Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

More than 70 percent of respondents polled by cybersecurity firm CynergisTek say they'll keep using telehealth services, even once the pandemic subsides. But they also say privacy and data security are big concerns – and that breaches involving virtual care technologies could cause them to stop using telehealth or switch physicians.

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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. More specifically, we’re talking about EHR vendors entrance into telehealth and third party telehealth vendors. Plus, we talk about telehealth investment and whether we think it will continue.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2023

For the 120th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are taking a look at the patient experience outside of the hospital. Then we discuss our worries about the potential decline in telehealth and how that will impact the patient experience. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association this week sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting that they continue allowing telehealth and remote care services to be treated as an excepted benefit. Chamber of Commerce, the Healthcare Leadership Council, Walmart, Teladoc Health and One Medical. Signers included the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. Improving the quality of healthcare while lowering costs and increasing access in rural Pennsylvania counties is challenging, she said. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. "Telehealth solutions need to be deployed in a culturally competent, equitable way to ensure they reach the communities that need the most support," he said.

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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. So providers engaged with patients via mobile phones, on iPads and on laptop computers to address their healthcare issues. THE PROBLEM.

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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

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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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. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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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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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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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. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. By implementing the telehealth model, one of St. " MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to change how healthcare is delivered, with telehealth taking a front row seat. Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rules […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth. Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2023

Virtual care technologies and artificial intelligence are helping health systems and healthcare retailers to improve care delivery. Amazon Clinic virtual care visits are now available in all 50 states The ability to access more immediate care via telehealth, including prescription refills, is now possible in every U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

For the 32nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Patient Communication and Telehealth Greenspace. Patient Communication and Telehealth has a lot of greenspace out there and both have become more and more important in healthcare. Accelerated by COVID-19, this is going to be even more true.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2020

“During the pandemic, we have experienced a significant decrease in patient volume; we could not perform elective procedures; and, we substantially increased our telehealth utilization. “While most patients have heard of telehealth, far fewer had experience using it, particularly the elderly. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. Aligning new technology and features with the Epic EHR has created more effective telehealth care pathways, Frunzi explained. Monitoring will transition to Health Recovery Solutions. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"Telehealth is a great example," he said. " The example of telehealth highlights the importance of advocacy at multiple levels of government to simplify the complex regulations that make it such a challenge to use the technologies that are prevalent in so many other fields of business, he insisted.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For the 81st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Surprise Billing and Health Equity. In this episode we dive into […] For the 81st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Surprise Billing and Health Equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Additionally, it can help them track how well the connected health tools are working as part of a telehealth, remote monitoring or other virtual care program. " Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki explored how UPMC is using Xealth with its Epic EHR platform. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation. News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters. Taking Stock of Progress and Looking Ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

For the 73rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Michael Restuccia, CIO at Penn Medicine to talk about health IT projects! Next, we debate whether or not telehealth and RPM are getting the attention they deserve and Restuccia discusses how he is approaching them.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2020

Many of you might remember when we shared the amazing explosion of telehealth visits thanks to COVID-19. It really is astounding to see how healthcare organizations were able to convert to telehealth visits so quickly and how patients embraced telehealth as an option.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare.

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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 Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

At this point we are all very familiar with telehealth. However, telehealth is only useful if it is accessible. Furthermore, by using telehealth the hospital could save AU$1,000 per month for every patient that was included in the program. What Dr. Jan is most excited about in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Telehealth carts and synchronous tech has been utilized to be able to do ward rounds on patients and 80-100 patients can receive care closer to home through the service, to ensure that patients in rural areas are getting the best quality care they can, through face-to-face and virtual methods.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2020

UPIC Health, which provides administrative revenue cycle and patient engagement support to healthcare clients, now is offering telehealth services for free to women who live in New York and New Jersey. Telehealth services aimed at addressing behavioral health and wellness needs have soared in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

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