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

JULY 11, 2022

We are now entering an era of multi-modal care that goes beyond substituting an in-person visit for a virtual visit. As patients start getting comfortable with in-person and virtual care, health systems also have to create hybrid care experiences relying on the continuity of data and authenticated states of patient interactions.

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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. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health Care for these sick patients is costly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2019

Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Delivering Compliance and Integration for Telemedicine Solutions Region Tag: Global Edition They required maximal security, compliance, scalability, affordability, and reliability of their critical infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

They live in a virtual world, so this app and the ability to access their care team through text messages [are] much more comfortable." “They proposed creating a virtual patient-centered medical home – what we call the Virtual PCMH, or V-PCMH – for the patient/family and their healthcare team.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' Virtual Care 3.0, Here are some portfolio solutions to consider: Virtual care. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. Stressors from COVID-19 and virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 13, 2023 News Telehealth proves successful for opioid use disorder treatment Virtual care provider Ophelia found 56% of its OUD patients remained in treatment for six months. with home-based virtual care Also through its Virtual Care at Home program, Augusta has been able to show a reduced readmission.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Similar progress has been made in secondary care, with widespread moves towards digital-first outpatient appointments and some hospitals supplying iPads to enable loved ones to ‘visit’ their relatives who have been hospitalised with coronavirus, without risk of infection. It's not all plain sailing, of course.

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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. Virtual care. Delivery of care at home necessitates the clinician to go and visit the patient's house. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. Black and Latino patients had higher adjusted odds of using either the ER or office visits versus telehealth than either white or Asian patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

" 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. Some states have laws requiring patients to view ultrasounds, for example, which would mean an in-person visit regardless. " So wrote U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. The tools are doing better, though. Some principles also apply to devices and other interfaces.

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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. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"The platform uses clinical care paths, adaptive education, personalized goal setting and virtual physical therapy to drive a smooth and efficient recuperation," Lovewell explained. " Most important, according to Lovewell, the platform has given the center a way to assess quantitative results in terms of patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care. I estimate about 90% of my visits were telehealth visits during the first four months of the pandemic. My visit type is 95% work injury-related with the rest employment-related exams. All new injury visits were done in-person.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Virtual appointments and online messaging provide new avenues to access care in a timely manner. Enhance communications – In the past, connecting with physicians outside of appointments often turned into a game of phone tag and resulted in multiple voicemails. At the heart of these changes was the adoption of cloud-based solutions.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

These take place on the last Tuesday of every month at 6:30am with a live virtual conference and a 5pm taped showing. Before the pandemic, the SQA HQ team was traveling on a weekly basis, and one of the highlights of traveling is visiting with SQA Associates. American Society of Quality (ASQ) virtual meeting October 25-26, Quality 4.0:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan A recent estimate by consulting firm McKinsey suggests that $250 billion in healthcare spending could shift to virtual care models in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. My work with healthcare enterprises suggests that 80-90% of all outpatient visits could become "virtualized" in some way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Joyoti Goswami COVID-19 has spurred telehealth and remote patient monitoring adoption across the United States, with 36 percent of the US consumers now using telehealth to replace healthcare visits. Implementing a remote patient monitoring program in a hospital involves the stakeholders and physicians from all specialties with virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. How do we go beyond synchronous video visits – and how do we ensure equitable access to whatever improvements are made available? And everybody's talking about: What else can you make virtual? So when we talk about virtual care, think hybrid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

But of equal importance is the opportunity to transform the visit-based care models of today into new care-delivery paradigms that are connected, agile, personalized, and driven by patient needs. In other words, not everything should be virtual. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

billion in medical visits and reduce reliance on prescription drugs by a $51.6 As an example, Kristin pointed to the Tylenol #WeCare campaign, shown in this video: IRI’s Nishat Mehta tag-teamed with Kristin, discussing the growth and importance of influencer campaigns and new marketing modes. health care system $94.8 billion savings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. As the pandemic wanes, more physicians and hospital services are moving back to in-person visits. #HITsm #CollisionConf pic.twitter.com/sXnGS4MUNy. Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) June 22, 2022.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Mental Health, Virtual Care and the Healthcare System. Then, it suggests a solution – and, at the conference this week, it clearly seemed to be virtual mental healthcare. And it was very clear that virtual mental healthcare services are growing very rapidly. But will it last?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biovitals’ AI-based treatment algorithms then enable software-based therapeutic interventions that signal to clinicians what they should do next to intervene, in order to prevent critical events that would otherwise lead to hospitalizations or visits to the emergency department.

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

As confidence continues to build we will see on-site visits open up, but the learnings and tools created to support while having to be remote have been paramount. SQA attended, and sponsored as an exhibitor at the Personal Care Product Council Virtual Summit May 11 th to the 13 th. teamSQA www.SQAservices.com. . . Upcoming Events.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

DC area hospitals see uptick in sick visits amidst global concern for respiratory illness D.C.’s -area hospital construction projects: From Inova’s new Springfield facility to Cedar Hill in Ward 8 MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is set to open its long-awaited pavilion. Here’s a look.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. "In doing so, I am not confined to short office-visit windows and can truly spend the time patients desire to get their questions answered, and for them to understand their condition and make an informed decision about their care.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He has given us insight into a supplier that we have never visited and his inspections have put many people including myself at ease.” SQA presented with Pace Analytical Life Sciences and Ecolab on #virtual audits and its importance during the pandemic. His support on such last-minute notice has been invaluable! Hey Associates!

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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