Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 23, 2023

Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring have emerged as powerful tools that allow doctors to deliver healthcare […] The article Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring: A Synergistic Approach To Virtual Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2022

The telemedicine company contends this approach is twice as effective as traditional care. With our digital user experience, patients will be able to access the clinic and attend appointments with our practitioners and doctors from anywhere at any time." Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Heidi West, head of healthcare at Zoom, to discuss telemedicine's future, hybrid in-person/telehealth care, communities that could be hurt without virtual care, and challenges to telemedicine becoming fully mainstream. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

Thanks to the conditions brought about by the pandemic, telemedicine is now an increasingly popular format for diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. Just a few years ago, the telemedicine market had a size of about $42 billion. This growth makes the telemedicine industry very competitive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

"They thought to let the interaction or the clinical situation dictate the level of care that is needed… If they can handle [visits] over telemedicine and take care of the patient, the patient doesn't need more expensive care. "I think our goal with telemedicine is how we utilise it when it makes sense.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 29, 2021

COVID-19 sent telemedicine on the fast track for widespread adoption, helping doctors manage and care for their patients — especially those at high risk — during the nationwide shelter-in-place ordinance. […]. By Stephanie Wilding, CEO, CommunityHealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2023

Regulator bars e-prescription of non-OTC drugs in India Indian doctors using telemedicine can only prescribe OTC Drugs, according to the National Medical Commission. It is also capable of alerting doctors of suspicious findings, which then enables early interventions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Jignesh Bhuta, Chief Operating Officer of Smartfuture first presented his startup's patient app and doctor portal. Once the patient has recorded their vitals using either video or picture format, the information will be stored in both the patient app and the doctor portal. Smartfuture's white-label telehealth platform.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

Many healthcare professionals are now providing telemedicine calls and video conferences as an option to their patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this is a wonderful tool for both patients and doctors, many people […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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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? But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

He is in an excellent position to comment on the report and the potential here for telemedicine, so Healthcare IT News interviewed him to get his perspective on the issue. The Internet allows everyone access to medical information, but using "Doctor Google" can be dangerous.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. But that's not the case anymore.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

But other generative AI scholars are not so sure ChatGPT's empathy replaces the doctors' How do doctors approach answering questions on social media? " How do patients respond to the advice of doctors on social media? ChatGPT is already showing potential value for an array of healthcare use cases.

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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. In addressing patient concerns, it employed a medical co-management approach where doctors can collaborate to establish a diagnosis and provide the best possible treatment. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 13, 2023

Security flaws have been identified in the QuickBlox software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) that supports the real-time chat and video applications used by many telemedicine providers. They were also able to log in as any user, making it possible to impersonate a doctor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi A. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A telemedicine initiative aimed at providing free diagnosis, treatment, and preventive services for women around the world has been unveiled by a United Arab Emirates humanitarian organisation. The initiative is being supervised by Emirati volunteer doctors from the Young Emirati Volunteer Leaders Initiative. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. According to a local news report , the BKK HI Care platform enables remote patient monitoring by doctors. THE LARGER TREND.

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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.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 25, 2021

The family telemedicine package includes virtual care by teleconference and telepharmacy services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. All of those pages and pages of forms you get at a doctor's office? With prescheduling, doctors are able to populate your medical record before you get there.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Other platforms that joined the service are Aido Health, GetWell, Good Doctor, Homecare24, KlikDokter, KlinikGo, Lekasehat, LinkSehat, Mdoc, Milvik Dokter, ProSehat, SehatQ, Trustmedis, Vascular Indonesia, and YesDok.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest privately owned healthcare group, last week announced that it has rolled out telemedicine services in Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey, India and Hong Kong. In Malaysia, IHH patients can book virtual consultations with doctors at 11 Pantai Hospitals and 4 Gleneagles Hospitals. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2021

NantHealth, a provider/payer collaboration IT vendor, and Sesame, a direct-to-patient telemedicine company, are collaborating on a program designed to give providers tools to offer patients direct access to virtual care while, the companies say, increasing practice revenue by reducing administrative costs. A big telehealth marketplace.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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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." “Our goal was to leverage the on-site kiosks to better triage patients via a web-based connection to ER doctors,” Schielke explained. MARKETPLACE.

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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. While telemedicine use has leveled off somewhat since early 2020, it’s still seeing sustained interest from across the care continuum.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s 2020 and doctors are doing house calls again. Rather than a doctor knocking on […]. The article Five Ways To Prepare For Your First Telemedicine Visit appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By Dr. Peter Alperin, vice president of product, Doximity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Research published this week by Philips gives an insight into doctors’ experience of COVID-19 and how they believe the healthcare industry should change in response. It captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: France, Germany, the US, China and Singapore. European Digital Event.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2018

San Francisco-based telemedicine provider Doctor On Demand announced today the closure of a $74 million round of Series C financing. The funding round was led by Princeville Global and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. Previous investors including Venrock, Shasta Ventures, and Tenaya Capital also participated.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 4, 2019

Hong-Kong headquartered life insurance company Prudential announced that it will partner with telemedicine provider MyDoc to offer consumers access to value-added health services on their mobile phones, including doctor consultations, electronic prescriptions and electronic medical certificates.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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