Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Some vendors are even giving away products and services free.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s been said many times before, but the truth remains the same: the world of healthcare is ever-evolving. We are learning and growing every day, which means we are also coming up with new ideas, technologies, and practices every day. The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"Supportive leadership and persistent visionaries decided telemedicine was the solution to this continuously growing problem of too few specialists and pediatric patients with complex healthcare needs scattered and isolated all over rural Kansas and Missouri," she added. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

Russ Johannesson, CEO at Glooko Though we seldom see their use in our modern world and, even then, only in fiction, there was a time when it was common for people to actually use things like crystal balls and divining rods to try to uncover unknown yet valuable information. One recent report valued the global DTx market at $4.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. They aim to deliver 2 billion doses by the end of 2021 equitably amongst all the 172 participating countries, resulting in around 25% of the global population getting vaccinated. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From chatbots and remote patient monitoring to telehealth, the industry worked quickly to adapt and find new ways to care for patients. What examples have you seen of telehealth, remote patient monitoring and chatbots in the cloud, and what has been the impact on patients? Remote monitoring has also moved into the mainstream.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The world of healthcare IT is ever-evolving. We must utilize advanced technology to allow for noninvasive diagnosis in diverse settings, including outpatient clinics and home healthcare environments. It seems as though every day there is a new piece of technology to talk about or an exciting update/new approach to old technology.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

As hospitals and private health offices nationwide slowly begin to emerge from the COVID-induced challenges posed over the last two years, there is a new understanding of, and necessity for, adaptable medical technology and practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

An addiction medicine practice in Fishers, Indiana, run by Dr. Bill Farr has in two years seen a cohort of 100 patients remain in his medication-assisted treatment program 94% of the time using a new technology (developed by Farr) compared with 54% of the time without the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut is a five-hospital, seven-campus health system that includes a large physician practice, numerous ambulatory centers and a home care agency. The COVID-19 crisis presented several challenges to the health system that amplified the need and impact of telehealth services. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Even while the pandemic continues, healthcare provider organizations have begun to stabilize these infrastructures and revisit the technologies and workflows deployed earlier in the crisis and turn them into standard practices. How can telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies help support chronic and acute care anywhere?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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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. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The pandemic has set ablaze the white-hot market for Digital Therapeutics (DTx), which “deliver medical interventions directly to patients using evidence-based, clinically evaluated software to treat, manage, and prevent a broad spectrum of diseases and disorders 1.” The Big Picture .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal. " "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the world was moving to new browsers like Chrome and mobile applications and tablets, and Flash was no longer a standard. Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions. " The program was born out of a need to better manage the sickest tier of Mercy's patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

"As I talk to peer CIOs, the Children's National Hospital experience parallels so many other organizations, including the rapid transition to remote workforce for a large number of our staff, overnight acceleration of telehealth care delivery, and rapid efforts to create a digital consumer experience. Keith Perry, CIO, St.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Today CARPL , an enterprise imaging AI marketplace platform, is announcing a $6M funding round to enable healthcare providers to access, assess, and integrate these radiology AI applications into their clinical workflows through a single user interface, single data channel, and single procurement system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Many were discovered while managing unusual sets of circumstances, or from the plain and simple need to shift strategies on a dime. Dr. Dhrumil Shah, chief medical information officer and a family physician at Compass Medical in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. You can read the others here and here.). And what happened?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2022

Americans living in rural communities are experiencing increasing health disparities due to accelerated rural hospital closures and physician shortages. Homeward providers see members in mobile clinics throughout the community, virtually, and in members’ homes. Value-Based and Comprehensive Care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

During the first months of the pandemic, telemedicine utilization spiked by 145 percent , prompting US Army health officials to explore how to translate telemedicine’s success into the complex, resource-intensive world of critical care. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond. What have been some of yours?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. So that model does not work, because that is really just remote patient care. " remarked Dr. Jignesh Y.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Some of them center on the importance of data and analytics, the need for more patient engagement, the requirements of keeping telehealth up to par, and the need to focus technologies on enabling enterprise-wide strategic plans. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. They needed help fast. Ross, CIO at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. ( @MayoClinic ). When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. Christopher J.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

While directly impacting the revenue cycle, it means those dollars aren’t available for clinical services. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. Then hopefully we’ll be able to provide care to every patient in need.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. One long-time customer—a forward-thinking specialty hospital—came to us a few years ago to inquire about automating the delivery of critical lab results with our clinical communication system.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2023

Providers are tasked with not only delivering a positive health outcome but also with the patient experience and level of satisfaction as they make their way through their healthcare journey. These studies all support that trust in doctors ultimately correlated with higher patient satisfaction in remote visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Telehealth, mobile health apps, and other digital platforms will be leveraged to provide remote consultations, health monitoring, and health education, in addition to ensuring patients are better connected to their care partners. Nurse compensation is needed to improve the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2019

It is the hope of NewYork-Presbyterian that the Hauser Institute for Health Innovation will have a profound impact on how care is delivered now and in the future by supporting innovation and pioneering research to benefit patients and bringing thought leaders together to advance knowledge in the digital health field. Hauser and Gustave M.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have gone down and we’ve settled into a new normal, that isn’t the only crisis that we need a tech fix too.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Providers need more supportive resources to be successful in more meaningful and broadly distributed risk models. Especially the use of wearable devices for remote patient monitoring (RPM). “The explosion of telehealth will certainly be a hot topic at HLTH. ” Oron Afek, co-founder and CEO of Vim.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

By leveraging best practices in public and patient engagement, the Hospital at Home team created a new acute care model that meets the needs of both patient/family caregivers and healthcare providers. Island Health is the publicly funded healthcare provider in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The shift from digital health being siloed from care to being a central connector between individuals and their care teams should now be the standard, so that valuable insights into vitals, symptoms and service needs can be managed and addressed beyond the typical office visit. Keith Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer at Welldoc.

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