GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telehealth is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. Yet for some clinicians, telehealth is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started and become a telehealth provider. Here are 8 steps to becoming a telehealth provider.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. " A change in New York State and Medicare reimbursement along with receipt of the $753,367 FCC grant infused working capital on top of Sun River Health's investment in telemedicine.

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TheraNest

MARCH 6, 2020

There is a solution that allows your clients to keep their therapy sessions with you while staying in the comfort of their homes: telehealth! . Telehealth is your greatest weapon to combat the cash flow impacts of sickness-related missed appointments. TheraNest’s Telehealth Solution. Meet Your Clients Where They’re At.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption. It may also have been that complaining wouldn’t help. Private pay consults for patients without insurance will cost $35.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. Recently the FCC announced grant funding for expanded broadband access specifically for telehealth. Successful telehealth programs require three components: Consistent, reliable broadband service. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. Patients experienced a lack of resources in the areas of having data coverage for video transmission and living in rural areas where there was not a significant signal, which affected how e-consents would be signed.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

At American Well, we recognize that telehealth is a new or budding concept for a lot of people in a lot of different industries. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

At American Well, we recognize that telehealth is a new or budding concept for a lot of people in a lot of different industries. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

JANUARY 9, 2019

In the healthcare industry, telehealth was once thought of as futuristic. Approximately 89 percent of healthcare leaders expect telehealth to transform U.S. This is especially true for millennials, 60 percent of whom say they support the use of telehealth to replace in-office physician visits. Government in Action.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 24, 2024

These may include the review and interpretation of monitored data, communication with the patient or caregiver via phone, secure messaging, or video conferencing, and the adjustment of treatment plans based on the patient’s health status.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Many still think of virtual solutions as limited to symptoms-based video exams. While simple video calls can handle a range of issues quickly and efficiently, you don’t have to diagnose patients based only on reported symptoms. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Look for features like electronic health records (EHR) integration, scheduling capabilities, secure messaging, appointment reminders, and patient engagement tools. Telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) can be practical tools in helping to monitor patient health data and improve health outcomes. Read on to learn how.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

For those new to this feature, we share the telehealth industry’s hottest news, events, legislation, insight and more. Avizia Launches Integrated Telehealth Platform. Top 10 Issues Telehealth Providers Should Keep In Mind. Rapid Growth of Telehealth Investment Activity. Telehealth and New Payment Approaches.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year temporarily lifted restrictions on the technology that could be used during the pandemic. “This solution was a good start and allowed for our doctors to deliver the beginnings of telehealth at Maple Knoll. So there were many options to choose from.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In addition, a system that employs both telehealth/RPM and PERS provides clinicians with reliable electronically captured patient-generated health data (PGHD). While telehealth is often considered to be an equal experience to in-person care, the fact is that data gathered in clinics is often missing from telehealth encounters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Two hundred miles away, a specialist will consult with them via video, but only because none such specialists were available to them in their area. After all, it was convenient and cost-effective for these physicians to perform video visits with at-home patients. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

This can integrate with Epic's EHR. Enable providers to schedule video visits. With the new version, Vivify's remote care platform is significantly more interoperable with EHRs, medical devices and other systems, the company said. Since RPM is not considered a telehealth service, it did not face those restrictions.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that telehealth technologies are on the rise. Telehealth is being adopted by major health systems, health plans and employers in order to deliver more immediate access to care that can also reduce overall costs to the organization and the people or patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

Rapidly prototyping telehealth. For Cherry of Lexington Medical Center, the lessons he and his team learned when rapidly prototyping their telehealth solution were very important. "That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. Christopher J.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that telehealth technologies are on the rise. Telehealth is being adopted by major health systems, health plans and employers in order to deliver more immediate access to care that can also reduce overall costs to the organization and the people or patients they serve.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. Since launch, the health plan has seen nearly 17X growth in telehealth registrations and 16X growth in visits. Indiana University Health. Gundersen Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Then, patient communication was happening over the phone and through video and staff knew these modes were not the fastest and most convenient for patients to access care. "A couple years before the pandemic, we were transitioning to virtual care at a time when few health systems were serious about telehealth," he recalled.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2015

From difficulties implanting new HER systems to the re-evaluation of Medicare reimbursements, rural hospitals are looking for new ways to stay afloat. Implementing EHR and Cloud Computing. Implementing EHR (electronic health records) systems has been on the rural hospital horizon for some time. Turning to Telehealth.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It only makes sense for healthcare practices—both big and small—to leverage the potential that telehealth solutions offer before the competition becomes too much. One way to easily manage all of this is finding a telehealth platform like Mend that assists with or completely handles establishing protocols and staff training.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Personal value-based care will continue to grow in 2024 and it will be critical for healthcare providers to create digital access to support in-person and telehealth visits in order to maximize outcomes for both healthcare organizations and patients while driving consistent operational efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

After the coronavirus began spreading in the United States this past spring, telehealth patient rates shot up in response, with some health systems reporting a whopping 4,000% increase in appointment numbers for virtual care. Rittenhouse believes the fee-for-service model is not especially well designed for primary care and telehealth.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The mess and the noise are on screens, visible in the hospital rooms the staffers peer into by video—in intensive care units far away, where patients are struggling for their lives, or in the bedrooms of homebound patients, whose often-tenuous existence they track with wireless devices. Racing the Symptoms. You go home every day exhausted.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Employees also have access to Northwell’s myWellness platform, which has video coaching, nutrition guidance and weight management programs. All employees have access to free affinity and support groups as well as fitness facilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR. With Medicare Advantage set to exceed a 50% share of Medicare coverage markets, generative AI will play a crucial role for payers. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age.

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