Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Will new virtual-care legislation pass? Will there be technological advances that push the care paradigm further forward? The technology for virtual-care appointments also will continue to advance beyond 1:1 doctor-patient video conferencing. But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Defense Health Agency has awarded Amwell and Leidos a new contract to develop a hybrid care technology platform for the Military Health System's "Digital First" efforts. Amwell will also deliver other automated care programs, such as behavioral health offerings and integrated core telehealth tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes. Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2021

The American Medical Association, in partnership with the law firm Manatt Health, published a framework this week aimed at examining the benefits generated by virtual care. According to the organizations, the Return on Health initiative is aimed at understanding the value of digitally enabled care beyond dollars and cents alone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2023

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Data becomes a vital sign – it's our new pulse," she said. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. NYC H+H patients would then be scheduled for same- or next-day clinic-based infusion therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption? In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Like many other healthcare organizations, it struggled with operationalizing the technology and workflows of a new process. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. At the time, its portfolio of virtual care was limited to behavioral health and telestroke teams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telemedicine demands personalized care at scale for complex conditions, ramping up the move toward concierge care, and increasing access to the best medical expertise, The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic continues. It's clear that virtual care is now a permanent mode of healthcare access and delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

The Cleveland Clinic and telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell famously partnered to create The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic , which provides virtual second opinions and now other healthcare offerings. I understand The Clinic and Amwell have been discussing an overarching digital and virtual care strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We spoke with a heavy hitter in the world of telehealth, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, president and CEO of Amwell, one of the big players in telemedicine technology and services, to get his views on how his predictions from last year turned out and where virtual care is headed in 2023. How did that prediction turn out? How did that turn out?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

The rapid growth in care, they said in an article published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , has also inspired discussions on the best way to use telemedicine for disease management. Components of an optimal model, they said, include: Support for secure multidisciplinary consults across the care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Pharmacy benefits manager RxBenefits has integrated with the Springbuk Activate partner marketplace of tools for employers and benefits advisors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“We quickly realized we needed to adopt an enterprise-class, scalable, secure solution that would meet the care delivery needs of our patients and providers while continuing to provide the quality of care we were accustomed to,” said W. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. Glenn Hilburn, RN, Grady Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

Commonwealth Care Alliance is a healthcare services organization that offers health plans and care delivery programs designed for individuals with significant needs. CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2022

As telehealth continues to be a popular modality for care delivery, advocates, organizations and some lawmakers have stressed the importance of ensuring maximum access. Requirements for health plans to cover telehealth services on the same basis as in-person ones. WHY IT MATTERS. Equitable and fair payment for physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. "This combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payer approach," said Karen S. billion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Still, challenges remain: respondents are concerned about payment rates, technology and workflow issues that continue to present barriers to seamless virtual care. "The use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights its importance in care delivery. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Teladoc Health announced this week that it was partnering with Amazon to launch voice-activated virtual care on Alexa-supported Echo devices. "We are meeting consumers where they are, to continue to deliver value and high-quality care to members," Boyer said. According to the companies, U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. One of Australia's longest-serving residential aged care providers is taking a shot at this pressing challenge with a modern, virtual solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. We quickly saw value in Zoom’s flexibility and inherent familiarity for many users, both staff and patients. And it did the trick.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

With lower expectations of and satisfaction with health care, Millennials in America seek three things: available, accessible, and affordable services, research from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies has found. Millennials are most likely across generations to track health policy news, with 6 in 10 concerned about potential changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Patient and provider telehealth use has skyrocketed since the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States – and analysts point to a " tsunami of growth " as virtual care, after years of frustrated promise, becomes the new normal. "Now everything is virtual. Telehealth in the long term.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. Hospitals and health care providers. value-based). 59 state and territorial health departments. 59 state and territorial health departments. Tribal health departments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed. "Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. '" Mahoney continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Travel to virtually any U.S. Healthcare IT News sat down with Justin to learn what he learned on his travels. He talks about where providers are excelling with virtual care, where they are facing challenges, the experiences of Global Medical Response, and what he thinks 2022 will bring in the world of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By making our patient engagement offerings available to the expansive customer base of Ensemble, we’ll help more healthcare providers deliver exceptional care to their patients.” Today’s news continues a string of rapid growth and expansion for TeleVox.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. Healthcare IT News interviewed Emerson to have him expand upon his predictions for the year.

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