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. Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. What’s most important and impactful about telehealth is the technology’s ability to enable care and improve accessibility.

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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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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. " "The platform could easily host secure video sessions with slower internet speeds. " Nicole Romano, founder of Behavioral Nutrition. MARKETPLACE.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

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. are not ready to participate in video visits. These findings have since been supported in subsequent observational studies on telehealth adoption during the pandemic.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. "On average, we saw a 7-10% decrease in no-show rates in patients scheduled for a video visit, compared with a patient scheduled for an in-person visit." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

This required NYPCC to get set up on a telehealth platform and to enable all of its clinicians to work remotely. When the state of emergency was declared, NYPCC realized it was imperative that it pivot to a telehealth model that allowed the organization to continue providing the vital services its communities needed.

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MAY 14, 2020

As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering.

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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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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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JUNE 9, 2021

When telehealth visits increased exponentially during the pandemic, patients at Mount Sinai Health System with limited English proficiency, or LEP, were at a great disadvantage to receive equal access to services because of the language barrier. Telehealth platforms were not originally set up with LEP patients in mind.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is no secret that telehealth adoption has skyrocketed as a result of the pandemic, and because of that, many health systems are in the process of shifting to a virtual-first hybrid care model. Unfortunately, video visits, which most will equate with telehealth, have done little to help with the age-old issues of patient access.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Marshfield Clinic Health System based in Marshfield, Wisconsin, has nine hospitals – plus Marshfield Children's Hospital inside the flagship hospital – and more than 60 healthcare centers in more than 30 communities across Wisconsin. MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. THE PROBLEM.

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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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. " Centura Health's Epic electronic health record offered most features available for telemedicine services, so it eventually transitioned to Epic Video Client for virtual care.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Many clients had never used technology before, and after becoming familiar with how to use video calling were able to connect with family and friends; find groups to participate in for social activities, exercise or hobbies; and learn about topics they found interesting." It uses GrandPads and iPads for hardware. MARKETPLACE.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care. CIOs and other health IT leaders are pondering how to implement systems that span the health system or hospital and enable physicians to pull the technology into their permanent workflow.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began to ripple across the world, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had only used telehealth in a limited capacity. But when the crisis made itself evident, explained HMFP Director of Telehealth?? Clinician engagement was also a major factor in the rollout.

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JULY 18, 2022

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. video views on TikTok. Gen Z and millennials are less likely to accept the outdated status quo: they’re more open to exploring non-traditional routes to health and wellness and are less likely to have a PCP than past generations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. “Patient video visits have been adopted to provide both primary and specialty outpatient care,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"The landscape of medicine was beginning to shift, and it was clear that patients didn't want to travel far or wait hours to see a doctor for problems that could be addressed through a video visit," Testa explained. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. Telehealth seemed to be a natural fit for my patients. She and her colleagues were incredibly busy every day.

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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 Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When we first started covering the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID, we saw an explosion of live video telehealth companies. They were obviously filling the need for doctors and patients to both stay at home. Then, we started to see a lot of talk about various remote patient monitoring companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I’m always slightly bothered when people say that telehealth has seen a massive explosion thanks to COVID-19. While it’s true that live video telehealth visits have seen hockey stick style growth because of COVID-19, there are actually a wide variety of telehealth options.

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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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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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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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MARCH 27, 2023

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Toward the end of March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard in California, Universal Community Health Center in Los Angeles needed to implement a quick-and-easy platform to get telehealth off the ground. with all the providers and support staff so they could engage in telehealth. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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