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TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt.

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The rapid proliferation and advancement of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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How Legacy Health expanded from inpatient to ambulatory telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Legacy Health had an established telehealth program, which involves specialty-care services providing remote consultations to a variety of facilities. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. " The majority of care providers were trained over a period of a few weeks. Adding ambulatory telemedicine.

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EHR documentation burdens increasing with virtual care expansion, says study

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A. Jay Holmgren at UCSF, previously partnered with other researchers from Stanford, Harvard and other universities who suspected the rise of telehealth could be to blame for spiking the amount of time clinicians were spending in the EHR.

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Patients increasingly trusting of remote care technology, says new report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Confidence in remote care technology is gaining traction in the United States, with a survey finding 56 percent of Americans currently monitor their health with at least one digital data collection tool. Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Telehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Telehealth boosts continuity of care, patient-provider relationships at Ellis Medicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.