Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The tool enables clinicians to see an array of digital therapeutics and apps in the Cerner EHR, assess their cost and clinical value, and prescribe them for patients from within their workflows. "As digital health programs roll out, they should elevate both the patient and provider experience.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. Being academically strong greatly contributes to a healthcare leadership mindset.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Molly and I then segued into how the health system incumbent players — hospitals, plans, clinicians, and life science companies — can (and should be) part of the telehealth ecosystem and solutions to deliver care, everywhere. Thanks to Microsoft for its leadership in enabling better healthcare, everywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2020

As the telehealth adoption wave continues in healthcare, we thought we’d take the time to do a series of articles on a number of aspects of telehealth. In this first series we’re going to look at various Telehealth features. We’ll talk about whether those features should be considered essential.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom. Drop-off was not uncommon when patients were referred to an outside specialist.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

At this point we are all very familiar with telehealth. However, telehealth is only useful if it is accessible. It doesn’t matter how well the hospital and your staff are prepared to deliver remote care if the patients do not have the means to access it, whether that’s due to poor service or lacking the technology necessary.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2020

Everyone sees the obvious when it comes to telehealth. The Stay at Home and Physical Distancing that’s come with COVID-19 has almost required telehealth. Embrace telehealth or die? If we want to really understand what happened to make telehealth go […]. What other option did healthcare organizations have?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

One of the hottest topics out there right now it telehealth and the new digital front door. As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road. These terms have […].

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SteadyMD

MARCH 27, 2023

SteadyMD, a leading enabler of high-quality, personalized telehealth, is proud to announce Sheeza Khawar Hussain as its new Chief Growth Officer. Accelerating Growth With the addition of this role, SteadyMD is investing in accelerated growth and responding to the growing market need for telehealth enablement.

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American Well

JULY 10, 2018

At this year’s Client Forum, hosted in Boston, MA, American Well recognized some of our trusted clients who have been extraordinary leaders throughout their telehealth journey. It was only a few years ago that Children’s Health was working alongside the Texas State Medical Board to legalize telehealth in the state.

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American Well

JULY 10, 2018

At this year’s Client Forum, hosted in Boston, MA, American Well recognized some of our trusted clients who have been extraordinary leaders throughout their telehealth journey. It was only a few years ago that Children’s Health was working alongside the Texas State Medical Board to legalize telehealth in the state.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

AVIA says the collaboration with ATA will broaden the resources available for hospitals nationwide as they strategize about telehealth, and begin to integrate it as a more fundamental and long-lasting component of their business plans. THE LARGER TREND. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Preventive care delivery platform Fullscript has joined the athenahealth Marketplace app store.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth. The good news is that HHS released a HIPAA and Telehealth FAQ that addresses some of those […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 5, 2020

As I was researching to create our list of live video telehealth companies, it became clear to me that telehealth meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people and companies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

I’ll also be exploring innovations in smart kitchens and appliances, ag-tech ( last year’s John Deere showed inspiring leadership in light of growing food insecurity), and personalized food futures at CES 2024.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2023

The mission of the MedTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of health and medical technology categories, including Telehealth, Clinical Administration, Patient Engagement, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Virtual Care, Medical Devices, Medical Data and many more.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Advisory Board Company, a consulting best practices firm, recently interviewed several health systems who are at the forefront of telehealth adoption to gain insights on telehealth adoption, acceptance and use cases. Here’s what they found: Views on Telehealth. Alignment to Strategy. Current Use Cases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. "Our long-term goal is to advance and evolve digital capabilities that ensure optimum patient experience and benefit from innovations that allow for seamless care access and delivery. THE PROBLEM.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Advisory Board Company, a consulting best practices firm, recently interviewed several health systems who are at the forefront of telehealth adoption to gain insights on telehealth adoption, acceptance and use cases. Here’s what they found: Views on Telehealth. Alignment to Strategy. Current Use Cases.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

University of Missouri & Banner – Workforce & Generative AI This session was a great discussion about how these organizations were targeting their telehealth strategy, including hospital@home and virtual care. How does generative AI help refocus the interaction between the physician and the patient?

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Health System CIO

MARCH 27, 2019

A more open, honest dialogue with patients. In this interview, Sue Murphy talks about how the organization has transformed rounding and discharge procedures to improve the patient experience, and how they’re leveraging data to continue to tweak those processes. I’ve been much more successful when patients are at the table.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

Rising Healthcare Consumerism More than ever before, patients expect digital and technology integration within their care experience. Of course, a successful ‘digital front door’ strategy is only possible with a reliable, secure network and consistent, high-speed fiber internet access to enhance the digital experience for patients.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a mainstay for patients across the country. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) reports the following data: 28 studies found that more than 80% of patients indicated satisfaction with telehealth. Common telehealth misconceptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Advice from the Healthcare IT Today community included treating vendors like trusted partners, joining professional organizations, and diving into emerging tech such as AI and telehealth. Read more… How to Develop and Nurture Leadership Skills in Health IT. Read more… Taking Clinical Notes Out of Physical Therapists’ Hands.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Leadership Ram acknowledged a comment made by a presenter at a previous event: the Government must pay. Though a valid point, beyond financial support, strong leadership is essential. Strong leadership is a prerequisite. You need leadership individuals in the local communities and educators capable of rallying community support.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2021

Humanizing healthcare is a big vision that anyone who has been a patient can appreciate. Far too often patients feel like cogs in the big machine that is healthcare. While Humanizing Healthcare is a big vision, it’s exactly the vision that Jamey Edwards, CEO & Co-Founder at Cloudbreak Health, has set for his company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

"Now that we are live with the videos, we regularly meet and review analytics reports where we get to see the impact we are having on our patients. "The vendor's project management and guidance has been really impactful to our leadership team," she added. "That's an A+ in patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2020

CMS has announced the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth and telemedicine visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2022

This week’s chat will be hosted by Sarah Krüg (@sarahkrug1) and Matt Sakumoto (@MattSakumoto) on the topic “Enhancing Digital Empathy and Reimagining the Telehealth Experience.” ” As telehealth is increasingly adopted across all care settings, […].

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Not only have workers been putting in longer hours with increasing administrative demands, but they’ve also been struggling to achieve a good work-life balance, access mental health services, and obtain the necessary support from their leadership teams. What sort of experience is the system delivering for patients?

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