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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The article is written to illustrate the practical identification and utilization of LEP services in telehealth. Telehealth Implications of LEP When working through telehealth to access new communities, providers and their employers can face ethical dilemmas when working with people who demonstrate limited English proficiency.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has emerged as a vital component of modern healthcare delivery, offering a means to monitor patients’ health remotely and proactively intervene when necessary. These may include wearable devices, mobile apps, telehealth platforms, and remote monitoring software.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. But expanding broadband access isn’t always enough.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

At American Well, we recognize that telehealth is a new or budding concept for a lot of people in a lot of different industries. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

At American Well, we recognize that telehealth is a new or budding concept for a lot of people in a lot of different industries. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

trillion selfies, posted about 6,000 tweets every second, and watched almost five billion YouTube videos. Across the medical landscape, technology like video chat and real-time virtual visits are taking hold at a furious pace. Even as I write this, the momentum of telehealth is bulldozing its way through dated reimbursement policies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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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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care innovations

AUGUST 24, 2018

That was true 20 years ago when I first started developing telehealth technology designed for the chronically ill elderly. That's why the telehealth vendors had to get into the manufacturing business — so they could build devices that were easy to use, and which required no experience with a computer.

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iSALUS Healthcare

JULY 23, 2018

Not only this, but they are able to review their personal health information, test/lab results, and schedule appointments all in one place, whenever it is most convenient. Telehealth The next patient engagement tool that every provider needs is telehealth capability.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In addition, a system that employs both telehealth/RPM and PERS provides clinicians with reliable electronically captured patient-generated health data (PGHD). While telehealth is often considered to be an equal experience to in-person care, the fact is that data gathered in clinics is often missing from telehealth encounters.

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InTouch Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), or monitoring the health of a patient from a remote location, is changing the way providers think about healthcare. Using a range of wearable devices and live video and audio, providers can use this technology to ensure their patients are adhering to prescribed treatment methods and recovering as planned.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. February: Congress Expands Potential for Telehealth Coverage. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM. Trinity needed to reduce readmissions to single digits.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

Telehealth can answer the call to solving this critical gap in care and many patients and providers are anxious to experience its benefits. Telehealth and the Digital Divide. We also shared our thoughts about how virtual health is bringing specialty care to rural areas. Bringing Relief to Rural Communities with Virtual Health.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of US Physicians , only 23% of patients have had video visits and just 14% of physicians have video visit capability. While video visits are only one aspect of telemedicine, these numbers make it clear that the technology still has not reached the point of mass adoption and use.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last almost two years, healthcare has seen organizations rely on technology and the cloud to get accurate, trusted information to patients and direct them to the appropriate resources and care at scale. Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Illing to talk about telehealth, the cloud, machine learning, advanced analytics and much more.

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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. The system also enables care providers to securely exchange photos, videos and file attachments on their smartphones. WHY IT MATTERS.

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