Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 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. Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Dr. Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Chief Medical Officer at BrainCheck.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. That’s why the FCC will vote to advance my $100 million pilot program at our July 10 meeting." WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

The survey, commissioned by specialist insurer Beazley , focused on 376 executives from telehealth companies in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as mobile platforms and life science technology software. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. What could go wrong with this picture?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

For many, that meant taking a back-to-basics approach, in terms of meeting immediate demands. And as the system ramped up initiatives such as its telehealth platform, she says, those changes needed to be communicated to Northwell's tens of thousands employees. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"Telehealth quickly became a prominent means of contact precaution across our inpatient care settings. "With everyone scrambling for mobile video solutions, Caregility rose to the challenge and equipped us with one hundred of their new APS250 mobile telehealth carts," he continued. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers technology implementation tips, as well as a reference to CPT codes for reporting telemedicine and remote care services. "Physician practices are being hard-hit by the pandemic, which is threatening the sustainability of practices and could reduce access to care," said AMA President Patrice A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Numerous commercial payers also cover RPM, sometimes within their telehealth coverage policies. Providers soon may be able to bill for much more remote patient monitoring. The proposed changes are currently on the public agenda for the American Medical Association's May CPT Editorial Panel meeting. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions. Please expand on this.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Using ORCHA's automated review process, healthcare organizations can assess apps against more than 300 measures of usability, security and quality. market and will add apps meeting that criteria to the ATA approved library. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

The remote patient monitoring efforts were meant to supply support to over-stretched inpatient units by creating a means to provide care for acute patients in their home, thereby reducing length of stay while aiding in managing chronic illnesses and disease. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The charge became to expand it quickly.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Role of Joy in the Lives of Healthcare Workers. Far too many healthcare professionals no longer experience the joy of practicing medicine.

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MAY 30, 2018

Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. Time and again, remote patient management has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and lower operational costs , as perhaps best demonstrated by the success of the Mississippi Diabetes Health Network.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 has pushed digital health technologies such as telehealth and remote monitoring /virtual care into the fore, and the nation-state of Singapore is no exception. Never let a crisis go to waste.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient? Then came COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2023

THE LARGER TREND Connected Care represents a major milestone in SJMC's goal of building a comprehensive, end-to-end healthcare system. Like the rest of Malaysian providers, the hospital is leveraging digital technologies to meet patients' demands for virtual and remote care post-pandemic.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2020

Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Dan Costantino, Chief Information Security Officer at Penn Medicine, who offered some insights into how his infosec staff has adjusted its strategies to support the health system during the public health emergency. And remote care presents another whole set of security challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intermountain Healthcare announced this week that it is expanding the scope and services of its hospital at home program, more than a year since it was first launched in May 2020. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS. The initiative now serves patients at 12 hospitals across Utah, with new locations soon to come.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. The idea that high-quality care can be delivered remotely came into the limelight during the pandemic as patients and providers embraced the concept of virtual care, such as telehealth. The impacts are far-reaching.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Major medical related discussions, meetings and conferences can also take place digitally for education and consultation purposes. Future plans include connecting the Telemedicine Command Center to other hospitals, universities, or other world-class research centers for medical related education programs. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? The organization was started by Bob Waters, a vocal advocate in the telehealth community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The previous telehealth technology was app-based and cumbersome to download and use for both clinicians and patients. "The AI-powered platform engages patients, staff and clinicians through a chatbot designed with 100% remote care capabilities. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. Splinters in the relationship can also begin remotely, brought about by frustrating telehealth systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Have they been open to remote care team support? From a technical perspective, implementation was a strength of the vendor, the provider said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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