Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. Staying Ahead of Change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Healthdirect Australia , a national public health information service in the country, recently announced that it will be working with home-grown telehealth startup Coviu, to power its government-funded healthdirect Video Call service. THE LARGER TREND. In April 2019, Swinburne started working with Coviu for telehealth education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After years of federal controversy and conjecture, the White House announced Monday that the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies (PHE) will end on May 11. Reimbursement for audio and video behavioral telehealth is now available for all Medicare beneficiaries who otherwise meet basic criteria. Permanent reimbursement.

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Mend

APRIL 12, 2023

Many providers were using standard video conferencing tools during the PHE. They allowed supervising health teams to use real-time video technology to remotely supervise these procedures during the PHE. This meant that doctors could get paid the same amount for a video visit as they would for an in-person visit.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 6, 2020

The government has teamed up with the British video games industry to insert public health information about coronavirus into some of their most popular hits. But the move into the UK’s £1.5bn video games industry will extend the campaign’s reach — especially among young people. Main image credit: DCMS Source: [link]

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Mend

APRIL 4, 2023

As we head closer to the public health emergency (PHE) end date of May 11, 2023, providers must prepare for changes. Team members can rely on technology for secure video visits as well as automatic appointment reminders and billing for both visits. The patient will need an in-person visit annually thereafter.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

CHA launched a portal on the act of love , featuring lots of science-based articles and features to bolster health literacy on the topic of vaccines, vaccinations, and public health. This first image was captured from CHA’s short video on the campaign. .” she asserted.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. It is recommended that patients speak to their health care provider before starting EndeavorOTC treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2020

Healthcare video collaboration platform Visionable has announced a partnership with professional services company Difrent to help healthcare organisations work more efficiently. The joint service will also be offered for new clients going forward.

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. If a visit could not support video, it would not qualify for reimbursement. The post The End Of The Public Health Emergency Part 1 – Permanent Medicare Changes and Their Effects appeared first on Mend.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 2, 2020

Once the worst of the pandemic was over, several countries changed their approach to healthcare, essentially reorganizing every aspect of public health. As the world continues to respond to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, learn how some public health crises shaped the evolution of medical technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

Originally aimed at health care providers, they have championed the right of patients to get access to data, and now are working also with payers, public health agencies, pharmacies, and labs. Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. In the video interview below, Wilder and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell’s vision, achievements, and plans for the future. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2024

From providing free urgent care via video consultations to around 500 Victorians per day, the VVED now targets to accommodate over 1,000 persons a day, based on a media release. VVED to double capacity Australia's first virtual ED, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), is also set to be expanded.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Lately we’ve been talking a lot in THINK-Health’s workflows with clients about trust and health citizenship: how inspiring positive individual health behaviors can initiate a flywheel of public health goodness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The pilot involves clinics, as well as some hospitals that can only offer them to patients with rare diseases and patients who require continuous health management after surgery (those needing device checkups and explanation of test reports). Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data : rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. ” The FDA, VA, and others are using synthetic data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The kit also comes with a digital tablet where they can upload their health data via a secure website. Those data are then reviewed by a specialist nurse who can also speak to them about their next steps via live video link at any time of the day, seven days a week.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Watch the video for more details about the services, how databases are rated, and more. Learn more about Atropos Health: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. The great advantage of Atropos is to include data from these patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The video below is a compilation of their answers. Huge thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to come speak with us to make this video possible! And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this and watch the video!!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansion. At CES 2023 , Julius Dewavrin, Product Manager for U-Scan, explained how U-Scan works and the kinds of health benefits it can provide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Run by the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN), the virtual Women's Assessment Service will provide pregnant women across the state the option to receive an urgent assessment from an experienced midwife via video link. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, every day. Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S. and the leading cause of preventable hospitalizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The Sydney North Health Network recently provided a A$1.1 million ($700,000) funding package to set up the RACF Virtual Care Service, which is powered by Health Teams, a provider of a digital health platform for the aged and home care sector. This enables them to access health assessments via video conferencing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

The inTouch urgent care service provides patients with less urgent conditions with access to comprehensive health assessment via video conferencing and direct support from GPs and aged care staff. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

Between March 24 and June 23, researchers found that Latinx patients were significantly less likely to have video telemedicine compared with audio-only visits. During the first part of the pandemic in 2020, which researchers referred to as "Phase I," white patients constituted the majority of both video and audio-only visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. A framework for tactical action.

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