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

MAY 3, 2021

A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. Once the coronavirus surfaced, it had to implement new approaches to patient care to enhance remote patient care. The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems now provide the majority of telehealth across the country. To get a perspective on the situation from a brand-new player, Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare and a primary care physician. Q: Please discuss the strong connection with EHR giant Epic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. The Next Step Forward in Cardiac Care. The EHR Hits Its Stride. Tailor Care to the Older Patient. Virtual Care Goes Mainstream, and. Health care is omni-channel. Cancer Needs a Better Roadmap.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2020

To combat this challenge, McLaren has implemented what it calls its Clinic to Clinic telehealth service in several of these locations, connecting physician specialists from tertiary sites to patients in the rural sites. 24/7 urgent care. " Cheryl Ellegood, McLaren Health Care. ” FCC funding for telehealth expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. The FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt.

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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

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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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 7, 2023

"Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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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. Our initial pilot quickly evolved into four active telehealth services. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened Tuesday to discuss the future of virtual care. Policymakers and stakeholders emphasized the importance of balancing access to care with addressing concerns around fraud and overutilization. Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. "Even simple electronic chart review consultations of in-patients have been found to be beneficial in some contexts.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

Telehealth-EHR-PM integration. The FCC telehealth funding program awarded the clinic $917,255 for mobile hotspots, tablets and laptop computers for providers and patients, telehealth and conferencing equipment. A group of core staff convened to research and vet technology solutions, ultimately deciding on vendor OTTO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. My firm's work with health systems on their digital health and digital transformation programs suggests that while telehealth technologies have matured rapidly in the wake of the pandemic, the implementation of virtual care programs has been a struggle.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As a value-based care organization, it provides population health management for its parent organizations, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Primary care providers saw a more than 50% drop-off in volumes during the second quarter of 2020. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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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. After athenahealth announced the FaceTime integration, Riad began to transition in-person visits in March to telehealth visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, was facing the problem of providing quality patient care in a safe environment while most of its patient base was staying home. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2022

"Patients seen this way showed a variety of symptoms and this method helped decide which cases may be more appropriate for an urgent care setting or perhaps even a referral back to primary care.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

When considering the future of telehealth, it helps to look backward. 2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. So what does the future of telehealth look like? Here are the top seven ways we think 2021 will predict how the future of telehealth will look going forward. In 2022, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2024

MEETING THE CHALLENGE The initial rollout began in primary care practices, targeting patients who met billable chronic diagnosis criteria for remote patient monitoring and/or chronic care management and had visited their primary care provider within the last 12 months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use, value and importance of telehealth and remote patient monitoring services.n Telehealth visits linked to this technology allowed our immediate care clinicians to make accurate diagnoses like otitis media (ear infection) and prescribe the appropriate treatment and plan of action.

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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. "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

JANUARY 24, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Bill Kurtycz, CEO of Hyndman Area Health Center, to discuss cloud technology , cloud EHRs and telehealth, and how the technologies have benefitted the provider organization. Please talk about the problems you faced before telehealth and how telemedicine helped overcome them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The Boston-based MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium was created for Federally Qualified Health Centers to come together to master telehealth so that their patients could access quality care despite the pandemic. Supporting patient-side enablement and access also is a persistent issue for FQHCs seeking to do more telehealth.

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