Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 9, 2021

The American Telemedicine Association and the American Board of Telehealth announced Tuesday that they were partnering to expand access to training and education for virtual care. The courses may be used for Continuing Medical Education or Continuing Nursing Education credits. "We share a common goal with ATA.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 5, 2022

While telemedicine is a relatively known technology in the medical field, there are still nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who are unfamiliar with how to best apply it. Here are six tips for introducing or onboarding your staff to telemedicine and telehealth: 1. Is telemedicine legal?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"We had to deploy not only new beds, nurse call systems, oxygen lines and infection control solutions, we also had to prepare for staffing the new departments," said Dr. Kevin Dawson, CIO at Howard University Hospital. "Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

I want to ‘do telemedicine’: What is involved, and how much does it cost? The use of telemedicine is at an all-time high, with 85% of doctors using telehealth to connect with patients. The specific medical devices you need may vary depending on the specialties you plan to service with telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"The high demand for pediatric specialty providers and the constraints many families face regarding transportation, time off from work and school, and finances, made it obvious that traditional models of outreach healthcare were not sustainable," said Morgan Waller, director of telemedicine business and operations at Children's Mercy.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 7, 2022

How school-based telemedicine can help the healthcare system navigate the pandemic. Telemedicine can be a significant approach to assisting those in need who can’t receive proper care in hospitals at the moment; schools, specifically, can benefit from implementing a telehealth solution that can keep kids in school and treat them in place.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A Buyer’s Guide to Telemedicine Platforms: Key Considerations to Help Optimize Clinical and Financial Outcomes. It’s important to approach telemedicine services with a full understanding of the possible hurdles on the path to implementation. Implementation and training services that support successful user adoption.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 21, 2022

4 Questions to Ask Before Partnering With a Telemedicine Technology Provider. Telemedicine and telehealth technologies are transforming the way that doctors and patients interact with each other. For nurses specifically, the integration of a new telehealth system needs to be seamless, easy to use, and simple to learn.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2022

Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres over 2 years in India. German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer is setting up 27 telemedicine centres in 12 districts across eight states in India over the next two years through Bayer Foundation India. It will offer about 20 medical specialties via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

She talks about physicians' newfound familiarity with telehealth and what it means for the future, the possibility of physicians working full time in telemedicine, and how virtual care can help with staffing shortages in healthcare. I want every doctor and nurse to feel empowered to follow the career path that works best for them.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

That’s especially true with telemedicine, where fear can be a major impediment to successful implementation. That’s one reason telemedicine training and support is so critical, as we talked about a few days ago. Today we’ll explain what dedicated training and support look like and how organizations can make the most of it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. The number of nurses who reported a conscious and deliberate desire to find other employment came in at 41%. Ever-evolving tech also means more training hours for physicians and a heavy workload for IT staff. Even more troubling, however, is the intent to leave.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

JUNE 4, 2018

Although the education of medical and nursing students regarding telemedicine has lagged behind the implementation of telemedicine services, such as telestroke and telepsychiatry, that’s about to change. Furthermore, medical schools are incorporating telemedicine training facilities in their state-of-the-art education buildings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

The expansion of remote pharmacy services strengthens Avel eCare’s portfolio of telemedicine offerings and helps meet the growing demand for pharmacy telemedicine services across the United States. An important aspect of our acute telemedicine services resides with our unique pharmacy services. With a team of U.S.-based,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. Not too long ago, Rush Memorial Hospital in Rushville, Indiana, did not have the capability to staff an ICU 24/7.

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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. Why are many hospitals now using telemedicine?

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 27, 2021

Strayhorn Family Medical Clinic recently launched a telemedicine program to better care for its patients in the rural Mississippi River Delta region with assistance from University of Fig. I am so glad we are able to support rural nurse practitioners and clinics to better care for their patients and community.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%. The number of nurses who reported a conscious and deliberate desire to find other employment came in at 41%. Ever-evolving tech also means more training hours for physicians and a heavy workload for IT staff. Even more troubling, however, is the intent to leave.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 4, 2022

The successful implementation of telemedicine also relies on some adjustments to existing workflows. Remote providers accessed through telemedicine technology may not be familiar faces for the on-site care team if they are leveraging outside physician service providers for their night or weekend coverage. Improved clinical outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

A Nurse.com and Relias report found 54% of nurses are experiencing prolonged stress , and 68% are feeling overwhelmed. Product News Virtual nursing vendor AvaSure updated its analytics platform with Microsoft PowerBI tools. Osso VR launched Osso Health , a medical training app for Apple Vision Pro.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2019

Staff sought an alternative to meet patients' medical needs and concluded that telemedicine was the solution. The idea was to use the technology and services of ExamMed, a telemedicine vendor also in Atlanta, to see lower acuity patients virtually, which would enable staff to be more efficient and effective overall. THE PROBLEM.

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GlobalMed

MAY 21, 2019

Recently GlobalMed’s Chief Clinical Officer Gigi Sorenson and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Dean Smith presented talks about disaster recovery and telemedicine at the International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency. Now emergency response leaders are turning to telemedicine for help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

The health system had been using vendor Teladoc for its inpatient telemedicine platform. "The telehealth team and operations leaders developed workflows, and training modules were designed to provide a standard practice." Adding ambulatory telemedicine. Eight telehealth-equipped hospitals. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Recently we’ve talked about criteria when evaluating telemedicine platforms – how the right solution will be provider agnostic , compliant and evidence-driven. Training and support – or the lack thereof – can make or break a virtual health program. Telemedicine implementation isn’t generic, like setting up a new plug and play router.

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GlobalMed

JULY 10, 2019

But to fill the care gap, two conditions must be met: To connect remote and underserved populations to the right care , telemedicine must be easily accessible. That’s why GlobalMed has extended our innovation to pricing – to make telemedicine affordable and practical for every type of provider, in every care environment.

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GlobalMed

MAY 31, 2019

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. But there’s another, less visible realm where telemedicine has transformed costing savings and patient outcomes: correctional facilities.

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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. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Christina Olson, Children’s Hospital Colorado.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

"One of the great things telemedicine has been able to provide for behavioral health is the ability to reach patients in areas of the country that without that tech would not have been able to receive behavioral health care." "Do I trust that I will receive the same quality of care, that it is proxy to receiving in person care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior housing/skilled nursing communities in the Midwest, was exploring different ideas to give its staff time back, improve resident outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. THE PROBLEM. Coverage includes nights, weekends and holidays. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"This was generally used for retired clinical nurses or others who had the time and desire to sit next to a patient," he continued. When that happened, we would generally have to re-assign an even more critical individual, such as a nurse or a patient care technician, to help protect that patient. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Wautaga already had three inpatient teams and was looking for a telemedicine company to handle a fourth. " "It is extremely hard to find high-quality locum physicians – our decision to use the telemedicine solution was more about saving patient lives than saving money." " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. Another factor pushing RPM adoption is the ongoing nursing and clinical provider shortages. Rural communities across the U.S. over a 30-day period.

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