Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. " PROPOSAL In January 2023, Memorial began working with KeyCare, an Epic-based virtual care company (Memorial uses Epic for its EHR).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider. The experience was often frustrating. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" Most, if not all, patients with chronic GI conditions benefit from these conservative yet proven interventions, he added. "Frequent touchpoints with a registered dietitian or a GI psychologist are easier to deliver via telehealth , much to patients' convenience," Pavlou noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

“We developed a short list of telehealth solutions that could support the full spectrum of our needs – ambulatory, inpatient and direct-to-consumer,” said Jon Witenko, system director, virtual health and telemedicine, at Lee Health. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Pre-pandemic, we had occasional telemedicine visits that we arranged manually via Google Meet," Merok recalled. "Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “Additionally, leveraging your EHR partner and solution can provide unexpected, helpful resources for any practice,” she concluded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. " Additionally, CareTeam places a heavy focus on addressing patients' whole health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was watching the telehealth industry expand to meet the demand for patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM.

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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. " Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki explored how UPMC is using Xealth with its Epic EHR platform.

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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. We quickly saw value in Zoom’s flexibility and inherent familiarity for many users, both staff and patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The EHR Hits Its Stride. Tailor Care to the Older Patient. health consumers place in pharmacists, they can play an important role in building back patients’ trust in vaccines and the vaccination process. Telehealth helped to get necessary therapy and counsel to many health citizens who never accessed such services before.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2023

Hyndman Area Health Center – a holistic Pennsylvania-based health center providing family medicine, dental health, behavioral health and more – transitioned from client-hosted servers to eClinicalWorks cloud-based servers to expand its network capacity and meet a rising data demand.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

A great telehealth program is true to the core values of the healing arts. The rise of computing has brought video meetings from the boardroom to the living room. With telehealth programs, health systems have a unique opportunity to make quality remote medical care accessible to all. What are the benefits of telehealth?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions. Practices should ensure that their EHR has a fully integrated patient portal that will allow patients to manage their care in a secure and HIPAA-compliant way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

MaineHealth wanted telemedicine technology that could easily integrate into its care models and that would be highly accessible for patients to use. "Choosing a solution that was easy to use for both patients and care teams was a high priority so as not to exacerbate digital access and digital literacy barriers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

You provide excellent medical care and deliver a high-quality patient experience. But you lost revenue, and patients fell behind on their regular care routines. So what are some creative ways to increase patient volume using telehealth programs? Today, patients need to feel your telehealth program is: • Secure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Consequently, the group felt healthcare delivery was moving away from the physician’s office and into the patient’s home, with services like routine check-ups via telehealth and remote patient monitoring. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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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. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. ” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Telehealth happens across the U.S. as clinicians do not face issues of State licensure barriers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. THE PROBLEM. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

While there is quite a bit that can be gleaned by a video visit with observation and asking the patient to perform particular tests, the Baptist team was looking for a technology that would provide more. "A clinician could remotely listen to the heart and lung sounds of a patient or look into their ears," Oliver explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. By centralizing access to specialty care, consults and outpatient appointments, Temple has seen an increase in appointment adherence and overall patient experience, Cancilla reported. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The health center tried to use its existing telehealth platform, doxy.me, to reach patients. Staff realized that many of their patients had little or no Internet access and also lacked experience using mobile technology. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. "This was an iterative process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. application and one for the Epic EHR. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Xealth

MAY 2, 2024

Discover strategic approaches for leveraging your existing digital health investments to create more engaging and effective patient experiences for all involved. Electronic Health Records (EHR) streamline the management of patient data. Electronic Health Records (EHR) streamline the management of patient data.

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