Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. For example, a patient who has already completed their annual blood work may not require an in-person visit to discuss the results with their provider.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to mitigate the supply-and-demand gap between growing health citizen needs for care as we age, and a shortage of doctors? Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 1, 2022

But will RPM’s benefits stand a chance in an emergency care setting? The next chapter of telehealth. Telehealth is a growing industry with many innovations coming up. Consumers are adopting telehealth because of its convenience and lower cost of care. What EMS providers need to know about telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

Today, more than one million people from all 50 states and 140 countries come to Mayo Clinic to receive care at sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin. Today, more than one million people from all 50 states and 140 countries come to Mayo Clinic to receive care at sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Wearable devices can improve patient care, track personal health data remotely, and even prevent patient deterioration or health problems before they occur. We will discuss the benefits later but let’s first talk about the 5 examples of wearable medical devices currently being used in this industry. Wearable Biosensors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of virtual care across all medical specialties and primary care has been critical, especially in behavioral health. 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.

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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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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I thought maybe I should check into telehealth. How does telehealth compare to in-person care? We do PHQ-9s and AIMs, and then the nurse scans it so that I can see everything. I have a designated nurse that I’ve worked with throughout my time at the clinic. That didn’t pan out. She knows my routine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

In the ambulatory setting, Baptist Health uses scheduled video visits for patients to see their primary care physician or specialist, as they would have traditionally in the office. "We use our nurse triage call center to recommend virtual options whenever clinically appropriate. Click here to read the special report.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Additionally, it can also increase patient satisfaction in various primary care settings, including rural and urban communities.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Software such as Skype or Zoom is used for primary care, follow-up visits, prescription management, chronic illness assessments, and psychotherapy sessions. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become another popular form of telemedicine for telehealth and older adults. Telehealth Clinics. Remote Patient Monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. Our technicians do it all for them.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Abnormal results trigger telehealth RN follow-up."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. Of patients with an assigned primary care provider, 55.51% of patients are enrolled in the portal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Earlier this year, our health system broke ground on a 60,000 square-foot Virtual Care Center, which will feature dedicated clinician workspaces equipped with the latest telemedicine technology to offer on-demand urgent care, behavioral health care and primary care.

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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. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

"In order to address these care challenges, we implemented a few different solutions to create the right capacity and seamless care for patients with high-quality virtually," said Mitchell Fong, director of telehealth at Renown Regional Medical Center. Hard results achieved. " Using FCC funds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. "Lack of care opportunities due to transportation, limited primary care locations and inadequate income opportunities can send many patients running to the emergency department. THE PROBLEMS. " Sean E.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 26, 2019

According to National Public Radio, “a growing number of Americans [are] turning to telehealth appointments with medical providers in the wake of widespread hospital closings in remote communities, and a shortage of local primary care doctors, specialists, and other providers.”. Telehealth has taken off.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. The integrated care model also saves providers time and money. Getting your integrated care program started. For patients. Convenience is king.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

The deflating, lowering-cost factors will be: Consumers looking to lower-cost sites of care and. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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American Well

MAY 30, 2018

Healthcare professionals may be asking themselves, “Who can I help through telehealth?”. And, if a telehealth professional sets up an agreement with a statewide agency, you can work with the same system over a much larger area, which helps states rein in costs in an era of budget cutting. Public school enrollment is approaching 5.5

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American Well

MAY 30, 2018

Healthcare professionals may be asking themselves, “Who can I help through telehealth?”. And, if a telehealth professional sets up an agreement with a statewide agency, you can work with the same system over a much larger area, which helps states rein in costs in an era of budget cutting. Public school enrollment is approaching 5.5

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Mend

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Behavioral health providers have been utilizing telehealth for some time now, but one particular group has demonstrated an especially positive impact—our children. How Telehealth Improves Mental Health in Community Settings. school psychologists, social workers, and allied health specialists), nurses, and administrators.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

It is encouraging to see this sheer quantity of free offerings , accelerated interest in telehealth , and other new innovations in smart homes, healthcare and robotics that have emerged in the past few months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sanvis Health Care Hero. Here are just five focused on older adults: Megilla. Caspar Smart homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

A patient who experiences a stroke, for example, has a lower chance of functional independence and an increased likelihood of mortality when treatment is delayed. “Faster response equals better outcomes for the quality and cost of care,” said Will O’Connor, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), TigerConnect.

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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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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) make for exceptional members and leaders of care teams. Generally speaking, PMHNPs not only have very diverse educational backgrounds, but they undergo a variety of trainings and are experts in delivering effective behavioral health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor). The nurses will conduct a 13-question SDoH survey and assess risk factors that compromise the good management of patients’ MS conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How are hospitals and primary care physicians expanding access to mental health and addressing the burden they're experiencing from the mental health crisis through telepsychiatry? visit either in an emergency room or their primary care provider, rather than a psychiatrist.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeon Telehealth, digital communication, and remote patient monitoring rose to the forefront during the pandemic and are now well-established care delivery options. When thinking about home care, it’s also worth mentioning how technology really empowers at-home care providers.

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