Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Health access is a key factor for patient experience from appointment scheduling in a timely manner to “feeling” embraced by the health system in terms of health equity and access to contemporary protocols. We are all payers now, whether employers, government plans, unions and collectives, or patients-as-payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. ” "For these more complex visits to be successful, CIOs must also prioritize telehealth that is equipped to maintain rules of engagement for both patients and physicians. " Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Amwell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider. The experience was often frustrating. They report less confusion with the setup compared with other telehealth options.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Most people over 50 years of age are cautious but open to receiving health care virtually via telehealth platforms, according to the National Poll on Healthy Aging from my alma mater, the University of Michigan. We’re in the Field of Dreams moment in telehealth, especially for older people.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. Again, we use Epic with Zoom integrated with a MyChart functionality."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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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. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. planning to continue using these services (like Peloton or Hydro as examples). Food delivery, too, will see about 60% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. At the height of the pandemic, the use of telehealth reached just 13% of outpatient visits. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“In the end, AMD’s solution allowed us to actually do a better job of gathering and trending important clinical data for each patient than we had when we sent physicians to the home,” Beckham said. “For example, the technology allowed us to take and store images of wounds so our providers could see changes over time.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

At Iris Telehealth, it’s not unusual for our partners to use telehealth 50-70% of the time for primary care or behavioral health care services. Everyone is used to telehealth. That’s the exciting part – sometimes when conducting consults in the ED, we see patients before the main team. We learn about their history, too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

With hospital-at-home , this process piles on several additional layers of complexity, such as remote patient monitoring devices, patient-reported outcomes, nursing care, physical therapy, food, medication deliveries and more. And this home care orchestration is done on a daily basis for the patient in their home.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

How GALE's flexibility fits different use cases from pharmacies to rural communities Different telehealth use cases require different physical setups. For example, a nurse traveling in rural communities needs a solution that fits in a backpack. But a nursing home needs a telehealth cart that can be moved between rooms.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How GALE's flexibility fits different use cases from pharmacies to rural communities Different telehealth use cases require different physical setups. For example, a nurse traveling in rural communities needs a solution that fits in a backpack. But a nursing home needs a telehealth cart that can be moved between rooms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To ensure all New Yorkers could access this new service, NYC H+H also needed a telehealth vendor that enabled it to offer virtual urgent care to all patients in their patients' preferred language and without a clear need for the Internet or a smartphone.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 27, 2019

No one wants to be audited — especially nurses, who already face a tremendous burden being the front line of patient care. What both nurses and patients needed was a way to facilitate productive conversations, and so University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine has done just that. Get in there and be empathetic.’

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. " "Before COVID-19, the level of cognitive overload and burnout among nurses and doctors was alarmingly high," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

However, the current program relies heavily on manual processes and in-person care, making it operationally challenging to expand as it requires patients be visited at least twice daily in person by a paramedic, and once daily, either in person or virtually, by both a registered nurse and a physician or advanced practice practitioner.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. The number of nurses who reported a conscious and deliberate desire to find other employment came in at 41%. Complicating matters further has been the increasing number of verbal and physical attacks by patients. Take, for example, automation in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2024, the focus will shift towards AI-enabled decision-making as advanced analytics will be used to identify actionable insights for patients, providers, and payers. Mike Brandofino, President and COO at Caregility We’ll see accelerated adoption of inpatient telehealth in 2024. So many technologies to keep an eye on!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

We are committed to removing barriers to access and addressing health disparities by extending our care and services – ensuring patients benefit from world-class care no matter where they live or the challenges they face. The battle for talent in healthcare today is broader than the shortage of physicians and nurses.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The global telehealth market size is also growing and is predicted to reach $455.3 The Best Cure is Preventative This type of telehealth is revolutionizing what our care industry could look like, with faster triages and attentive post-operative check-ins in place. The global on-demand healthcare market was estimated at $150.67

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. "For example, blood transfusions and glycemic control, both of which we thought were going well, were actually not up to standard," he said.

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SteadyMD

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Clinician shortages, telehealth demand and GLP-1 treatment will require innovative technology solutions ST. To further expand access, NPs and other providers who have prescriptive authority in their licensure states could be available through national telehealth networks, which would increase clinician capacity, access and productivity.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

University of Missouri & Banner – Workforce & Generative AI This session was a great discussion about how these organizations were targeting their telehealth strategy, including hospital@home and virtual care. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2019

As an example, the Wall Street Journal discussed the phenomenon in Ben Zimmer’s profile, “A Guru of Organizing Becomes A Verb” published this weekend in the Journal. Imagine a hospital closing beds and shifting workflow to virtual care via telehealth channels. need cognitive therapy.” They are inter-related.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 In addition, 92 percent of telehealth visits occurred in beneficiaries’ homes, which generally wasn’t permitted before the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

As a result, healthcare at home has become increasingly accessible, efficient, and personalized, contributing to improved patient outcomes and satisfaction. Telehealth advancements, both in technology and government policy, have created greater access to care for people who might otherwise struggle to get it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Recent research from a team at Harvard Medical School made the case for virtual-first, outcomes-based primary care that enabled the care team to build engaged and trusting relationships with patients and families – “reconnecting team members with joy in clinical practice,” as the researchers noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. The care team monitors progress and identifies patients needing intervention or support.

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