Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Over the last 12 months, companies have turned more frequently to cloud deployment for its presumed benefits. However, as this trend develops, many companies are recognizing the limitations of the cloud-only model and repatriating infrastructure tied to critical data in a housed facility. Cost Savings: Cloud is expensive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Motic Digital Pathology this week announced the global launch of its telepathology program, which allows pathologists to connect with labs and patients around the world. The cloud-based platform allows hospital users to create cases from scanned whole slide images. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. WHY IT MATTERS.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #telehealth — Caregility , an enterprise telehealth leader dedicated to connecting care for patients and clinicians everywhere, is pleased to announce Mary Washington Healthcare as one of the first organizations to implement its new Inpatient Virtual Engagement (IVE) solution at Stafford Hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patients want easy and secure access to healthcare services from anywhere, at any time. While patients and providers are often satisfied with the foundational technologies that support telehealth – security, WiFi connectivity, and streaming capabilities – the experience is still lacking in certain areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2023

Hyndman Area Health Center – a holistic Pennsylvania-based health center providing family medicine, dental health, behavioral health and more – transitioned from client-hosted servers to eClinicalWorks cloud-based servers to expand its network capacity and meet a rising data demand. The ROI favored moving to the cloud.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

Kajeet, a vendor of wireless connectivity and software and hardware solutions for controlled Internet access, has debuted Kajeet Connected Health, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to enable the secure and reliable delivery of telemedicine services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

HCI solutions can also enable the extension of private clouds into public clouds to create a true hybrid cloud infrastructure. By leveraging a hybrid cloud infrastructure, applications can be deployed and managed with the same tools and procedures, while making it easy to migrate data and services across clouds.

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JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. In the immediate term, as Roy coined it the “extreme short term,” Philips has been working on ventilators, monitors, installing equipment and servicing and supporting health system clients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Epic tells customers it will stop Google Cloud integrations, says report.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. More than 10 years in the making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Dickenson County Behavioral Health Services is a small, rural community service healthcare organization that provides a variety of mental health, substance abuse and development services to the residents of Dickenson County, Virginia. "We had constant outages and low connection speeds. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

" Even if the home can't be the hospital, community spaces and retail locations can fill in as connected care stations for underserved communities or patients [who] don't have an ideal setup at home. There are similar advantages of using connected devices when managing patients with chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Combining the virtually limitless computing power of the cloud and 5G connectivity with mobile devices is reshaping the way hospitals and clinics manage data. Connected devices powered by edge computing are being seen as a way of expanding healthcare beyond physical boundaries and eventually transforming patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

"After month three, our virtual care service chief, Dr. Matthew Lyon, worked to develop new protocols for additional conditions outside of COVID-19," she continued. "While this technology works well, there are still many patients who have no smartphone, tablet or laptop to allow them to connect to our providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

Amid the Change Healthcare cybersecurity breach, Availity announced it has established 33 new health plan connections and seen a 40% increase in the volume of claims it’s processing. RamSoft added progressive loading to OmegaAI , its cloud-native radiology software built on Microsoft Azure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

and Australia, Wellpath delivers medical and behavioral healthcare services to nearly 300,000 patients located in inpatient and residential treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and local, state and federal correctional facilities. Shawn Valenta is vice president for healthcare cloud in clinical services at Wellpath.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2023

While facing rising costs and workforce shortages, healthcare systems across Asia-Pacific have been exploring ways to make healthcare services more accessible by shifting to a data and digital-enabled distributed model of care delivery, a new Philips report found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 17, 2022

The current cyber environment means that it's often not enough for healthcare delivery organizations to secure their own boundaries – as noted in a Cloud Security Alliance report this week. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Why are system-owned devices not always necessary to secure an environment?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Andy’s fourth installment outlined services that connect patients to resources in their community , whether through automated outreach, surveys, and referrals or a more holistic and hands-on approach focused on direct conversations with patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 20, 2023

The transformation was accelerated in the last three years when confined to our homes for months on end, doctors and patients alike turned to technology to try and stay healthy and connected. but data can make services more affordable through efficiency and automation. zettabytes (ZB) by 2025.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Most of the hesitancy on RPM implementation seemed to be because of limited reimbursement opportunities as well as lack of incentives for providers offering such services. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

When implementing telemedicine programs, healthcare provider organizations will see the best results if they use technology that is scalable across a variety of use-cases and can accommodate various clinical workflows, said Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO and co-founder of Amwell, a telemedicine technology and services company.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2023

Cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and software lead key investments: 59% of respondents ranked cybersecurity challenges in their top three organizational challenges, and 54% ranked cybersecurity as their most important investment over the next 12-18 months. 96% are leveraging Wi-Fi to enable mobile devices among clinical staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

After receiving more than 38,000 public comments, the Drug Enforcement Administration is extending the telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications beyond the end of the public health emergency on May 11. Virginia Hospital Center selected Unite Us to implement electronic referrals to community-based services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. The advantage to this approach is that the clinicians don’t have to be physically in the same location since you deploy the platform in the cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This compares to just 5% for office-based and outpatient mental health services. Senate to permanently extend the telehealth flexibilities and waivers put in place during the public health emergency. High-performing specialty practices also collect at least 10% more copays at the time of service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

We are committed to removing barriers to access and addressing health disparities by extending our care and services – ensuring patients benefit from world-class care no matter where they live or the challenges they face. We also plan to build five satellite clinics to ensure patients have access to care and services close to home.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 30, 2023

In recent years, we have transitioned our business to increase our focus on ‘SaaS’ and tech-enabled services, including launching our Advanced Services portfolio, Cloud Platform, and Customer Success Organizations, as we seek to better meet the needs of our customers. or one of its subsidiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic required rapid delivery of tools, such as those used for information sharing, symptom screening, vaccinations, clinical trials and clinical care, with robust connections between data systems. "I really believe we're at an opportunity with cloud-enabled virtual care. Now's the time to lean in."

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2022

It’s less about marketing, John said, and more about connecting brick-and-mortar healthcare services with virtual care apps – like Xiahoe, which ByteDance also owns. Plus, the mixed success of recent IPOs may lead more companies to explore M&A instead of going public.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis. Takeda is one of the organizations that has implemented Seqster’s solution, leveraging real-time data for research and patient services.

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