Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"Our journey started well before COVID; we leveraged video visits to offset the increased demand of urgent care and look to reduce over utilization of the emergency departments." "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. New drugs and delivery models are going to challenge what can be delivered over telemedicine and challenge the regulations of how in-person services are delivered.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For the 108th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we decided to mix things up. Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. We asked ChatGPT the following question “ Can you come up with 4 questions for a podcast on healthcare IT (technology)?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For the 55th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re going asking the question “Why Isn’t RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) exploding like telehealth video visits? Everyone loves to talk about the explosion of telehealth that has occurred in healthcare thanks to COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

UAB went from 1,000 video visits in 2019 to 280,000 video visits in 2020. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. A few weeks ago, as telehealth started to explode, I realized how important understanding the telehealth market was going to be for those who read Healthcare IT Today. Keep reading for background & future plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." " Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

This setup has worked well for the mental health center over the last few years. But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite. Central Kansas Mental Health Center’s telehealth setup was all done in-house by its IT staff. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. This market is an especially complex area of health care for many reasons. In a remote rural are, they may be few or none.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Richard Tytus of Hamilton, Ontario, is a medical professional with extensive experience in delivering and promoting virtual healthcare. He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a clinic owner and part of a family health team of approximately 30 medical professionals and allied health workers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Visibility into centralized accountable care organization (ACO) data across AICNY’s network from its population health vendor, HealthEC, revealed extraordinarily high emergency department utilization rates among the organization’s IDD patients living in certified residences. ” PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In 2024, the attack surface will continue to grow.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

The following is a guest article by Narinder Singh , Co-Founder and CEO at LookDeep Health In 2016, attackers gained unauthorized access to Banner Health’s systems through the payment processing system used in the organization’s food and beverage outlets and used it as a gateway to access patient information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2023

He spoke about some of the specific challenges telemedicine faces, and described how ChatGPT and similar LLMs can help overcome them. What are some of the challenges telemedicine faces where ChatGPT can help out? You believe strongly that ChatGPT is not a threat to healthcare. Currently, the U.S. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare will continue to be top targets for cybercriminals in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"User experience deficiencies highlighted the importance of easy-to-use telemedicine tools as it directly impacted the effectiveness of clinical services," he continued. Centura Health was awarded just over $997,000 in grant funds from the FCC for telemedicine. The funds are being used for two projects. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For the 46th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the battle for telehealth. Plus, many of them are expanding beyond the live video telehealth visits to other areas of telehealth like RPM (remote patient monitoring).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With a simple phone call, the on-site provider can connect with the teleneurologist to discuss or perform a video assessment of the patient to determine treatment options, further imagining needed or other recommendations. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jeff Wells, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Marathon Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. UVA Health's response to COVID-19 has been multipronged.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. of total ambulatory care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO and president of Artisight , envisions a future where every hospital room hosts a camera and speaker in order to support two-way video. When you leverage nurses at the bedside and others watching over video, each can focus on different aspects of care. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist , discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as well as hot technologies they’re looking at for the future. The video is full of intriguing details. Now they’re extending their insights into the whole hospital and beyond.

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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. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"To be able to show an average reduction [in depression] across all clients given that we were having very few in-person sessions speaks volumes for the healing ability of telemedicine." "It allowed clients to get the help they need without risking their health. " Robyn East, Heritage Clinic. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

Telemedicine has helped to bridge the access divide between the clinic’s rural and urban communities. The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented. Community hospitals are able to access specialty and subspecialty providers at another site, facilitated through a video connection. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

” All three managers interviewed in the video below stress the importance of preparing data (also known as curation) before trying to use it. ” Learn more about Clearsense: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Like many rural healthcare organizations, CCRLC has faced the challenge of recruiting mental health providers, due in part to the shortage of professionals in the specialty. This is where telemedicine comes in: It provides CCRLC a gateway for mental health providers to offer these services at the rural campus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

At the CHIME Fall Forum conference, we had a chance to sit down with a number of great health IT vendors to learn more about what they’re doing in health IT, what they’d heard at the show, and a new product announcement. Check out these short video interviews to learn more. Learn more about Seal Shield: [link].

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