Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2024

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. We discussed further adoption, the hybrid care model , chronic care management, worksite healthy clinics and asynchronous telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2024

"In educational settings, educators also faced hurdles in providing comprehensive support for students experiencing social difficulties," said Maria Johnson, director of youth and family innovations and Charisma virtual social coaching lead at the Center for BrainHealth, a cognitive research center at The University of Texas at Dallas.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telemedicine demands personalized care at scale for complex conditions, ramping up the move toward concierge care, and increasing access to the best medical expertise, The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic continues. It's clear that virtual care is now a permanent mode of healthcare access and delivery.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

"This makes it difficult to personalize and push meaningful interactions," he said. Digital transformation also is essential in making an impact on quality improvement and cost containment goals associated with value-based care initiatives." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " Matthew Warrens, UnityPoint Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Will new virtual-care legislation pass? Will there be technological advances that push the care paradigm further forward? The technology for virtual-care appointments also will continue to advance beyond 1:1 doctor-patient video conferencing. But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Defense Health Agency has awarded Amwell and Leidos a new contract to develop a hybrid care technology platform for the Military Health System's "Digital First" efforts. Amwell will also deliver other automated care programs, such as behavioral health offerings and integrated core telehealth tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes. Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2021

The American Medical Association, in partnership with the law firm Manatt Health, published a framework this week aimed at examining the benefits generated by virtual care. According to the organizations, the Return on Health initiative is aimed at understanding the value of digitally enabled care beyond dollars and cents alone.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2024, healthcare and health IT will feel the continued erosion of traditional care paradigms, be impacted by a retail shift from exuberant expansion to the long game of execution, and will finally, at long last, witness the death of the fax machine. Retail healthcare will continue to supplant primary care. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. Jamy Ard, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. "The No.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. NYC H+H patients would then be scheduled for same- or next-day clinic-based infusion therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Like many other healthcare organizations, it struggled with operationalizing the technology and workflows of a new process. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. At the time, its portfolio of virtual care was limited to behavioral health and telestroke teams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

The Cleveland Clinic and telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell famously partnered to create The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic , which provides virtual second opinions and now other healthcare offerings. I understand The Clinic and Amwell have been discussing an overarching digital and virtual care strategy.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Since its inception more than 60 years ago, Community Health Network, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit health system, has worked to stay true to its tagline: “Exceptional Care. THE PROBLEM The rapid shift to consumer-centric care, spurred by the pandemic and the arrival of Big Tech , has created a competitive landscape in healthcare.

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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. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We spoke with a heavy hitter in the world of telehealth, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, president and CEO of Amwell, one of the big players in telemedicine technology and services, to get his views on how his predictions from last year turned out and where virtual care is headed in 2023. How did that prediction turn out? How did that turn out?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

The rapid growth in care, they said in an article published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , has also inspired discussions on the best way to use telemedicine for disease management. Components of an optimal model, they said, include: Support for secure multidisciplinary consults across the care team.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Pharmacy benefits manager RxBenefits has integrated with the Springbuk Activate partner marketplace of tools for employers and benefits advisors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

Commonwealth Care Alliance is a healthcare services organization that offers health plans and care delivery programs designed for individuals with significant needs. CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“We quickly realized we needed to adopt an enterprise-class, scalable, secure solution that would meet the care delivery needs of our patients and providers while continuing to provide the quality of care we were accustomed to,” said W. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. Glenn Hilburn, RN, Grady Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2022

As telehealth continues to be a popular modality for care delivery, advocates, organizations and some lawmakers have stressed the importance of ensuring maximum access. Requirements for health plans to cover telehealth services on the same basis as in-person ones. WHY IT MATTERS. Equitable and fair payment for physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Still, challenges remain: respondents are concerned about payment rates, technology and workflow issues that continue to present barriers to seamless virtual care. "The use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights its importance in care delivery. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. "This combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payer approach," said Karen S. billion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Teladoc Health announced this week that it was partnering with Amazon to launch voice-activated virtual care on Alexa-supported Echo devices. "We are meeting consumers where they are, to continue to deliver value and high-quality care to members," Boyer said. According to the companies, U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The success of Groups Recover Together's care model relies heavily on building a supportive community for its members. Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy. In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

"So, the pandemic and the lockdowns created some potential gaps in access to care that we needed to predict and fill," said Navdeep S. And this further reduced their ability to access care and hampered achievement of their treatment plans. The organization mostly was using telehealth between its various locations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. One of Australia's longest-serving residential aged care providers is taking a shot at this pressing challenge with a modern, virtual solution.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. We quickly saw value in Zoom’s flexibility and inherent familiarity for many users, both staff and patients. And it did the trick.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By making our patient engagement offerings available to the expansive customer base of Ensemble, we’ll help more healthcare providers deliver exceptional care to their patients.” Today’s news continues a string of rapid growth and expansion for TeleVox.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Patient and provider telehealth use has skyrocketed since the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States – and analysts point to a " tsunami of growth " as virtual care, after years of frustrated promise, becomes the new normal. "Now everything is virtual. Telehealth in the long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of.

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