Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Chambers' health clinics were where the telemedicine program that the system had spun up in response to COVID-19 played a new role. Before the pandemic, Bellevue had been "dipping our toes into video telemedicine," said Dr. Andrew Wallach, clinical director of ambulatory care. Instead, would you like a televisit?'"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. How stress manifested as telehealth visits boomed.

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Medisys Compliance

MAY 17, 2022

This article covers the basics of telehealth and useful information which would be useful for preparing your practice for telehealth services. Audio-only visits. Use of telephone for visits without video. Role of Telehealth During COVID-19. Telehealth has proved to be an effective option to fight the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

"When feeling the frustrations in caring for them and the barriers they face to access care, I decided to explore how technology could overcome these challenges. As long as one has a mobile phone connection, one can text or have a video visit with a provider. out of 5 for visit satisfaction." THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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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? "The chatbot responses were preferred over physician responses and rated significantly higher for both quality and empathy," according to the study authors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Healthcare at your doorstep. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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YouCompli

JUNE 29, 2022

Telehealth use has soared, reaching nearly 53 million visits in 2020. As virtual care requirements for telehealth evolve, we explore how compliance officers can support patient care and help their organizations stay up to date. Interstate telemedicine. Consolidated Appropriations Act . the end of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

" ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.). Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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Verisys

JANUARY 27, 2022

The use of telemedicine in the U.S. was minimal prior to COVID, but since 2020 expansion of telemedicine has skyrocketed as policymakers, insurers, and health systems sought ways to deliver care to patients in their homes. The use of telemedicine in the U.S. According to the U.S. From Skeptics to Fans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. He sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss how telehealth and RPM can work together, the role analytics plays with RPM and the future of RPM. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. A telehealth company can schedule a time to come to your house for lab work that they collect and take to the lab on Tuesday. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. "We are performing about 400 virtual visits per day, where at peak last year we were seeing about 1,500 per day. Both patients and providers prefer virtual for certain types of visits. Working with new workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

"We asked ourselves, 'How do we grow our program, support our existing physicians and still meet the care needs of our community?'" "We all say, 'Well, our patients are really sick,' but how do you validate that?" THE PROBLEM. First, hospitals are facing critical care staffing shortages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. — John Halamka, M.D., jhalamka) March 17, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. More generally, how have televisits affected clinicians’ revenues, and how is the effect likely to change? The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT.

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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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Provider Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ask yourself: How are providers filling these open positions? In a recent webinar, ProviderTrust took a look at impactful healthcare trends to monitor in 2023 and beyond. Within the 17 total health systems included in the study, over 3500 positions were cut. Staffing challenges and financial setbacks can often give rise to significant risk.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

CMS Updates to beneficiary PHE waivers that matter to healthcare compliance Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC, contributes regularly to the YouCompli blog. In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 29, 2023

Situation One: Before the Pandemic   In April 2019, government officials announced Operation Brace Yourself: a fraud takedown related to telemedicine and durable medical equipment (DME). In response, one nationally recognized medical practice management company shifted its face-to-face evaluation and management visits to telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

Virtual care, telemedicine and remote monitoring are leading the change in how care is delivered and who can deliver it, ushering in the potential for huge savings in time, cost and efficiency while widening access to care for the patients who need it most. And they're spending lots and lots of money to help manage them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"We wanted to gain insights into how patients were recovering at home, see feedback on their progress and outcomes, and enrich the patient experience from start to finish," he said. As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?Columbia

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Staff were forced to answer the question: How do we continue to keep patients safe and provide high-quality care with fewer resources? Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase.

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Verisys

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As government agencies and national regulatory organizations pass more regulations and the need for healthcare services grows, healthcare compliance officers (HCOs) are more important than ever. Healthcare entities must comply with an increasingly complex and changing set of laws and regulations. HCO Qualifications. Reimbursement. Risk management.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 22, 2023

health care spending hits $4.5 Million in Retaliation Suit John Muir, Tenet scrap hospital deal after FTC challenge Kaiser to lay off 79 administrative employees Leaning toward big wins in schizophrenia and vaccines, venture group raises new fund of $389 million Madera hospital creditors want to be paid, including CEO. health care spending hits $4.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As was the case with many healthcare organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a significant increase in telehealth visits for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – especially in outpatient clinics. " said David A. Higginson, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

NATIONAL AHA asks CMS to stop telehealth rule AHA-supported bill would expand access to telehealth services Another strike notice possible at Kaiser, unions say Congress eyes endgame for PBM legislation Costco accused of sharing customers’ ‘highly personal’ health data with Facebook owner Meta General Catalyst eyes health system acquisition HHS proposed (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

Leveraging an existing telehealth platform, the health system responded to volumes that jumped from an average of seven visits daily in February 2020 to more than 500 visits in a day within the first week of the COVID-19 response. Telemedicine technology and services vendor Bluestream Health has served MedStar Health since 2016.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Compensation is key Is spine surgery expansion next for ASCs? Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health Joint Commission says acute, critical access hospitals must join safety network Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care Most Rural U.S.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

How did we get here? Nonprofit hospitals under growing scrutiny over how they justify billions in tax breaks States increase pressure on nonprofit hospitals as charity care scrutinized Senate proposal would give hospitals $385M for emergency preparedness.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8 percent in final rule. CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. CMS locks in court-ordered 340B drug payment rates for 2023, though back payments still to come. LifeMed Alaska announces new CEO.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Alabama Medicaid Agency expands covered visits for cancer patients after cancer center push. CMS leader says health innovation must be accessible to everyone. Decades of neglect in nursing homes spur Biden plan for staff mandates. Health system cash reserves plummet. Health systems eye real estate moves in post-pandemic world. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T Lawmakers are now mulling limits.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

billion since pandemic U.S. leading cause of death is heart disease, Alabama’s matches that Alabama lawmakers put temporary hold on $1 billion contract for prison healthcare New rolling NICU a ‘game changer’ for critical babies in Alabama More than a dozen Alabama hospitals at immediate risk of closing; officials say hospitals suffer $1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With nearly a decade of successfully running a virtual ICU and a virtual care hospital known today as Mercy Virtual Care Center , Mercy in St. 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 PROBLEM.

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