Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2024

While telehealth alone doesn't appear to add significantly to a primary care physician's workload, mixing modalities – telehealth and in-person hybrid care environments – led to a 6% increase in time spent with documentary and EHR work, new research shows. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Citing a 2021 study, they noted that the use of telehealth in harm reduction primary care programs providing buprenorphine helped to increase access to care and overcome health inequities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

A study by University of Michigan researchers published in Health Affairs this month found that direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits for acute respiratory infections were linked to more downstream visits. percent of episodes initiated via direct-to-consumer telemedicine led to related downstream visits, compared with 5.9

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Navina released a generative AI assistant for primary care practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? Virtual care can be a game-changer for people in rural communities and healthcare deserts. Even in urban centers where there are shortages of specialists. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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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. For the study, the researchers sought a qualitative assessment of patient-visit feedback after virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The study recommended that pilot projects to explore the feasibility of improved EHR interoperability should be considered, and called for a "new normal" incorporating telehealth technologies into the healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a staggering 4,345% percent between March 2 and April 14. "Over the space of four days, the world changed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2022, a lot of attention has been focused on devices for remote patient monitoring (RPM), but devices that enable clinicians to assess and diagnose patients at home are also needed to fully realize the promise of care-at-home. TytoCare , a virtual care company, recently launched its Home Smart Clinic that enables primary care from home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2021

"Reaching one million visits demonstrates the capabilities of health centers to meet their patients’ needs through innovation and resourcefulness," Christina Severin, president and CEO of Community Care Cooperative, told Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. Europe had its second warmest July on record this year, with temperatures 1.4 THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. In this week’s edition, one story is, let’s just say, a little foolish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

The survey found the majority of respondents (78%) who have used telehealth were satisfied with their experience, although older adults are reluctant to use telehealth – the overwhelming majority of consumers age 55 to 64 (81%) and age 65+ (84%) who have access to telehealth have not had a virtual or telemedicine visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. Behavioral health showed the highest rates of adoption and satisfaction among telemedicine offerings. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

B2B software comparison website Capterra has published the results of a study with over 1,000 Australians, detailing their perspectives and considerations about telehealth. According to Capterra’s survey findings, 92% of telemedicine users in Australia had experienced telemedicine for the first time during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones. " He also advocated against payment parity for telemedicine and against long-term coverage for audio-only visits. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Included Health is partnering with Dispatch Health to connect virtual primary care to in-home urgent medical care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Arizona-based Spectrum Healthcare chose NextGen Healthcare to support primary care and behavioral health delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. When digital services are available, they’re often disconnected from primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here is a regularly updated list of deep-dive case studies showing how providers of all shapes and sizes are making their tech spend work for them. Kendell Cannon describes how her primary care practice sifted through the hype of artificial.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is located in Toppenish, Washington.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

Ultimately, they reduced the classes of obesity to four phenotypes, which were tested in a study : Hungry Brain: These people keep on eating because they don’t feel full, when others would. Participants in the program in one study lost 8% of their weight in 12 weeks, compared to 4% in the control group.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Epic Application Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is located in Toppenish, Washington.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"The telehealth cliff is looming, casting much uncertainty and concern for the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries, and the sustainability of our already overburdened healthcare system," said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies. Northern Ohio’s NOMS Healthcare selected Axuall for workforce management optimization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, the Federal Communications Commission has issued millions of dollars in grants to shore up health systems' telemedicine programs and infrastructure. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

DecisionRx Runs a Study With Specific Measures The importance of carefully choosing what you measure can be illustrated by DecisionRx. The company cites studies such as this one that followed patients over several years to assess the benefits of pharmacogenomics programs. offering in-home treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Utah-based palliative care practice Bristol Advanced Illness Management deployed eClinicalWorks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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