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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Telehealth Telemedicine Psychiatry EHR 139

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"User experience deficiencies highlighted the importance of easy-to-use telemedicine tools as it directly impacted the effectiveness of clinical services," he continued. "Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. MARKETPLACE.

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EHR Telehealth Telemedicine Interoperability 119

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. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Health Information Primary Care 208

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. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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EHR Telehealth HIPAA Nursing 174

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM.

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Primary Care EHR Telemedicine Telehealth 116

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Healthcare IT EHR 163

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

After further discussions and cost analysis, HFHS and GM came to an alternative option to offer an on-site clinic with access to virtual providers, using telehealth technology to facilitate a comprehensive clinical experience. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Telemedicine EHR Telehealth Connected Care 161

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. "I believe telemedicine is here to stay, because I have proof that it works, and remote patient encounters are a viable option for physicians." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Dr. Sujatha Raman, Cary Medical Group.

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EHR Telehealth Remote care Telemedicine 153

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. " Telehealth will continue to grow within the healthcare industry and provide an opportunity for patients to receive care where they need it and how they want it , Bard said.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Healthcare IT EHR 172

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM.

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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Leadership 190

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Wautaga already had three inpatient teams and was looking for a telemedicine company to handle a fourth. Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing Leadership 204

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Nursing 170

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Telehealth Telemedicine Public Health Primary Care 151

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2023

The solution Oak Orchard found was telehealth, which it continues to use today. Telehealth has helped the health system with medical, dental and behavioral health services. "When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. Click here to read the special report.

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Telehealth Mental health Telemedicine Healthcare IT 126

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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Telehealth Primary Care EHR Telemedicine 195

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Telehealth technology opened the doors to new hope that we would survive, and that we would have the ability to serve our patients' needs in a safe and convenient way." With telehealth technology, they could be attended from the comfort of their own home and not risk getting exposed to illness in the lobby.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care HIPAA 143

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. Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Telemedicine Healthcare IT 179

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative.

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Telehealth EHR Telemedicine HIPAA 174

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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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR HIPAA 177

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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Telehealth Telemedicine eCare Primary Care 148

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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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care HIPAA 101

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. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. THE PROBLEM.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience 133

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours." " The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the implementation of telehealth for St. John's started implementing telehealth services.

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Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Healthcare IT 197

AMD Telemedicine

JULY 21, 2022

4 Questions to Ask Before Partnering With a Telemedicine Technology Provider. Telemedicine and telehealth technologies are transforming the way that doctors and patients interact with each other. For nurses specifically, the integration of a new telehealth system needs to be seamless, easy to use, and simple to learn.

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Telemedicine Nursing Telehealth EHR 78

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. 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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Jill Veach, MEBS Counseling.

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Telehealth EHR HIPAA Healthcare IT 207

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustaining quality telehealth programs. "Telehealth will play a pivotal role in the healthcare delivery system. This, along with other technologies, will be used for clinical decision making.

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Telehealth EHR Interoperability Patient Experience 205

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. The most prevalent platforms providers used for telehealth engagement were via Zoom, the EHR provider (with Epic MyChart and Cerner broken out separately), or FaceTime.

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Telehealth EHR Mental health Digital Health 182

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy 198

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And telehealth, which had not played a significant role in patient care previously, was the clear solution.” The team quickly focused established communications channels with community providers – physician pod meetings, newsletters and more – on educating them in the use and reimbursement process for telehealth visits.

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Telehealth EHR Community practice Telemedicine 171

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. Click here to read the special report.

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Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Connected Care 139

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. The health system had been planning to explore the clinical and financial aspects of telemedicine, then deploy the technology where it made sense. There are many telemedicine vendors on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Telehealth Telemedicine EHR Healthcare IT 215

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

The first issue was that it did not have a formal telemedicine solution in place. Second, it did not have sufficient resources to run telemedicine for the entire organization once it procured the necessary software. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Healthcare IT EHR 124

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Ellis Medicine was conducting telehealth only informally by telephone visits. There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Remote care 154

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Patient Experience Telehealth EHR Primary Care 201

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Telehealth EHR Medicare Telemedicine 115

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. " "Telehealth has improved healthcare by evolving into a care delivery model that has the potential to add value to many if not all disciplines of healthcare."

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Telehealth EHR Primary Care Telemedicine 122

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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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EHR Telehealth Telemedicine HIPAA 148