Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2019

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The Telehealth Leadership Group’s most recent stocktake questionnaire was sent to all 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) in October 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Conducted by Cerner Enviza from June to September this year, the survey gathered responses from around 1,500 participants (787 PLHIV and 744 at-risk individuals) across nine APAC markets, including Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Practice across multiple states: Telehealth gives the opportunity for providers to increase the number of patients they can see across states. Check out our list of telehealth licensure requirements by state here. Why is now the right time to embrace telehealth as a permanent way of delivering care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. Q: You've said that personalization will influence telehealth engagement. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A survey published by the Larry A. According to the survey, which drew on answers from 1,263 respondents from nearly every state, the pressures of providing care amidst COVID-19 have continued to weigh heavily on primary care clinicians. In general, primary care is facing severe challenges, the survey said. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. provider survey, which was complemented by a poll conducted among 1,024 health consumers for the patient perspective in September 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. One direct quote from a physician illustrates the upside of telehealth and trust: “Building trust requires a human connection and genuine empathy/compassion.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

However, that ubiquity comes with its own set of market pressures…shifting from pandemic-responsiveness to market- and consumer- responsiveness, ” according to The new era of consumer engagement, Rock Health’s ninth annual Consumer Adoption Survey published 18 March. While virtual care is ubiquitous across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But telehealth may be becoming an emerging strategy to help fill in gaps within hospitals and health systems , contended Chris Franklin, president of LocumTenens.com, a self-service job board and a full-service physician and advanced practice recruitment agency working in high-demand medical specialties. Burnout also is at an all-time high.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. In addition, only a few states have evaluated the effects of telehealth, said the agency; these states found increased access and reduced costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The report surveyed leaders in the healthcare field about their top innovations before the COVID-19 pandemic and how they'd changed. Unsurprisingly, telehealth stood out, with nearly half of respondents saying they'd shifted to virtual care as an innovation priority.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2023

Survey results we released in May show that nearly 6 in 10 of active college students first accessed mental health services during their K-12 years and 42% experienced their first formal care in high school. In fact, 44% of Gen Z and Millennial AHA survey respondents said they would switch providers if they did not offer a telehealth option.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this blog, we’ll review the impact of clinician burnout, how telehealth helps support work-life balance, and what a day-in-the life of a virtual behavioral health provider looks like. Iris holds a meet and greet with the Clinical Operations Manager, the provider, and the clinic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment as part of its $200 million aid program for qualifying providers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. "Surveys show that rural Pennsylvanians are not taking care of themselves as well as their urban counterparts," she continued. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Between March 16, 2020, and March 20, 2022, it completed more than 784,000 telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

It then began its telehealth program using Agnes software, but recently switched to Tyto hardware and software. “To give a bit of background, in the fall of 2019, we began implementing telehealth in our schools,” said Brenda Reetz, CEO of Greene County General Hospital. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This allowed us to change telehealth from what was 5% of services prior to the pandemic to 85% of services during." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. They were clunky, and people wanted to meet in person," Zeigler said. So now with telehealth they can do their sessions and receive their care right in their home."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care. "The speed of the wildfires left no time for evaluating commercial telehealth platforms," Nicewicz said. Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

"Offering telehealth options no longer is just a ‘nice to have’ for providers like us. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. intake appointments, group meetings) to telehealth in March 2020 and rolled out a pilot of its proprietary mobile app in April 2021. It’s now a necessity."

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MAY 27, 2020

The company published the COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study , a survey launched in late March. As other studies have found in the pandemic, telehealth has been a novel and welcome work-flow for both patients and clinicians, both sides seeking to manage risks of exposure to the coronavirus. The post More U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

B2B software comparison website Capterra has published the results of a study with over 1,000 Australians, detailing their perspectives and considerations about telehealth. According to Capterra’s survey findings, 92% of telemedicine users in Australia had experienced telemedicine for the first time during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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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. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telehealth encounters have the potential to save $250 billion in healthcare expenditures annually across covered populations, a McKinsey & Company analysis has found. When the pandemic emerged, healthcare organizations had to ramp up their telehealth investments in just a matter of days to meet the sudden surge in demand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"Telehealth is a great example," he said. " The example of telehealth highlights the importance of advocacy at multiple levels of government to simplify the complex regulations that make it such a challenge to use the technologies that are prevalent in so many other fields of business, he insisted.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The adoption of telehealth has continued to nearly double year-over-year for the past decade. According to our new consumer survey, 8% of U.S. This represents a massive opportunity and great potential for telehealth to be part of regular care delivery. They also are the most willing generation to use telehealth for urgent care.

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