Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Posted In COVID-19 , Health Care Fraud , Healthcare Regulation , Telehealth The shift to telemedicine in the United States predates the pandemic, but COVID-19 has accelerated its widespread use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Collaboration is key in vendor selection. Times of challenge bring change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Telehealth is critical – build capability now. " Actions you can take now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Teladoc reported that total visits rose 92%, from 1,063,000 to 2,045,000 in the past quarter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2 Looking beyond COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

September 04, 2023 Sponsored Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services Various organizations have explored telepsychiatry and hybrid group therapy to offer more options.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. Routine care plummeted during the pandemic and has still not bounced back , and as telehealth utilization has grown, patients have experienced more pain points and barriers to care. Visiting your primary care physician?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Widespread lack of access to broadband Internet necessary to facilitate telehealth. On that last determinant, when nonurgent, in-person care came to a halt and telehealth began to dominate, many of the elderly and poor found themselves shut out of ongoing healthcare services because of lack of access to broadband Internet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. Region Tag: Global Edition. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Brandwatch collated and analyzed tweets between January 1st 2019 and November 20 2021, that mentioned any of the following phrases: telemedicine, telehealth, virtual care, digital medicine, digimedicine, mental health, doom scrolling, trauma dumping, and meeting fatigue. Adopt sound security protocols and tech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of patients have turned to telehealth. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how telehealth can, if implemented properly, allow clinicians to deliver high-quality care to their patients," Perryman continued, pointing to ACOG's resources for members on telehealth best practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. to virtually “step into” field hospitals and assist physicians, in real-time, when treating wounded service members. Department for Veterans Affairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Telehealth Epilepsy Care Collaborative, or TECC, at Boston Medical Center was developed out of the charge led by the federal government’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to improve access to high-quality care for children and youth with epilepsy, especially those facing health disparities or living in rural regions. THE PROBLEM.

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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. Whilst the system used by NHS General Practice is fairly well embedded, there is nothing similar for private practices or for any hospitals or dental services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Network Infrastructure Precision Medicine Privacy & Security Telehealth Its CIO looks ahead to a future with advances in mobility, imaging, telemedicine, virtual reality, 5G/6G, artificial intelligence, data security, genomic sequencing and translational research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay. A second wave of digital transformation?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Splinters in the relationship can also begin remotely, brought about by frustrating telehealth systems. Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. When they do call their provider, they want the service to be quick, smooth, and beneficial. Telephone triage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. Others are competing with other startups by offering similar services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon, the only other big tech firm with a voice-based offering for healthcare, has deployed Alexa services in several healthcare organizations. Region Tag: Global Edition. The move essentially implied that Microsoft was doubling down on its commitment to healthcare. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. But services designed without disabled people in mind can be discriminatory. Accommodations, televisits, haptic feedback, etc., are great advances.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

A recent report from McKinsey & Company shows that by mid-2021, telehealth visits were 38 times more common than before the pandemic. The same McKinsey report shows that only 32% of physicians – the very people administering care online – feel that telehealth can improve the patient experience. Flexibility is great.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. But evidence is growing for telehealth and a more remote health monitoring tools, some undergoing scrutiny by the FDA. from Deloitte. One in two U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Nor are base platforms for accessing care, services and information distributed to or accessible by all U.S. and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. COVID-19 has provided an impetus to the remote patient monitoring market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Telehealth An occupational medicine physician offered his patients a poll with a single question. The world has turned upside down and, ironically, I am one of the providers who utilizes telehealth the most in my large organization. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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