Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. 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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. The technology could also help primary care practices avoid closure as business slows. Kaiser Permanente already uses the company to optimize patient communications. THE LARGER TREND.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. "But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. With a HIPAA-secure communication channel and easy integration with personal devices, telemedicine removes challenges faced by remote and isolated patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients. We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. Accommodate Patients with Digital Solutions Accommodate patients with digital solutions that meet them where they are in their digital journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

These projects overall allowed the facility to use technology in innovative ways to improve the safety and efficiency of care provided throughout the pandemic and beyond. The projects also allowed the hospital to use its staffing resources in new ways to meet the health and wellness needs of the community.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. On a daily basis, health care professionals are finding new ways to use telehealth technology to achieve positive outcomes for consumers. convenient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2019

“The result is nationally high rates for utilization of high-expense ‘place of service’ for acute, low-intermediate acuity care,” he said. Texas continues to be ranked near the bottom nationwide in ratio of primary care physicians to population. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. Staff collaborated with primary care partners to train as many as possible on the integration of telemedicine into their workplaces.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. During the meeting, the 15 commissioners present weighed the ideal fee schedule for physicians and what services might be included in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

To provide patients with quality care in the comfort and safety of their own home, the team at athenahealth quickly launched an Apple FaceTime integration within the athenaOne mobile app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “Telehealth has proven to offer easy and personalized care visits without compromising quality. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It is a well-placed time in the conference agenda to have this conversation, because the previous two and a half days were all about gigabytes of data being generated every day that are private, personal, often tabooed, and some largely unrelated to health”care.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Acute care, sub-acute care, urgent care or ambulatory care. To read this special report, click here. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"We're here for the patient, and we meet them where they are. And we have a minimal impact on their life, but yet give them that greater confidence in the care." It's basically like changing the channel, and you go to another meeting. "It has opened up a new line of business for us," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

" Telehealth provides the perfect platform to address simple things that are very important, such as lab results, medication refills and follow-up care, he said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The telehealth technology Happy Kids uses is HIPAA-compliant Zoom and is bundled with its Equality Health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"With the resumption of in-person care, we continue to have patients who express a preference for telemedicine or who rely on it to assure continuity of care," she continued. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center uses a combination of Doximity, Doxy.me Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

We are Level 3 Certified as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. We set up virtual meetings where we could chat on progress and deal with any issues that occurred. Some tents were located in parking lots of shopping centers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. "For the past several years, we had been looking for a way to integrate behavioral care management into the primary care medical home," Coleman said.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reaches into the community and meets specific needs. Developing programs that meet specific needs will help ensure successful outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

“The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. Initially, we had many concerns about the adequacy of the HIE’s security controls, such as how to prevent unauthorized access to patient records or detect and prevent data breaches – all of which could adversely affect patient care and operations.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Collaborate with Other Professionals In certain cases where therapists observe consistent dropout patterns, collaboration with other professionals, such as primary care physicians or psychiatrists, may be necessary. Remember, each client is unique, and the therapy process should be catered to meet their individual needs.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Collaborate with Other Professionals In certain cases where therapists observe consistent dropout patterns, collaboration with other professionals, such as primary care physicians or psychiatrists, may be necessary. Remember, each client is unique, and the therapy process should be catered to meet their individual needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Some operational kinks needed to be worked out, however, but our ability to connect patients to their primary care providers immediately reduced anxiety and fear associated with the pandemic." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me " MARKETPLACE. "Doxy.me

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Other hospitals using voice-activated devices include Commonwealth Care Alliance in Massachusetts, which is in the midst of a 50-person pilot program using the devices for home-bound patients. Boston-based Commonwealth Care operates four primary care centers and administers two health plans.

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iSALUS Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2019

It takes more in 2019 than in the past to keep patients engaged and pleased with their care. Patients need the proper tools that meet them where they are in life and help simplify the process of maintaining a relationship with their provider. Care delivery is no hassle with telehealth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 6, 2023

Feeling isolated and out of control with her pain medication, she reluctantly sought help from a primary care physician. The primary care office suggested that using a teletherapy system and teaching Adebola to use the patient portal to augment her therapy may be more successful than attempting to schedule in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

” Further, the hospital was seeing growing demand for having primary care providers available in its clinics in smaller towns like Chappell and Potter that are up to 30 miles away. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. It is HIPAA-compliant and works efficiently, Brockhaus said.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. The Doximity platform met the organization's requirements, was available at no cost and was HIPAA-compliant.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For example, for Workforce and Labor, I think about the supply of primary care providers, clinician burnout, and immigration – all factors that will be very important in 2030, and all with different levels of uncertainty.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 10, 2023

For example, a small primary care office with a low patient volume may not require a highly advanced or comprehensive system, while a large hospital with a high patient volume may need a more robust and scalable solution. Answering these questions will help narrow down your options and ensure you choose a system that meets your needs.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Originally based on the principle that secure, mobile, social-media-like technology could improve team working and patient care, Careflow™ is now used by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across NHS Acute, Community and Primary Care and is currently contracted across 18 NHS Trusts and counting.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Telehealth companies will need to become chronic care management companies, rent access to networks of physicians, and/or create a consumer-facing brand to differentiate beyond the simple functionality of providing a HIPAA-compliant video offering. Of course we all want solutions we can customize to meet each of our quirks.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

The Health Resources and Service Administration and the Bureau of Labor are working on memorandums to address this issue and to ensure that health experts are available to meet the demands of patients. Despite these efforts, the shortage of health professionals remains a challenge that needs to be addressed.

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