Healthcare It News

MAY 16, 2023

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. "When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. before the pandemic to 8.18 hours in September 2021, according to the study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. As the letter outlines, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the DEA waived the prior in-person evaluation requirement for patients being prescribed controlled substances via telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

Telemedicine would enable Tanner Health to tap into the expertise of qualified physicians miles away, ensuring that distance is no barrier to exceptional patient care. In 2018, Tanner Health launched a telemedicine program using vendor InTouch Health's technologies. Tele-ICU and critical care services. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

The children live nationwide but the focus is on areas heavily impacted by COVID-19, such as the Northeast and the central and southeastern U.S. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the team had begun to roll out a telehealth program aimed at helping patients access care without having to leave their residences. PHP has seen significant outcomes after implementing its telehealth program, with both hospital admissions and emergency room visits decreasing since 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Northwell Health piloted small-scale programs in partnership with the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Collaboration to bring medical services virtually to the homes of their patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What You Should Know: – A recent study reveals that telemedicine is related to increased EHR time for physicians in the ambulatory setting, primarily due to documentation of visits, and may require adjustments in productivity expectations and strategies to address EHR documentation burden for physicians in healthcare systems.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

Health Systems announced this past week that they have merged to form Arkos Health, a new company designed to bring analytics-driven telemedicine to vulnerable senior populations nationwide. This month, we look at lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic on how data is put to work informing patient care decisions and population health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Department of Justice announced Monday that four people and one company have recently pleaded guilty in a telemedicine pharmacy healthcare-fraud conspiracy that allegedly lasted for years. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General in Atlanta. WHY IT MATTERS. He faces up to 10 years in prison. Attorney J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "More than 8% of total outpatient visits now are conducted virtually, and more than 2,000 providers and more than 500 nurses have been trained to use telemedicine," Raichura reported. In fact, it has doubled in the last 30 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. When COVID-19 flared up, Greene County General faced a whole new set of challenges. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Safety, ease of use and lack of trust with features also influenced users' decision not to use telemedicine. Patients have largely reported satisfaction with telehealth services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with a few particular companies making recurring appearances in the higher rankings. Power survey from this past year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. "It is impossible to describe what came next without the context of COVID-19," Cimino said. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy. In November 2018, Groups Recover Together's clinic operations in Northern California were forced to shift to virtual care as the Camp Fire wildfires in Butte County displaced most members and staff. THE PROBLEM. Addiction is a disease of isolation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. Then COVID-19 emerged. In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Remote patient monitoring technologies are akin to telemedicine technologies, since they automatically observe and report on patients, often with chronic illnesses, so caregivers can remotely keep tabs on patients. The CAM Patch can serve as a remote patient monitoring system during the COVID-19 pandemic, the vendor said.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

“Digital transformation” was the mantra for all industries before we heard about the COVID-19 virus. had adopted wearable technology for health tracking, a nearly 50% decline from 2019 (from 33% in 2018 to 18% in late 2019). The pandemic drove U.S. consumers were not confident their data would be appropriately used.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 The opportunities telemedicine provides.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

.” The study of older Americans found that, About 60% believe their cell phone has made them feel more connected to family/friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. 43% of older adults use their cell phone more frequently than before COVID-19.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the U.S., As of mid-2018, large proportions of health consumers could already view Amazon as a channel for health care — including being a platform for prescription drug access, noted by 3 in 5 consumers back then. Americans were already Primed for ecommerce — even in health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

For this study, researchers examined 3,488 stroke encounters from 3,289 patients at 21 facilities that had joined the NTSP in 2017 or 2018, comparing the "pre-NTSP" period with the post-implementation period. By August 2021, the program was active in 50 facilities nationwide.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected the way consumers prefer to receive medication and medical services. Patients and providers welcomed the accelerated pace of technology adoption to make their lives easier, including the widespread acceptance of telemedicine. Adopting and Leveraging Technology.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Milliman bases the MMI on actual claims data from health plans; estimates of cost changes from 2018 and 2019; and, research on how MMI’s costs for the hypothetical family of four differ from those of an individual. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 pandemic will dramatically impact the U.S. That is a 4.1%

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic saw global revenues for Resting ECG devices increase in 2020, whilst ECG Management Systems, Stress ECG and Traditional Holter ECG solutions saw a market decline. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the development of the diagnostic cardiology market, with growing acceptance for remote solutions.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs) have been gaining steam over the last decade, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that cast its advantages into the limelight. Telemedicine . By making it easier to participate via telemedicine, sponsors will be able to enroll more patients and gather more data. 104,1 (2018): 42-52.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Lessons from the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is perhaps one of the best and most recent cases to exhibit the need for community-centric healthcare. In 2018, Londoners gained access to testing online, through the Sexual Health London (SHL) service, and the results in just one year were staggering.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2024

Developed by UPMC in 2020, during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the teleconsult technology enables virtual clinical specialists to efficiently consult with bedside clinicians about inpatient care across five services: stroke, neurology, critical care, psychology, and toxicology.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 29, 2022

Hy-Vee grocery pharmacy announced test-to-treat services for consumers shown positive for COVID-19 with the therapy Paxlovid to be delivered across the store’s eight-state footprint. billion in 2018. News & World Report named Mayo Clinic the #1 health system in the U.S. for the 7th consecutive year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health-system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app.

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