Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. How has telehealth evolved over the past few years?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Surveys and Research Nearly 30% of telehealth visits result in an in-person follow-up within three weeks, and nearly half of patients who used telehealth only did it once, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report on trends shaping the healthcare economy. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Caroline Clarke, Executive Vice President and Market Leader, Philips ASEAN Pacific shared from the perspective of a technology provider on how the Dutch giant is helping healthcare providers during the pandemic around the world, the rise of virtual care and what the future for digital health holds in a post COVID-19 world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Recently, millions of patients have realised how their health is dependent on access to a healthcare facility infrastructure. For the clinics and physicians, the pandemic brought a double challenge: providing access to care for COVID-19 patients and keeping chronically ill patients under control so that they can stay safe at home.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

As health systems have adjusted their workflows to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, they have discovered increasing value in telehealth solutions that will continue to offer benefits long after the crisis has passed. It enables patients to consult with their physicians when they need to – often from the comfort of their home.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This sheer number of closures risks causing a real setback to the government’s aim of promoting community-centric healthcare – an initiative viewed as an essential way of reducing health inequalities within a local area. The Need for Community Central Healthcare For decades, pharmacies have been a key pillar of community health.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

NATIONAL A 340B Compromise at Last? Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Individuals identified as cognitively impaired will be referred for diagnostic services. The tool uses natural language processing to cull unstructured information in combination with structured data from a patient’s electronic health record. AI-Driven Research To Identify Undiagnosed Dementia.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Strategic Partnerships New Consortium Aims to Ensure Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare A new initiative, the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), was announced at the HIMSS 2024 Global Health Conference. Providers using Epic®’s EHR system can search and request Sunoh.ai

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

We must ensure that critical patients only use the highest level of care for as long as they need it before moving back to their home base. Convenience of care, whether it’s at the grocery store, pharmacy, or home, is the future. Convenience of care, whether it’s at the grocery store, pharmacy, or home, is the future.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

As hospitals and private health offices nationwide slowly begin to emerge from the COVID-induced challenges posed over the last two years, there is a new understanding of, and necessity for, adaptable medical technology and practices. Brian Fabrizio, Medical Information Displays Team Leader at LG Business Solutions USA.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health. While inflation will stabilize, many of these challenges will persist as health systems enter a new normal where substantial inpatient procedure volumes have shifted to outpatient, ambulatory, and home-based settings, but hospitals’ fixed costs remain high.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 31, 2022

One area that hasn’t experienced it (yet) is health care, but it is coming. Fortunately, the very pandemic that has fueled inflation in almost every other sector of the economy has also been the catalyst for digital health trends that could give us the tools we need to curb health care inflation. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Huong Le Dieu, Lead Product Manager , BLabs at Baracoda In the rapidly evolving world of healthcare, where demographic shifts and the prevalence of chronic diseases have placed immense demands on our medical systems, a transformative potential is on the rise. Facilitating this evolution?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Health Service Equities and Big Pharma: Healthcare Service equities underperformed the S&P 500, but the outperformance of the Big Pharma and Biotech sub-sectors allowed healthcare overall to keep pace with the market. What You Should Know: – The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8%

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

From the slow and often frustrating rise of the EHR to the lightning fast rollout of telehealth services in crisis, operational capability is increasingly influenced by digital mastery. Over the years, in order to meet the needs of emerging or expanding diagnostic services for specialty workflows (e.g., Even though U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

Shooting at Tulsa hospital exposes vulnerability of health care facilities. Encompass Health opens rehabilitation hospital in Cape Coral. Multimillion dollar mental health center could soon be coming to Decatur. COVID-19 rising in Alabama, experts believe cases are higher than reported. Arkansas receives second $786.6

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Louis health care construction report indicated that health care construction spending continues to surge in the face of soaring expenses. Louis health care construction report indicated that health care construction spending continues to surge in the face of soaring expenses. A Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

GAO investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes. HHS Secretary Outlines FY 2023 Mental Health Investments at Senate Hearing. million in ARP funds to train health workers in local communities. Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity. Banner Health to build new hospital in Buckeye.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

. $15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC. AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare, which was almost two times the average of other high-income countries, while the health outcomes in the U.S. Why this Trend of Value-Based Care?

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare, which was almost two times the average of other high-income countries, while the health outcomes in the U.S. Why this Trend of Value-Based Care?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 6, 2022

The rise of telemedicine and virtual care options have primed at-home testing to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare. 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results, but lagging lab APIs hinder the widespread launch of remote diagnostics. David Stein, CEO of Ash Wellness.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While Healthcare IT News readers have had a lot to focus on this year with cybersecurity imperatives and AI innovations, they also were very interested in new product launches, new regulator approvals, acquisitions and selloffs – including one of the most significant health IT M&A deals yet.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2024

David Stein, CEO and co-founder of Ash Wellness Public health learnings and data gathered over the 40 years of the AIDS crisis can help officials tackle the rise of congenital syphilis, which increased 755% from 2012 to 2021 and another 30% in 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The technology-enabled form of healthcare delivery has huge momentum coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future. Click here to read the special report.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

The unprecedented scope of the COVID-19 pandemic quickly gave rise to a surge of pledging activity, which is detailed in this article (see pp. On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. and Germany. Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health. Oliver Kharraz, CEO & Founder, Zocdoc.

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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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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard to tell what the exact impact will be. On one hand the automation will solve a lot of problems. However, where does the automation end?

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