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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Without it, any initiative or leadership buy-in is at risk for failing because you haven’t taken the time to understand it," she explained. What is the landscape of your executive leaderships understanding of digital/telehealth equity? Do they have any? If not, why not? " she asked.

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said. " Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. MARKETPLACE.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Top Live Video Telehealth Companies List

Healthcare IT Today

Spoiler Alert: Here’s the live video telehealth list. Keep reading for background & future plans. A few weeks ago, as telehealth started to explode, I realized how important understanding the telehealth market was going to be for those who read Healthcare IT Today.

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Secure Your Hospital’s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security

Healthcare IT Today

The risk of security breaches through indirect access to other systems, like telemedicine solutions, can expose the entire health system. Subsequently, a new threat emerges: older telemedicine solutions that have often been exempt from broader security standards.

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Telemedicine isn’t the Solution to the US Healthcare Crisis but Hybrid Solutions Focused on Outcomes Are

Healthcare IT Today

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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Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.