Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. "I know their baseline and when they call, I send the [mobile telemedicine technicians] there." Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead. There is growth in the number of plans offering virtual care services and expansion in the varieties of services offered. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Technology accelerates adoption of on-demand care and improves access within health care systems. On-demand virtual primary care company, 98point6 , today announced it will offer their virtual care platform to power Health Systems’ digital engagement efforts with providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process" is a free quality improvement program designed to help practices improve the cancer diagnostic process. What is the status of the "AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Walmart Health's moves in this direction echo that of Amazon Care, which quietly filed to do business in dozens of states before publicly announcing its intention to provide app-based services in all 50 by this summer. 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

MARCH 28, 2022

Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes. What is the state of telemedicine technology at hospitals and health systems today?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

The following is a guest article by Sonia Singh, Chief Insights Officer at AVIA Health Amazon’s latest venture into healthcare, the integration of One Medical into its Prime service, marks a significant shift in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. First we launched primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

Jessica Sweeney-Platt, vice president of research and editorial strategy at athenahealth, has telehealth insights learned from athenahealth's vast nationwide network data sourced from 18.4 The Northeast and the West lead the country for adoption and sustained volume of primary care telehealth appointments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

" Tullman said the merger news excited clients and members, "because for the first time there was one place to have all of your healthcare needs taken care of and yet not lose the empathy, not lose the human touch, and not lose the connection to physicians," he said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Florida's Tampa General Hospital has teamed up with healthcare technology company OnMed to deploy new telemedicine stations deployed inside the facility. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth. Some, such as Stanford Health Care Chief of Staff Dr. Megan Mahoney, noted that the transition to telehealth amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic enabled more than 225,000 of the system's patients to complete their first video visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. It needed to see all of the vitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. How exactly can telemedicine help solve each of these challenges?

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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. THE PROBLEM. " said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Business Intelligence Analyst (Product Owner) position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is remote.

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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 26, 2022

And he will share strategies for extending these digital platforms in areas – both urban and rural – with limited broadband internet access. Healthcare IT News interviewed Griffin to take a closer look at what he will be presenting at the HIMSS22 conference. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), which is the first fully digitalized-paperless health care institution in South Korea, was designated by the government on 1 March as a “public safety hospital,” an institution that separates the treatment process of respiratory patients to prevent COVID-19 spread with the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

According to a McKinsey report, an estimated 25% of outpatient services could move to telemedicine, which is among the necessary changes that could mean preparation and prevention for future health epidemics and pandemics, said Dr. Muhammad Ali Chaudhry, CEO of Emerging Health International, a healthcare technology and services company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today, Reimer is in the middle of a $350 million virtual care initiative, working to overcome health IT workforce challenges, and building a modern data ecosystem – emphasis on modern. We also plan to build five satellite clinics to ensure patients have access to care and services close to home. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2021

Presbyterian Healthcare Services serves one third of New Mexico's residents with nine hospitals, a medical group and a health plan. The health system was looking for new ways to improve access to quality care while sustaining operations and planning for the future, so it launched a Presbyterian delivery system redesign committee.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

” This article looks at the measurements and reporting strategies used by some specific companies. Wondr Health Gives Employers What They Ask For Wondr Health , like so many companies in this article and in the value-based healthcare space generally, works with employers and payers. offering in-home treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This is especially important to NYC Health + Hospitals, given the diversity of its population and the need to provide care in more than 200 languages. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology vendors on the health IT market today. The service was crucial in preserving New York City's emergency care system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. The strategy for deployment of the Innovaccer telehealth platform focused on primary care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 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

MAY 9, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, healthcare did not leverage much customer-facing technology, and therefore was not held to the same standards. "The explosion of telehealth in response to COVID-19 changed that," said Juli Stover, chief strategy officer at eVisit, a telehealth technology and services company. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

Also, after being in healthcare for a decade, the topics are familiar and unless you’re in academia and research, probably not always that impactful on your medical practice day-to-day. The ATA is an active leader in defining digital health and telemedicine and best practices on implementation, reimbursement, and sustainability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consulting firm, has set out to determine whether telemedicine, a high-growth technology, is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

Dr. Joseph Zabinski, their VP, head of commercial strategy & AI, says it’s important to decide what to treat. Thus, they stress the human side of health care, striving to “create a durable primary care relationship” for behavioral health and care management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

” Because residents will have the opportunity to receive primary care services in a safer environment through telehealth, Parker will contribute to public health goals of reducing the spread of COVID-19 while reducing excess burden on the hospital systems throughout New York City that may be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model. As a lesson in the potential for telemedicine to serve disparate populations, the early results of this partnership are promising.

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