Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience. " Centura Health's Epic electronic health record offered most features available for telemedicine services, so it eventually transitioned to Epic Video Client for virtual care.

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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

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

APRIL 3, 2019

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The Telehealth Leadership Group’s most recent stocktake questionnaire was sent to all 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) in October 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. " Fisne also said that patient satisfaction is up with the rise of telehealth. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“This entailed making a video visit solution available, creating workflows, and establishing billing and compliant documentation, as well as delivering all-encompassing education.” ” Most clinical locations were not equipped to conduct private, effective video visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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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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. THE PROBLEM. So providers engaged with patients via mobile phones, on iPads and on laptop computers to address their healthcare issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon Clinic virtual care visits are now available in all 50 states The ability to access more immediate care via telehealth, including prescription refills, is now possible in every U.S. Virtual care technologies and artificial intelligence are helping health systems and healthcare retailers to improve care delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"Telehealth is a great example," he said. " The example of telehealth highlights the importance of advocacy at multiple levels of government to simplify the complex regulations that make it such a challenge to use the technologies that are prevalent in so many other fields of business, he insisted.

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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 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

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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Here’s a video featuring President Obama, who signed the ACA into law, discussing some of the key elements of that Bill of Rights — with an emphasis on assuring people could find health insurance even if they had pre-existing conditions.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In March 2020, many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving low-income patients started delivering high volumes of telehealth visits to maintain access to care. The resulting telehealth safety net services led to rapid changes to technology, workflows, and staffing to accommodate telehealth visits.

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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The real-time digital assistant capabilities can be used in meetings, team chat, phone, email and its whiteboard tools, with more to come on the video conferencing vendor's road map. Zoom customers can expect to see AI Companion throughout the entire platform, according to the announcement Tuesday.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Ruiz’s appointment with the cardiologist was then conducted at Exalta using a remote video call with help from the interpreter. Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff. Forty percent of Exalta’s staff speaks Spanish.

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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 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

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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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 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

MAY 23, 2023

However, once the pandemic started, the rules and demand for care changed in a way that let us quickly deploy telehealth services. "The regulations started to quickly change, and on March 20, 2020, Ohio released an emergency telehealth rule," McGlade recalled.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It does not require physical contact between caregiver and patient (though seeing a patient's affect in person can be better than via video). Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously.

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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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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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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. Access the leadership of your regional federally funded Telehealth Resource Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Here’s a preview of the technologies we discuss in this episode: Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Secure Messaging RTLS for People and Assets Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. When telehealth is not up to par. Luke's to enroll in the patient portal and schedule appointments.

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