Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. million treatments administered via telehealth, most treatments (29.25 million treatments administered via telehealth, most treatments (29.25 of all recorded treatments).

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 20, 2024

Google Ads policy already recognizes LegitScript’s Healthcare Certification program for advertising of telemedicine in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and France. With telehealth services flourishing, now is the time for advertisers to step forward and embrace this new frontier with LegitScript’s support.” PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Looking ahead at 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This week is Telehealth Awareness Week (September 17-23, 2023), a time of the year when the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) invites telehealth solution providers and healthcare industry leaders to highlight to explore the role of telehealth in care delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2022

What are some of the most important topics in telehealth today? Standardizing and optimizing telehealth integration into care pathways. Digital and telehealth literacy. Telehealth sustainability and government advocacy. Talking points: Standardizing and optimizing telehealth integration into care pathways.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates. "The public health emergency did not create the telemedicine industry. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Across the globe, telehealth growth has been impressive. Driven by the need to reduce contact in the early days of the pandemic, telehealth is now predicted to become a quarter trillion dollar industry. With increased access, convenience, and lower costs, telehealth growth is fueled by telecommunication speed and reliability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. American Telemedicine Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"To ensure we offer the highest quality services to our recipients, AdventHealth went on a journey to provide telehealth services that can support the continuum of care, through COVID and beyond," she continued. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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eVisit

JULY 10, 2021

The virtual care industry is rapidly accelerating thanks in large part to the transformations prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the telehealth industry develops, so too does telehealth terminology and it can be hard to keep up with the lingo.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Even if some telehealth stats have come back down to earth , policy and legislation such as the Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act, have made virtual care's expansion imminent – prompting a critical examination of its processes and technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association released a statement on Friday saying that it applauds the Drug Enforcement Agency for posting a meeting notice on Friday that indicates that it is "openly considering" a special registration that would allow providers to prescribe medically necessary substances by telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS. Connectivity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. The team also discusses the state of telehealth more broadly, including the trends Kat observed at last week's congressional hearing.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system created a telehealth program, the main problem it was trying to solve was how to improve access to care across the state. "Further, we started inpatient telehealth at rural Whitfield Regional Hospital. Today, about 15% of total ambulatory volume remains telehealth.

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Ortholive

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

As we enter the new decade, telemedicine usage shows no signs of slowing down. In the four years spanning 2014 to 2018, telehealth usage outside the hospital setting increased by nearly 1,400%. The data predicts telemedicine will be a $13 billion market in the U.S. alone by 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. " she said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. AI has become an integral telemedicine component, with applications such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning algorithms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. Expands the early intervention services that can be provided through telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most South Koreans are willing to use telemedicine again in the future, especially those living in rural towns and villages, according to a survey report commissioned by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2021

Doug Ducey this past week signed a law aimed at expanding access to telehealth in the state. Among other provisions, the legislation: Allows out-of-state professionals to provide telemedicine in Arizona under certain conditions. Ensures payment parity coverage for audio-visual telemedicine services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims.

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Clocktree

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Last Wednesday in Tallahassee, Florida, a senate committee unanimously approved a bill on telehealth , focused on permitting doctors and healthcare providers using telehealth technology to provide healthcare directly to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

Drug Enforcement Agency says it will temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities around prescription of certain controlled medications as it sifts through comments on its proposed plans for post-PHE remote prescibing guardrails. With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A Buyer’s Guide to Telemedicine Platforms: Key Considerations to Help Optimize Clinical and Financial Outcomes. The pandemic may have changed healthcare, but it’s telehealth technology that will continue moving the sector into the digital realm. Telehealth integration is no different. How does it work?

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. Check out our list of telehealth licensure requirements by state here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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