Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"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. Centura Health was awarded just over $997,000 in grant funds from the FCC for telemedicine. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. "For the majority of Covenant Health's virtual care service lines, this virtual care technology is embedded directly into the EHR workflow. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" " The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added.

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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

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. The ROI favored moving to the cloud.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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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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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. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

eVisit purchases Bluestream Health's telehealth eVisit announced it has acquired Bluestream Health to add digital front doors and other tools to its telemedicine platform. Verisma HITRUST certified technology integrates with existing electronic health records and ScanSTAT offers HIPAA-compliant partnerships with many EHR systems.

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Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

Virtual medical and mental health professionals are prioritizing patient satisfaction with Telemedicine more than ever before. A high satisfaction rating can drive more patients to your practice. But how do you improve patient satisfaction in Telemedicine? What Exactly is Patient Satisfaction?

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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

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

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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " MARKETPLACE. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity.

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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." The platform and the training staff provided gave the hospital the agility to rapidly meet patients' changing needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Physicians faced difficulty accessing lab results and other electronic health record content while on the call with the patient, which resulted in further delays. ” "One example is dictation, saving our providers 8-10 minutes per patient that would have otherwise been spent writing progress notes on patient visits."

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

If you don’t understand the needs of your customer, whoever that might be, then you can’t meet those needs. With their understanding of both clinical needs and technology, they can more easily implement technology to positively impact clinicians’ time and effort and better inform the patient experience.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools. But there's no question that technology could do better helping solve the problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Some potential future applications of RPA in healthcare include: Telemedicine: RPA can be used to support telemedicine services by automating tasks such as patient scheduling, screening, and triage. This can help to make telemedicine more accessible and efficient.

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Health System CIO

JULY 7, 2020

In the behavioral health space, where the no-show rate for visitors has long been a challenge, telemedicine offers a level of convenience that could be a game-changer, says CIO Kevin Wiese. When you have timelines in place and milestones to meet, as CIOs always do, the last thing you want is to delay them.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The water is muddy, according to the report, because few vendors distinguish between telemedicine – a replacement for an in-person appointment – and virtual care – a broader set of services. ONC published a blog post highlighting how to meet the 2015 Edition Cures Update requirements for ONC certification.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

While this new frontier of telehealth opens up great opportunity for innovation, better patient care, and streamlined clinical operations, it also brings challenges in security and scalability. How can your healthcare organization scale to meet the demands of patients today, while best preparing for what’s next?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Staff simply were not getting the results they needed to address patients' needs in a crisis situation, where immediate access to healthcare can make a difference between life and death. Thomas Community Health Center turned to telemedicine technology vendor Sano Health to tackle the challenge. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When you simplify your staff’s experience, you simultaneously optimize your patients’ experience. For example, take patient engagement. For AI-software to be effective, it must integrate with your practice management and electronic health record (EHR) systems. Integrate AI-Automation with Existing Systems.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Experience for patients, families and caregivers (such as net promoter scores patients give providers, patient activation measure (PAM) index, or HCAHPS). throughput rates). Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Focus on meeting care improvement and cost-efficiency goals to provide an enhanced patient experience while inspiring better healthcare. With Quanum Enterprise Content Solutions, healthcare organizations can feel confident in the security, accessibility, and interoperability of your invaluable patient data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. " PROPOSAL In 2019, Horizon had deployed telemedicine technology from vendor Amwell. Then COVID-19 hit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. County, the health center reasoned that rolling out telemedicine, and thereby reducing foot traffic to the clinics, was the only way that it could safely continue to treat patients with non-acute needs.

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