Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the past several weeks, the team here at Healthcare IT Today has been gathering Health IT predictions for 2024. Ryan Burnett, Product Manager at Luma Health expects that AI will have a significant impact on patient-physician interactions in 2024. Here is a short video with our favorite video predictions that we captured.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Today, we’re featuring the Telehealth Systems Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Valley Health and is located in Virginia. Here’s a description of the position: Who We Are Valley Health […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2021

" VanLandingham, who is senior counselor, Medicaid Policy/Acting Health IT at the agency, will be presenting at HIMSS21 this summer, HHS-OIG colleague, Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs Lisa Re. As one example, he pointed to telehealth, which has enormous potential to increase access to service and decrease burdens.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

This is an important question for two major reasons: There is a direct relationship between health and the environment; and, Health care systems are major contributors to climate change due to the large volume of greenhouse gases they emit. million telehealth visits. million telehealth visits. million in gas costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For the 128th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are doing a roundup focused on health IT regulatory news! For those unfamiliar with our weekly roundup article, we are gathering up some hot topics and news in the world of health IT regulations to share them with you while we dive a little deeper into the topic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Primary topic: Telehealth. Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Health IT can help combat mental health crisis Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 7, 2024

Why has confidence in generalist TeleHealth companies collapsed on the public markets? Market correction: The Telehealth sector may have been overvalued at its peak, and a correction was inevitable. This could lead to problems with customer churn for Telehealth companies. What's going on? Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2022

Finally, the clinical team partnered with a video platform as it began testing telehealth options, and they found it was not consistent in terms of connectivity. This solved the connectivity issues our clinicians were experiencing and enabled us to formally offer telehealth sessions on an ongoing basis." MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2022

"While telehealth has improved access to many outpatient services, marginalized patients – rural, poor, older and minority patients – may not have benefited equally from telehealth's expansion," she continued. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Exec Summary: Health IT funding and investment has seen a mixed bag in the last 12 months. On the other hand, there is still strong interest from investors in certain areas of health IT, such as artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth, and digital therapeutics. Funding for telehealth companies also remained strong, with $1.9

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? To authentically contribute to societal health, it’s crucial to accept failure as an integral part of the process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Montana state senators this past week unanimously voted to pass a telehealth expansion bill out of committee. Rhonda Knudsen, R-Culbertson, by request of the state auditor, would safeguard telehealth coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montana bill would: Prohibit contract provisions that impose site restrictions on telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " Tejal A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Much has been made of telehealth's potential to bridge the accessibility gap for those who may be otherwise underserved by the healthcare systems. "There remains a pressing need to explicitly consider how changes in the prevalence and ubiquity of telehealth impact people with disabilities," wrote the authors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

Telehealth experienced sudden and massive growth starting a year ago, but it didn't happen everywhere. In its findings, RAND points to a twentyfold increase in telehealth visits starting in March 2020. "Few national studies have examined changes in telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic." Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2023

The solution Oak Orchard found was telehealth, which it continues to use today. Patients can stay at home while providers work at the health center or other safe location to provide care. Telehealth has helped the health system with medical, dental and behavioral health services. A huge plus."

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: When it comes to health IT, telemedicine isn't enough to beat COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. Click here to read the special report.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

"This historical reimbursement structure has been beneficial from a coordinated-care perspective, but until COVID, the financial feasibility of telehealth for FQHCs has been challenging." "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. MEBS could not afford to discontinue its behavioral health services, for the sake of its vulnerable clients, its team members and the overall agency. "Another draw toward this telehealth solution was its HIPAA compliance," she added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Patients did visit the health center to access labs; however, they did not visit their provider in person in an effort to ensure their safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

Speaking via webcam, Lisa Re, assistant inspector general of legal affairs at OIG, offered an update on some of the legal liabilities and risk areas in the health IT space, related to the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. He also highlighted a major new priority at OIG: telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours." " The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the implementation of telehealth for St. John's started implementing telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

These findings have since been supported in subsequent observational studies on telehealth adoption during the pandemic. "First, we conducted a needs assessment with DHA residents in the five selected communities on their comfort, use and interest in digital tools and telehealth for their healthcare needs," she said.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Suddenly, City of Hope needed to rapidly scale its telehealth infrastructure to meet the needs of patients. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2020

Telehealth technology, originally designed to give access to care in areas where there is a shortage of specialty care providers, now is being used much more widely as a way to screen and diagnose patients without risking the spread of disease through personal contact. Few have yet tried telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F. ” MARKETPLACE.

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MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. The health system had been planning to explore the clinical and financial aspects of telemedicine, then deploy the technology where it made sense. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up the health system’s time line exponentially. THE PROBLEM.

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