Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"To be able to show an average reduction [in depression] across all clients given that we were having very few in-person sessions speaks volumes for the healing ability of telemedicine." " Heritage Clinic uses the Doxy.me, Zoom and Microsoft Teams video conferencing systems to facilitate telehealth. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. THE PROBLEM.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Yet adopting technologies like telehealth continues to become more daunting, especially for small practices. HIMSS Media research found that digital adoption, including telehealth, is a top priority for healthcare professionals, but thus far, fewer than 10% have executed a full digital strategy. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA protects patients by limiting who can access PHI, when they can access it, and how they use it.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 23, 2020

Behavioral telehealth’s future depends on how Congress will deal with telehealth after COVID. The post Pivotal Congressional Meeting Considers Telehealth after COVID: HELP Committee appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. What is it about oncology that makes it a good fit for telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. State laws and policies should also define consumer health data with the uniform language defined as protected health information under HIPAA, the group said in its announcement this week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Once TriHealth made the decision to research telemedicine platforms, from its point of view there were three major components needed for any platform to be seriously considered. TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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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." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. Glenn Hilburn, RN, vice president of information technology at Grady Health System.

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AMD Telemedicine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

AMD’s technology provided the Clinic with the ability to conduct primary care evaluations via telehealth. Having the added extension of these telemedicine devices and virtual care technology available where a child goes to school regularly allows the Clinic to see patients more often.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth. Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. ” Initially, Miller used temporarily approved telehealth-modalities that were allowed due to COVID-19, and found that many of the setups were cumbersome for both the patient and the provider.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“While telemedicine existed in our health system prior to COVID-19, the adoption of this technology accelerated exponentially due to the pandemic, which unlocked a new level of patient care,” she said. ” This opportunity allowed Temple to be flexible in the modality of telemedicine visits in multiple settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI. Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

" When COVID-19 hit, telehealth suddenly went from a goal to a necessity, she explained. Azalea Health is a health IT vendor that offers an EHR and telehealth tech, and is offering clients free telehealth services for one year to fight the pandemic. At that point, adopting this telehealth solution became the obvious answer."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Geisinger already was using a telehealth ICU system from vendor Caregility and in-room AV equipment in its ICUs. “The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Taskforce on Telehealth Policy released a final report on Tuesday outlining its findings and recommendations around safeguarding the future of telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. As the report notes, the COVID-19 crisis acted as a catalyst to transform telehealth from a niche passion to an in-demand modality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

An expert panel convened at Tuesday's Teladoc-sponsored Telehealth Innovation Forum predicted changes to the originating and geographic site requirements for telehealth – but not to state licensure waivers allowing physicians from one state to practice in another. " Questions also remain about private insurance plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 7, 2023

Telemedicine was transforming healthcare landscapes by utilizing technology to provide clinical care remotely. Telemedicine ranges from simple text messaging for medical advice to advanced procedures like remotely controlled surgery. Telemedicine can also lead to better resource allocation and utilization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Toward the end of March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard in California, Universal Community Health Center in Los Angeles needed to implement a quick-and-easy platform to get telehealth off the ground. with all the providers and support staff so they could engage in telehealth. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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