Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

" As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding the healthcare industry's response to the desperation generated by the coronavirus. It's the secret sauce. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

In March 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections was rapidly increasing in Washington. "Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem. By deploying telemedicine carts in the hospital, physicians could provide care remotely, irrespective of their location."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health is seeing utilization rates among Medicare Advantage members up 54% for virtual urgent care services and up 635% for virtual mental health services when compared to 2019. Medicare utilization of virtual care prior to the pandemic was low, around 7%, mostly due to regulatory barriers.

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Verisys

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2020, more large healthcare breaches were reported than in any other year since the HITECH Act mandated the publication of breaches. In 2020, over 29 million healthcare records were breached ; a 25% increase from the previous year.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

This article explores the challenges of telemedicine and examines solutions to resolve current issues. Main Obstacles the Telemedicine is Facing Today. Not only did the pandemic accelerate the implementation of telemedicine, but remote health services became a necessity. On the legal side, telemedicine faces two main drawbacks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2020

One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […].

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. Whether the public and the government listen is another matter.” COVID-19 accelerated trends already in place by early 2020. By April 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci was the most trusted source of coronavirus information among U.S. In the U.S.,

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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 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey adds yet another data point to the massive increase in telemedicine use amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. The same report also found that telemedicine mobile app downloads had dramatically increased.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This study comes on the heels of a recent Press Release issued July 20, 2022 (“Press Release”), in which the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced criminal charges against 36 defendants in 13 federal districts across the United States largely alleging fraud in the telemedicine space. Inspector General Christi A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. " "Time is no barrier to setting up a telemedicine service," he added. In Liverpool, England, the restrictions meant a sudden drop in availability for neonatologists.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center due to the stringent "safer at home" order from local government as well as the need to meet residents' healthcare needs while protecting the safety of both providers and patients. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

degrees Celsius higher than the average for 1991-2020. With phone calls, through an app and teleassistance or telemedicine they can check up on them and have a clinical evaluation of patients. Climate change means that dangerously high temperatures now hit European cities more frequently. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The telehealth service, which was developed and launched by Metro North Health during the height of the pandemic in 2020, is being made available for all Queenslanders needing urgent non-life threatening care. According to a media release, the expanded service will be run by senior ED staff with GPs and QAS staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. A resources toolkit that includes a new road map.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.] Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Providence has conducted more than three million telemedicine encounters since January 2020. Moore is all for telemedicine. " Definite funds for telemedicine.

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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. "Telemarketing fraud is a major threat to the integrity of government and commercial insurance programs," said Derrick L. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event taking place on 7-11 September 2020. has grown significantly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fran Boyle , president of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, told the Guardian Australia in a recent interview that patients will have a "major problem" with phone consultations that are no longer subsidised by the government. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Remote medical counselling by pharmacists has been allowed from April 2020 as a temporary measure during the pandemic. It was only in September that the Japanese government made available telepharmacy, five years since telemedicine was permitted in rural areas across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The service, which is provided by Samitivej, is available free-of-charge and all-day from 8 April to 10 May 2020 and can be accessed here. Samitivej acknowledges these concerns and is trying to resolve them by setting up Samitivej Virtual Hospital, a telemedicine service enabling real-time interactions between patients and doctors.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.]. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

Smart phones, wearable devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence software, internet applications, and other digital health technologies are advancing and transforming disease diagnosis, therapy, and other medical practices by physicians, direct-to-consumer services for better health and well-being, and other healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

The report, which was in its sixth edition, surveyed almost 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries from December 2020 to February 2021. There has been a noticeable uptick in the number of telemedicine platforms and services being launched around India lately. From India, there were 200 participants.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Home health technologies like remote patient monitoring (RPM) and telemedicine have significantly improved access to care and have been instrumental in supporting HaH programs. with its introduction of the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Out of the $15 billion invested in digital health in 2020 and $29 billion in 2021, on-demand healthcare – including telemedicine streaming video or text-based visits with a healthcare provider – has been the single largest trend, although it is still just the tip of the iceberg with all of the funding activity occurring now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), which is the first fully digitalized-paperless health care institution in South Korea, was designated by the government on 1 March as a “public safety hospital,” an institution that separates the treatment process of respiratory patients to prevent COVID-19 spread with the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Telemedicine is on an all-time high. Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that. Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that. Travel to virtually any U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Here, four C-suite executives and an innovation VP share lessons they've learned on such strategic imperatives as organizational evolution, good governance, virtual care, system localization, cloud infrastructure and underserved communities – and describe how they plan to put them into practice in the year ahead. And what happened?

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