the HIMSS Showroom floor. Headed to Chicago?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. Providers may continue to improve the patient experience and be careful not to create new disparities in the health system through lack of technology access, it added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go. It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. " Margo Brooks, Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

It has nine licensed mental health professionals on staff, all committed to providing thorough delivery of psychiatric care based on the latest research. The practice was an early adopter of telehealth back in 2010, implementing it as a way to care for people unable to attend in-person sessions. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Amid the chaos of the past pandemic year, there have been many valuable lessons for CIOs and health IT leaders willing to learn them. This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. You can read the others here and here.). " Virtualizing care delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Information Exchanges (HIEs) will continue to evolve in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

Drug Enforcement Administration's stance on prescribing via telehealth has been evolving, with hints toward an appetite for lasting flexibilities. This, among other policy shifts, has a direct impact on healthcare provider organizations and telemedicine companies delivering care virtually.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. "We expedited our telehealth offerings. You can read past installments at this special theme portal.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. At HLTH, Healthcare IT Today also asked members of our community what has made for the most effectives use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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