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. " The results, panelists said, were subpar : Due to technical difficulties, the overall video success rate was 49%.

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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. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Click here to review the listings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. The findings indicate that medication prescriptions were lower for video and telephone visits at 38.4% telephone visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. It comes as little surprise that the top story on this list explores the dimensions of a theretofore much-discussed but underused modality of care: Telehealth. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Using this data, clinicians could establish connections with individuals in the ER and make sure they had a primary care provider upon discharge. The results were not only fewer ER visits, but more access to care. Watch the video for more insights about the use of AI to intervene in patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST : Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Architect, and Anand Nair, Head of Healthcare Payer. Both believe that AI can deliver primary care through telehealth to regions that lack it and to marginalized communities.

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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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MAY 7, 2024

It describes the value of a facilitated, mobile device-integrated telehealth program that combines in-home paramedic visits with video consults with emergency physicians. Finally, while access to broadband and video-capable devices is increasing across the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. Healthcare IT News interviewed Emerson to have him expand upon his predictions for the year.

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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 Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the CIO Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Telehealth has been an elegant solution to this and has allowed staff to hold family meetings where care providers can show their face via video and provide time to answer questions, she said. This also has been highly effective in coordinating multiple physicians caring for the same patient on one video call, she added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2021

Starting this summer, Amazon Care will also expand its virtual care to companies and Amazon employees in all 50 states. It is not yet clear how Amazon Care will work in conjunction with health insurance if it is provided by other companies. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. In-home visits incur a fee.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

This Ohio primary care practiced acquired three practices and added five physicians to its existing sites. In this video, Leanne Knight, Director of Health Informatics, explains how they streamlined their organization to achieve this success. eClinicalWorks is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. actually grew.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

The survey found that 62% of respondents had a virtual care visit of some kind from March 2019 through March 2020 – and for 71% of them, it was their first time doing so. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate. The organization implemented virtual visits across all primary care, integrated behavioral health and pediatric behavioral health service lines. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Check out their answers in this video compilation below. Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Senior Director of Community Strategy at DirectTrust – I almost liken it to the healthcare system and medicine. Huge thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to come speak with us to make this video possible!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 6, 2023

"With this technology, we can have a quick evaluation by a physician who is miles away and who can help us make decisions about care and whether we need to transfer a patient to that site," said Dr. Christopher Calandrella, chair of emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, in the statement. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

The team noted that the asynchronous capability provided by the Zipnosis platform proved crucial "due to very high patient volumes during which it would have been impossible to accommodate through video or chat functions." Some departments such as psychiatry and primary care were exceeding their pre-pandemic clinical volumes."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Hunter Sinclair, vice president of solution strategy at Teladoc Health, to dive into this subject. Sinclair joined the company in 2020 to grow the company’s chronic care business within the Medicare Advantage line of business. What is the current state of virtual care for those 65 and older?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Those who spoke with Healthcare IT News for this story made it clear that the benefits of telehealth outweigh the challenges. The healthcare professionals we interviewed spoke to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding telehealth reimbursement as a major contributor to dissatisfaction. "The insecurity of the future."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

As Evans explained, VA video-to-home telehealth encounters increased by 3,147% from 294,847 encounters in fiscal year 2019 to 9,575,958 encounters in fiscal year 2021. million telehealth episodes of care – representing a 98% increase in telehealth episodes of care when compared to fiscal year 2020. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. "During the peak of the pandemic, primary care telehealth visits accounted for more than 50% of our volume." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There were significant opportunities for both telephone and video visits to be captured through telemedicine. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. From March 23 through August 26, 6,929 video visits attended, 1,124 cancelled and 287 no-shows. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

New forms of social media, such as TikTok, have opened the floodgates to an entirely new manner of healthcare professional conduct online, with an attitude that is much more open to sharing with the masses. These online platforms can undoubtedly be catalysts for quality improvement in the healthcare field. About Alexandra V.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand. It suggests that Doctor on Demand’s video-based visits are often leading to rewarding relationships between patients and physicians and to improved patient satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A recent HIMSS Market Intelligence survey found that nearly one in two respondents between the ages of 18 and 56 preferred seeing their primary care provider via video after the COVID-19 pandemic. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.). " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“Furthermore, this allows CCRLC patients to connect with their primary care physician for routine office visits,” Schmitz said. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

A practice-wide communications system that can help free up primary care reception staff. Virtual delivery platform for acute, chronic, primary and specialty dental care that can reduce emergency room visits. A platform that provides real-time, multi-streaming video solutions to aid in remote decision-making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

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. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind.

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