Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

NSW ED nurses get VR stroke care training A virtual reality training programme for administering stroke care has been rolled out across New South Wales. The Icon Cancer Centre Holmesglen is now running the HyperSight imaging solution on its Halcyon linear accelerator.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2020

CCS Healthcare is a telehealth practice that has been delivering telehealth care extensively throughout Western Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2016. It delivers care to assisted living facilities through on-site visits performed by its physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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JUNE 21, 2022

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. “It is precisely these patients who are consuming the healthcare dollar at an increasing rate. Scottsdale Physician Group believed there had to be a better way of taking care of the patients that was scalable and effective.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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JUNE 12, 2020

introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. " "Access to telehealth has become more than just a convenience, but rather a critical necessity in America," said Butterfield in a statement.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. For more on virtual nursing, click here and here and here.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

But the pandemic strapped a rocket to the provider organization's telehealth plans. " A grant to enhance telehealth tech. So Christ Health applied to the FCC's telehealth funding program for a grant in order to bolster its telehealth technology. There was video, but there were no assessment capabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

A recent study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that telehealth can be safe and effective when it comes to managing high-risk pregnancies. "One of these innovative approaches is telehealth, which is being increasingly employed in recent years." " The same was true for neonatal mortality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

"These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment." Targeting telehealth Medical providers continue to expand telehealth to increase access, improve care and reach more patients – and revenues are high. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the bill provides broad authority for CMS to authorize future telehealth flexibilities in a disaster.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2022

"There were automations built within our existing Microsoft Teams platform that allowed for seamless tele-triage screenings to be initiated by triage nurses in our ED," he continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

The company, also based in Salt Lake City, operates 28 aircraft – 16 rotary-wing and 12 fixed-wing – according to Intermountain, which notes that its flight coverage area is "much of the same footprint" as its own telehealth service network. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. THE LARGER TREND.

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JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. "I have always been passionate about women's health and the unique concerns of this group," Snell said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting from the coronavirus pandemic. He quickly realized that these platforms would not be long-term solutions to his telehealth needs. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The FCC had then awarded the health system a grant to expand telehealth services. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. ” PROPOSAL. The organization had a dual approach to be supported by the grant. ” MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Virtual care technologies and artificial intelligence are helping health systems and healthcare retailers to improve care delivery. Amazon Clinic virtual care visits are now available in all 50 states The ability to access more immediate care via telehealth, including prescription refills, is now possible in every U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Care collaboration technology vendor TigerConnect has debuted TigerTouch, a text message-oriented, audio/visual telehealth system designed to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases. TigerTouch is designed to help healthcare providers improve patient experiences, the company said, by providing: Direct engagement with healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It allows individuals to communicate with a provider from Care Medical – a Bellingham-based medical group specializing in urgent care, physical therapy, occupational medicine and other needs – using in-app text messaging or video calls. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. "The northeast U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As the virtual care horizon expanded, he explored some of the telehealth systems. A realm where the transition from a receptionist to a nurse, then a doctor, and if need be, a specialist, would be as effortless as walking through interconnected rooms in a physical clinic. Click here to read the special report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

A unique remote monitoring system, developed at MIT and deployed in some hospitals and long-term care settings, is now showing further promise for advanced assessment of potential COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and other congregate care communities, according to researchers at the school's CSAIL institute. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Although the specifics are still fuzzy, it's been made evident that telehealth isn't going anywhere. Chief information officers undoubtedly are some of the best informed when it comes to the ways telehealth apps are still lacking – and the chance for innovations to fill those gaps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. "Rather than just a telephonic intervention, the clinician was able to visibly assess the patient using our Vidyo telehealth platform and could see that the patient had relapsed and was at serious risk of overdose."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Federal Communications Commission awarded the Johns Hopkins Health System $1,000,000 for a remote intensive care unit, a medical kiosk, tablets and other connected devices, cameras, and other telehealth equipment. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MARKETPLACE.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

million) more to independent non-profit Ovarian Cancer Australia to help maintain its provision of psychosocial telehealth services to ovarian cancer patients. This programme employs trained oncology and gynaecological nurses to provide advice and support to people with ovarian cancer from diagnosis through post-treatment.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare.

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