Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. "Interoperability issues resulted in many manual steps to get information between systems and tasks completed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

Executive Summary: The future of telemedicine is poised to be promising and transformative, driven by advancements in technology, changing patient preferences, and evolving healthcare needs. Telemedicine is likely to become an integral part of healthcare delivery, expanding across various medical specialties and regions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements. With their understanding of both clinical needs and technology, they can more easily implement technology to positively impact clinicians’ time and effort and better inform the patient experience.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. CMS final rule poses big hurdles for payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. By Bill Siwicki | May 18, 2023 News Augusta University Health saves $1.1M

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel. Even as the coronavirus abates in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans received care from their primary care physicians via telemedicine. And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. Telehealth technology and services company Amwell now is promoting the concept of "virtual primary care.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With all the misinformation shared about COVID-19 over the last few years, 65% of clinicians believe patients have less trust in medical professionals, making their work more challenging than ever before. Team members can also benefit from doing a test run on the new Telehealth system prior to using the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to telemedicine, wearable technology, artificial intelligence, and electronic health records, we also delve into the transformative role of remote patient monitoring in revolutionizing healthcare delivery. We’ll explore each tool and see how they can make healthcare better for everyone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. No matter what an organization selects, buyers yearn for — and deserve — the benefits of the latest enterprise-level solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

According to a McKinsey report, an estimated 25% of outpatient services could move to telemedicine, which is among the necessary changes that could mean preparation and prevention for future health epidemics and pandemics, said Dr. Muhammad Ali Chaudhry, CEO of Emerging Health International, a healthcare technology and services company.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Best Buy Health is working with over two dozen health systems in the U.S. on care at home programs, gathering evidence and learnings across the various programs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“Healthcare is an $11+ trillion market that is haunted by disorganization and difficulties in resource allocation, ” HealthXL asserts; Big Tech companies have the skills, in theory, to address the various “haunting” challenges of fragmented, un-interoperable health systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

In that regard, Thailand has begun development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces since March this year. Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019. ii) Patient experience. iii) Unlocking the value of AI.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Each institution had their own workflows and so Philips had to coordinate and develop an approach baking in interoperability and a cloud-based solution – consistent with the connected care journey the company had embarked on. Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Q: You suggest interoperability will play a big role in healthcare innovation in 2023. This has led to a duplication of efforts, siloed data on patient services, a patient telling their story repeatedly, and unfortunately, service providers having to figure out whether their patient ever received services outside their four walls.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. When physicians were unable to see patients in person, telehealth and RPM became a necessary capability not a nice-to-have.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

.” The more beautifully-designed and digital health devices in a consumer’s Internet of Healthy Things at home can connect to a health care data ecosystem, the more virtual care can be delivered in that safer, hygienic, lower-cost setting: the patient’s own residence. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

In health care, we turn to ANSI health data standards like HL7 and FHIR for data interoperability, and DICOM for moving medical images from place to place. Note that David — a fashion and style maven — talks about the adoption of telehealth and e-health in The New Healthy as part of this message.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

We are committed to removing barriers to access and addressing health disparities by extending our care and services – ensuring patients benefit from world-class care no matter where they live or the challenges they face. We also plan to build five satellite clinics to ensure patients have access to care and services close to home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

From early telemedicine initiatives to sophisticated wearable devices and mobile applications, RPM has become increasingly integrated into modern healthcare delivery models, offering new opportunities for proactive and personalized patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Patient Care Experience Kyle Ryan, Chief Technology Officer at Tebra As telehealth continues to expand, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is becoming a more widely used option to improve the patient care experience, and better connect providers with patients outside the doctor’s office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions And now, check out our community’s Telehealth and VR predictions.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Nine in ten clinicians have recommended digital health tools to patients, and 8 in 10 clinicians strongly concurred that the pandemic resulted in helpful changes including the adoption of telehealth. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. What does your survey show in the area of expected growth and investment in telehealth?

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