Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. During the COVID-19 outbreak, BIDI’s HIS was utilized to create a suite of digital services for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Queensland's Gold Coast Health has set up a bedside terminal solution by health IT provider Rauland Australia to reduce physical interactions in its COVID-19 ward. There has been a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases across Queensland since end July due to an outbreak caused by the Delta variant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

We start with a graphic that shows citizens accessing health and care at different points along a continuum of care. The continuum runs from the home or community setting – through to an acute hospital setting. Shifting the perception of digital health and care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Adoption of digital health in the various healthcare ecosystems had not been well established. In the public health sector, contact tracing is predominantly carried out manually with the transfer of information performed manually as well. Hospitals were also not prepared for separating the workflows within the organisation.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Made possible through pilot funding and informed by user experience research, Mayo Clinic's Clinical Trials Beyond Walls initiative leverages telehealth, remote assessments and other hospital-at-home innovations to bring all or some trial aspects into patient homes or a local community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2020

As hospitals and health systems nationwide grapple with the fast-moving demands of the coronavirus crisis, they're also faced with an added challenge: fending off a sustained upswell in cybersecurity threats, perpetrated by bad actors taking advantage of the pandemic's chaos.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

MedStar Health announced Monday that its acute care at home is now available to Baltimore patients of its Franklin Square Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Harbor and Union Memorial hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During a presentation this past Friday as part of HIMSS Global Health Equity Week, a public health expert from the UN offered his thoughts on some of the challenges and opportunities for worldwide digital health improvement. "But then we look up and we see this disproportionate impact of COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dr Metupalle said hospitals being ready to connect to people at home would be "the biggest opportunity" post-pandemic. "We hopefully get to see [the] empowerment of these patients, more knowledge [and] patient education – these are opportunities the hospitals have to educate the population," Dr Metupalle said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2021

Who could benefit from a geographical map that ranks counties by the risk of residents getting COVID-19? Certainly, such detail is valuable to public health agencies-but also to municipal governments, hospitals, clinics, and even private businesses.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Gamble (1976), affirmed that incarcerated individuals have the constitutional right to health care. Incarcerated individuals need health care more than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected those within correctional facilities. 3514) are particularly critical. Legislation like H.R.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Talking points: The future of the Public Health Emergency and the flexibilities it allows. A "perfect storm" of financial stress for hospitals and health systems. Silicon Valley and the state of VC funding for digital health startups. Telehealth's future after the end of the public health emergency.

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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)

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What is new with the solution is it allows healthcare providers to monitor patients not just on beds, but also ambulatory patients within the hospital and those at home via a central command centre and caregivers' mobile app. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Quality Care Digital Health Medical devices Care Technology

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

"Reporting for public health, quality measurement and safety will all be completed automatically and electronically," said another. For instance, studies have shown that although interoperability in cities is improving, small hospitals are lagging behind.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In The Wellness Gap , the health and wellness team at Ogilvy explores the mindsets of consumers in 14 countries to learn peoples’ perspectives on wellness brands and how COVID-19 has impacted consumers’ priorities. ” The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated consumers’ financial stress: in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2020

Syndromic surveillance is a public health campaign that can track symptoms of disease in the community and use the resulting insights to predict hospital utilization during a surge, inform reopening, enable quick policy changes, or reallocate resources. COVID-19 is a clear candidate for this kind of aggressive monitoring.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Sam Hanna Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not have been so apparent in the past.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Aside from providing a better experience for aged care residents, their families, and care teams, the inTouch care model, according to NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park, is expected to help around 120 aged care residents every month receive care at home and avoid going to the hospital emergency department.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Along with telehealth, remote patient monitoring programs grew during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal rules gave providers the flexibility to use RPM for the duration of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These changes to telehealth are being done to support the continuity of patient care amid the current COVID-19 restrictions and to help relieve the pressure on the overwhelmed hospital system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 1, 2022

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief deeply rooted structural inequities in the United States. Law can be a powerful tool to advance public health , and workplace scheduling is no exception. Public health agencies can play a key role in labor and employment law. By DeAnna Baumle.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Early on in the pandemic, hospital executives saw telemedicine as a way to help close the maternal health gap , providing a number of pregnancy-related services, including lactation support, mental health support and at-home monitoring. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

The vendor's hospital-at-home tools connect patients with caregivers using remote monitoring technology, clinical protocols and reimbursement models, paired with in-person services as needed. "Over the next decade, up to a third of the patients who are currently hospitalized in brick-and-mortar hospitals could be cared for at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 28, 2020

Healthcare workers have the ability to directly message patients with alerts and feedback, with the aim of reducing anxiety levels in patients who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus but are not in need of hospitalization. San Diego Health and director of the COVID-19 telemedicine clinic, said in statement.

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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. A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, COVID-19 surges accelerated widespread telehealth adoption, as many couldn't leave their homes or were not comfortable coming to a doctor's office. With this, the health system saw many hospitals experience strains in their ability to accommodate the volume of patients needing care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

This was the basic question addressed in a recent webinar 'Healthcare after the COVID emergency: from clinical needs to digital evolution' , hosted by the HIMSS Italian Community. What about local health authorities? Today, photocopied paper cards are still used for COVID triages.” They send faxes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Health and Human Services announced they extended the pandemic-era virtual prescribing of controlled substances a third time. The most recent extension of COVID-19 flexibilities for prescribing runs through 2025. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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