Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Wautaga already had three inpatient teams and was looking for a telemedicine company to handle a fourth. Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. " Dr. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

hospitals via telemedicine, has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over the agency's telehealth restrictions. "That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what telehealth is," said Jesse Panuccio, partner at Boies Schiller Flexner and counsel for RemoteICU, in an interview with Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. These findings have since been supported in subsequent observational studies on telehealth adoption during the pandemic. are not ready to participate in video visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Within that training, staff members found that they needed to give their patients peace of mind as well as comfort. THE PROBLEM. Williams, CFO and senior vice president at AccessHealth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In September 2022, the American Journal of Managed Care published findings related to physicians’ response to suboxone telemedicine after the widespread telehealth adoption required by COVID-19. They also mentioned that there are not enough OUD facilities in the US, with 40% of our counties having no trained OUD clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely. For its first program, a direct-to-patient model, Northwell social worker care managers used Amwell telehealth technology to connect with patients via video.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 21, 2022

The White House Office on National Drug Policy (ONDCP) supports permanent telehealth prescribing for people with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), according to the issued guidance “ Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder Services in the Era of Covid-19: Review and Recommendations ” published on June 22, 2022.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 17, 2022

As hospitals and doctors’ offices continue to be overburdened by staff shortages and patient overload, telehealth offerings keep pace in providing a wide-range of patient care access, overcoming racial inequality, transportation barriers from rural communities, and treating chronic medical conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Why has telemedicine become a priority for the organization?

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Emergency telehealth services have been tested and conducted for decades, often in Medicaid telehealth and safety-net settings. The shortage of providers has been recognized and addressed by the publication of emergency telehealth best practices by Telehealth.HHS.gov. How Emergency Telehealth Can Reduce Mental Health Delays.

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GlobalMed

JULY 15, 2019

There’s a predictable turning point in any debate about telehealth. But inevitably they’ll worry that the quality of the virtual visit just isn’t as good as an in-person visit – that telemedicine is “impersonal.”. But does any of this mean that telemedicine visits offer a better patient-doctor bond or more meaningful visits?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

We interviewed Ben-Aharon to talk about the convergence of speech therapy and telehealth. How is speech therapy delivered via telehealth? The pandemic introduced many people to the convenience of accessing multiple healthcare services via virtual care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

In this digital age, where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) plays a crucial role in regulating and supporting RPM services. These may include wearable devices, mobile apps, telehealth platforms, and remote monitoring software.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. Now is when failure to obtain the proper training can hurt you significantly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center. And then March came." " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2019

The Friedwald Center, a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City, wanted to bring in telemedicine to give its patients more immediate access to quality clinicians that are very understanding of acute care and acute situations. So the Friedwald Center started working with telemedicine vendor Call9 in March 2018. THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

It aims to promote the adoption of maternal telehealth and technology to reduce maternal mortality and address ethnic and racial disparities in such outcomes. The Act commits resources to enhance the deployment of women’s telehealth services and other digital tools to diminish severe maternal morbidity and mortality.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 1, 2023

It aims to promote the adoption of maternal telehealth and technology to reduce maternal mortality and address ethnic and racial disparities in such outcomes. The Act commits resources to enhance the deployment of women’s telehealth services and other digital tools to diminish severe maternal morbidity and mortality.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 1, 2023

It aims to promote the adoption of maternal telehealth and technology to reduce maternal mortality and address ethnic and racial disparities in such outcomes. The Act commits resources to enhance the deployment of women’s telehealth services and other digital tools to diminish severe maternal morbidity and mortality.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. Now is when failure to obtain the proper training can hurt you significantly.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Throughout 2018, we witnessed across-the-board advances in the world of telemedicine. In 2018, more states introduced telemedicine parity reimbursement laws. In 2018, more states introduced telemedicine parity reimbursement laws. More payers added telehealth to their benefits. Hindsight is easy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. The HITRUST-certified telemedicine carts have full zoom-tilt cameras and integrated stethoscopes, so the virtual providers are able to get all the inputs they need to care for the patient adequately.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

Behavioral health professionals stand out as the biggest winners, with more recent legislative action in their favor than any other professional group, particularly with regard to practicing telehealth and telemedicine across state lines. Now is when failure to obtain the proper training can hurt you significantly.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. But expanding broadband access isn’t always enough.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 13, 2020

Telehealth Is As Good As In-Person Care? Consider the Telehealth Evidence While the data clearly has shown that telehealth is just as good as in-person care for a wide variety of healthcare issues, it is clear that telehealth is not … Read more. The post Telehealth Is As Good As In-Person Care?

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Welcome to the September edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! For those new to this feature, we share the telehealth industry’s hottest news, events, legislation, insight and more. As we bid farewell to summer, Avizia is excited to continue influencing positive growth throughout the Telemedicine industry.

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InTouch Health

AUGUST 29, 2019

See How Access to Telehealth Services Has Changed Over the Last Two Years. The American Telemedicine Association recently released its 2019 State of the States Report: Coverage and Reimbursement, a state-by-state assessment of how the telehealth industry continues to grow and evolve around the country.

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