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

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

AUGUST 18, 2020

More than 70 percent of respondents polled by cybersecurity firm CynergisTek say they'll keep using telehealth services, even once the pandemic subsides. But they also say privacy and data security are big concerns – and that breaches involving virtual care technologies could cause them to stop using telehealth or switch physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For the 55th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re going asking the question “Why Isn’t RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) exploding like telehealth video visits? Everyone loves to talk about the explosion of telehealth that has occurred in healthcare thanks to COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. "Telehealth is a great example," he said. "Before 2020, telehealth visits composed a miniscule fraction of our ambulatory care.

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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

MAY 26, 2020

“During the pandemic, we have experienced a significant decrease in patient volume; we could not perform elective procedures; and, we substantially increased our telehealth utilization. “While most patients have heard of telehealth, far fewer had experience using it, particularly the elderly. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When we first started covering the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID, we saw an explosion of live video telehealth companies. They were obviously filling the need for doctors and patients to both stay at home. Then, we started to see a lot of talk about various remote patient monitoring companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I’m always slightly bothered when people say that telehealth has seen a massive explosion thanks to COVID-19. While it’s true that live video telehealth visits have seen hockey stick style growth because of COVID-19, there are actually a wide variety of telehealth options.

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GlobalMed

JULY 10, 2019

If telehealth has one superpower it’s famous for, it’s bringing quality care to the underserved. But to fill the care gap, two conditions must be met: To connect remote and underserved populations to the right care , telemedicine must be easily accessible. Entry costs can be a major barrier to universal telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2021

COVID thrust telemedicine into the spotlight, but its beginnings date back to the 1950s when the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute first used video conferencing technology to check on patients at the Norfolk State Hospital 112 miles away and more famously […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2023

Then technicians need to download, compile and store the videos, which then have to be analyzed by doctors in a session that can take as long as 90 minutes. The goal was to leverage the general change in acceptance of telehealth while deploying the technology in GI. Rome Jutabha, Keck Hospital and School of Medicine of USC.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

As a lesson in the potential for telemedicine to serve disparate populations, the early results of this partnership are promising. Ruiz’s appointment with the cardiologist was then conducted at Exalta using a remote video call with help from the interpreter. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2020

In this Teleahealth Feature Series, we’re going to cover the long list of potential telehealth features available today. As you’re considering your own approach to telehealth, we will provide you a look at all the possible features telehealth companies are offering on the market.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to embrace third party telehealth solutions? Would […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2020

UPIC Health, which provides administrative revenue cycle and patient engagement support to healthcare clients, now is offering telehealth services for free to women who live in New York and New Jersey. Although most of the services are via video, telephone also is an option if needed. "But telehealth can act as a bridge."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley began using telehealth and telecommunications technologies to mobilize resources to optimize a patient’s waiting time – while reducing the number of patients leaving the ED without being seen. Triaged patients often are sent for testing (for example, labs, imaging, etc.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"Like many other health systems, the need to control operating costs while at the same time improving patient safety was a challenge for our leadership team," said David Smith, associate vice president of virtual medicine at UMass Memorial Health. That effort was well underway when COVID-19 struck. " MARKETPLACE.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Striking the right balance between prioritizing quality patient care and managing everyday leadership tasks is pivotal for healthcare organizations. During my years at Iris, I’ve seen many clinics promote staff members into leadership positions based on seniority rather than on that person having experience in leadership or administration.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 13, 2020

April 15, 2020 — As the industry leader in telemedicine, GlobalMed knows that implementing a virtual health program can seem daunting. Telehealth brings forth innovative tools to monitor and contain COVID-19 patients and provide ongoing care to those without the virus. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Department of State’s Bureau of Medical Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

Prior to the pandemic, PrimaryOne Health dealt with regulations that prevented routine telemedicine visits with patients. However, once the pandemic started, the rules and demand for care changed in a way that let us quickly deploy telehealth services. "The team quickly developed the plan and it went live," McGlade said.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

One other is being well-used by the health care community: Zoom, which has played a huge role in convening health care meetings and conferences as well as been stood up as a key channel for direct-to-consumer telehealth, unbranded as a telemedicine brand but crucial connective tissue linking doctors and patients during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For the 46th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the battle for telehealth. More specifically, we’re talking about EHR vendors entrance into telehealth and third party telehealth vendors. In this episode we dive into the telehealth battle between EHR vendors and 3rd party telehealth vendors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

These platforms include telehealth solutions, patient portals, remote patient monitoring, and personalized health applications. Telehealth Telehealth (or telemedicine) covers any aspect of healthcare where services are relayed or implemented via telecommunications technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. It does not require physical contact between caregiver and patient (though seeing a patient's affect in person can be better than via video). Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Telehealth plans quickly changed. "What we thought would take months took us days, and we leveraged the capability of our Epic EHR to stand up on-demand and scheduled video visits using Zoom for Healthcare and our own providers. We quickly looked for a telehealth solution to prevent unnecessary transfers and keep care local.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As most of you know, I’ve argued that the future of telehealth is going to be determined by the laws and reimbursement that’s going to be made permanent or even improved.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Last month, Bupa Arabia announced the launch of its telehealth platform that specialises “value-added healthcare services such as doctor-patient video consultations [telemedicine] and appointment booking” Bupa Arabia COO, Mohamed El Missaoui, said at the time: “Digital transformation is a key pillar in our strategy.

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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. Furthermore, by using telehealth the hospital could save AU$1,000 per month for every patient that was included in the program. Moving forward, Philips is deeply invested in digitalization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Telehealth has exploded. We’ve written about the explosive telehealth growth multiple times and that’s just a small sample. The number of live video telehealth visits is astounding. Plus, we’ve also seen this shift represented in the number of live video telehealth companies that […].

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