Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

At the start of the pandemic, emergency declarations and insurer policies encouraged the shift to telehealth. Telehealth usage has skyrocketed, often leading patients to grow accustomed to relying on virtual care for its convenience and cost-efficiency. Now, as states across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Franciscan Health was in the infancy stages of its telemedicine program and had not moved to an ambulatory rollout. Like many other healthcare organizations, it struggled with operationalizing the technology and workflows of a new process. InTouch was its primary telemedicine technology vendor.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2021

Telehealth and virtual care have exploded during the current COVID-19 pandemic, building on the incremental growth and adoption seen in recent years. The following is a guest article by Matt Dickson, Vice President of Product, Strategy, and General Manager at Stericycle Communication Solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. The pandemic made searching for a telehealth platform a higher priority." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

Early in the pandemic, New York State began allowing providers to bill Medicaid for telehealth services, which greatly impacted Goodwill NYNJ's ability to meet the needs of its mental illness population. Since implementing the telehealth technology, Goodwill NYNJ has been able to increase participation, which has increased revenue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

" They are also given advice and self-help tips and rehabilitation tools to start them on the path to recovery. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. But Upswing’s technology was not enough. Click here to read the special report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The expansion of telehealth and the offering of new telehealth services that were not previously covered really enabled physicians to care for their patients in the midst of this crisis,” said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy, during a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update. Provider Considerations.

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Ortholive

JUNE 5, 2020

Telemedicine visits are predicted to surge this year, surpassing one billion encounters, according to CNBC. The coronavirus was the tipping point for many practices to finally embrace telemedicine services as a tool to provide care while protecting patients and providers with social distancing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Q: What do you think telehealth looks like 10 years from now? Can you elaborate?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed many patients – especially those in under-resourced areas – unprecedented access to behavioral healthcare. "Like every health system in the entire country, overnight you had to flip the switch on, and essentially totally pivot to telemedicine," he said.

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Ortholive

AUGUST 6, 2020

Find out how telemedicine can increase your work comp business without increasing overhead or costs in this free webinar. Join us for an interactive presentation and Q&A session featuring examples, a case study from a national e-commerce retailer, actionable tips and data explaining how to improve your work comp referrals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Its financial checklist offers physicians and administrators 14 tips to help business during the public health emergency, such as consolidating administrative resources like coding tools and making better use of digital health technologies. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2019

Lexington, Kentucky-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare is deploying new tele-ICU capabilities across all of its dozen hospitals in Kentucky and West Virginia. Atlanta-based Kaufmann Clinic, for example, sees telehealth as a path toward boosting revenue by 30 percent. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

It will also make wider use of what it's calling the COVID-19 Virtual Hospital – enabling positive patients to receive care for other conditions from home via telemedicine. Case in point: Atrium had embraced telehealth and virtual care for many years now. " A "tipping point" for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. Please share some tips with your fellow CIOs and their CISOs. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

In healthcare, we’ve seen dramatic changes to commonly accepted practices since the beginning of the global pandemic. For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

We'll share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare. Healthcare innovation solving problems. Innovation is everywhere in healthcare right now. Sign Up Customnize Your Content. Collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

cities, according to a recent study by medical staffing firm AMN Healthcare. No wonder telehealth adoption is surging. Development and innovation in telehealth was already underway in recent years, but usage skyrocketed during the pandemic as people sought alternatives to in-person visits and it remains high today.

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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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Ortholive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You won’t want to miss this in-depth presentation from some of the industry’s leading experts featuring safety, environmental, and risk assessment tips to save you time, money, and headaches. We’ll also include examples, case studies and a Q&A session to help you prepare for your next OSHA audit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. "In response, we built out full-scale telemedicine technologies and workflows literally over a weekend. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Navigating the healthcare system in America can be byzantine and time-consuming. Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s also disappointing that, even though Black and Hispanic patients are more likely to use patient portals than their White counterparts , “this has not translated to substantially lower frustration with the healthcare system, including understanding of coverage and claims.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with this digital health investor to talk about digital health investment trends during the pandemic and where he sees funding trending in 2022 and beyond. Telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and digital front door technologies that once were fringe, became mainstream. billion that year to $5.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Telehealth and mobile health apps To help make healthcare advice, diagnosis and monitoring more accessible, telehealth services in Brazil are expanding. iClinic, a SaaS EMR platform, is one of the top Brazilian startups that has made a big impact on modernizing healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. Morgan Waller, RN, director of telemedicine, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri. ( @MorganMwaller ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Georgia Gaveras, cofounder and chief medical officer at Talkiatry, to discuss the findings of this study. Fortunately, the rise of telehealth during the pandemic was a boon to patients who needed care. For many Americans, telehealth is also their only viable path to treatment.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 23, 2015

Check up on your patients through Twitter, share stories on Facebook, and give helpful tips on LinkedIn. A good social media presence generates brand knowledge and can be used to gauge patient satisfaction and boost patient loyalty. Let your community know you’re listening. via Kanta Media.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But in our work treating patients with opioid use disorder, we’ve seen first-hand that telemedicine can help people find long-term recovery.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Telehealth and RPM.

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