Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. Q: You've said that personalization will influence telehealth engagement. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

It's no secret, at this point, that telehealth rates exploded in response to the COVID-19 crisis. But a KLAS report published this week found that, while some telehealth technology vendors rose to the occasion, others have struggled to deliver. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Comparing 11 top telehealth platforms: Company execs tout quality, safety, EHR integrations. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. Cancer is one of the few diseases where we must make patients sicker to get them better.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The previously unbreakable "Iron Triangle of Healthcare" where the constraints are healthcare systems' top priorities – Cost, Quality and Access – can now be broken with the advent of digital innovations that increase healthcare access and quality without increasing cost or even lowering cost.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in so many cases, this was Zoom – a video conferencing technology that today practically everyone is familiar with. Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. In this Healthcare IT News special report, telemedicine technology experts from Amwell, Caregility, Eko and emocha Health offer readers their decades of expertise in the form of best practices for optimizing the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new project in the Australian state of Victoria aims to improve the telehealth capabilities of mental health and palliative care services. million) funding from the federal government-backed Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) for its Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities project. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Patients can expect two in-person visits from a care provider daily and more if needed and can use real-time technology on-demand to reach their dedicated health team. BMC said on its website that the kit includes: A tablet for telehealth video visits, educational content and daily care schedule. Emergency response bracelet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Please explain.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. The experience was often frustrating. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. "We use Epic with Zoom as the video solutions," Sarantis said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. The industry can help evolve these standards and make medical devices work seamlessly as part of video conferences." WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. It doesn’t matter how well the hospital and your staff are prepared to deliver remote care if the patients do not have the means to access it, whether that’s due to poor service or lacking the technology necessary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2022

"With Oshi, we are excited to move digestive healthcare from ongoing procedures and tests to longitudinal behavioral support," he continued. "Together, we can transform the patient experience for the many people who are desperate for effective digestive health treatment." Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

UPMC has been working with Pittsburgh-based Abridge, a telehealth-focused startup that uses natural language processing to create after-visit summaries – enabling patients to revisit their physicians' instructions after remote consults. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That platform will replace the MHS Video Connect service, starting at five initial sites – followed by a phased roll-out enterprise-wide. Amwell will also deliver other automated care programs, such as behavioral health offerings and integrated core telehealth tools. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It sampled a variety of different services and ultimately selected Zoom Healthcare as its video visit software. “This vendor also provided great options for e-visits that included video and voice or voice-only,” she added. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The health center tried to use its existing telehealth platform, doxy.me, to reach patients. Staff realized that many of their patients had little or no Internet access and also lacked experience using mobile technology. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients are demanding that healthcare providers improve their customer service in every way. As a result, practices are embracing technologies like telehealth, which enable them to take a more patient-centered approach. In healthcare, it fluctuates for several reasons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the challenges Whole Life faced during the onset of the pandemic was access to a reputable and efficient telehealth system to continue care for patients. “During March, April and May, there were days our team would see 90% telehealth visits, so having a solution that was very easy helped our visits increase efficiency.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Before Covid-19 few of us interacted with our healthcare providers in any way other than face-to-face. Now, a video conference call with a doctor is […]. The Virtual Health Revolution is Here A virtual health revolution is occurring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"The technology automatically sends patients appointment reminders with individualized Google Meet video links whenever we designate an appointment as telemedicine in our EHR." The automated Google Meet video conference invitations saved schedulers hours of time each day. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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