Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. AMA's playbook series offers 12-step processes to help with rollouts of various digital health tools. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2021

While telehealth use has made tremendous gains since the emergence of COVID, the technology still sits largely on the sidelines. Telehealth visits are now widely available, but the providers offering these visits aren’t adding new capabilities or even integrating the technology into their overall workflow.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Telemedicine was transforming healthcare landscapes by utilizing technology to provide clinical care remotely. Telemedicine ranges from simple text messaging for medical advice to advanced procedures like remotely controlled surgery. Telemedicine can also lead to better resource allocation and utilization.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

At the same time, both PCPs and the patients who need them face many challenges – and now both are finding that telemedicine may be the answer. Then there are telehealth apps that cater to patients looking for quick one-off visits. Like most physicians, PCPs spend considerable time on administrative documentation and managing capacity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data. One area of particular interest is telehealth use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. " Neil C.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

If you’ve been around the telehealth world , you may have experienced a bait and switch when it comes to integration promises. It sounds so efficient; you envision clinical data and PHI flowing between different facilities and systems. This scenario has become the standard in today’s virtual health programs. It’s great….

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Applying for telemedicine jobs and want to stand out? Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Just getting started in the field? Sometimes this is referred to as the consulting site.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.” services, using free, individual accounts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Department of Justice announced Monday that four people and one company have recently pleaded guilty in a telemedicine pharmacy healthcare-fraud conspiracy that allegedly lasted for years. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General in Atlanta. WHY IT MATTERS. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

The size, scope and rapidity of new telehealth and remote patient-monitoring rollouts since the onset of the coronavirus crisis has been remarkable. But if telehealth is relatively easy to roll out and scale up, keeping the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data it generates is something more of a challenge.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you’ve been around the telehealth world , you may have experienced a bait and switch when it comes to integration promises. It sounds so efficient; you envision clinical data and PHI flowing between different facilities and systems. This scenario has become the standard in today’s virtual health programs. It’s great….

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Two approaches quantified in this year’s KFF survey are the use of lower-cost settings, such as retail clinics and telehealth, as well as workers generating health data shared via mobile apps and wearable technology. Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 8, 2022

The expansion of telehealth, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other virtual solutions allows researchers and providers to meet patients’ needs while also ensuring patient safety, study integrity, and data quality. How Telehealth, Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Help in Virtual Clinical Trials? DrKumo Inc.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. By 2023, connected health monitoring revenue will exceed $1 billion – akin to a blockbuster drug. For the U.S.,

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 28, 2022

The expansion of telehealth, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other virtual solutions allows researchers and providers to meet patients’ needs while also ensuring patient safety, study integrity, and data quality. How Telehealth, Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Help in Virtual Clinical Trials?

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation. States around the country are creating new legislation to increase access to telehealth services , but one state is going above and beyond when it comes to enacting meaningful change within the healthcare system. Kentucky Doubles Down on Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. Time saved by opting for telemedicine over an in-person visit. On the dark side, there are patient concerns: Will my data be exploited? More precise diagnoses with the help of AI.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) are two technologies that have revolutionized the way healthcare is delivered in the modern era. Telehealth is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide health-related services remotely, such as virtual consultations, remote monitoring, and patient education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It shall identify and classify the data collected and develop customised risk management strategies for each type of health data. "For example, [medical devices for remote care] connected to a network are at higher risk of data leakage compared to medical devices that are not connected to a network.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 27, 2023

The lab, which consists of four spaces: an interaction room, a gaze tracking room, an observation room, and a family counselling room, will collect live health data from children with autism, such as voice, language, and gaze. These data will be used to develop AI models for the early diagnosis and personalised treatment of autism.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. But only 38% would share wearable health data with an employer, and 41% with a government agency.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. Data breaches or mishandling can also put a practice at serious risk of legal and financial trouble. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Telecom companies are using these advantages to develop a wide range of HealthTech solutions, including: Telehealth: Telecom companies are partnering with healthcare providers to deliver telehealth services, which allow patients to consult with doctors and other healthcare professionals remotely.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2021

In many areas of health IT, experimentation is good and may ultimately be to the benefit of users. On the other hand, when it comes to telehealth security, it’s looking more and more as though establishing routine practices and following security best practices is a good idea.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity. But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter. ” . .” In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. What do these clinicians’ organizations plan to do to fill in the staffing gaps that drive burnout?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. "I think we all realize that telehealth absolutely took off in the COVID-19 pandemic," said Bates.

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