Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

Remote care clinicians have also broadened the treatments they offer, to include COVID-19 and other acute and chronic conditions, according to officials at the Salt Lake City-based health system. Patients and family agree to have phones nearby at all times, so tele-nurses and technicians can reach out to validate new alerts.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Topics included the workforce shortage and burnout , increasing access to telebehavioral health , expanding critical and emergency care on demand, cybersecurity, and telehealth waivers and licensing. The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"iObserver allows a remote care team to monitor up to 12 patients per screen, with two-way audio/video support, night vision and rapid-response bedside alerts. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. Another factor pushing RPM adoption is the ongoing nursing and clinical provider shortages. Rural communities across the U.S. over a 30-day period.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2021

A report released Wednesday from Vector Remote Care found that cardiology practices taking a patient-centric approach to remote cardiac monitoring report improved clinical and financial outcomes. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

But up until recently, a reliable remote care platform that delivers the confidence of hospital-grade care has been virtually nonexistent. Gain insights from nursing leadership on how telehealth can make a difference in the post-pandemic world and beyond.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Granted, only a percentage of healthcare consumers become in-patient, but it still is a crucial part of the patient journey. It’s where physicians, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare staff work together to meet the patient’s needs. Patient Transfer – this point of the journey is focused more on the in-patient setting.

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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

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 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

In addition, the group called for lasting changes to an array of process rules that enable nurse practitioners and physician assistants to practice atop their license, with remote supervision, while physicians are freed up to care for the most acute patients. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With more than 110 years of continuous operation, the organization has grown to 13 locations offering independent, residential and assisted living; Tapestries Memory Care; respite; rehabilitation; long-term care; Bridges Hospice and Palliative Care; affordable senior housing; and live-in and in-home personal care through HomeWorks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

of remote patient monitoring patients comply with. By Bill Siwicki | June 20, 2023 News Piedmont Healthcare launches Epic-integrated continuous RPM program Working with Telemetrix and Remote Care Partners, the Atlanta health system is enabling cloud-based.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

"The addition of MEND as our ambulatory telehealth vendor allowed Legacy Health to meet the needs of our patients, providing a safe environment for care delivery for our providers and staff," said Dr. Steven Seres, telehealth medical director at Legacy Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Lucienne Ide, founder and chief health innovator at Rimidi, a cloud-based remote patient monitoring technology company, to gain her insights and expertise into the state of RPM – and where it goes from here. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. What is the problem?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Once the enquiry is received, the attending nurse or medical officer will provide advice or make recommendations to consult a specialist at Sunway Medical Center. And we pride the credibility of our Telemedicine Services as all medical or clinical enquiries will be attended by a certified nurse or medical officer. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Through COVID Watch – which has enrolled more than 5,000 patients since its launch in late March 2020, with a Spanish language version launched in May – patients receive text messages twice a day to check on their condition and enable contact with nurses who elevate to higher levels of care if need be. They deserve better."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

" The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added. Have they been open to remote care team support? In fact, it was something he had not previously thought about. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

As the "Silver Tsunami" swells , with more than 75 million Baby Boomers set to avail themselves of their Medicare benefits and put strain on an already overstretched health system, telehealth and remote care technologies will be key to helping deliver appropriate care to these aging patients while keeping costs under control.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The digital care application, teamplay myCare Companion ‘Pandemic’ delivered by medical technology company Siemens Healthineers, allows clinicians to remotely prioritize and manage patients based on their clinical needs, and has the capability to be rolled out to any healthcare service across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2019

The face-to-face video conferencing allows our nurses to build relationships with patients and continually engage with them and educate them." Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin. "Patient engagement is critical to the management of chronic conditions. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

From the Virtual Health Center perspective, technologies were meant to augment bedside care supporting both nursing and providers in these intensive care spaces. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. Executives also should ensure that they're able to handle shifting venues for some staff members, who may be working from home or at remote care delivery sites.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

Just as in-home care allows patients to receive medical attention where they are most comfortable, virtual care offers access to team members between in-person visits, providing family members and caregivers an extra layer of support. Virtual care nurses can answer medical questions and provide expert guidance in real-time.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

" The platform alerts the patient's care team when needed, prompting clinicians to check in with the patient about mobility issues, pain management or other concerns. "Patients also can message their care teams through the platform to confirm information or clarify a postoperative symptom they're experiencing."

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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 Today

JUNE 2, 2023

The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience HealthSnap , a Miami -based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Resilient Healthcare Employs Extensive Data Analytics Resilient Healthcare provides in-home care for conditions that have traditionally required a hospital stay. Payers are naturally interested in evidence that Resilient Healthcare can provide comparable care and reduce readmissions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Preferred functionalities to manage remote care. Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, and chronic wounds are seven diseases where technology has been used to manage care for patients with promising results. Video visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

While these are two large factors behind the increased demand, other factors are driving the increase, including the technological advances that enable better remote care. An Annals of Medicine study noted that patients with frequently missed appointments tend to “experience poorer health outcomes.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Although it may seem counterintuitive, given the hands-on approach obstetricians and gynecologists often take with care, telemedicine can act as a bridge between vulnerable pregnant people and their providers without requiring as much in-person exposure. "I think that made life really difficult for clinicians at these health systems."

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