Telehealth is the future but it is obscured by a dismal present
KevinMD
JULY 11, 2020
In so far as our current public health emergency is concerned, telehealth has obvious, indisputable benefits.
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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 15, 2022
A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. million telehealth visits during the study period, nearly 3.7 million adults found telehealth comparable for chronic conditions.
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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 14, 2020
The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers. THE LARGER TREND.
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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports
Health Populi
JUNE 3, 2020
As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.
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Telehealth resource centers nationwide aid providers at no cost
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, one of the 14 U.S.
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Grow Your Practice Through Telehealth
Continue Education Journal
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
For example, 56% of counties in the US do not have a psychiatrist, 64% of counties have a shortage of mental health providers, and 70% of counties are without a child psychiatrist according to McKinsey & Company. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.
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Cleveland Clinic, RAND hope to tackle telehealth's digital divide
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 26, 2021
Telehealth has the potential to expand access to care to previously underserved populations. However, it also has the possible side effect of worsening health disparities – and it's vital, stakeholders say, to make changes to address that dynamic as soon as possible.
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DEA moves to extend telehealth prescribing flexibilities after voluminous stakeholder feedback
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 4, 2023
With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. At issue for a large number in the telehealth, behavioral health and medical communities as well as some policymakers would be the barriers to care access many patients experienced before the pandemic.
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Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.
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The End Of The Public Health Emergency Part 3 – Temporary Changes Until The End
Mend
APRIL 12, 2023
Will virtual care still count as telehealth excepted benefit? What about telehealth HIPAA compliance? In the final part of our 3-part series, we’ll cover which telehealth policies end immediately with the PHE. After May 11, providers must follow the usual HIPAA rules when using telehealth.
Senator Tina Smith: 'We have to learn from our experiences' on telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 19, 2020
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. " “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. " Sen.
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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 23, 2020
Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. "We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. " "Telehealth is not new.
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Telehealth and mail-order abortion possible in some states during pandemic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 16, 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of patients have turned to telehealth. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how telehealth can, if implemented properly, allow clinicians to deliver high-quality care to their patients," Perryman continued, pointing to ACOG's resources for members on telehealth best practices.
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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2022
A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ON THE RECORD.
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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.
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Down in the Delta – Up in Telehealth: MTA 2020
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. Basically anyone involved or interested in digital health.
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Women’s and Children’s Health Network launches Australia's first virtual gynaecological service
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 2, 2023
This allows women experiencing pain or bleeding in early pregnancy to no longer present and wait in an emergency department " during such a challenging time," SA Health said in a statement. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access
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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2020
” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. "We overhauled our telehealth training and onboarding effort to ensure provider acceptance, knowledge and compliance with best practice standards for tele-enabled practice." " John F. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.
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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 23, 2021
"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. "But when we were able to move our technology to the point of advancing home health initiatives, we've actually seen it take off.
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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 8, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Here's what she had to say.
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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine
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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NUS Medicine introducing holographic GI care training and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 26, 2023
GigXR's HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal module on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform presents a holographic simulation of a clinical setting featuring patients, medical equipment, instructors, and learners.
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M Health Fairview goes all in on telehealth with $600K in FCC funds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 6, 2021
" They could complete assessments of the patient's condition with or without the local nursing team helping with the exam and even invite a family member at home to hear the updates to their care when they were not present.
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South Korea begins nationwide telemedicine pilot
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care In response, the ministry is keen to mete out sanctions for future violations, such as reducing claims and issuing refunds.
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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region – January 2021
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Payors continue to make permanent telehealth policy changes that incorporate greater telehealth flexibilities. Permanent telehealth changes seen from payors such as Cigna and UHC include the removal of the originating site restriction and expanded telehealth code sets. HIPAA compliant platform is required after PHE ends.
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Carium, OMNY among HHS-backed tech accelerator picks
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The PandemicX Accelerator, co-led by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, is tasked with using digital tools and publicly accessible data to reduce the disparities and inequity worsened by the novel coronavirus. WHY IT MATTERS. The cohort includes: Carium.
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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.
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AMA & other med groups express 'dismay' at prospect of waivers made permanent
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 28, 2020
Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. " THE LARGER TREND.
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Te Whatu Ora Waikato deploys new attendant solution and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
This comes as the number of ED presentations is on the rise with emergency teams across the state treating over 480 people daily and demand surge kicking on weekends and during holidays.
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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. THE PROBLEM.
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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry
Advanced Medical Reviews
MAY 2, 2019
The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.
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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.
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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 27, 2020
The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented. ” The volume of video interactions May Clinic supports on a daily basis greatly exceeds what it had done prior to the public health emergency, and signals a great patient desire to get their needed care conveniently and safely during this time, he added.
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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region – December 2020
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JANUARY 12, 2021
As we enter the new year we are seeing numerous payor telehealth policy changes, and therefore we have made several updates to the Virtual Visit Billing Guides for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Extended current telehealth flexibilities until further notice. Current telehealth flexibilities expire December 31 st , 2020.
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Providence CISO offers tips for a 'pandemic-ready' cyber strategy
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 11, 2021
The health system quickly stood up an array of new clinical innovations to deal with the public health emergency, and pivoted its consumer-facing tools to help manage its response to COVID-19. Seattle-based Providence was forced to learn quickly in spring of 2020, with Washington State one of the early U.S.
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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2021
It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”
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South Australia makes children, adult virtual care services permanent with $89M funding
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2023
Launched in May, the centre is providing 24/7 support and oversight of the SA health and hospital system, supported by predictive data and analytics. Enterprise Taxonomy: Patient Access Telehealth Population and Public Health Care
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URAC CEO talks virtual care access, tele-mental health, post-COVID regs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P.
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My Introduction to Telehealth at the 2019 TRC Spring Meeting
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
MARCH 11, 2019
This is me walking into the 2019 National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers Spring Meeting at Heifer International’s Heifer Village in Little Rock, AR. Being recently employed at the UAMS South Central Telehealth Resource Center, I’m waking up to the popularly growing, yet somewhat secret field of telehealth.
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Patient Portals and 'Answer Engines' to emerge as a powerful duo in HealthTech 2024?
Lloyd Price
MARCH 13, 2024
Here's how: Answer Engines: Improved Patient Education: Imagine patients getting clear, concise answers to their health questions through an AI-powered interface that understands natural language. Benefits of Integration: Enhanced Education: Imagine a patient logging into their portal after a doctor's visit.
Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 3, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency?
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SEARCH 2020 – Day One
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Leslie Morland continued to push the event pass the starting line with her plenary talk, Virtual Mental Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: An Immediate Response to COVID-19 , which was all the more pertinent since it was Veteran’s Day. Since March of this year, out of 180 women, only 2 were born pre-term.
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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.
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