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 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been pushing the limits of the healthcare systems in many European countries, among them, Spain, where COVID-19 is causing thousands of deaths and is requiring an unprecedented amount of medical resources. Telemedicine: a life-saving tool.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 18, 2021

One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […].

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020. 43% of Americans are concerned they will contract COVID-19. Compounding Americans personal finances is the COVID-19 era is the fact that the nation lacks universal health insurance coverage. 20-21 and Feb.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. At the same time, however, relying on telemedicine had drawbacks, especially from a social perspective. Saved organizational resources. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. This allowed telehealth to be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The first phase of the Telemedicine Command Center provides first level healthcare advisory services to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

" When the pandemic hit, University Hospitals' use of automation to manage care for people with chronic conditions prompted it to consider: How could it leverage automation as a patient-facing symptom-checker for COVID-19? MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. In early 2020, as the nation’s healthcare system almost buckled under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, providers searching for a way to stay connected to their patients turned to telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

COVID has shown us that telemedicine is effective and easy to use. With providers and clinicians under increasing strain from staffing gaps and other issues, telemedicine is a valuable solution. When homebound COVID patients need Regeneron monoclonal antibodies, EMS workers on-site deliver the treatment.

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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 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

MAY 24, 2022

Many clinicians are hungry for new opportunities that allow them to continue to serve patients without dealing with long-standing administrative burdens and the aftermath of burnout from COVID-19 in their hospitals, health systems and doctor's offices. What do you think this familiarity means for clinicians moving forward?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID patients out of hospitals as possible. The question becomes, how do we evolve and improve telemedicine so that it’s an even more viable option permanently? Encompassing a broader scope of care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What You Should Know: – The Federal Communications Commission today approved an additional 68 applications for funding commitments totaling $42,702,383 for Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Round 2 is a $249.95 – Community Health Centers, Inc.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2020

In the same way, said panelists, members of the healthcare industry should be willing to develop and use tools to continue fighting the COVID-19 pandemic – and to prepare for any future crises. One of those valuable tools, said New York Presbyterian Hospital CIO Daniel Barchi, is telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The new regulations enable abortion via telemedicine in more than half of the country. They also point out that abortion via telemedicine is illegal in 19 states, and that 32 states require abortion medication to only be administered via physicians (as opposed to nurse practitioners or midwives). ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

"The savings that result from telemedicine versus an office visit for the long-term care supports and services provider that operates IDD residences is significant." “Station MD, our telehealth vendor, was providing similar telemedicine triage service to nursing homes on Staten Island that housed medically frail residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through telemedicine. After so much care went online during COVID-19, patients of all ages and backgrounds have completed a crash course in virtual care – and they are liking the results. Kristi launched the first of its kind telemedicine certificate program that created a standard for delivery of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 arrived in Maine on March 12, 2020. “Zoom also provided our health center with an easy-to-implement telehealth option while we researched an integrated telemedicine option for our electronic health record, which would be more permanent.” THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. ” RESULTS. Tucker said the No.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama, was headed for telemedicine. When COVID-19 struck, Christ Health had to close its clinic and had no way to see its patients. It looks like a nursing cart in a hospital, except it has a large tablet screen on it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Penn Medicine is getting new money to assess how its COVID Watch remote patient monitoring program is serving its patients, particularly those in Black and Latinx communities. WHY IT MATTERS. It will also study whether using connected pulse oximeters in tandem with the text check-ins is improving outcomes. THE LARGER TREND. Others include $4.9

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. million to 1.35 As of late February 2022, 35.9%

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As the pandemic shifts from an acute phase to one in which we learn to live with COVID-19 as an endemic presence, some entrepreneurs and investors may fear what comes next for virtual medicine. On the supply side, telemedicine builds efficiency and access. Nearly half the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Franciscan Health was in the infancy stages of its telemedicine program and had not moved to an ambulatory rollout. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. InTouch was its primary telemedicine technology vendor. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2024

Diabetes often leads to chronic wounds, affecting 19-33% of diabetic patients, such as diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). This pilot marks the first comprehensive study of a digitized patient-facing wound care application without nurse intervention, conducted through a two-arm comparison study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite. Last year, it expanded to having one of its onsite physicians also doing telemedicine sessions with one of its other offices in a different city. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2020

Steven Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute and a cardiologist for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Karen Larimer, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAHA, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Fellow of the American Heart Association. The COVID-19 crisis […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the gas pedal on the use of virtual care, particularly synchronous video chats. Talking points: The transition of care to "virtual-first" The evolution of the definition of telemedicine. More about this episode: Telehealth's post-COVID challenge: Integrating in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between April 11 and May 2, more than 60% of visits were conducted via telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 hitting early this year, telemedicine at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine was low in volume, representing less than 0.1% During the peak of the pandemic, more than 50% of ambulatory care was delivered through telemedicine, reaching a peak of nearly 100,000 encounters in May 2020. THE PROBLEM.

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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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