Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

"They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News has published a special report detailing many of the vendors and their offerings. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

" If anything, telehealth saves time and money by eliminating transportation – not to mention the convenience that comes with telemedicine, he added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

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

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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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. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"It's no secret the pandemic created new challenges for the healthcare industry, and our providers altered their day-to-day routines to fit COVID-19 requirements," said Jennifer Gruger, telehealth project manager at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

“The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. “The LANES technology extracts, aggregates, normalizes and categorizes relevant medical record data collected from different EHR systems such as eClinicalWorks, Cerner and Epic, to name a few,” Aguilar explained. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. million in the third quarter of 2022 – not unlike other healthcare systems in metropolitan Milwaukee and nationwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. ” This opportunity allowed Temple to be flexible in the modality of telemedicine visits in multiple settings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform.”

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic already had remote access capability to the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Once TriHealth made the decision to research telemedicine platforms, from its point of view there were three major components needed for any platform to be seriously considered. TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2020

A few months ago, we dipped into the various COVID-19 searches that were being done to find Healthcare IT Today and offered answers and commentary on what people were searching. We thought it would be fun to dip into the search engine traffic for another edition of Search Engine Q&A. Remember that these are searches […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

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. "Another draw toward this telehealth solution was its HIPAA compliance," she added. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

"Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR. The Doximity platform met the organization's requirements, was available at no cost and was HIPAA-compliant. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke? An immediate effort was required to change all of our physician practices over to telemedicine visits right away. So much is changing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Army Medical Research and Development Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. HIPAA Compliant.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

Digital transformation in healthcare is reshaping how we interact with health professionals, how data is shared among providers, and how decisions are made about treatment plans and health outcomes. However, with large quantities of data, few healthcare organizations are leveraging digital transformation to its full potential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022." For that reason, MCHS launched with a HIPAA/HITECH-compliant platform it already had in place, WebEx. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. That limitation has been corrected at Amwell."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

As for telehealth, there are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus. The provider organization uses Lifesize as the video conferencing equipment for its telemedicine services. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The platform integrates with Epic, allowing staff to launch virtual visits within the native electronic health record (EHR) environment. The virtual nursing program is the latest step in a series of digital health innovation programs at Mary Washington Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. Defending against these attacks must be a top priority for healthcare cybersecurity professionals. In 2024, the attack surface will continue to grow.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The popularity of telemedicine solutions surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling remote patient consultations and monitoring. Healthcare analytics tools, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, extract valuable insights from extensive healthcare data, supporting clinical decisions and improving patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. Nor was it HIPAA-compliant, a major concern. Progressive Therapeutics found vendor Azalea Health, which offered a proposal for an EHR solution that came fully integrated with telehealth. " PROPOSAL.

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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. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. From that point forward, all health systems will need to have a HIPAA-compliant solution at the ready.

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