Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. "Within a week of the pandemic hitting the United States, we also rolled out Zoom Business and Doximity to our patients as a telehealth option," Raman recalled. The tools also integrated with Raleigh Medical Group's telehealth solutions and Phreesia check-in platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Jay Holmgren at UCSF, previously partnered with other researchers from Stanford, Harvard and other universities who suspected the rise of telehealth could be to blame for spiking the amount of time clinicians were spending in the EHR. THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias can remain home while being continuously monitored.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Teladoc reported that total visits rose 92%, from 1,063,000 to 2,045,000 in the past quarter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Recovery Solutions

MAY 9, 2023

The demand for telehealth is growing globally as it expands healthcare access to underserved populations. In rural areas, the need for remote care and treatment is even more pressing due to limited resources and access to medical facilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. That’s why the FCC will vote to advance my $100 million pilot program at our July 10 meeting." WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“I started the telehealth component of my practice to make access easier and more convenient,” Libby explained. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

The survey, commissioned by specialist insurer Beazley , focused on 376 executives from telehealth companies in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as mobile platforms and life science technology software. THE LARGER TREND.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Virtual clinical trials are leveraging the power of telehealth technologies like remote patient monitoring and wearable mHealth devices to conduct safe and effective research at a lower cost by doing so remotely, as opposed to standard (and expensive) locations like a hospital or university medical center.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2023

Telehealth provides access to many treatment techniques that translate well to a virtual platform and treat a broad range of speciality mental health conditions. Telehealth can also help patients with trauma feel more comfortable processing and disclosing information.

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eVisit

AUGUST 2, 2021

Virtual Care is entering a new era that promises tremendous benefits to patients and healthcare providers alike. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the telehealth field made huge advances. Here’s a look at how video visits with healthcare providers are markedly different from comprehensive Virtual Care services.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 16, 2024

Virtual care can bring quality care to underserved populations , allowing patients, regardless of location, to receive virtual health care for everything from emergency scenarios to specialized appointments for specific health conditions. Learn more about GlobalMed’s virtual health rental program here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. We've been talking about it for decades, after all. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers technology implementation tips, as well as a reference to CPT codes for reporting telemedicine and remote care services. "Physician practices are being hard-hit by the pandemic, which is threatening the sustainability of practices and could reduce access to care," said AMA President Patrice A.

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19 Labs

AUGUST 19, 2020

While telehealth is booming, the pandemic has made video calls an essential commodity. With “Tele” becoming a commodity, what is the trajectory for the telehealth vendors? Telehealth is having its moment in the limelight. For EMRs to add support for video meetings is trivial — and they are actively pursuing this.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Numerous commercial payers also cover RPM, sometimes within their telehealth coverage policies. Providers soon may be able to bill for much more remote patient monitoring. The proposed changes are currently on the public agenda for the American Medical Association's May CPT Editorial Panel meeting.

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care innovations

MAY 30, 2018

Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. Time and again, remote patient management has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and lower operational costs , as perhaps best demonstrated by the success of the Mississippi Diabetes Health Network.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 has pushed digital health technologies such as telehealth and remote monitoring /virtual care into the fore, and the nation-state of Singapore is no exception. Never let a crisis go to waste.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

"Telehealth quickly became a prominent means of contact precaution across our inpatient care settings. "With everyone scrambling for mobile video solutions, Caregility rose to the challenge and equipped us with one hundred of their new APS250 mobile telehealth carts," he continued. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

For many, that meant taking a back-to-basics approach, in terms of meeting immediate demands. And as the system ramped up initiatives such as its telehealth platform, she says, those changes needed to be communicated to Northwell's tens of thousands employees.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. These laws are also important to HIPAA compliant telehealth programs, as they update protections for the digital age. HIPAA and Telehealth Platforms.

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care innovations

APRIL 18, 2018

Demand for remote patient management services is skyrocketing among patients : A 2016 survey by the American Telemedicine Association revealed that, among those who aren’t currently using telehealth services, the majority of people still “thought telehealth would be more convenient, even though their provider did not offer virtual appointments.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes optimizing existing technology to meet the needs and workflows of clinicians as end users, and also introducing new solutions that help improve the clinician experience. ” Truly taking advantage of the opportunities offered through virtual care requires providers to think more broadly than isolated telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

The remote patient monitoring efforts were meant to supply support to over-stretched inpatient units by creating a means to provide care for acute patients in their home, thereby reducing length of stay while aiding in managing chronic illnesses and disease. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The charge became to expand it quickly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2023

THE LARGER TREND Connected Care represents a major milestone in SJMC's goal of building a comprehensive, end-to-end healthcare system. Like the rest of Malaysian providers, the hospital is leveraging digital technologies to meet patients' demands for virtual and remote care post-pandemic.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

When your clinician team is technically, culturally, and logistically well-integrated, your remote providers will feel and operate like an extension of your on-site team. That’s what makes a meet and greet so essential. So, what happens if a remote provider doesn’t appear to be a good match with the organization?

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Department of Agriculture (USDA) telehealth report is echoing findings made over the past year by leaders of other federal agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. USDA Telehealth Report: ‘Little Is Known’ about Use in Remote Communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

market and will add apps meeting that criteria to the ATA approved library. It has become increasingly important to equip individuals with knowledge about such apps, said the ATA and ORCHA – particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, when an increasing number of patients are turning to remote care and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeon Telehealth, digital communication, and remote patient monitoring rose to the forefront during the pandemic and are now well-established care delivery options.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient? Then COVID-19 hit.

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eVisit

JANUARY 12, 2021

We are a team that is always looking forward — looking toward the next new innovation to build and deliver…the next new customer to help deploy its virtual care strategy…the next quarterly business review to showcase success metrics and address optimization strategies…the next new challenge to tackle in telehealth. 3 Banner Shares!

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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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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But the Covid-19 pandemic has forced nearly everyone in healthcare to reckon with both, thanks to two dynamics: The rapid adoption of telehealth solutions. In the face of a highly infectious virus, telemedicine has stepped in like a hero , enabling remote connections to help limit contamination. More than 41 million?telehealth

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