Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. At the same time, however, relying on telemedicine had drawbacks, especially from a social perspective. Saved organizational resources. Improved access to care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium needed to get telehealth right, and believed that through the consortium it could leverage collective strengths to increase telehealth training and resources to better serve Massachusetts’ most vulnerable patients and provide them with quality care during the COVID-19 crisis. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

A new report from the RAND Corporation suggests that the biggest upticks in virtual care availability occurred in more affluent and metropolitan communities, and that telemedicine services were mostly enjoyed by patients with private insurance. "Few national studies have examined changes in telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. THE PROBLEM. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

HIMSS cancelled the conference just days before it was to commence… due to the great disruption of COVID-19. COVID is a terrible pandemic,” he noted as his team is, “learning our way through it. Fast forward to the COVID-19 era: an ecosystem where you take care settings outside the walls of hospitals into homes.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eye-opener for what really matters in both personal and professional life. 19 Telehealth opportunities and remote care options can create a variety of these touchpoints in a personalized and case-specific way, ranging from an overview of patient consultations to implantable cardiac monitors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The first phase of the Telemedicine Command Center provides first level healthcare advisory services to patients.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Although a new report suggests that the healthcare industry slightly improved its security posture this year compared to last, it warns that increased provider reliance on telehealth since the COVID-19 pandemic now presents a new slate of risks to patient data. WHY IT MATTERS. "However. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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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. In 2019, our providers saw 49 students. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. WHY IT MATTERS. of the time across the three organizations.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2022

A study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that receipt of video-enabled tablets during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with more psychotherapy visits and reduced emergency department use among veterans. As the researchers noted in their piece, U.S. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Overnight, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, NFP had to change the model. “With a priority on safety for patients and staff, we stood up telemedicine in two weeks,” recalled Jean Polster, RN, president and CEO of Neighborhood Family Practice. Telemedicine and remote work immediately became the solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that while telehealth grew across surgical specialties in response to the COVID-10 pandemic, rates have declined as in-person care resumed. It's fairly clear, then, that the astronomic rise in telehealth rates extended to surgical specialties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

New research has looked into the number of dental institutions around Japan that conducted telemedicine for first and follow-up visits last year. By prefectures, Ishikawa had the highest number of dental institutions (18) conducting dental telemedicine for first visits. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

Use of virtual care technologies had already doubled between 2016 to 2019 , and since the COVID-19 public health emergency, more and more overtaxed health systems have been availing themselves of tools that enable care to be delivered remotely, keeping patients and healthcare professionals away from potential infection.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. "Horizon went live with this solution in November 2019, gradually offering the service by clinic and type of treatment," he added. THE PROBLEM. " Jake Haacker, Horizon Health Alliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. "By late 2019, we created a definition of digital health to differentiate our responsibilities from those of our colleagues in IT and marketing, with whom we collaborate to align objectives, assets and resources. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. " said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. Then COVID-19 hit. THE PROBLEM In the year after COVID-19 struck, healthcare changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

"We conducted a formal request for proposal throughout 2019 [and] 2020 where we evaluated several vendors to select the one who best suited our needs," said Brandy Knudson, virtual care project manager in the remote patient engagement and monitoring virtual care department at the University of Michigan Medical Group. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

" The COVID-19 pandemic allowed videoconferencing to expand into the home. UAB went from 1,000 video visits in 2019 to 280,000 video visits in 2020. "This was all too clear during COVID. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. It kept COVID patients in isolation. THE PROBLEM. If Lee were going to spend the money, it wanted to do it right.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Hilltop Regional Health Center in Tacoma, Washington, had two big issues going into the COVID-19 pandemic's virus spread and shutdowns. The first issue was that it did not have a formal telemedicine solution in place. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through telemedicine. After so much care went online during COVID-19, patients of all ages and backgrounds have completed a crash course in virtual care – and they are liking the results. She joined the Avel eCare team in 2019.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. This premium growth was 1 percentage point below the 5% uptick in 2019. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. Most workers faced a deductible in their health plan.

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