Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Laura Ferrara, Chief Strategy Officer at Intus Care The focus on healthcare delivered in the comfort of one’s home has surged in recent times, particularly in light of the pandemic. Telehealth advancements, both in technology and government policy, have created greater access to care for people who might otherwise struggle to get it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

"The addition of MEND as our ambulatory telehealth vendor allowed Legacy Health to meet the needs of our patients, providing a safe environment for care delivery for our providers and staff," said Dr. Steven Seres, telehealth medical director at Legacy Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" " The other value proposition with the telemedicine vendor, in addition to the physician support they provided, was the nursing component of their service offering, he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With more than 110 years of continuous operation, the organization has grown to 13 locations offering independent, residential and assisted living; Tapestries Memory Care; respite; rehabilitation; long-term care; Bridges Hospice and Palliative Care; affordable senior housing; and live-in and in-home personal care through HomeWorks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

"Our virtual care infrastructure was not meant to support the number of home visits we were predicting, and while we had the backbone and design in place, we were pressed to build upon what we designed to meet the new demands and to train many more clinicians who were not eager to jump on the telehealth train previously," Deanda explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

In "normal" times, RPM helps health systems meet quality metrics and prevent unnecessary ER visits and hospital admissions while ensuring better patient outcomes. During COVID-19, RPM allows patients to still get the care they need while keeping them out of healthcare settings to limit potential exposure to the virus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

As the "Silver Tsunami" swells , with more than 75 million Baby Boomers set to avail themselves of their Medicare benefits and put strain on an already overstretched health system, telehealth and remote care technologies will be key to helping deliver appropriate care to these aging patients while keeping costs under control.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience HealthSnap , a Miami -based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Xealth

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It seems like everyone working in a hospital these days is grumpy—from doctors and nurses to medical assistants and patient registration—and for a good reason, as there is more to do than is humanly possible. . Here are two examples of different organizations using robust digital health programs to meet their goals. . Duke Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. DTx can fill that void in care and provide patients with a much-needed treatment option.

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19 Labs

AUGUST 19, 2020

For EMRs to add support for video meetings is trivial — and they are actively pursuing this. Zoom was the top downloaded app on the playstore in the first few months of the pandemic and almost all hospitals and health care systems use Zoom, Skype, or other tools for internal communication between physicians, nurses, and staff.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

As a patient moves through the continuum of care, we understand and value that our patients’ experiences are private. Working to keep that information private in the new paradigm of Teams Meetings, PowerBI reports, and decentralized data is a heavy burden for modern CISOs. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

. “I think this is where providers need to be thinking about using telemedicine, if we really want to make a difference in our patients’ lives,” Mr. Stanton said of Cleveland Clinic’s expansion into experimental modes of remote care. Three factors for a successful telehealth program. Staff engagement.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By connecting patients with providers through a virtual-first experience, it is improving access, outcomes, satisfaction and the quality of life for patients and successfully helping providers meet today’s challenges in complex clinical and financial environments.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

. “I think this is where providers need to be thinking about using telemedicine, if we really want to make a difference in our patients’ lives,” Mr. Stanton said of Cleveland Clinic’s expansion into experimental modes of remote care. Three factors for a successful telehealth program. Staff engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In early March, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of skilled nursing facilities restricted access to residents. These restrictions included, but were not limited to, essential care providers, such as neuropsychologists and psychologists. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. To read this special report, click here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

And it created a big challenge for the multiple PR firms engaged to help create that visibility to innovation in care. Following cancellation, phone calls replaced nearly all 10 scheduled in-person meetings. The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result.

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mHealth Insight

APRIL 15, 2020

. Concerns over the Coronavirus have created exceptional circumstances in which the annual meeting of the $Trillion Mobile Industry (Mobile World Congress in Barcelona) has been cancelled. Fiona graduated in 1998 from University College Dublin (Ireland) and qualified as a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2003.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Dialogue is an integrated virtual-care clinic that provides bilingual telehealth services 24/7 across Canada. Dialogue’s multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals consists of nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, care coordinators and allied health professionals who all work together to deliver complete patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

It also equips providers with Eko’s FDA-cleared AI to assist in remote screening for AFib, heart murmurs, tachycardia and bradycardia. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. When needed, telehealth or secure messaging can also be done remotely through Qure4u.

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

Many states chose to loosen licensure regulations, and they made changes such as permitting temporary licenses to out-of-state physicians, waiving meeting and relationship requirements that are usually necessary to provide services, allowing interstate virtual appointments, and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

19 Telehealth opportunities and remote care options can create a variety of these touchpoints in a personalized and case-specific way, ranging from an overview of patient consultations to implantable cardiac monitors. 20 Remote monitoring especially holds tremendous potential to profit from telehealth applications. The Lancet.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. It has nurses and doctors and a cafeteria, and the staff spend their days looking after the very sick?checking The nurses wear scrubs, but the scrubs are very, very clean. The patients are elsewhere.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the recent past, such initiatives have included: The expansion of reimbursement for remote care services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that remove restrictions preventing doctors, nurses and other clinicians from treating patients in other states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Now, because of COVID-19, the themes in 2020 of "Never waste a crisis" and "We have to think outside the box now" are part of the discussion in every remote meeting. The question comes up: How do healthcare professionals care for patients and leverage technology so that patients do not have to leave their homes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Provider shortages, distancing and restrictions, and limited transportation options seriously diminish access to timely and quality care in these areas. For example, telehealth can allow physicians to provide remote care to patients in the moments after a stroke or a heart attack until paramedics arrive.

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