Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Teladoc reported that total visits rose 92%, from 1,063,000 to 2,045,000 in the past quarter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Confidence in remote care technology is gaining traction in the United States, with a survey finding 56 percent of Americans currently monitor their health with at least one digital data collection tool.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2019

percent, nearly half of the state’s Medicare average, by introducing telehealth services. The non-profit also recently expanded its telehealth services through a partnership with Northwest Ohio Accountable Care Organization, and Ohio Living claimed 80 percent of patients enrolled would recommend the program to a family member or friend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2019

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. Connected care technologies have already enabled cost efficiencies with the management of chronic conditions, the FCC points out.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Larger companies may be able to more readily take on this financial risk, but the process of a clinical trial is still likely to take years , with no certain outcomes (a 2009 National Academy of Sciences study found that 75 percent of drug research costs are sunk in products that fail to move out of the clinical trial phase). convenience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

million grant from Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute has been earmarked for a study into how its COVID Watch program – an automated, text-based home monitoring platform designed to reach patients self-isolating at home – is working. THE LARGER TREND. Others include $4.9 Others include $4.9

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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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. Telehealth in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Though telehealth implementation necessitates an initial time and money investment, the long-term benefits far outweigh these. But to make the most of these benefits, staff must be on-board with telehealth. Telehealth implementation is, at its core, digital transformation. Strategically Implementing New Technology in Telehealth.

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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. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with. Greatly improved patient outcomes and big cost savings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

A research team from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health is looking to implement telemedicine for managing chronic diseases in Pakistan to study whether it can be used by specialists in the cities to support health providers in rural communities. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously. Individuals and insurance companies will see the value of telehealth as, in some ways, replacing the house call of olden days, which was an important aspect of medicine.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020. The pandemic catalyzed simultaneous innovation efforts on multiple fronts – many of the initiatives will become fixtures within the emerging remote care technology ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By 2023, 65% of patients will have accessed care through a digital front door as healthcare providers look for better ways to improve access, engagements, and experiences across all services. THE LARGER TREND. 'Tis

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the study showed that in 2020, the number of telemedicine clinics for patients with diabetes in both countries rose by 90%. ON THE RECORD.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Studies show that health data breaches have affected over 250 million Americans since 2010. That includes the storage of health records and care delivery. HIPAA and Telehealth Platforms.

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care innovations

APRIL 18, 2018

Demand for remote patient management services is skyrocketing among patients : A 2016 survey by the American Telemedicine Association revealed that, among those who aren’t currently using telehealth services, the majority of people still “thought telehealth would be more convenient, even though their provider did not offer virtual appointments.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that virtual reality can be a useful, scalable and appealing alternative to existing pain management approaches. As the study notes, clinicians have demonstrated interest in VR therapy as a safe and effective alternative for opioids when it comes to pain management.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Every day there is some new article about the impact of Covid-19 on older adults -- or another study turns up that you missed. What is the status and future of remote care technologies? It triggered ingenuity of senior care organizations and vendors ; and it energized innovators and prospective investors. Read more. .

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But the Covid-19 pandemic has forced nearly everyone in healthcare to reckon with both, thanks to two dynamics: The rapid adoption of telehealth solutions. In the face of a highly infectious virus, telemedicine has stepped in like a hero , enabling remote connections to help limit contamination. More than 41 million?telehealth

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Department of Agriculture (USDA) telehealth report is echoing findings made over the past year by leaders of other federal agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. USDA Telehealth Report: ‘Little Is Known’ about Use in Remote Communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Numerous commercial payers also cover RPM, sometimes within their telehealth coverage policies. Providers soon may be able to bill for much more remote patient monitoring. The 99454 RPM code was the first economically viable remote monitoring code that did not explicitly specify a device type.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies . More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Adding to the problem is the likelihood of minority groups to delay or go without needed care. Then COVID-19 hit. Then came COVID-19.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remote biometric monitoring technology company Biotricity recently announced securing National Institutes of Health funding from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute with plans to launch a study of its Bioflux-AI technology. Please elaborate on what Bioflux-AI is and what the study will cover and try to prove.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perhaps most critical is the rise of the telemedicine intensive care unit (Tele-ICU, also known as virtual ICU), which uses secure audio and video to provide remote care to critically ill patients. Studies show that Tele-ICU leads to lower mortality rates , especially in medium- and high-risk patients.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

co-director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester, for a story I wrote based on a study he led. We, of course, discussed cross-state licensure holding back wider use of remote care, a subject that is very much in the news right now. 9:45 Registering for PCORI study.

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Enzyme Health

MAY 8, 2019

Get familiar with four important telemedicine studies from the past few years, highlighting a diverse array of telemedicine applications, healthcare cost savings, and positive patient outcomes. Rafid Fadul, to help identify recent critical research and empirical evidence supporting telehealth program implementation and outcomes.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Have one neurologist serve three remote hospitals. Another study of 2,500 patients diagnosed with an acute ischemic stroke found that telestroke increased the timely use of clot-dissolving drugs by 75%. The study also found: Diagnostic imaging tests were given 12 minutes sooner. Building an effective telestroke program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Telehealth surged nationwide during the pandemic as lockdowns forced the entire country to stay inside their homes. Luckily, recent reports have stated that patients in rural areas will still have access to telehealth and RPM tools regardless of the end of the PHE. According to recent studies by Mayo Clinic , 72.5%

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