Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The provider organization made the switch-over from in-person care to telemedicine at the onset of COVID nearly instantaneously, literally between a Friday and Monday in March 2020. "Nearly simultaneously, Doxy.me, Doximity and Zoom were implemented to provide telemedicine and access to care to patients," Couturie said.

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Three-quarters of individuals said they think telemedicine has the potential to transform the standard of care for behavioral health. The opportunities present a “perfect storm” for telemedicine initiatives mental health. D’Orazio believes virtual care gives patients more access to providers and helps remove a stigma.

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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 23, 2021

"The year presented us with a compelling need to rapidly expand our ability to provide care to our patients in new and unique ways. "These tools have supported improvement in efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of patient care."

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iSALUS Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2019

It offers convenient alternatives to traditional medical care. And it presents providers with the opportunity to help their patients in a unique and exciting way. Care delivery is no hassle with telehealth. Telehealth is one of the most advantageous tools for patients in terms of helping them stay connected to their providers.

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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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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. By adding health functionality to the new Echo that sports a camera, Amazon can hope to get coverage from carriers to help manage home care. How does it make you feel? Source : [link]

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security. A lot of evolving technologies are taking the world of telehealth by storm at present.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Limiting access to the skilled care and assisted living areas was one of the greatest challenges. How could staff continue to provide excellent care while limiting physical interaction? First and foremost, it gives us a HIPAA-compliant, secure platform that we can use for virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ellen DaSilva, Co-Founder and CEO at Summer Health 1) The portability of data to deeply understand patients has been severely restricted (mostly by HIPAA but I won’t go on the record against it), so there’s a lot of information we’ll never be able to meld. Primary care is now also mental healthcare. The result?

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Mend

JANUARY 24, 2021

In order to address no-show rates, healthcare organizations must understand and address the reasons that patients don’t present for scheduled appointments. By identifying the most common barriers, clinics and practices can employ solutions that change the entry point to care and improve administrative processes to reach more patients.

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

Listed below are the current waiver statuses of each state (as of May 28, 2021): State Status Changes (if applicable) Alabama Active – end date TBD – A physician can provide an Alabama resident TeleHealth services as long as the physician holds either a full license or a license to practice across state lines Alaska Active – end date (..)

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During Indiana University Health. Indiana University Health. ” OU Medicine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

TOTO’s CES 2021 presentation talked about a “new normal way of life,” with the so-called “wellness toilet” able to scan the body and record various health metrics (mental and physical) about the user.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. "Payers would not consider the option of allowing patients to remain in their homes to receive care. So why wasn't the healthcare organization doing this in the past?

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When a PHR is connected to the patient’s legal medical record it is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.” A patient may have one portal for their primary care physician, as well as two more for their optometrist and dermatologist.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

To Fred, one key goal of his work, a goal his work enables, is the elimination of large healthcare costs in the future, and replacing them with smaller costs in the present. He says everybody is (or should be) in favor of paying $500 today instead of having a significant healthcare event or expense in the future.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

To Fred, one key goal of his work, a goal his work enables, is the elimination of large healthcare costs in the future, and replacing them with smaller costs in the present. He says everybody is (or should be) in favor of paying $500 today instead of having a significant healthcare event or expense in the future.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

To Fred, one key goal of his work, a goal his work enables, is the elimination of large healthcare costs in the future, and replacing them with smaller costs in the present. He says everybody is (or should be) in favor of paying $500 today instead of having a significant healthcare event or expense in the future.

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