Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles had the resources to provide large-scale COVID-19 testing, it was clear that its service area of South L.A. and Compton would be at significantly higher risk for COVID-19 infection and complications than other areas of L.A. Even before St. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

In January and February, telemedicine technology vendor Doxy.me "That's way more secure than downloading things to the computer." "One of our fundamental philosophies about telemedicine is we want to focus on the best patient-doctor interaction," said Welch. Security in the COVID-19 Era.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. billion supplemental bill to deal with COVID-19; the bill includes some level of telehealth funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The main referrals staff see from PCP and convenient care are COPD exacerbations and acute respiratory infections such as COVID-19, influenza or pneumonia in at-risk populations. The patients download an app from the vendor on their phone and can upload their readings from their monitoring devices through the app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform.” Every day, medical assistants monitor the schedule for upcoming telemedicine visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2020

Dubbing itself as the “first and largest platform in the Arab region that offers telemedicine consultation services”, Altibbi will provide the free Arabic-language consultations for a month, allowing anyone who needs medical assistance to connect directly with doctors via audio calls or online chat.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced it has collaborated with Accenture and Microsoft over the last 12 months to help develop and refine MSK Telemedicine. Patients receive a secure link to join MSK Telemedicine. How It Works.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2020

With COVID-19 minimizing the ability for individuals to receive face-to-face services with their providers, many patients are resorting to emergency department visits. Without the ability to institute telemedicine as a solution to these problems, the population supported by The Arc would have seen a lengthy (permanent?)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. To access this special report, click here.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. The post Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. "When you introduce rapid change, that potential goes up rapidly," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. But the health system needed to rapidly ramp up ambulatory support to address challenges brought on by the COVID-19 health crisis.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Through the VA's Center for Strategic Partnerships, the agency is working with Apple to enhance the platform and optimize telehealth experience for veterans and their caregivers, according to the VA – which notes that the devices will also give patients the ability to view and download their own medical data using the Health Records app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which has been raging for the past year, digital health and its related technologies into the fore, with unprecedented rates of adoption in telemedicine/teleconsultation services, virtual/remote care, and accelerated measures for healthcare staff to work remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has bolstered peoples’ concerned embrace of tech: in the pandemic, more consumers have lost confidence in sharing data with both government and Big Tech. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Healthcare It News

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 The opportunities telemedicine provides.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Then COVID-19 hit. Muro received a call from the CEO: "Could you stand up a COVID-19 virtual visit offering tomorrow?" "Under the proposed plan, patients would download an app on their smartphone or other digital device and use it to request a virtual visit," Muro explained. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Yoder to discuss these trends and expectations and get him to offer an in-depth look at the future of telemedicine. And then COVID-19 disrupted that healthcare technology plateau we had been walking for the last 10 years. How will this affect healthcare delivery and the future of telehealth?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by John English, Director of Service Provider Marketing and Business Development at NETSCOUT Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, medical technology became essential for keeping healthcare running when other industries had to close.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Download our white paper, “ Leading enterprise content strategy with health information management: An executive guide for acquiring a document management and imaging platform.”. Beyond COVID-19: Thriving in the Evolving Healthcare Technology Landscape. . Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the health issues faced by our patient population but CHC/SEK quickly adapted to the changing environment," Gagnon recalled. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. – Finally, estimates say U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic digitally transformed most people living in the U.S., This is designed to take out friction of having to download an app, allowing the patient to simply open up an email or text that contains a Zoom meeting link from the provider.

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Medisys Compliance

MAY 17, 2022

Role of Telehealth During COVID-19. Telehealth has proved to be an effective option to fight the outbreak of COVID-19. Telehealth services played a major role in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling diseases during the COVID-19 outbreak. Basics of Telehealth. Case-based teleconferencing.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ve explored the mine of insights the GWI team has unearthed for the new year, and will focus on one that has fast-grown as the converging forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and household financial downturn, and rising anxiety for social and civil justice have, together, wreaked havoc on our mental and behavioral health.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If any positives resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated chaos surrounding it, count the accelerated acceptance of telehealth services as one of them. offers a no-download-required browser-based option that claims to be a proper telemedicine solution. But is Doxy.me truly HIPAA compliant?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Telehealth, which suddenly became a necessity when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, simultaneously opened doors and erected more barriers. Originally, virtual visits were available only through an app that patients had to download and configure—tasks that exceeded their technical capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Even though downloading a wellness app or signing up for an online program isn’t fraught with the same risks as choosing a medication or invasive medical treatment, we all want some assurance that the intervention works. Do these programs give us what we seek?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health-system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience.

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AIHC

APRIL 25, 2022

Are providers and professionals allowed to download mobile applications to mobile devices? For Beginners - Basic Telehealth Concepts Telehealth is also referred to as Telemedicine. During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), many states waived this requirement or provided specific exceptions.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology vendors on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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