Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

In other words, relying on telehealth to manage Type 2 diabetes and hypertension could heighten nurse workloads. The study relied on EHR data from a fairly small number of patients: 36 who used in-home monitoring, and 38 who received what researchers deemed "usual care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

Preferred Behavioral Health Group, based in Lakewood, New Jersey, is a multi-site outpatient behavioral health organization providing adult mental health services, youth and family services, and substance use services. New Jersey at that time did not allow telehealth services for healthcare. " Almost half a million from the FCC.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. The most prevalent platforms providers used for telehealth engagement were via Zoom, the EHR provider (with Epic MyChart and Cerner broken out separately), or FaceTime.

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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 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems now provide the majority of telehealth across the country. KeyCare is a virtual-first care platform built with Epic EHR and other technologies. Q: Please describe KeyCare, who uses it and what it enables through telehealth. How is that coming along? It's gone very well.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

But the pandemic strapped a rocket to the provider organization's telehealth plans. "Thankfully, the electronic health record companies and our other vendors adapted rapidly, so we got telemedicine up and running through our EHR," said Cory Harris, COO at Christ Health Center. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

My firm's work with health systems on their digital health and digital transformation programs suggests that while telehealth technologies have matured rapidly in the wake of the pandemic, the implementation of virtual care programs has been a struggle. But telehealth is much more. Who is my telehealth consumer?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. The FollowMyHealth Telehealth technology from Allscripts provided exactly what the health system was looking for, said Lori Miller, Chief of Information Services at Grand Lake Health System. The FollowMyHealth Telehealth system met the needs of GLHS.

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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

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. Our initial pilot quickly evolved into four active telehealth services. What are your plans for Zoom and telehealth this year and beyond?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

In New York City, the institute is at the forefront of serving low-income patients and other disadvantaged groups. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day. Within a few days, however, the HIT team coordinated an initial telehealth implementation leveraging doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

A group of core staff convened to research and vet technology solutions, ultimately deciding on vendor OTTO. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As the virtual care horizon expanded, he explored some of the telehealth systems. PROPOSAL His initial plunge into telemedicine was improvising using conventional video conferencing tools for medical consultations. "Beyond mere consultations, the vision of these systems broadened to encompass a digital ecosystem," Tytus said.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2020

weeks I’ve been going through a long list of telehealth companies. I’ll be publishing the list shortly in multiple segments, but there are groups of telehealth vendors that are coming together. Over the past 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

"Due to the rurality of Maine, the solution needed to be able to operate well in low-bandwidth areas," said Patty VonIderstine, IT director client services and telehealth at MaineHealth. The telemedicine technology MaineHealth selected has been used in the inpatient and outpatient settings. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Federal Communications Commission awarded the Johns Hopkins Health System $1,000,000 for a remote intensive care unit, a medical kiosk, tablets and other connected devices, cameras, and other telehealth equipment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

"Our primary goal with this tool is enabling broader surveillance with patients using the technology to remotely identify patients who need targeted behavioral care in the moment, without requiring traditional face-to-face visits and/or telehealth visits if determined clinically appropriate by the patient's care team," Feen said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Dr. Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Chief Medical Officer at BrainCheck.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. million people in Suffolk County, New York. The opportunities telemedicine provides.

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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. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs.

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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. So the group practice turned to artificial intelligence and voice technology from health IT vendor Andor Health. THE PROBLEM. Implementation was an expedited process; it took less than two weeks. ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2020

EHR system. These cases are then monitored using telehealth tools from tertiary care hospitals. The long-term outlook of telehealth in South Korea. One question posed by the participants of the webinar was regarding the permanence of government approved telehealth services in the country, especially post COVID-19.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

DrChrono says its integrated EHR, practice management, revenue cycle management, payment acceptance, telehealth and medical billing services are currently in use at 4,600 independent practices and 13,000 providers across medical specialties. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen. Access the leadership of your regional federally funded Telehealth Resource Center.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Teams electronic health record connector, which will allow clinicians and patients to launch a telehealth visit or virtual consult directly from their EHR system. Epic will be the first EHR system to integrate with Teams in this way. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. When telehealth is not up to par. "Our EHR platforms are utilitarian and are what they are.

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