Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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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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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. UHC’s research has revealed the bullish demand side among consumers seeking greater convenience, control, empowerment, and access for health care services.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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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. With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing.

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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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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. Those themes are, The Year of the Pharmacist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

” Initially, the other clinicians in Libby’s group practice were reluctant to use telemedicine, feeling that the personal and hands-on quality might be lost, something that is ingrained in the work values of most doctors. “Additionally, if necessary, there are ways to make referrals and connect with our EHR,” he added.

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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. McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable , John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… Why Greenway Is Emphasizing EHR Optimization.

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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

APRIL 30, 2020

Mild patients were admitted to the community recovery center and treated through telemedicine, and only patients with moderate levels or higher were treated in the hospital. (2) How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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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. The first would be the platform’s ability to integrate into an electronic health record. Integration into the Epic EHR began immediately.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The VA has been putting major emphasis and investing big resources on its telemedicine and virtual care offerings in recent years, and embarking on many private-sector partnerships. The technology also allows me to stay connected with my doctors when I am not near a Wi-Fi connection or near the VA medical center."

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. during the public health crisis. The Atlantic offered this take this week].

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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

JUNE 7, 2021

"The COVID-19 public health emergency flexibilities and waivers, including expanded reimbursement, were pivotal facilitators that led to the rapid scaling of virtual care services and allowed patients and providers to truly explore and adopt virtual care," she said. Meaningful data, measured and analyzed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

After receiving more than 38,000 public comments, the Drug Enforcement Administration is extending the telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications beyond the end of the public health emergency on May 11. EHR and RCM vendor for therapy and rehab practices Raintree released Raintree Payments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Based on Ryan Health's efforts to deliver care as safely as possible and the changes in telehealth reimbursement, the organization's IT department started to explore the available telehealth platforms. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 8, 2021

Many providers have recognized their blindness to an opportunity right in front of them – to carry their telemedicine application beyond simple video calls and into the terrain of treating chronic, infectious and acute disease. For these patients, telemedicine is a lifeline to receiving medical expertise in their community.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Staff members, clinicians, and administrative staff can access patient health information and social circumstances while observing the patient from all angles to arrange appropriate treatment while empowering front-line support teams to communicate with and provide an excellent experience for patients. Virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

River Valley needed to quickly implement expanded services in order to continue to care for the mental and physical health needs of each of its nearly 17,000 patients. So River Valley decided to move to telemedicine via InSight + Regroup, a tele-psychiatry technology and services vendor. ” MARKETPLACE. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As we've shown this month, there's been progress on unlocking data from EHRs , but still much work to be to be done with information sharing on a community level , even as a wide variety of interoperability groups throw their weight behind an array of different efforts.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

The team points to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which maintains a list of organizations providing such training and acts as a clearinghouse for such resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to combat the coronavirus crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Insurance coverage seems to be creating disparities in where children receive mental health care, as children covered by Medicaid are twice as likely to go to the ED while those covered by commercial insurance are more likely to be admitted for inpatient services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. The opportunities telemedicine provides. Dr. Gerald J. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

The healthcare worker burnout crisis in this country began before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the public health emergency made the situation even worse as frontline health workers risked their lives to service others. It’s estimated that the U.S. Emergency rooms throughout the U.S. are overwhelmed by long wait times.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

Consumer experiences (CX) were not uniformly terrific, especially with an increasingly anxious patient dealing with a stressed provider system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. Products AVIA launched AVIA Marketplace , a platform connecting hospitals and health systems to curated digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Garfield Health Center, based in Monterey Park, California, did not have a telemedicine program in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather, a single application programming interface connection would integrate OTTO with our EHR, practice management and patient portal, creating a streamlined user experience,” Yu explained.

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