GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While most people associate telehealth services with clinical settings, telemedicine is revolutionizing an unexpected environment these days: schools. Virtual health solutions are becoming standard in both the traditional nurse’s office and school-based health centers (SBHCs) and they’re treating a rising number of children.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 5, 2019

Telemedicine After Hours. Telemedicine can solve these challenges when providers make one change: offering after-hours care. PCPs, physician groups and health systems using telemedicine for after-hours care are finding it boosts revenue and patient retention for several reasons: Care continuity. Contact Us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Budget leaders have asked, "How do you really know what the impact on the Medicare population and the Medicare Trust Fund will be? We now have three years of data on the impact to the Medicare Trust Fund," he said. Creating standards synergy for 'Interoperability 3.0'

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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. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re watching three trends that, if taken seriously, will surely help health plans capture their share of that $1 trillion healthcare improvement opportunity. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Doing so is central to building trust between patients, families, and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network candidates, along with any future QHIN applicants. Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer , a position located in Minneapolis, MN, posted by Hennepin Healthcare at Healthcare IT Central.

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GlobalMed

MAY 6, 2019

Telemedicine, which acts as the connective glue to keep all providers and caregivers operating from a shared and current knowledge base. She lives alone and relies on her Social Security check and Medicare. The Value of Telemedicine Intervention. It’s just another way telemedicine can benefit every player in healthcare.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 3, 2010

Garth Graham, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. We spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society in a session titled: “ Underserved Communities and the Health Information Technology Landscape – the Necessity for Partnership.”

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Improve community and population health. Avoid Medicare readmission penalties. Telemedicine Advantages. Not only can telemedicine help small hospitals compete and survive, they can use virtual platforms to: Offer a range of care. But consider that they’re also asked to: Provide an exceptional patient experience.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”.

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Much of the bill takes a broad approach to health reform; financing, insurance options, etc., Nor does it include some telemedicine provisions that are included in the House bill, such as the establishment of a Telehealth Advisory Committee. The language refers to the role of health information technology in addressing such needs.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Medicare restricts what telehealth services can be billed and limits telehealth access geographically. Therefore, providers may need to take additional steps, like establish rules and safeguards for its tech support team, which may be inadvertently exposed to patients’ protected health information when addressing tech issues.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click. This integration is key for chronic patients and population health management. We define both terms as a remote consultation between a doctor and a patient.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click. This integration is key for chronic patients and population health management. We define both terms as a remote consultation between a doctor and a patient.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Telehealth services, which unite technology with healthcare, health information, and health education, have grown substantially over the past 15 years and are expected to increase due to new reimbursement strategies for Medicare providers who offer telehealth services as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patients with state-funded Medicaid and federally funded Medicare plans also encounter logistical barriers to securing musculoskeletal care, including lower referral rates to orthopedic surgeons. Orthopedic specialists are 13% less likely to accept new Medicaid patients than they are Medicare patients or those with commercial insurance plans.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded access to telehealth beyond designated rural areas, loosened HIPAA requirements around telehealth platforms, and instituted parity in reimbursement with in-person visits. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you were to ask someone on the street what they consider the most impactful digital health innovation over the last five years, there’s a good chance their response would be, “telemedicine”. Oddly, even with its place in the general public’s lexicon, telemedicine utilization is still rather low. rubs temples in exasperation*.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. and Canada.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. ” Stronger forecasting could help health services providers predict volumes by service lines and sites of service, as well as plan for clinician staffing, personal protective equipment needs and vaccine distribution, HRI said. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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LinkousThink

APRIL 19, 2010

However, the increasing demands for healthcare in America and the potential of telemedicine to provide safe, cost-effective access to healthcare calls for a plan of action. Federal Programs - ATA supports the current federal policy of national preemption of state licensing laws for physicians providing federally funded health services.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

Many restrictions have been lifted and providers can now offer telehealth services to Medicare patients and be paid equitably for a virtual visit just like a face-to-face visit. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program. Ready to talk to someone about how virtual health can help you?

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that of $3.5 Three Telemedicine Cost Savings. Telemedicine helps patients access care without sacrificing wages or paying for childcare or transportation. health expenditures will climb to almost $6 trillion by 2027 , it’s also time to invest in innovation.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

They are primarily being developed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) which has driven payment policy (including APMs) in the two big government healthcare programs: Medicaid and Medicare.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It also experimented with at-work clinics, piloting a health center at its Seattle headquarters, and dove deeper into patient data analysis via sophisticated natural language processing. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Digital health advocates also expressed mixed feelings, with the American Telemedicine Association representatives saying the organization appreciated some of the provisions in the bill while noting other ways in which it fell short. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) saying they hadn't had time to read the mammoth legislation.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, BIDMC staff expect telemedicine to continue at the current volume of 20% of all ambulatory care visits. During the pandemic, a health technology company provided IoT devices to people's homes that monitored COVID-19 symptoms, along with a platform for data collection. Please elaborate.

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