Henry Kotula

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Pharmacy and retail chains Walmart and CVS Health both detailed their intended expansions into primary care. The pandemic also encouraged big corporations outside the healthcare sector, like Pepsi and Delta Airlines, to consider hiring CMOs to make sense of public health regulations guide them on their policy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Why Telemedicine Is Struggling for Telehealth Coverage Many hospitals and health systems relied upon and therefore invested heavily in telehealth during the height of COVID-19. Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. When a service is performed in a facility (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Prior to having telemedicine technology in place, M Health Fairview was only able to provide specialty care and other services like hospice or diabetes education to patients throughout its 10 hospitals if it had someone who could "round" (come in person to see a patient) at that hospital.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

GlobalMed, a telehealth industry leader, announced today their support of a $250M COVID-19 telehealth funding program offered by the FCC to eligible nonprofit and public health care providers. 2020 was grim in many ways, but you can’t deny it’s offered a fast-track education in healthcare strategy.

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Health System CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The biggest mistake healthcare organizations can make with telemedicine? ” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs. It’s a tool that can be shaped and molded like a piece of clay.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

The Korean government has made a strategy to triage COVID-19 patients based on their risks. Mild patients were admitted to the community recovery center and treated through telemedicine, and only patients with moderate levels or higher were treated in the hospital. (2) 1) Cooperation with government/public health authority.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. Resource strain combined with the legacy infrastructures still being used in most health organizations have only added to these challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. Public health officials can also use patient portals to send targeted messages to patients about important health issues. Subscribe today! Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement?

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

." Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. As Hartsfield says, “Patient engagement strategies have never been more critical.” So we have a lot of people with either serious disease of costly health conditions eventually leading to disease.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. ” "In 2021, whoever captures the consumer first is expected to have more influence in guiding and navigating users through other parts of the health ecosystem." Healthcare providers that can offer the best access may win the patient, it said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking to 2024, automation will remain another valuable strategy to address shortage-related issues by digitizing manual tasks and streamlining workflows. Developing a competitive workforce strategy remains critical to attract and maintain top talent. However, the workforce must be prepared for advanced technologies.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 27, 2020

For hospitals and doctors’ offices, that means building on a major shift to telemedicine, new workflows to allow for more infection control and revamping the supply chain for pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment and other supplies. Doctors, nurses and other front-line employees are in incredibly stressful work environments.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Although public health experts have long touted the concept of clinicians and patients working together through shared decision-making , this rarely happens in practice. Lifestyle Medicine: Generative AI would support preventive health measures and lifestyle changes, reducing the overall demand for in-person clinical care.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

Arguably, the nation’s public health defenses should anticipate global pandemics and apply resources. Instead, COVID-19 hit the public healthcare infrastructure suddenly and hard. Telemedicine typifies this phenomenon. A carefully designed post-acute care network (including nursing homes, rehab centers, home care.

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Digital Health Today

JUNE 17, 2021

In this new digital era, healthcare professionals such as nurses and doctors are seeing a change in work process, such as using APPs, and converting “paper” based tools to electronics, which has knock-on effects to their daily practice. The post HIMSS21 & Health 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. These new players and classifications in healthcare, coupled with a drive to create interoperability, highlight the need for a robust identity management strategy for both consumers and providers. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. 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. You predict that with telemedicine there will be a greater focus on care coordination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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American Well

MAY 28, 2020

Virtual care was a key part of the organization’s response strategy. AU Health had already partnered with Amwell on a direct-to-consumer urgent care program, AU Health Express Care, which it planned to roll out to its employees on April 1, 2020. When the crisis hit, the academic medical center based in Augusta, Ga.,

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 17, 2020

the state is trying to ensure that nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities aren’t quickly overwhelmed by patients still suffering from the disease. There are no national data on the percentage of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who need rehabilitation or skilled nursing care after their hospital stay. Key Role for Testing.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

During my time as a physician, I saw first hand how difficult it was to find information for optimizing a prescription, and that we’re also facing a huge public health problem due to people dying from avoidable medication errors. Those are the problems we’re aiming to solve.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

After a successful launch, MHF identified the opportunity to integrate telestroke into the Epic EHR via Context-Aware Linking (CAL), which streamlined the workflow and enabled providers to practice telemedicine from within their standard EHR workflow. The health system performed both scheduled and on-demand visits, and added Amwell?telemedicine

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage. lacks a robust public health infrastructure.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). For two consecutive years, the health system was named among the Best Places to Work in Illinois.

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New Age Healthcare

MARCH 23, 2020

However, India does recognize the imminent need of having more trained doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals (HCP) to boost the existing healthcare system. But can these strategies by-pass the red tape and see the light or once again will land in archives? Telemedicine can create 1.5 lakhs job in next 5 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The use of robots in health care will exponentially mature with the development of robots capable of performing basic medical tasks, such as taking vital signs, administering medications, and providing wound care. In this context, strategies and solutions that empower all stakeholders will be paramount. in medicine in all aspects.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 2, 2020

Make greater use of telemedicine to limit face-to-face contact. But by necessity — because of shortages of testing, ventilators, personal protective equipment and even doctors and nurses — they’re also trying creative and sometimes untried strategies to bolster their readiness and increase their capacity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

During a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, Dr. Rachel Levine expressed her support for telemedicine, emphasized the importance of addressing young people's mental health needs and described her strategy for combating the ongoing opioid crisis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS. Bill Cassidy, R-La.

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