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

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. As researchers noted in the study, clinicians in the United States already have a greater EHR burden than those outside the country , potentially (but not always ) contributing to burnout. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND In August, Cerner added Suki's ambient voice technology to complete documentation with bidirectional sync and in September partnered with MEDITECH to integrate Suki Assistant into the company's Expanse EHR. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2022

The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. THE LARGER TREND. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems. " The future build may include direct messaging from the RPM systems to the EHR," they wrote. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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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." THE LARGER TREND. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed a tool aimed at automatically identifying patients likely to need telehealth technical assistance. In response, the Johns Hopkins team developed what they called an automated "video visit technical risk score" tool in their Epic EHR. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. Dr. Neil C.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2024

Exec Summary: The Digital Musculoskeletal (MSK) market is attracting growing investment in 2024, driven by several key trends: 1. While telehealth boomed during the pandemic, there's a shift towards hybrid models that seamlessly blend virtual consultations with in-person care when needed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. THE LARGER TREND. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

Farr runs the addiction practice and is cofounder of Atadas, a telehealth medication monitoring technology company. "Our software developers then furiously went to work to create this innovative platform and to interface with EHRs." "Additionally, this technology is different from an EHR," Farr noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The tool enables clinicians to see an array of digital therapeutics and apps in the Cerner EHR, assess their cost and clinical value, and prescribe them for patients from within their workflows. THE LARGER TREND. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " ON THE RECORD. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The key trends that are expected to shape the market in 2023 include: Increased focus on digital health: Healthcare companies are increasingly looking to acquire digital health businesses in order to improve their offerings and stay ahead of the competition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

The new RFDS William Creek Community Health Service in the outback tourism town of William Creek in South Australia features a 24/7 virtual emergency centre with a telehealth unit that members of the community and tourists can access to connect with on-call RFDS doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. Some see that trend continuing even after the pandemic has eventually subsided. As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., "Anything else is just pivoting in a chair."

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Exec Summary: Tech-enabled healthcare is the use of technology to improve the delivery of healthcare services. This can include a wide range of technologies, such as: Telehealth: Telehealth allows patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely, using video conferencing or other technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

"Throughout the pandemic, we’ve seen a significantly increased desire from both consumers and healthcare providers for virtual health solutions and rapid innovation and adoption of existing products," said Mitchell Clark, president of Cerner CommunityWorks, in a statement. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

It's no secret, at this point, that telehealth rates exploded in response to the COVID-19 crisis. But a KLAS report published this week found that, while some telehealth technology vendors rose to the occasion, others have struggled to deliver. THE LARGER TREND. "COVID-19 revealed telehealth to be a sleeping giant.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

" The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 " The expansion of VA's existing telehealth capabilities – it delivered more than 2.5 THE LARGER TREND. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. The VA currently manages 1,800 ICU beds nationwide.

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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 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 LARGER TREND. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report, The Intersection of Value and Telehealth , surveyed nearly 100 qualified representatives about their organization's prioritization and adoption of telemedicine. The report sought to identify trends in virtual care utilization amidst the recent months of the COVID-19 pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Amwell will also deliver other automated care programs, such as behavioral health offerings and integrated core telehealth tools. THE LARGER TREND The DHA's Digital First initiative brings new capabilities and enablement to MHS GENESIS, the military's advanced electronic health record. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs to use distributed tablet devices to provide telehealth benefits to patients is working. “Telehealth technology remains a vital platform to provide high-quality healthcare to all veterans, regardless of challenges they may face in accessing care,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2023

THE LARGER TREND Healthcare IT News has been interviewing CIOs about their longer-term investment priorities for the next few years, in areas such as artificial intelligence , interoperability , telehealth and RPM , cybersecurity , EHR optimization , precision medicine, emerging technologies and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The announcement represents an extension of the current partnership between the two health systems and could lead to further telehealth expansion opportunities at Rush facilities, as well as digital health offerings to help manage chronic diseases. THE LARGER TREND. Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Through the new partnership, providers’ existing scheduling software integrates with Zocdoc, automatically adding appointments booked online to providers' schedules in their Elation EHRs, according to today's announcement. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Verizon are teaming up to offer Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications giant unlimited access to department's VA Video Connect telehealth app. THE LARGER TREND. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S.

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