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. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. There is a dedicated help line.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. Two additional platforms were launched in response to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. THE PROBLEM. " Chris Meyer, Marshfield Clinic Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. Patients may live miles away from the nearest clinic and may not have reliable transportation or resources. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Many of the telehealth flexibilities are temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

"We conducted a formal request for proposal throughout 2019 [and] 2020 where we evaluated several vendors to select the one who best suited our needs," said Brandy Knudson, virtual care project manager in the remote patient engagement and monitoring virtual care department at the University of Michigan Medical Group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report, The Intersection of Value and Telehealth , surveyed nearly 100 qualified representatives about their organization's prioritization and adoption of telemedicine. The report sought to identify trends in virtual care utilization amidst the recent months of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“A little over two years ago, I developed the policies and practice around telehealth, but it was not well-promoted or used by many, in contrast to the explosion of use we have experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2017, the VA announced a new initiative called "Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care," followed by bipartisan legislation enabling interstate telemedicine for VA providers and patients. The COVID-19 crisis, though, triggered a rapid scale-up. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. Upon discharge, patients often need support to understand their symptoms and warning signs after returning home. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." The new importance of telemedicine. The surgeon asked if he wanted to handle check-up appointments via telemedicine, and Fisne took the plunge. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic unlocked new avenues to extend care beyond brick-and-mortar facilities. But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. THE PROBLEM. " Reshma Patel Stone, Albert Einstein Medical Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. They have seen better patient engagement, lower no-show rates and higher provider and patient satisfaction."

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

"We were in implementation planning stages for patient self-check-in when COVID-19 hit," she continued. It became important to roll telemedicine out as quickly as possible. Those patients appreciate that they can register via one main chart with each of their children integrated as sub-categories.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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YouCompli

JUNE 29, 2022

Telehealth use has soared, reaching nearly 53 million visits in 2020. As virtual care requirements for telehealth evolve, we explore how compliance officers can support patient care and help their organizations stay up to date. “Not the end of COVID-19. Interstate telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 Dr. Gerald J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eye-opener for what really matters in both personal and professional life. Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. Allows for Easy Patient Follow-Up.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

By consolidating platforms, Geisinger was able to standardize many of the workflows and training processes required to rapidly deploy a new modality for seeing patients. Geisinger had been using telehealth prior to the pandemic to create better access to care for patients. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2021

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. Q: You said that your patients have not really embraced telehealth, which surprised you. Did clinicians like it?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The bill makes permanent telehealth flexibilities that were first introduced in the CARES Act of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, flexibilities that were set to expire at the end of December 2024 along with other telehealth extension provisions. What role does health IT play?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Today, a digital transformation in healthcare means we can gather data from a host of different sources with the goal of improving patient care, but it’s up to healthcare professionals to make sense of it and build meaningful insights from it in order to develop a better understanding of someone’s health journey.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The company’s sales teams then used data-driven insights to gather the market context required to have informed conversations with current or potential clients on readmissions and patient satisfaction metrics. Fast forward to late 2020 and virtually everything is done remotely.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

permit for patient tower Medical office building planned for Seven Pines community New freestanding ER planned for Winter Garden New Hospital CEO, Pilkington Discusses Hospital Billing Issues New simulation lab launches at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital BayCare announces plans to replace St. hospitals mandate Covid vaccines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

Rural hospital leaders say COVID-19 has magnified the need for access to telehealth – and that it's a mistake to rely on one-size, fits-all solutions for virtual care. They also pointed out that providers can use telemedicine to communicate with others when patients are too sick to be transported.

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