Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. Alliance for Connected Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Survival of the digitalist: How organisations around the world are transforming with tech that cares: 20 Sep, 9.00am - 9.30am Edward Marx has quite the story to tell. Marx decided to enter the world of health information and management after watching his daughter defy death through the power of technology and clinical care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Learn about what the healthcare industry should focus on as we look cautiously to a world beyond COVID-19, and how organisations can contribute to advancing innovation and wider technology adoption in digital transformation, AI, data analytics, and the future of telehealth. Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

As the healthcare industry emerges from the pandemic, its leaders are embarking on a major reboot of their priorities in order to improve the delivery of patient care. healthcare leaders also see how technology can help alleviate them. Click here for the U.S. edition of the report. Click here for the U.S. edition of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system created a telehealth program, the main problem it was trying to solve was how to improve access to care across the state. "The access to care issues were both ambulatory and inpatient," he explained. "This was all too clear during COVID.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

A report released this past week from the ANCOR Foundation and United Cerebral Palsy found that telehealth can play an integral role in transforming the healthcare system to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Philips’ chief medical officer, Jan Kimpen, hosted the discussion between Professor Wim van Harten, CEO of Rijnstate Hospital in the Netherlands, and Dr Aaron Neinstein, director of clinical informatics at UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation in the US, to discuss the future of healthcare post-pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. Zoom, Skype and Teams. Revolutionizing healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. Less explored, however, is virtual care's possible role in reducing carbon emissions, specifically by allowing patients to connect with providers without relying on a car.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. It's very clear to one and all that the pandemic has truly brought telemedicine into the mainstream. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

“Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care? . “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43. ” you might ask.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

He was representing the voice of patients in the session ‘From Patient Engagement to Patient Empowerment’ in which a panel of experts discussed how citizens could be more included in digital health transformation. “Lots of people use patients rather than work with patients,” he concluded. ” Gaining trust.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans received care from their primary care physicians via telemedicine. Telehealth technology and services company Amwell now is promoting the concept of "virtual primary care. Q: What is virtual primary care? But it worked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

Recently, the two organizations have been discussing an overarching digital strategy, as well as how healthcare provider organizations need to be working to create a differentiated virtual care experience – a competitive one. I understand The Clinic and Amwell have been discussing an overarching digital and virtual care strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the bill provides broad authority for CMS to authorize future telehealth flexibilities in a disaster.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. But the pandemic era is soon coming to an end, leaving telehealth to settle into a new normal. The healthcare industry is changing rapidly.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. Since the pandemic began its spread across the U.S. " David Smith, Medicaid Transformation Project Executive Director.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Virtual care tech provider sought for WACHS The WA Country Health Service is seeking an IT provider for its Virtual Care service. Virtual care tech provider sought for WACHS The WA Country Health Service is seeking an IT provider for its Virtual Care service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Get all the coverage for the event on this page. Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters. Full coverage: HIMSS21 APAC Health Conference.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2022

"While telehealth has improved access to many outpatient services, marginalized patients – rural, poor, older and minority patients – may not have benefited equally from telehealth's expansion," she continued. THE PROBLEM. Its efforts to revamp and improve its technology were merely trial and error.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. The health system saw a 94% engagement rate among oncology patients, and 83% of clinicians say the health chats extend the care they can deliver, reported the health system's chatbot technology vendor, Conversa Health. million healthcare workers by 2030.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. achieved within days of the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic," said Dr. Tarun Kapoor, the health system's chief digital transformation officer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The healthcare industry has a golden opportunity to consolidate the advances achieved in digital health and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest research reveals that COVID-19 has reversed those predictions, with 61% now favouring telehealth over AI (53%). Staying power.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.” The headline might be, “U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And while telehealth has helped provide sweeping access to high-touch treatment, virtual care still is limited by the shortage of therapists. Telehealth certainly has made mental healthcare available to many more people. Telehealth certainly has made mental healthcare available to many more people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Two topics were top of mind for attendees at MGMA’s 2022 Medical Practice Excellence: Leaders Conference (#MPE22) – workforce challenges and revenue pressure. Medical practice leaders at #MPE22 all had a common refrain: staffing costs were rising exponentially while revenue has remained relatively flat. Hope through Transformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it). healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. How to Balance Innovation and Digital Transformation With Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety. Read more… CIO Podcast : Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Read more… The Evolution of Patient Communication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As the largest integrated health system in the country, the Veterans Health Administration oversees care at hundreds of hospitals and health systems around the United States. And caring for those patients, and stewarding their data, requires major infrastructure. That's a lot of patients: more than 9 million, to be specific.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Amid the chaos of the past pandemic year, there have been many valuable lessons for CIOs and health IT leaders willing to learn them. This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. You can read the others here and here.). 'Super-scaling' telemedicine.

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