Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, Thailand began development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces, according to an article by the Bangkok post. The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. 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.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Talib Jaber, RPh, VP of Customer Success, Sunwave Health The pandemic caused a significant increase in overdose and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) related deaths, exposing long-standing deficiencies in the identification and treatment of SUD. And recent statistics bolster this worry.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly care. Their number is projected to continuously rise and make up about 30% of the population by 2040.

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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. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

"Over the past 18 months, hospitals across the state have made critical investments in telehealth and staff to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to keep their patients safe," said Illinois Health and Hospital Association President and CEO A.J. Wilhelmi in a statement. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Located in the heart of North Philadelphia, Temple University Hospital serves one of the nation’s most economically challenged and diverse urban populations. More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. Other lawmakers, including Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., ON THE RECORD.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

The proposed rules are more restrictive than the DEA emergency waivers under which providers conducted telemedicine prescribing for the last three years, but are less restrictive in comparison to the pre-PHE regulations applicable to telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Another critical component of helping manage and contain the spread of the virus is the role of healthcare providers and hospitals. The Korean government has made a strategy to triage COVID-19 patients based on their risks. 2) Prevention of in-hospital COVID-19 infection. What were some of the key lessons learnt?

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mississippi Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is dedicated to protecting and improving the health of its residents through various public health services, health education programs, and regulatory initiatives.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

This community practice includes general acute care hospitals, rural health clinics, physician offices and critical access hospitals. Telemedicine has helped to bridge the access divide between the clinic’s rural and urban communities. The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Health Service Equities and Big Pharma: Healthcare Service equities underperformed the S&P 500, but the outperformance of the Big Pharma and Biotech sub-sectors allowed healthcare overall to keep pace with the market. Hospital stocks dropped 32.6% Behavioural Health and Telemedicine: The Behavioural Health subsector was down 18.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options. Rural communities across the U.S. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Last introduced in 2021, CONNECT 2023 would expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities and make it easier for patients to connect with their doctors, according to a recent announcement from the American Telemedicine Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

Healthcare costs are rising and it is not tenable in the long-run to keep building hospitals. It focuses on what patients value and allocates resources according to the health outcomes delivered by the system, rather the traditional model of a volume or visit-based healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The government has signaled its support for reimbursing some telehealth services, at least in the short term. "The government can play a very positive role in telehealth by establishing clear standards and clear reimbursement guidelines," said Selesnick.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care). Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. health care, Dowling colorfully noted.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The North Carolina Healthcare Association (NCHA) advocates for an array of health systems in the state, including teaching, rural, suburban, and specialty hospitals, along with facilities providing acute, rehabilitative, behavioral, psychiatric, and veterans’ services.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New Mexico Hospital Association (NMHA) is a non-profit organization that advocates for and supports hospitals and healthcare providers across New Mexico, focusing on improving healthcare delivery and patient care throughout the state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

However, the public health emergency also acted as an opportunity of sorts – namely, legislative and regulatory flexibilities around telehealth revealed how care can be expanded in new ways. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Hospital at home programs are pretty popular in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Expand the organization's current telemedicine solution or establish a new one to figure out how to bring the platform readily to a patient's house. David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In 2023, hospitals must identify their financial risk and focus on employee retention and recruitment as the threat of a recession looms. In 2023, hospital and health system expenses are expected to increase by nearly $135 billion, driven by a projected $86 billion increase in labor expenses. Healthcare in the Era Post-Covid.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. came to trust digitally-enabled companies for managing health as large retailers and health care providers. Equal numbers of people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office. " The vast majority of patients choose to have their follow-up virtually, said McNicholas, although they do have the option to visit a health center in person.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 The continuum runs from the home or community setting – through to an acute hospital setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. Rarely does mental health require in-person tests. Patients with mental health issues frequently must wait many months before getting seen by a licensed clinician who can prescribe psychotropic medication. Taking vitals is not necessary.

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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 Dr. Gerald J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Like most other hospitals and health systems nationwide, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health has had to make some pretty big changes to the way it does business over the past few months of this ongoing pandemic. " A "tipping point" for telemedicine.

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