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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

They provide remote healthcare providers with live access to the exam site, not just with video conferencing technologies but also via live streaming medical images, documents, and video. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

. “I n rural America and small towns, families often struggle to get health care… The lack of access to emergency and outpatient services and preventative care is one of the reasons why rural Americans have a 43 percent higher mortality rate than urban Americans.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. economy, not just in the health care economy. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Avni Gupta, a PhD student in the Department of Public Health Policy and Management at NYU School of Global Public Health and the lead author of the paper, told Healthcare IT News that before the surveys, "there was a lot of anecdotal information about several challenges" clinicians were facing.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." What is Synchronous Telemedicine? " The U.S. " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs. The second quarter of 2020 saw a surge in virtual consultations via telephone and video calls as lockdowns were pertinent in different parts of the world. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Do Medicare providers located at a Distant Site have to be hospital-based to provide services?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

As a condition of payment, telehealth services must be provided using an interactive audio and video telecommunications system that permits real-time communication between the distant site, and the beneficiary at the originating site. These providers must be licensed under state law. Click here to download the Telehealth Services booklet.

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In the EU, people who live in the community are also known as “health citizens.” ” We are not really health citizens in America. We don’t have what Dr. Ricciardi recently spoke about in this video — “la salute e uguale per tutti” — health and equality for all.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. Clinical applications.

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Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare

Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. Some were over the phone, others were over video, often with a family member present as well.

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6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Find out your state reimbursement policy. Every state Medicaid program provides reimbursement for some form of live video in Medicaid fee-for-service; some also reimburse for store-and-forward telemedicine and/or remote patient monitoring (RPM.) Identify suitable Medicaid patients in your practice.

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

Previously, Medicare would only pay for real time telehealth visits conducted using both live voice and video. Ninety percent of those who did have a voice or video appointment with a healthcare provider reported that the visit helped them address their symptoms, concerns, or questions.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Its objective is to put an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of everyone on earth by combining the ever growing computing power of machines with the best medical expertise of humans to create a comprehensive, immediate and personalized health service and make it universally available.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Fixing these problems is an international undertaking, although hospitals can do more to reduce their own waste and carbon emissions (video). Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare.

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High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage

Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Employers’ latest cost-control efforts include managing expenses for the most expensive diseases; getting workers to use nurse video-chat services and other types of “ telemedicine ”; and paying for primary care clinics at work or nearby. Almost all large employers offer telemedicine, but hardly any workers use it.

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CMS rolls back more Medicare, telehealth regs for providers working through pandemic

Henry Kotula

MAY 1, 2020

In the past, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could do so. Earlier changes included waiving the video requirement for telehealth patients without access to interactive audio-video technology – particularly those in rural areas.

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Telemedicine and a Vision for Health Care Without Walls

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

JANUARY 4, 2018

But he can consult with a far-away dermatologist by video about the latest treatments to help restore his function and appearance. As my organization, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), has discovered in our Health Care Without Walls initiative, the reasons telemedicine is not yet playing a major role in U.S.

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While Nurses and Doctors Still Rank Highest in Trust, Gallup Finds Trust-Erosion by Party ID

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2023

the good news for the human capital of health care is that nurses, physicians and pharmacists continue to lead Americans’ ratings across professions in first, second, and third place respectively. Now, to the more nuanced finding this year that Americans’ trust in our front-line health care staff has ticked downward.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

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Do Medicare providers located at a Distant Site have to be hospital-based to provide services?

Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare

6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

High-Deductible Health Plans Fall From Grace In Employer-Based Coverage

CMS rolls back more Medicare, telehealth regs for providers working through pandemic

Telemedicine and a Vision for Health Care Without Walls

While Nurses and Doctors Still Rank Highest in Trust, Gallup Finds Trust-Erosion by Party ID

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