Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This virtual care is delivered through an integrated video platform through the organization’s Epic EHR. Further, with new infectious risks and with limitations of personal protective equipment, there were new needs around video and remote monitoring of patients admitted in the hospital. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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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. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The health system needed a simple, easy and cost-effective way to implement video monitoring for those rooms. Geisinger already was using a telehealth ICU system from vendor Caregility and in-room AV equipment in its ICUs. “The bedside nursing and provider staff appreciate the additional support from the eICU staff.”

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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. ” Most clinical locations were not equipped to conduct private, effective video visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

But the pandemic strapped a rocket to the provider organization's telehealth plans. "Thankfully, the electronic health record companies and our other vendors adapted rapidly, so we got telemedicine up and running through our EHR," said Cory Harris, COO at Christ Health Center. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System.

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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. So, telehealth helps us extend services." "Our behavioral health team continues to use telehealth services post-pandemic," Kinter said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. ” "For these more complex visits to be successful, CIOs must also prioritize telehealth that is equipped to maintain rules of engagement for both patients and physicians. " Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Amwell.

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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

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

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

APRIL 25, 2023

" Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It sampled a variety of different services and ultimately selected Zoom Healthcare as its video visit software. “This vendor also provided great options for e-visits that included video and voice or voice-only,” she added. MARKETPLACE.

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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. " Penn State Health has identified three ways in which telehealth can be used to benefit patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

However, once the pandemic started, the rules and demand for care changed in a way that let us quickly deploy telehealth services. "The regulations started to quickly change, and on March 20, 2020, Ohio released an emergency telehealth rule," McGlade recalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Basic capabilities include: Secure, mobile communications capabilities, including synchronous audio/video and asynchronous messaging. Patient registration and cohorting system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic already had remote access capability to the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Telehealth plans quickly changed. "What we thought would take months took us days, and we leveraged the capability of our Epic EHR to stand up on-demand and scheduled video visits using Zoom for Healthcare and our own providers. • More than $8 million in video visit revenue. A major FCC telehealth grant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. But there's no question that technology could do better helping solve the problem.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 23, 2020

Telehealth can reduce the amount of time nurses and other care providers need to spend with their patients, so they have more time to complete their rounds. Companies and facilities looking to fill empty positions should learn more about the benefits of telehealth and how it can reduce staffing shortages.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

"Even though telephone calls have been a part of my medical practice for quite some time, the introduction of video conferencing offered a subtle way to integrate exposure therapy with their treatment," he explained. As the virtual care horizon expanded, he explored some of the telehealth systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. When telehealth is not up to par. "Our EHR platforms are utilitarian and are what they are.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

"On the ambulatory front, we had created a solution for home telehealth visits, had a robust tele-stroke and mobile-stroke program, and offered a small virtual specialty outreach program," said Kathy Deanda, senior director of virtual health at UCHealth. The charge became to expand it quickly.

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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. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago. Zoom had already been a telehealth partner to many healthcare systems and organizations before COVID-19.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2023

News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.”

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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. "Cerner, our EHR vendor, helped us with the process," he continued. Staffing new departments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

"The technology in the kit also allows patients to provide instant feedback on how they feel, communication with their treatment team via text, phone call or video call, serving as a lifeline in the home," he continued. in Room W307A at HIMSS24 in Orlando.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. National Association of Letter Carriers.

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