Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Healthway Medical Corporation Limited (HMC), a private healthcare provider based in Singapore, has announced that its pediatric unit, Singapore Baby and Child Clinic has been onboarded onto its proprietary teleconsultation app. Island Orthopaedics and the Nobel Group of clinics will also be onboarded in the coming months.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There are also the difficulties of prescribing under a group National Provider Identifier number, and general record-keeping burdens the senators indicate may be unnecessary. of its psychiatric health care needs met and would need 227 psychiatrists to meet 100% of these needs. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion.

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JULY 2, 2020

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. How telemedicine can help close the maternal health gap. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Citing a 2021 study, they noted that the use of telehealth in harm reduction primary care programs providing buprenorphine helped to increase access to care and overcome health inequities.

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JULY 25, 2022

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. MaineHealth wanted telemedicine technology that could easily integrate into its care models and that would be highly accessible for patients to use.

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JULY 23, 2021

Walmart Health's primary care provider has filed to do business in 37 states, suggesting the company is building the foundation to continue its virtual care expansion. According to reporting by Insider , Walmart Health's medical group, MC Medical LLC, registered to do business in 17 more states in June and July.

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JUNE 8, 2021

The medical group for Walmart Health has filed paperwork to do business in more than a dozen more states – and a spokesperson told Insider that the moves are not related to physical clinics. Advocates at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference warned this past week that legislators need to step up.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." " "On the one hand, telemedicine visits can make care more convenient and accessible by removing physical barriers such as distance or transportation costs.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In its technology search, it discovered that IRIS Telemedicine could do all those things for the center. There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services, Tellus and Tyto Care. MARKETPLACE.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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JUNE 18, 2019

“The result is nationally high rates for utilization of high-expense ‘place of service’ for acute, low-intermediate acuity care,” he said. Texas continues to be ranked near the bottom nationwide in ratio of primary care physicians to population. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In addition, research shows rural Americans are less likely to receive mental healthcare because of the stigma, Booth added. Even as this rate grows exponentially, the number of supporting healthcare providers and practitioners has failed to keep pace. How exactly does telemedicine step in here and help solve the problem?

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MAY 3, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sweeney-Platt on the subjects of telemedicine adoption, utilization, scheduling and permanence, seeking her expertise and lessons learned from athenahealth's treasure trove of telehealth data. Q: So, we've seen remarkable adoption of telemedicine in the past 12 months, but will it hold?

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MARCH 4, 2021

Business Insider has also reported that Care Medical contracts exclusively with Amazon Care. According to documents filed with the Washington Secretary of State's office in April 2018, Care Medical began as Oasis Medical Group, with Dr. Martin Levine as its founding medical director. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The organizations convened a diverse working group to develop the report, which proposed a set of solutions that stakeholders can pursue in order to implement a sustainable behavioral health integration model. "While not a panacea, the incorporation of technology into BHI care models (i.e., WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @kjercich.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. First we launched primary care.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Hasselberg outlined the results of a tele-behavioral health model in effect at the University of Rochester, explaining that it grew from a pilot program aimed at primary care doctors to a full-scale initiative in nearly a decade. As far as care delivery predictions, Hasselberg said he saw telemedicine as the "tip of the iceberg."

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MAY 4, 2021

The survey found that 62% of respondents had a virtual care visit of some kind from March 2019 through March 2020 – and for 71% of them, it was their first time doing so. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This includes new expert-led support groups launching this month, which will serve to support the community and their loved ones in areas such as fertility and family planning and parental support, with more categories to roll out in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. " "It's really an issue of not being able to survive if they're delivering care for free.

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APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.). " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

"Virtual care has the potential to dramatically enhance access to high-quality care for underserved populations across our state," said Dr. John Yang, president and medical director for the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, in a statement. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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MAY 14, 2020

However, data indicates groups facing the greatest risks right now, including older people and those with lower incomes, are not sharing in these benefits equally. healthcare consumers, which also found stress and social isolation are still fueling demand for remote behavioral and mental health services.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Southcoast Health System, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has employed a multi-pronged approach to solving different issues through telemedicine. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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MAY 4, 2022

Accessible healthcare and health education. As a rural hospital, providing accessible healthcare and health education to the community has been a priority for many years, certainly long before the pandemic hit in 2020. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones. " He also advocated against payment parity for telemedicine and against long-term coverage for audio-only visits. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

"The pandemic did not take away the need for support groups and education sessions, and our telehealth technologies allowed us to transition these group meetings to virtual events where our community can see each other, ask questions and meet care team members," Stone said. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium is a unique collaboration between stakeholders across the state that provides access to mental health resources no matter where the child may be. More than 9,000 primary care providers have enrolled in CPAN and there has been a steady increase in the number of monthly CPAN consults.

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