Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2022

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The results suggested enduring interest in virtual care among physicians.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. So, naturally, many of them came here to explore their options.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Between March 24 and June 23, researchers found that Latinx patients were significantly less likely to have video telemedicine compared with audio-only visits. "The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the healthcare delivery landscape and fundamentally shifted the ways in which patients access healthcare," wrote researchers.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Limitations and uncertainty around telehealth reimbursement have always been an impediment to adoption. What barriers still remain to telehealth reimbursement, and how might they be overcome? Holistic tele-care and care beyond the video visit. Reimbursement for different telehealth modalities.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

"CMS and state efforts to evaluate and oversee telehealth are critical to meeting Medicaid enrollees' behavioral health needs and to safeguarding the Medicaid program from potential fraud, waste and abuse," wrote OIG officials. Even so, only 11 conduct telehealth-specific monitoring and oversight.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners.

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JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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JULY 18, 2022

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MARKETPLACE.

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MARCH 2, 2022

A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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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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JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. Telehealth seemed to be a natural fit for my patients. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Healthdirect Australia , a national public health information service in the country, recently announced that it will be working with home-grown telehealth startup Coviu, to power its government-funded healthdirect Video Call service. In April 2019, Swinburne started working with Coviu for telehealth education.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The first would be the platform’s ability to integrate into an electronic health record. TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. The second component was scalability. MARKETPLACE.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth revolutionized the way people receive healthcare since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been many benefits to greatly expanded telehealth. What should people look out for when choosing a telehealth provider? What should people look out for when choosing a telehealth provider?

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JUNE 15, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance describing how HIPAA covered entities can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services. The HHS public health emergency declaration was recently extended again, but it won't last forever. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. " “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. " Sen.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Burgess, R-Texas, introduced legislation aimed at increasing telehealth access, particularly for children. The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Blunt Rochester in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Telemedicine can have long-term health equity benefits, including allowing providers to reach more patients in remote regions without travel requirements and see an increased number of patients in need who have historically avoided care due to stigma. Before we put up each video, we make sure that the English subtitles are 100% correct.

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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Amazon is expanding an initiative allowing employees to access healthcare via text message or video call from the Seattle area to throughout Washington state. Prescription delivery is free in eligible areas, but medication costs vary, and clinicians can only prescribe medications for healthcare conditions that Care Medical treats.

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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. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. for telehealth, due to the simple user interface. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2020

“During the pandemic, we have experienced a significant decrease in patient volume; we could not perform elective procedures; and, we substantially increased our telehealth utilization. “While most patients have heard of telehealth, far fewer had experience using it, particularly the elderly. MARKETPLACE.

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JULY 27, 2020

The Center for Connected Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on the resourcing and diffusion of digital health solutions in partnership with the Mayo Clinic practice, extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise and increasing patient access to clinical care, even at a distance. THE PROBLEM.

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JULY 18, 2019

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health.

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MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 million people in Suffolk County, New York.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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JULY 16, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of patients have turned to telehealth. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how telehealth can, if implemented properly, allow clinicians to deliver high-quality care to their patients," Perryman continued, pointing to ACOG's resources for members on telehealth best practices.

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MAY 18, 2023

Farr runs the addiction practice and is cofounder of Atadas, a telehealth medication monitoring technology company. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE Three technology trends add value to addiction medicine: telehealth, patient data interoperability and artificial intelligence, Farr said. All of us want to celebrate their recovery."

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. It does not require physical contact between caregiver and patient (though seeing a patient's affect in person can be better than via video). Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth.

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APRIL 17, 2020

It made getting kids in for needed appointments difficult, especially when they often are for behavioral health issues that need regular follow-up. “I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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