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. " Dr. Dillon Miller, Blue Ridge Medical Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As providers move toward increasing virtual care options across the care continuum, AI-powered patient triage and medical diagnosis can potentially create proper channels of care that not only bridge the gap in health disparities and promote access but also create a better patient experience and better health outcomes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Thus, systems that offer reliable, asynchronous communication methods and provide relevant education are ideal for cancer patients. This way, patients can report side effects following treatment and ask their care teams if this is something that is to be expected.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. Why do you think this is?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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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 Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. At the height of the pandemic, the use of telehealth reached just 13% of outpatient visits. Improved workflows.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

We interviewed Ben-Aharon to talk about the convergence of speech therapy and telehealth. How is speech therapy delivered via telehealth? The pandemic introduced many people to the convenience of accessing multiple healthcare services via virtual care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A promising trend emerging in health IT for 2024 is the integration of automation tailored for ambient documentation creation. This technology facilitates the capture of clinical documentation during most patient engagements. But it will also mean figuring out how AI can make healthcare more efficient and effective.

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Mend

MAY 5, 2022

Provides a Better Patient Experience. For many patients, attending an in-person doctor’s visit is worrying. Using digital forms provides a better patient experience because: Patients don’t need to write down their full medical history in a few minutes. Facilitates Virtual Visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

Healthcare providers have been steadily increasing their use of telehealth over the past decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for the rapid adoption of this technology, and it’s here to stay. Rapid Adoption of Telehealth Can Lead to Mistakes — Be Aware of Telehealth Challenges and Opportunities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The platform will provide secure, decentralized data capture, document management, study monitoring and electronic consent for the clinical trial, according to the tech company's announcement. Integration with medical devices supports remote data collection, and mobile access to the platform will help Mayo Clinic manage the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions. So analytics must be based on firm research and be documented to show the ties to research.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 In addition, 92 percent of telehealth visits occurred in beneficiaries’ homes, which generally wasn’t permitted before the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

New AI technologies can provide information from large collections of documents with what Rogers calls a “laser focus.” ” Instead of just bringing up a large document from a site such as WebMD, the new AI can summarize the key information answering a question such as, “How do I deal with COPD?”

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SteadyMD

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We also greatly expanded our nationwide network of licensed clinicians, and extended our specialized clinical service offerings to include pediatric tracking to and genetic counseling, so that patients have access to the right type of clinician at the right time.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Once a patient is engaged, the care team can prepare the personalized plan and put in place device monitoring and data collection. Harman Dhawan, founder and CEO of Bikham , says that generative AI can help you generate patient notes and summaries by capturing voice and inputs in a live environment. .”

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

Understanding Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Services Defining RPM RPM services encompass a wide range of technologies and strategies aimed at monitoring patients’ health remotely. These may include wearable devices, mobile apps, telehealth platforms, and remote monitoring software.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Read more… Ensuring Continued Utilization of Telehealth for Outpatient Mental Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Digital health tools can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, while telehealth can make mental health services more accessible , said Dr. Byron Crowe at Solera Health. Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience. Staff shortages could cripple acute care and its 1-to-1 observation model.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. " Telehealth: Now what? One exec says the basic concept of the doc-patient video visit is not enough. " EHRs: Automation can help.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 27, 2023 News AWS offers generative AI documentation through API, medical imaging at scale Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 1, 2022

In this podcast, she talks about taking on the CIO role during “interesting times,” the new bar for patient experience, and how Covid has helped improve agility. For Guthrie, the primary focus in 2022 is in three key areas: patient experience, quality and expanding virtual care. “By Key Takeaways. *

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Comprised on ambient listening technology as well as generative AI, allowing clinicians to minimize their time spent documenting and spend more time with their patients. Leverage monitoring and telehealth technology in the hospital / clinic to allow a more experienced nurse to oversee more of the treatment of patients.

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In Hand Health

APRIL 11, 2019

The case for telehealth. In 2016, 15% of physicians worked in practices that used telehealth, according to a 2018 American Medical Association survey. While health care has been slow to adopt, telehealth has grown by 44% in the last five years. The time-saving benefits of telehealth. Continuing care.

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Xealth

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In my opinion, one of the most exciting things happening in the digital health space is witnessing health systems reimagine their digital presence and focus on the patient experience. We’re seeing health systems realize that they own and produce a lot of content that historically hasn’t had a good way to get to their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto.

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