Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. Many telemedicine professionals, as well as a good number of healthcare providers, suggest that as healthcare evolves post-pandemic, virtual-first is the way to go. In the meantime, people got comfortable with telemedicine during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2022

One solution to this pressing challenge is telemedicine. SOC Telemed is a large, multispecialty acute telemedicine practice. In this new era of telehealth where the technology has finally gone mainstream, what does the landscape look like for specialty care via telehealth? The list is long and varied.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. However, prior to the pandemic, there were many barriers to in-person care. Barriers to in-person care. Health disparities from the digital divide.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding Rural Care: A Telehealth Funding Roadmap Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 Time: 2:30 – 3:15 pm EST We are excited to invite you to attend this comprehensive webinar focused on helping you access opportunities to find $100 million in telehealth grant funding!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will it become permanent?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2023

Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations, clearly – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations, contended Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, vendor of a patient engagement platform. Please elaborate.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2023

The post Uber Health: A Good Example of “Connective Tissue” in the Health Care Ecosystem appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Over time, one can imagine other products and services that can be bundled into the portfolio of offerings as our homes continue to evolve as our health hubs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

We interviewed her to talk about why she believes this is so, the relationship between telehealth and health equity, and how a hybrid future for telemedicine is important. The door to telehealth has finally been opened, and I don't think it will ever return to its original state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

There is a lot that goes into a telemedicine program, from engaging providers to effectively marketing the service to patients and employees. Top health systems and employers across the country have built robust telemedicine programs to meet their organizations’ unique goals. Southwest Medical is another unique telemedicine example.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

There is a lot that goes into a telemedicine program, from engaging providers to effectively marketing the service to patients and employees. Top health systems and employers across the country have built robust telemedicine programs to meet their organizations’ unique goals. Southwest Medical is another unique telemedicine example.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

When it comes to clinical telemedicine , there are two general categories that most “sharing” technologies tend to fall into: live real-time and store-and-forward technologies. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate. The most significant advantage is time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Telemedicine took a huge leap forward during the pandemic as more providers and patients embraced remote delivery of healthcare services. We interviewed him to discuss the intersection of telemedicine and AI. Q. What is the problem in telemedicine that you think Al is especially suited to address?

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 7, 2022

How school-based telemedicine can help the healthcare system navigate the pandemic. Telemedicine can be a significant approach to assisting those in need who can’t receive proper care in hospitals at the moment; schools, specifically, can benefit from implementing a telehealth solution that can keep kids in school and treat them in place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Clinicians and other experts at telehealth technology and services companies across the country are raising their hands, saying they could be at least one part of the solution to physician burnout. How can telemedicine be used to combat it? Physicians are burning out and leaving the front lines of healthcare in big numbers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power assessed two categories of telehealth vendors: direct-to-consumer (DTC) and payer-provided.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Even if some telehealth stats have come back down to earth , policy and legislation such as the Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act, have made virtual care's expansion imminent – prompting a critical examination of its processes and technologies. HIMSS24 is scheduled to take place March 11-15 in Orlando.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. of the time across the three organizations. THE LARGER TREND.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Many people assume that telehealth began after the internet gained popularity, but that’s not so. AMD Global Telemedicine opened our doors as a telemedicine vendor more than 30 years ago. Three decades later, we’ve built a unique perspective thanks to our years in the telehealth solutions industry. The problem?

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China.

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SteadyMD

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Annual clinician survey addresses a range of topics related to the adoption, perception, and practice of telehealth. While telehealth has previously been viewed as primarily suited for acute or minor conditions, 83.6% LOUIS, Feb. LOUIS, Feb. healthcare system to care for patients.” healthcare system to care for patients.”

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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

JUNE 2, 2021

Emme, a health tech company that launched a birth control tracking smart case and app this past August, has now expanded its offerings into prescription delivery and telemedicine. Emme representatives say the service aims to be a fully integrated contraception system, including the case and app, telemedicine, and prescription delivery.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 5, 2023

The sudden spike in demand for telehealth at the onset of the pandemic meant healthcare providers needed to quickly adapt to new workflows, technology, and training. Additionally, over 70% of respondents were motivated to increase telehealth use. The Value of Telehealth Telehealth ROI is one of its most attractive benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

We all know that telehealth has been growing thanks to COVID-19. They have to move towards telehealth or not see patients that need to be seen. We highlighted the telehealth growth in smaller medical practices. Let’s be honest, a lot of healthcare doesn’t have any choice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

She also feels AI can encourage telemedicine innovation and holds strong opinions on the ethics of AI in healthcare. For example, AI algorithms can predict individual health risks by analyzing patterns in a person's medical history, lifestyle and genetic information. What are some ways AI can encourage telemedicine innovation?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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