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 Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. Public health policies. Occupation.

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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. " Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The first would be the platform’s ability to integrate into an electronic health record. TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Integration into the Epic EHR began immediately. MARKETPLACE.

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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 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 million people in Suffolk County, New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Telehealth happens across the U.S. as clinicians do not face issues of State licensure barriers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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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 EHR Hits Its Stride. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19. Data makes health care smarter in 2021, especially for chronic conditions. Health care is omni-channel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

It made getting kids in for needed appointments difficult, especially when they often are for behavioral health issues that need regular follow-up. “I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given recent, widespread state actions to decriminalize the production and use of psilocybin, prescribing psychedelics via telehealth is showing signs of soon becoming a booming telehealth specialization. digital health companies currently being used for prescribing psychedelics via telehealth and 2.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Because of the surge of patients caused by the public health emergency, there is an even greater need to mitigate what the World Medical Association is calling a “pandemic of physician burnout,” with more than half (51%) of physicians reporting frequent or constant feelings of burnout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

In addition to the need for virtual care across the country as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, West Virginia's transportation constraints, as well as provider availability and dispersion, make long-term virtual services a need. " RESULTS. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. 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. during the public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis. Temple also is a critical access point for vital public health services. Each year it serves thousands in its emergency department, inpatient behavioral health unit, labor and delivery unit, and other departments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

Monash Health pilots virtual clinic for blood pressure management. Monash Health, a public health service in Victoria, has piloted its pharmacist-led virtual clinic for managing the blood pressure of patients with chronic diseases. Australia offers telehealth subsidy for COVID-19 antiviral prescription.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. So, naturally, many of them came here to explore their options.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Resneck said the joint findings demand the action outlined in the AMA Recovery Plan for America's Physicians , a roadmap released in June that addresses the needs of doctors with five key goals: Supporting telehealth. Within UCHealth's EHR, providers can now see previously inaccessible data, like lower-cost options.

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American Well

APRIL 24, 2020

We’ve seen telehealth emerge as a strong partner in the struggle, helping to ease the burden on traditional care settings while keeping providers and patients safe by facilitating virtual medical care and treatment. As cases continue to soar, medical professionals are struggling to keep up. Safety and Security. Provider Support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

On the federal level, both the House and Senate have introduced bills to amend the Public Health Services Act last year. " Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, which has earned high marks for patient telehealth services , is piloting a virtual nursing that aids floor nurses in patient care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S. Part of re-building U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

Digital tools such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, data analytics and even consumer-facing AI-based chatbots could play a key role in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 and help people who think they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus – but experts warn that such tools are not a cure-all.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? John Lynn decided to let the dust settle a bit before offering his thoughts on what the Oracle CEO called a “National EHR Database.” Virtual opioid addiction treatment provider Bicycle Health announced $50 million in Series B funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Ensuring Continued Utilization of Telehealth for Outpatient Mental Health. Dr. Michael Levinson at Berger Singerman detailed the importance of efforts to expand interstate licensure given the established popularity of telehealth for providing mental health amid the end of the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

"Our program uses a comprehensive and coordinated approach of clinical operations, EHR integration, mobile technology, best-practices algorithms and population health monitoring to address this key contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality." Enterprise Taxonomy: Global Health Equity Population and Public Health Care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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