Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Dragged into this rapid shift, healthcare organizations adopted a plethora of communication endpoints without assessing their core attributes: adaptability, functionality, interoperability, effectiveness, and reliability. But a digital tool does not always map to a functional solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

With the rising burden of chronic diseases and new perspectives gained from the coronavirus pandemic, remote care is becoming a new standard of health service. In the long run, the pandemic will change the economics of healthcare by promoting highly specialised and affordable health services globally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Neuroglee Connect helps patients stimulate their brains and bolster them against cognitive deterioration with medically-tested activities at home while their caregivers can use support and informational tools that help them identify MCI-related anxiety and stress from day to day, according to the announcement. Email: afox@himss.org.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

As government agencies like the CMS and VA expanded access to telehealth towards the goal of extending care into rural areas, industry leaders like Care Innovations® announced a series of breakthroughs with exciting implications for the years to come. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

They'll go over tools such as Microsoft Teams, artificial intelligence chatbots, remote care devices and others that they used to manage patient care and try to keep staff members connected and informed. 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

MAY 12, 2021

A report released Wednesday from Vector Remote Care found that cardiology practices taking a patient-centric approach to remote cardiac monitoring report improved clinical and financial outcomes. Still, wearable tech and remote monitoring have taken on new importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

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

JULY 9, 2021

“This has been simpler with the introduction of new, easier-to-use self-monitoring tools.” “It has become imperative to national health, as well as healthcare budgets, that better, more innovative and sustainable management and prevention tools are explored to their fullest,” the report continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Healthcare Innovation: Disrupting Traditional Models and Understanding Regulations. Read more… Healthcare’s Data Resolution Problem.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

Through RPM, elderly patients are able to monitor their own health from the comfort of their own home through easy-to-use communication tools and medical devices. In addition, many RPM solutions offer hospice and palliative care to allow patients to reach the end of their lives with dignity. This is where RPM fills a major need.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Andrea Fox | September 01, 2023 News Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent? Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It has become increasingly important to equip individuals with knowledge about such apps, said the ATA and ORCHA – particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, when an increasing number of patients are turning to remote care and telehealth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital MSK, or digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care, refers to the use of technology and digital tools to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and management of conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, which includes bones, joints, muscles, and other connective tissues. What is Digital MSK?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, remote patient monitoring was poised to gain big momentum in 2020. This month, we look at lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic on how data is put to work informing patient care decisions and population health. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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

JANUARY 16, 2022

The current landscape for healthcare innovations involves two entities: on one hand, healthcare institutions engaged in their own digital transformation efforts and on the other, digital disruptors. remote care and monitoring). What more should/can be done in telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which has been raging for the past year, digital health and its related technologies into the fore, with unprecedented rates of adoption in telemedicine/teleconsultation services, virtual/remote care, and accelerated measures for healthcare staff to work remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

" FCC is set to vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking next month that will seek comment on several potential provisions, including $100 million in Universal Service Fund support that will help rural providers to defray the cost of offering remote care to low-income patients, including people in medically underserved areas and veterans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

NYU Langone Health launched its telehealth initiative more than two years ago, but study co-author Dr. Paul Testa told Healthcare IT News that patient use skyrocketed in March. Many insurance companies have also waived copays and deductible requirements for virtual care. '" Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2021

The rising number of seniors and the rising cost of care are making technologies that can provide services like remote care delivery critically important, requiring a focus on innovation to keep costs down. “That’s what allows us to avoid expensive measures like ambulance rides and keep costs down.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 9, 2024

Health Equity in Digital Health: How can we ensure everyone has fair and just access to digital health tools? Digital Mental Health: With rising mental health concerns, discussions around telehealth, remote monitoring, and mental health apps are likely to be prominent.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This, coupled with a rapid and widespread penetration of digital tools and solutions into everyday life, was forcing the hand of healthcare leaders to accelerate the development of digital healthcare, to facilitate the improvement of patient care through digitisation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. "A lot of healthcare organizations have tactical, IT-led departments, and they'll take a very tactical approach to this, with all hands on deck for COVID-19," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

The accelerated uptake of digital tools and virtual care over the last year, for instance, has been seen as a way to close the digital divide, but it must maintain the quality of care. THE LARGER PICTURE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term. How can telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies help support chronic and acute care anywhere?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"Both modalities allowed us to not only remotely monitor patients on their chronic conditions, but also continue to see those who had COVID-19-like symptoms." The tools also integrated with Raleigh Medical Group's telehealth solutions and Phreesia check-in platform. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"Thankfully, Virtua's leaders did not perceive the adoption of digital technologies as an opt-in mechanism, but rightly the springboard for an entirely integrated, digitally enabled approach to healthcare delivery," he continued. " The chatbots are short, sweet and to the point, Wilson added.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

For Exalta, UMH-West had specialty care providers on staff who could provide follow-up care for patients with two commonly diagnosed heart conditions: hypertension and diabetes. Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The lack of a sufficient number of clinicians to support these underserved communities can be reduced by the use of telepsychiatry services that permit clinicians who do not live in those areas to provide remote care from wherever they live, provided they are licensed in the state of the patient’s residence.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

“Virtual care has shown great promise, but audio-video options still fail to deliver the value of a doctor’s appointment and ultimately earn the trust of patients. We’re excited to invest in their continued growth and continue to help develop the tools they need to improve health care at home.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

"This technology is not simply a video chat, but a telehealth station that includes specialty cameras, remote stethoscopes and other diagnostic tools that can be used by the clinician facilitating the telehealth visit." “Studies show that more frequent contact with primary care physicians drives better health outcomes.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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