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TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

TriHealth has more than 135 locations, more than 700 providers and more than 250,000 attributed lives, so it was imperative that it have a product that could be scaled quickly and easily to meet demand. "During the peak of the pandemic, primary care telehealth visits accounted for more than 50% of our volume."

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AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Its financial checklist offers physicians and administrators 14 tips to help business during the public health emergency, such as consolidating administrative resources like coding tools and making better use of digital health technologies. Among the resources, AMA has published a guide designed to help keep practices solvent.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital health education that is accessible to the patient at home or on their smartphone is one way we can bridge the divide. In "normal" times, RPM helps health systems meet quality metrics and prevent unnecessary ER visits and hospital admissions while ensuring better patient outcomes. What is the problem?

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Telehealth, the patient portal and mobile check-in allowed them flexibility in caring for their patients.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?

Lloyd Price

Dr Kailash Chand, the Deputy Chairman of the BMA has said in an article for GP Online ‘One consequence of charging patients would be to do irreparable damage to the doctor/patient relationship and to assist profit-driven private companies to oust GPs from their traditional gatekeeper role, facilitating the creeping privatisation of primary care.’

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Telehealth trends in 2023: Virtual-first, health equity and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. The digital health industry is bringing telemedicine/health innovation to market that is creating new efficiency paradigms in coordinating healthcare.