Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

"The proliferation of health apps has created challenges for healthcare providers and patients seeking to find the most appropriate, safe and effective health apps to monitor their health and wellness, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and securely collect and transmit personal health information," said ATA CEO Ann Mond Johnson in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This, coupled with a rapid and widespread penetration of digital tools and solutions into everyday life, was forcing the hand of healthcare leaders to accelerate the development of digital healthcare, to facilitate the improvement of patient care through digitisation. And this was happening not exclusively in the Middle East.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, remote patient monitoring was poised to gain big momentum in 2020. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"It was generally understood that deploying digital health tools would propel foundational changes for the caring of our patients wherever they may be in their personal health journey." The previous telehealth technology was app-based and cumbersome to download and use for both clinicians and patients.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the last 20 years, telemedicine has radically cut healthcare costs and brought life-saving care into rural and underserved areas ; during the same period, cybercrime has boomed, with attackers repeatedly targeting healthcare organizations’ rich stores of valuable data. telehealth claims were filed between April and July 2020, a?4,000%?year-over-year

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 7, 2020

Long before the global Coronavirus pandemic disrupted life as we know it, digital health was on the ascent, enabled by innovations in IoT-connected medical devices. In 2019, one in four physicians utilised remote care tools – nearly twice the share who were doing so in 2016, according to the American Medical Association.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Software: This includes software that is used to manage patient records, provide remote care, or deliver educational content. Wearable devices: These are devices that are worn on the body and can track health data such as heart rate, sleep, and activity levels. Examples include telehealth, e-prescriptions, and patient portals.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. It’s practically a mantra at this point – the very real ability of remote communication technology to connect underserved populations to top-notch medical care. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

These platforms act as a single point of access, seamlessly combining virtual consultations, remote monitoring capabilities, and data visualization tools, offering patients a one-stop shop for managing their health remotely. In this context, centralized virtual hubs are emerging as a game-changer in RPM.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Dynamic integration and backpack-sized telehealth exam station featured in Booth #6089. Enhancements to GlobalMed’s eNcounter platform include: FHIR-enabled, clinical data integration that facilitates the flow of portable virtual health data between health information systems. Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security? The online communities that resonated with me were all about leveraging this new tool called the internet to make the world a better place. As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Even as I write this, the momentum of telehealth is bulldozing its way through dated reimbursement policies. 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 where will those profits come from? PT is not far behind.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

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. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!

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eVisit

JANUARY 4, 2019

If there is one thing that the last decade has shown us, it’s that nothing stays the same. This is true in all aspects of healthcare. Everything from patient records, writing prescriptions, navigating reimbursement, analyzing risk, and updating treatment protocols have changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said. Eko’s telehealth and remote patient monitoring platform powers virtual cardiac and pulmonary exams by facilitating stethoscope and ECG live streaming. It also provides medication adherence tools.

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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. But what does all of this mean for the future of patient care? Access to quality care in underserved communities.

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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 enables providers to engage patients at each touchpoint during a health event, from diagnosis, to hospitalization, to recovery.

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