Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey adds yet another data point to the massive increase in telemedicine use amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. The same report also found that telemedicine mobile app downloads had dramatically increased.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. " "Time is no barrier to setting up a telemedicine service," he added. " It's scheduled for Wednesday, August 11, from 10-11 a.m. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

Telemedicine provider Medgate saw a 170% increase in teleconsultations in Philippines last year, with an 80% case resolution rate. Our high case resolution rate is proof of telemedicine’s efficiency as a platform for delivering quality care,” said Medgate Philippines President Stavros Athanasiou in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 From the outset, the public-facing advice and guidance in response to COVID-19 has been provided by NHS 24.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. You have identified three trends in telemedicine for 2023. And the third 2023 trend you suggest is that telemedicine is more than just a check-up. For example, the U.S. What do you see?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The special consultation service was created for those with may display symptoms of COVID-19 or at high risk of contracting of the coronavirus. “This collaboration with AIA and True Digital Group helps relieve distress amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Thailand. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Hall Render

MAY 9, 2023

Notably, the Temporary Rule, which can be accessed here , extends the COVID-19 PHE telemedicine flexibilities (hereinafter, “telemedicine flexibilities”) for six months following the end of the PHE (through November 11, 2023).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

In March 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections was rapidly increasing in Washington. With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. " $882,000 from the FCC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1) Lessons learnt.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

attempts to express gratitude even close to commensurate with the sacrifices and heroism shown by frontline medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association is making available some new resources for physicians. On this National Doctors Day , as the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

The Australian government has made available two new subsidised telephone consult services for patients living in COVID-19 hotspot areas. The move is in response to the growing COVID-19 cases in New South Wales, especially in Sydney which was recently placed under an extended lockdown until end-July. ON THE RECORD.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. This has become especially evident during the COVID-19 crisis, which has disproportionately affected African American and Latinx people in the United States.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2020

In terms of dealing with challenges and uncertainties caused by COVID-19, UMMC utilized integrated information systems to: Track and manage crucial supplies such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Malaysia’s 1997 Telemedicine Act. In fact, the Telemedicine Act of 1997 has not been revised to today’s standards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to combat the coronavirus crisis. And Eugene A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

Hard data on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is difficult to come by, because many providers are enlisting all hands in handling the surge of cases, said Bob Cash, vice president of provider relations for KLAS. " Some key IT staff in provider organizations are feeling the brunt of the COVID-19 surge, said Cash of KLAS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. before the pandemic to 8.18 hours in September 2021, according to the study.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 15, 2024

In recent years, telemedicine has surged in popularity, offering a convenient and efficient way for patients to access healthcare services remotely. According to Statista, the telemedicine market is forecasted to grow significantly, from 50 billion U.S. dollars in global market value in 2019 to nearly 460 billion U.S.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. WHY IT MATTERS. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. COVID is a terrible pandemic,” he noted as his team is, “learning our way through it. Fast forward to the COVID-19 era: an ecosystem where you take care settings outside the walls of hospitals into homes.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

The CareSide, a home care service provider based in Western Australia, has published a report on Australians' perception of telemedicine, gauging their comfort with its technology and preference between teleconsultations and in-person visits. The Australian government has been providing telehealth services since last year March.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Despite enjoying bipartisan support, telehealth has yet to see meaningful action from Congress in the COVID-19 era – and many advocates appear to be getting antsy. American Telemedicine Association. Brian Hasselfeld, medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2020

For the 34th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Permanent Changes to Healthcare Because of COVID-19. Is anything in healthcare the same since COVID-19? Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the healthcare world has definitely been turned upside down thanks to COVID-19.

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