Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth. called Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make It Work. .

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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. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 20, 2024

Google Ads policy already recognizes LegitScript’s Healthcare Certification program for advertising of telemedicine in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and France. With telehealth services flourishing, now is the time for advertisers to step forward and embrace this new frontier with LegitScript’s support.” PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 9, 2020

By Nadia de la Houssaye, co-leader healthcare litigation team and head of the healthcare industry telemedicine team, Jones Walker LLP. At its most fundamental, telehealth (or telemedicine) is nothing new. The article Telehealth: Where Crisis Meets Regulation, Opportunities Arise appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

FOLX uses technology, like telehealth, that allows patients to access care when it is convenient for them and in a place where they feel comfortable and safe. Douillet Guzmán, Chief Executive Officer at FOLX to find out more about their use of telehealth and their approach to delivering care to their unique patient population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. Why do you think this is?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services. The equipment purchased with help from a grant from the FCC telehealth grant program would allow for the expansion of services within UM's College of Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Data Policy in the Context of Telehealth Policy The ATA has been publishing policy statements on complex technical topics since they launched a good 30 years ago.

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SteadyMD

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Annual clinician survey addresses a range of topics related to the adoption, perception, and practice of telehealth. While telehealth has previously been viewed as primarily suited for acute or minor conditions, 83.6% LOUIS, Feb. LOUIS, Feb. healthcare system to care for patients.” healthcare system to care for patients.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

We interviewed her to talk about why she believes this is so, the relationship between telehealth and health equity, and how a hybrid future for telemedicine is important. The door to telehealth has finally been opened, and I don't think it will ever return to its original state.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. for one year’s membership. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. American Telemedicine Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. Dr. Josh Emdur is chief medical officer at SteadyMD, a virtual primary care provider that also powers telehealth for digital health companies and employers. Virtual care creates a multimodal "front door" to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The American Board of Telehealth announced this week that it is launching a Teleprimary Care Certificate program, geared toward helping primary care providers develop future virtual health strategies. With a shortage of primary care providers, telehealth can offer patients expanded access to care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s Telehealth Awareness Week , led by the ATA. I celebrate and support the effort; this Health Populi post explains the Association’s mantra that Telehealth is Health, and that telehealth is firmly embedded into healthcare’s omnichannel imperative. So why omnichannel healthcare, and why now?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. Check out our list of telehealth licensure requirements by state here.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 23, 2020

Behavioral telehealth’s future depends on how Congress will deal with telehealth after COVID. The post Pivotal Congressional Meeting Considers Telehealth after COVID: HELP Committee appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. " Telehealth will continue to grow within the healthcare industry and provide an opportunity for patients to receive care where they need it and how they want it , Bard said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

We know that telehealth can be a tremendous opportunity to expand healthcare access for people who might face barriers to medical services. In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. But it also may be replicating the digital divide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. Taking telehealth to the next level. Revolutionizing healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns. Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.)

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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. Telehealth, specifically telemedicine , offers an effective solution for meeting this demand by providing technology-enabled care to patients who are unable to access traditional healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2024

Its program Focused on Feeding has helped families go from hospital bed (with malnutrition) to the dinner table – entirely via telemedicine. We interviewed her for a deep dive into feeding disorders and how telehealth can help. And how did telemedicine come into the mix?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Emme, a health tech company that launched a birth control tracking smart case and app this past August, has now expanded its offerings into prescription delivery and telemedicine. Emme representatives say the service aims to be a fully integrated contraception system, including the case and app, telemedicine, and prescription delivery.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association released a statement on Friday saying that it applauds the Drug Enforcement Agency for posting a meeting notice on Friday that indicates that it is "openly considering" a special registration that would allow providers to prescribe medically necessary substances by telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. Expands the early intervention services that can be provided through telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A major difference between GlobalMed and other telehealth vendors is the way our products fit so well into providers’ needs. While many GlobalMed executives come from the military, technology and international business, Sorenson’s telemedicine background makes her one of the most fascinating and multi-talented leaders at GlobalMed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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AMD Telemedicine

MAY 8, 2023

The Challenge: Staff burnout and burdened workloads In a time when the need and demand for telehealth skyrocketed, hospitals and medical facilities were at their lowest ability to make the necessary digital transformation. They spent the time to really work with us to develop a telemedicine solution that fit out individual company needs.”

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