Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kaiser and Mayo have been supporters of the acute care at home model amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with both health systems putting a combined $100 million toward Medically Home in May 2021. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. The advent of COVID-19 radically disrupted the paradigm in which Sun River Health was operating. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Founded by the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente and hospital-at-home vendor Medically Home, the coalition says it hopes to work with Congress to ensure continuity of care beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency. Parodi also flagged the patient satisfaction component: "We're consistently running at 4.95

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The program uses technology and a nursing-care coordination model to improve patient disease management, resulting in decreased readmission rates and increased patient satisfaction and self-efficacy.” This really allows us to do the right thing for our patients and their care.”

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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.” Click here for the feature story on telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

Geisinger strives to make better health easy, but it can be challenging to get patients to brick-and-mortar facilities. "National statistics show only about 25% of eligible patients start a program, and fewer than 10% complete." This was especially true in cardiac rehab. This helped the facility volumes, as well.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Telehealth revolutionized the way people receive healthcare since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We interviewed Lois Ritter, a teaching associate professor for the masters of public health program at the University of Nevada, Reno. If satisfaction and quality levels are low, then growth may slow.

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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 Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

Further, as a federally qualified health center, River Valley is charged with providing comprehensive, whole-person care. “When the COVID pandemic hit, we worried that patient fear about coming into the office or patients following governmental advisories to remain at home would influence access to needed care.

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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. Behavioral telehealth may also be referred to as telebehavioral health, telemental health, telepsychiatry, or telepsychology.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Cash for Colonoscopies: Colorado Tries to Lower Health Costs Through Incentives. Colorado ends daily reporting of COVID-19 numbers. Nuvance Health launches cognitive care-at-home program. IU Health to begin $300M expansion.

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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. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

health care startup Ounce raises $5.2M health care startup Ounce raises $5.2M Heywood Hospital faces challenges McLean Hospital to advise Rippl Care on mental health for seniors Some Mass. hospitals mandate Covid vaccines. Others stick to ‘encouraging’ This year’s best-performing public company in Mass.?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction. lacks a robust public health infrastructure. 2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment.

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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. "In order to achieve that transformation in a rural setting, we are gonna need to deliver health care in a digital way." Twitter: @kjercich.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat-Su Health Foundation receives largest one-time gift ever from MacKenzie Scott. State health department ends COVID data summaries, will track COVID and flu side by side. Investigators found high rates of bed sores and extended isolation among Providence nursing home patients, leading to $310K fine. million gift.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Banner Health to expand clinical AI to 33 hospitals, 6 states Banner reports $282.8M Nevada Medicaid must cover abortion services, judge rules Clark County health rankings improve, but physicians per capita still well below U.S. family sues hospital over life-altering injuries Calif.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

billion behavioral health contract to Centene Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges Kootenai Health CEO to retire after nonprofit conversion Kootenai Health on track for nonprofit conversion Ammon Bundy a no-show for beginning of St. to 18 central Mass.

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