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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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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Wright Center codevelops a telehealth-EHR combo to expand care options

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. So that model does not work, because that is really just remote patient care. It's not true telemedicine."

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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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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. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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Telemedicine didn't work well for this provider – here's why

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. We have a single EHR. Q: You said that your patients have not really embraced telehealth, which surprised you.