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 FCC recently doled out $3.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Download Full Story The Approach: Virtual Primary Care Visits with In-Clinic Quality The answer to Santa Teresa Children’s Clinic’s biggest concerns was the integration of virtual care technology that could deliver the same clinical quality as an in-person visit. So it really does take a village.” Dr. Tanya V.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. 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. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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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. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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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. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health. "Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots. Accessible healthcare and health education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 6, 2023

While many practitioners have been using telehealth systems for years, many have as yet to begin using patient gateways to augment their services, in-person or through telehealth systems. The following addiction telehealth scenario involves a recently immigrated Nigerian wife and mother struggling with opioid addiction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. 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."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Telehealth technology opened the doors to new hope that we would survive, and that we would have the ability to serve our patients' needs in a safe and convenient way." With telehealth technology, they could be attended from the comfort of their own home and not risk getting exposed to illness in the lobby.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. 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. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients. Staff would offer Zoom telehealth capabilities for medical and mental health patients. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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. The digital side door encompasses various online touchpoints – from websites and patient portals to mobile apps and telehealth services.

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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. Telehealth offers multiple solutions to problems that patients have faced for years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. After athenahealth announced the FaceTime integration, Riad began to transition in-person visits in March to telehealth visits.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon. This week, Health 2.0

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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

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

If a client struggles with transportation or lives too far away, consider doing telehealth sessions instead. 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.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If a client struggles with transportation or lives too far away, consider doing telehealth sessions instead. 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.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Telehealth is the obvious example here. Pre-covid, most health systems saw telehealth as a nice-to-have feature, something their few digital native patients would vibe with. Nowadays, it’s the primary way providers see patients. This example is so obvious that many investors aren’t even excited about telehealth anymore.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. Access to psychiatric care has been a challenge across the country. " Sandy Hall, Lighthouse Telehealth. It serves more than 23,000 individuals annually. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“We began leveraging Cisco WebEx and Skype to deliver virtual visits and care, using tablets as endpoints,” Plunkett explained. “This solution was a good start and allowed for our doctors to deliver the beginnings of telehealth at Maple Knoll. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ” All three systems worked.

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

state made changes to their telehealth licensure rules for physicians and other healthcare clinicians. Although some of these changes were only temporary and have been dropped since the beginning of the pandemic, other changes have been made permanent or are still active given the increased utilization and popularity of Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

Company launches the first-of-its-kind comprehensive nationwide payer coverage network, offering clients everything they need from first visit to final payment OpenLoop , a leader in white-label telehealth support services powering virtual and hybrid care across the country, today announced it has raised a $15M Series A funding.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. 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.

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Mend

JANUARY 24, 2021

Telehealth is more important now than ever. Below is an excerpt from Mend’s latest eBook which discusses how practices of all sizes can easily integrate telehealth. If you would like to download the entire eBook, you can do so for free by going to The 2021 Guide to Fully Integrating Telehealth and Eliminating No-Shows.

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