Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls. By Andrea Fox | September 01, 2023 News Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Neuroglee Connect helps patients stimulate their brains and bolster them against cognitive deterioration with medically-tested activities at home while their caregivers can use support and informational tools that help them identify MCI-related anxiety and stress from day to day, according to the announcement. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Murthy’s warning to the industry was that unless significant steps are taken to reduce the crisis of stress, exhaustion and burnout among physicians, nurses and other clinicians, the nation’s health will suffer through worsening of access to care and quality of care due to lack of resources. Please expand on this.

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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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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. The closest “cheese” in telehealth is Chronic Disease Management (CDM).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. One article author cites the growth of digital health but swaps in terms like “remote services” and “virtual consultations.” Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

Who can comprehend that 43% of Covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes? Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? Or that high speed internet would not be available in nursing homes or the dementia care units in assisted living where their relatives now lived.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 12, 2021

A report released Wednesday from Vector Remote Care found that cardiology practices taking a patient-centric approach to remote cardiac monitoring report improved clinical and financial outcomes. Still, wearable tech and remote monitoring have taken on new importance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work. Another 85% of clinicians said they were open to practicing on weekends using telehealth , especially therapists, and 64% were interested in working night shifts.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

Covid-19 and its impact and implications, starting early in the month following event cancellations , travel bans and stampedes , telehealth insurance changes and senior living visitation lockdowns. Numerous companies popped into my inbox in the past week with announcements of a period of free access to remote care/engagement technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

Interest in the telehealth industry has grown rapidly in recent years, with 78.5 In a recent webinar, Matt Stanton, senior director of distance health at Cleveland Clinic, and Danielle Russella, president of customer solutions at American Well, discussed how Cleveland Clinic incorporated telehealth into its spectrum of care and services.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 25, 2024

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. This allows them to provide a more coordinated and efficient delivery of care.

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American Well

APRIL 7, 2017

Interest in the telehealth industry has grown rapidly in recent years, with 78.5 In a recent webinar, Matt Stanton, senior director of distance health at Cleveland Clinic, and Danielle Russella, president of customer solutions at American Well, discussed how Cleveland Clinic incorporated telehealth into its spectrum of care and services.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. It’s practically a mantra at this point – the very real ability of remote communication technology to connect underserved populations to top-notch medical care. But what happens when certain populations can’t even get access to virtual care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I must admit that I did not have a clue how meaningful and fulfilling it would be to work as a remote patient management (RPM) clinician. My earlier career as a critical care nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a fast-paced and exciting job, but it left me with little time for a satisfying work-life balance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

However, some forms of technology – particularly those that support telehealth services – are in hot demand as they prove their worth during the national pandemic, say experts who assess information technology adoption by the nation's healthcare providers.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. This allows them to provide a more coordinated and efficient delivery of care.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 29, 2023

In the future, AI is expected to play an even greater role in healthcare, helping to improve diagnosis and treatment, and freeing up doctors and nurses to focus on more complex tasks. The use of telemedicine to provide remote care: Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical care remotely.

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American Well

JUNE 21, 2017

Tools of the Telestroke Trade. However, telestroke programs need to be implemented along with the proper tools and infrastructure/support in order for them to be truly effective. Luckily, a lot of amazing telestroke tech is already on the market and advancements in new tools and solutions are being made every year.

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American Well

JUNE 21, 2017

Tools of the Telestroke Trade. However, telestroke programs need to be implemented along with the proper tools and infrastructure/support in order for them to be truly effective. Luckily, a lot of amazing telestroke tech is already on the market and advancements in new tools and solutions are being made every year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. DTx can fill that void in care and provide patients with a much-needed treatment option.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2023

Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations, clearly – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations, contended Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, vendor of a patient engagement platform. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Michael Gorton is founder and CEO of Recuro Health, a virtual care company that offers Digital Medical Home, which enables members in all 50 states to virtually access comprehensive healthcare services, including virtual primary and urgent care, behavioral health, at-home lab testing, genomics testing, as well as a suite of supplemental benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

" The platform alerts the patient's care team when needed, prompting clinicians to check in with the patient about mobility issues, pain management or other concerns. "We've developed a great cycle of continuous improvement because of the data analytics this tool enables." " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

The online communities that resonated with me were all about leveraging this new tool called the internet to make the world a better place. One of the most impactful experiences of my career was working with our hospice nurses during the height of COVID. Our hospice nurses overcome this uncomfortableness daily.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Telehealth and virtual care, with its natural distancing, could be one such measure. "In the initial surge we had a bunch of nurses who were really experienced … who couldn't go to the bedside because they had preexisting conditions or were caregivers," he continued.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Virtual healthcare refers to delivering healthcare services remotely, using telemedicine, telehealth, and e-health. These technologies allow healthcare providers to communicate with patients, diagnose and treat conditions, and provide ongoing care through virtual, rather than in-person, visits. What is Telehealth?

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 28, 2022

John Moore III: [00:02:18] Okay, that sounds very powerful and very relevant to the kind of context of the health system that we’re operating in today, especially following the pandemic and all the shift from in the traditional in the four walls of a care setting and moving that as you’re talking about to the home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Automation is a valuable tool for any provider looking to decrease that risk and can be a major time and cost saver.

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