Healthcare IT, Leadership, Primary Care and Telehealth

Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. HCA Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Circle Medical.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. " Tejal A. Raichura, Geisinger.

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. First we launched primary care.

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Alpha Medical Announces New Funding of $24M to Further its Leadership in Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Women’s Telehealth Company Revolutionizing Healthcare Experience with Accessible Technology For All Women, Especially Those in Primary Care Deserts Alpha Medical announces completing a $24 million oversubscribed series B round to help seal its leadership position in women’s virtual primary care.

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Amazon Clinic-affiliated telehealth leader: There's a role for DTC with trad providers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Tom Milam manages a team of clinicians and guides them in telemedicine and industry best practices. We interviewed Milam to discuss: how provider organizations are using telehealth to try to curb provider burnout as demand for behavioral health services increases.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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Central Maine Healthcare’s telehealth program succeeds in satisfaction and call completion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Simultaneously, patients were hesitant to seek in-person care for many of their health concerns. “Our organization quickly identified a solution that would allow us to extend telehealth opportunities to patients where clinically appropriate.” " Dr. Steve Martel, Central Maine Healthcare. MARKETPLACE.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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What Pieces of Primary Care Work Virtually in a Post-COVID World? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This week’s chat will be hosted by Matt Sakumoto (@MattSakumoto) on the topic “What Pieces of Primary Care Work Virtually in a Post-COVID World?“ “ Matt Sakumoto is a primary care physician and product manager […].

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Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Exalta describes itself as a “faith-based nonprofit healthcare center that offers accessible, compassionate care for the whole person.” ” Its primary care physicians and volunteers serve thousands of patients annually. Sixty-four percent of Exalta patients have no insurance.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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In Health Care, AI to Advance Rapidly Along With Its Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

He also said that the benefits go beyond doctors; for instance, care coordinators can be more efficient and AI can help drug development. Both believe that AI can deliver primary care through telehealth to regions that lack it and to marginalized communities. Tell us what you think.

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Amazon’s New Prime Benefit Is a Wake-Up Call for Traditional Health Systems

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

The following is a guest article by Sonia Singh, Chief Insights Officer at AVIA Health Amazon’s latest venture into healthcare, the integration of One Medical into its Prime service, marks a significant shift in the healthcare industry.

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. Of patients with an assigned primary care provider, 55.51% of patients are enrolled in the portal.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Health IT Headlines and Their Signal for the Near Future – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 65

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2021

For the 65th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Headlines and Their Signal for the Near Future. In this episode we dive into some of these headlines and share what these mean for healthcare organizations in the near future. Telehealth Stock Drops. One Medical Acquires Iora Health.

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Virtual sitters at Lee Health guard against danger to patients, help trim costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"Fairly shortly, we envisioned the value in our leadership and saw the vision to provide funding to expand the program significantly to essentially all qualified patients who required this service." Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. We hope to see some movement on a permanent telehealth arrangement before the PHE ends.

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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Dr. David Bates, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital, compared the priorities set out by the declaration to the real-world response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the United States. "Federal leadership in the U.S, He pointed out that the U.S.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

As for telehealth, AMA points physicians to the fact that the government has also waived many telehealth requirements for new patients during the emergency, and is allowing for enhanced use of telehealth under Medicare for federally qualified health centers. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

This Ohio primary care practiced acquired three practices and added five physicians to its existing sites. See the video for more advantages offered by eClinicalWorks, such as remote training, telehealth, and support for value-based care. actually grew.

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Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system. It intended to go live in July 2020, using Amwell as the technology and services vendor for virtual urgent care for an estimated 1,500 visits in the first year. A major FCC telehealth grant.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

The opportunity to deliver a session for new healthcare students on the subject of telehealth is an enjoyable one. Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies.

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. When every system in your healthcare system is offline, your organization must be able to operate differently.

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The Goal of RPM is Management, Not Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

When physicians were unable to see patients in person, telehealth and RPM became a necessary capability not a nice-to-have. RPM enabled providers to continue to support patient care from afar. Perhaps the biggest driver in recent RPM adoption was the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

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 the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Personalized healthcare can take many different forms. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. This could be data like lab results from a patient’s rheumatologist not being sent to their primary care doctor. million in 2020.

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Health system uses telehealth to steer patients away from ER, urgent care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2020

This area has made a name for itself – renowned universities, constant opportunity, cutting-edge technology, and an impressive range of health services and healthcare options. WakeMed Health turned to RelyMD, a telemedicine technology vendor, for the telehealth piece. THE PROBLEM. That was the challenge. MARKETPLACE.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Payers need to understand everyone they cover—especially ones who fall outside the healthcare system. Hands-On Data Collection I talked to Dr. Geoff Rutledge, chief medical officer of HealthTap , a company that came early to telehealth and that I covered several times as far back as 2011. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? Collection.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards virtual visits and telehealth? Are physician practices the eggs in order for us to have the delicious omelet of digital healthcare? We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on this topic.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. To get that new angle, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what interesting angles they could think of to this problem. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. The following is their ideas.

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But I don't think there's a single system, really, that we've talked to, that didn't see exponential growth in terms of the number of uses of telehealth and other digital health solutions," Wolf continued. They're not necessarily sitting there, one in a hospital, one in primary care. "It's here.

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Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Alpha Medical Announces New Funding of $24M to Further its Leadership in Women’s Health

Amazon Clinic-affiliated telehealth leader: There's a role for DTC with trad providers

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Central Maine Healthcare’s telehealth program succeeds in satisfaction and call completion

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

What Pieces of Primary Care Work Virtually in a Post-COVID World? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

In Health Care, AI to Advance Rapidly Along With Its Regulation

Amazon’s New Prime Benefit Is a Wake-Up Call for Traditional Health Systems

IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Health IT Headlines and Their Signal for the Near Future – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 65

Virtual sitters at Lee Health guard against danger to patients, help trim costs

Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth

Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

The Goal of RPM is Management, Not Monitoring

Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Health system uses telehealth to steer patients away from ER, urgent care

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

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