Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"Our journey started well before COVID; we leveraged video visits to offset the increased demand of urgent care and look to reduce over utilization of the emergency departments." "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

Executive Summary: The future of telemedicine is poised to be promising and transformative, driven by advancements in technology, changing patient preferences, and evolving healthcare needs. Telemedicine is likely to become an integral part of healthcare delivery, expanding across various medical specialties and regions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem. By deploying telemedicine carts in the hospital, physicians could provide care remotely, irrespective of their location." "Cerner, our EHR vendor, helped us with the process," he continued. " $882,000 from the FCC.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. In this video, CEO Robert Krayn talks about how Talkiatry addresses the needs of patients by leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The survey is part of the Telehealth Impact Study prepared by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Workgroup, which includes the American Medical Association, American Telemedicine Association, Digital Medical Society, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, MassChallenge Health Tech, Mayo Clinic and MITRE Corporation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. Plus, having been through the golden age of EHR software otherwise known […]. Keep reading for background & future plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

When telemedicine appointments skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Johns Hopkins team struggled to support patients who needed extra assistance. In response, the Johns Hopkins team developed what they called an automated "video visit technical risk score" tool in their Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

I want to ‘do telemedicine’: What is involved, and how much does it cost? The use of telemedicine is at an all-time high, with 85% of doctors using telehealth to connect with patients. The specific medical devices you need may vary depending on the specialties you plan to service with telemedicine.

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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. "A lot of the elderly patients have been able to successfully use the feature without any issues and feel confident with the video capabilities."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the market today. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said. " Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

"They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. There are many vendors of telemedicine technologies and services on the health IT market today. "They can have video encounters with the touch of a button and interact with a physician within two minutes."

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Would […].

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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. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. The Danger of Integration Limitations. It’s great….

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. of total ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM "My journey into telemedicine was sparked by a genuine concern for a subset of patients facing physical or psychological barriers to accessing healthcare," he said. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2020

More specifically, we’re talking about EHR vendors entrance into telehealth and third party telehealth vendors. Plus, many of them are expanding beyond the live video telehealth visits to other areas of telehealth like RPM (remote patient monitoring). Will Telehealth Investment Continue? When is Consolidation Coming?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. The Danger of Integration Limitations. It’s great….

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"Our organization already uses a virtual nursing platform and service, so we were fortunate to have some experience in this domain as well as existing audio/video infrastructure in place to use as a starting point prior to these behavioral health use cases surfacing," Firman explained.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 7, 2020

Lately, we’ve been hearing from providers who want to adopt telemedicine but haven’t run a virtual program before. So today we’re answering their most common questions – and hopefully helping those of you out there who are just beginning your telemedicine journey. What’s the difference between telehealth, telemedicine and virtual care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As a result, the health system wanted to find a telehealth system that would enable it to provide patients with an option for a visit that would be really convenient and also reduce costs to below those of a typical telemedicine video visit. " Grady Brimley, SSM Health. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 5, 2019

We sat down with telemedicine provider Michelle Everhart to learn about why she started in telemedicine, why she may never go back to “brick and mortar”, and why telemedicine makes her a better care provider. From Family Nurse Practitioner to Urgent Care Telemedicine NP. What did you do before practicing telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telemedicine is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. Yet for some clinicians, telemedicine is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started. Many still think of virtual solutions as limited to symptoms-based video exams. Know your options.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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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. More than 10 years in the making. Recent technology upgrades this summer. COVID-19 isolation rooms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

“The LANES technology extracts, aggregates, normalizes and categorizes relevant medical record data collected from different EHR systems such as eClinicalWorks, Cerner and Epic, to name a few,” Aguilar explained. “On the public health side, telemedicine is brand new,” Aguilar said. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 10, 2023

The utilization of digital tools and technologies, such as telemedicine and electronic health records (EHRs), has made it easier for patients to access medical services and information, regardless of their location. Telemedicine also reduces wait times and the need for travel, making it a desirable option for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits.

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