Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

New research conducted by Healthcare IT Today suggests that the top barriers to wider, more stable adoption of telehealth may be patient and doctor discomfort with the technology. While telehealth technology companies have worked to make such systems simple enough for everyone to use, it seems like there’s still work to do.

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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

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. NYU Langone Health launched its telehealth initiative more than two years ago, but study co-author Dr. Paul Testa told Healthcare IT News that patient use skyrocketed in March.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A 2022 survey found that the top reason nurses are leaving their jobs is burnout, and about 33% of those surveyed said they planned to leave by the end of the year. Despite these benefits, many healthcare workers are hesitant about buying into the technology because of previous negative experiences, such as messy EHR implementations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A new report from KLAS and the Center for Connected Medicine found that a majority of organizations surveyed were conducting less than 20% of their visits virtually in May and June of this year. In fact, 41% of the organizations surveyed reported conducting less than 10% of their appointments that way. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S. First, HiMS’s AXiOM EHR software needed to be updated with the latest HCPCS codes for certain COVID-19 diagnostic tests, as well as CPT codes for testing purposes. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

“We knew at a minimum we needed to: 1) Reduce friction in the onboarding experience; 2) Make care more accessible and consumable so that members can more easily engage with their counselor and in their group sessions; and 3) Build a direct integration with our EHR in order to reduce the administrative burden on our clinicians,” she said.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care. "The speed of the wildfires left no time for evaluating commercial telehealth platforms," Nicewicz said. Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This information compelled me to return to the previous responses to this question in Rock Health’s surveys starting back in the 2015 study into digital health consumer adoption. And, as Cerner announced its collaboration with Uber Health this week, we see a health IT company expanding beyond what an EHR could be. with Apple.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"While telehealth has evolved and scaled significantly during the pandemic, continued work is needed to ensure health equity and to bridge digital divides for future paradigms of care," observed Dr. Saima Aftab, vice president of organizational initiatives at Nicklaus Children's Health System in Miami.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Surveys and Research Nearly 30% of telehealth visits result in an in-person follow-up within three weeks, and nearly half of patients who used telehealth only did it once, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report on trends shaping the healthcare economy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs to use distributed tablet devices to provide telehealth benefits to patients is working. “Telehealth technology remains a vital platform to provide high-quality healthcare to all veterans, regardless of challenges they may face in accessing care,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative. The stressor with the most significant drop was too much time spent on bureaucratic tasks – from 48% to 42%.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The announcement represents an extension of the current partnership between the two health systems and could lead to further telehealth expansion opportunities at Rush facilities, as well as digital health offerings to help manage chronic diseases. However, the results of a July survey conducted by J.D. ON THE RECORD.

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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. People Community health EHR maker CPSI announced Vinay Bassi as Chief Financial Officer , effective Jan.

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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 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. “If a patient is seen at a facility with a different EHR system, the care team is still notified – this is one of the prominent features of the technology.” THE PROBLEM. ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more.

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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. Cloud-based information storage, including the ability for later offloading to EHRs, HIEs and other systems. Survey and consent tools. HIPAA Compliant.

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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. with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. "Sun River also sought to align the use of Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Growing Number of EHR Cloud Migration Projects – CereCore Peyman Zand, Chief Strategy Officer at CereCore shared his perspective on the latest EHR trends. Although there continues to be a lot of effort being put to EHR optimization projects, he is seeing a growing number of EHR cloud migration projects.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies. The vendor conducted the research in late March.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2020

A new KLAS report found that organizations have turned to a wide range of vendors – most frequently those providing telehealth technology – to help provide care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. KLAS surveyed nearly 200 healthcare leaders in April and May about tools they're relying on during the coronavirus crisis.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

After further discussions and cost analysis, HFHS and GM came to an alternative option to offer an on-site clinic with access to virtual providers, using telehealth technology to facilitate a comprehensive clinical experience. The quarter's patient satisfaction survey responses were high. To read the special report, click here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMSS Annual Conference. Power consumer survey on pharmacy satisfaction. Health Populi’s Hot Points: More U.S.

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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. "Parkview Health was able to retain nearly 70% of our standard care visits with patients by using video services within our EHR and patient portal, even as the physical offices were closed.

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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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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2018

1] With wait times rising and healthcare costs increasing, many health systems have turned to telehealth as a means of increasing access to healthcare. Cerner and American Well have partnered to deliver telehealth that is fully embedded within Cerner’s electronic health record portfolio. per visit with telehealth.

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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2018

1] With wait times rising and healthcare costs increasing, many health systems have turned to telehealth as a means of increasing access to healthcare. Cerner and American Well have partnered to deliver telehealth that is fully embedded within Cerner’s electronic health record portfolio. per visit with telehealth.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

Ron cited three early learnings that he’s applying now in this bullish telehealth era: The experience of both patients and clinicians are key to building adoption and use of virtual care, respecting patient and clinician satisfaction; Clinical efficacy and how well care can be done from a distance; and, Cost-effectiveness and sustainability.

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