Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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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. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. And was the EHR created with your experience in mind?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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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. " Dr. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama, was headed for telemedicine. But the pandemic strapped a rocket to the provider organization's telehealth plans. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech. We started doing COVID-19, flu and strep testing through telemedicine.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 11, 2023

AMD Global Telemedicine and Collain Healthcare Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Healthcare Delivery in Senior Living Facilities Chelmsford, MA – July 11, 2023 – AMD Global Telemedicine Inc. Integrating automated vitals collection with the EHR is the first phase of the partnership.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A Buyer’s Guide to Telemedicine Platforms: Key Considerations to Help Optimize Clinical and Financial Outcomes. The pandemic may have changed healthcare, but it’s telehealth technology that will continue moving the sector into the digital realm. Telehealth integration is no different. How does it work?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Rush Health Systems and Ochsner Health System are partnering to bring innovations in telemedicine to patients. In addition to gaining access to Ochsner’s telemedicine capabilities, Rush’s hospitals and primary care clinics also will be able to tap into Ochsner’s billing practices and other support services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"We had to deploy not only new beds, nurse call systems, oxygen lines and infection control solutions, we also had to prepare for staffing the new departments," said Dr. Kevin Dawson, CIO at Howard University Hospital. "Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

We were one of those organizations that flipped over to telemedicine pretty seamlessly. We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. We were doing about 250 daily consumer facing telemedicine visits pre-pandemic. million telemedicine visit for ambulatory care last year.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The platform integrates with Epic, allowing staff to launch virtual visits within the native electronic health record (EHR) environment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

TytoCare, maker of an all-in-one modular device and platform for AI-powered telehealth, has expanded its integration within EHR giant Epic's MyChart, enabling what the virtual care vendor describes as frictionless, asynchronous workflow. TytoCare is using APIs to post patient vitals directly into a patient's EHR.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

Southcoast Health System, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has employed a multi-pronged approach to solving different issues through telemedicine. "There were automations built within our existing Microsoft Teams platform that allowed for seamless tele-triage screenings to be initiated by triage nurses in our ED," he continued.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. of total ambulatory care.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Geisinger already was using a telehealth ICU system from vendor Caregility and in-room AV equipment in its ICUs. In the case of the step-down units, Geisinger wanted to be able to connect that staff to its eICU nurses and physicians for added support. " Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE. ” RESULTS.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

I want to ‘do telemedicine’: What is involved, and how much does it cost? The use of telemedicine is at an all-time high, with 85% of doctors using telehealth to connect with patients. The specific medical devices you need may vary depending on the specialties you plan to service with telemedicine.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. Valley Health could have tried to keep riding out the intensivist shortage by hiring locums, which is very expensive.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

News and Research The American Telemedicine Association’s ATA Action submitted two letters to the Drug Enforcement Administration about its proposed rules regarding the remote prescribing of controlled substances. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

When Penn State Health began to explore the benefits of telehealth, telemedicine vendor American Well stood out for a variety of reasons, Simmons said. "First, its platform worked well with our existing EHR," he said. Considering the challenges of ALS care, we decided a tele-ALS program made sense."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

At HIMSS20, prominent telemedicine technology vendor American Well will preview its new home TV system, dubbed CarePort, which will be commercially available at a date yet to be announced. "One of the biggest opportunities for telehealth is to make a significant impact in the later stages of life," Schoenberg stated.

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