Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The special consultation service was created for those with may display symptoms of COVID-19 or at high risk of contracting of the coronavirus. If the online doctor prescribes medication, Samitivej Hospital will handle the prescription at a 20% discount with free delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2020

Physicians of Southwest Washington has been implementing health IT vendor Innovaccer’s COVID-19 Management System, a tool the vendor has been offering provider organizations free to help manage and care for patients during the pandemic. hit worst by COVID-19. The state of Washington is one of the areas in the U.S,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

"Nurses, doctors, and hospital staff working in extremely harsh and dangerous settings have reported that their stress was greatly reduced through this system," Kim shared. It has six points: technological value, data, operational efficiency, medical service quality, user experience, and post-implementation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. "First, the COVID Clinic, a process for coronavirus screening," Burchett said. Virtual care for non-COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

In 2020, the company's AI technology and wearables aided Hong Kong doctors and scientists in the fight against COVID-19. With the Biovitals Sentinel’s technology and analytics system, doctors monitored patients diagnosed with or suspected of having coronavirus.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic added unprecedented levels of stress to an already-strained provider community – leading to high rates of burnout and waves of resignation. The issue goes beyond one-on-one doctor-patient interactions, however. "It goes back to that expressive and responsive empathy," said Ayalasomayajula.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. From his frustration with patient portal updates to his adulation of the noble shower chair, Cutitta observed which high-tech – and not-so-high-tech – tools he relied on throughout his battle with COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

" When the pandemic hit, University Hospitals' use of automation to manage care for people with chronic conditions prompted it to consider: How could it leverage automation as a patient-facing symptom-checker for COVID-19?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. But of course, patients continue to have healthcare needs that do require doctor visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Goulburn Valley Health, a regional healthcare provider in the state of Victoria, has tapped telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor for additional virtual emergency doctor support. Established in 2016, My Emergency Doctor has been providing acute care after hours via video and phone across regional Australia. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What are some of your predictions for 2022 and beyond about the way telehealth will be used, especially as the COVID 19 pandemic continues?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

Temporary exemptions to the Ryan Haight Act, issued and extended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, end this year. THE LARGER TREND DEA said its intention with three new telehealth rules is to balance access to virtual care for the long term.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Based on its initial investigation, the following information may have been accessed by hackers: name, address, birth date, email, telephone number, marital status, Aboriginal status, Medicare number, referring doctor, and type of diabetes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. "Telehealth has helped us work around this, and we have given our patients with these concerns a direct connection to a doctor's visit from the comfort of their home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2025

THE LARGER CONTEXT Minister Brown revealed the new digital healthcare service alongside the announcement of various initiatives to expand primary care access, including NZ$285 million ($163 million) investment in general practice over three years, placement of overseas doctors, and incentives for primary care providers to recruit nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. All of those pages and pages of forms you get at a doctor's office? With prescheduling, doctors are able to populate your medical record before you get there.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, business at Gastro Health in Miami came to a halt.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new challenges for all healthcare provider organizations. “Among the many challenges presented by COVID-19, ensuring our residents had timely access to their healthcare providers was our main priority,” said Mark Plunkett, director of information technology at Maple Knoll Communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. THE PROBLEM.

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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. A University of Missouri study published this past week found that the turn to virtual care reduced stress for residents and helped increase access to services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis began sweeping through the country this spring, hospitals sought a way for clinicians to treat infectious patients while maintaining distance from them if possible. " Particularly when hospitals were overwhelmed with patient numbers, said Smith, "doctors needed to be a safer distance from patients."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. Even without the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual-first is the logical initial step for all nonemergency medical issues. Defaulting to in-person visits takes up a lot more time and money for both patients and doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. Though occupational burnout among doctors is higher relative to the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. physicians was 62.8%

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. "These solutions help providers perform at-home health interventions that prevent sometimes costly and logistically impossible doctors' visits." The beginning of a new year is usually a time for optimism.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

The most recent extension of COVID-19 flexibilities for prescribing runs through 2025. " The agency, concerned about ‘doctor shopping,’ said that "the lack of proper oversight and verification of clinician practitioners’ credentials" can open a door "bad actors" could take advantage of.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 Perhaps unsurprisingly, the proportion of visits related to COVID-19 symptoms increased during the last three weeks of March 2020, from 5.5% "Overall, an estimated 41% to 42% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Chu Canh Chieu, Director of Global Healthcare Center, FPT Software One of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic was the rise of telemedicine. AI Medical Scribe: The Smart Doctor’s Assistant for Elevating Efficiencies Virtual doctors or video consultations with doctors are increasingly becoming the norm in modern healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In July last year, Alcidion signed an initial 12-month contract with the LHD to deploy its Miya Precision system to support the virtual care delivery of Sydney's RPA Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) for COVID-19 patients in home isolation. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2024

From COVID-19 to ensuing staffing shortages and snarled supply chains to the impact of delayed health care, providers have been pushed to the limit. Operations became even more complex after COVID-19, with more per-diem and travel nurses filling in, more staffers taking sick days, and overall turnover increasing.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

"We have just released a respiratory-specific landing page and we expect that is going to help us better manage seasonal pulmonary conditions, including the potential tripledemic of influenza, COVID-19 and RSV we may face this coming fall." 9,312 completed assessments in 12 months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Patient satisfaction with telehealth services has been increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic, but hurdles are still in place, a J.D. The COVID-19 pandemic paved the way, in many respects, for an enormous uptick in telehealth use. Power report released Thursday found. According to its 2020 U.S. Power, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2020

The platform can be used to evaluate and monitor persons under investigation – people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and are self-quarantining while waiting for the incubation period to pass. The technology also provides real-time alerts to providers when escalation of care is required. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The expiration of such flexibilities, said the groups, could abruptly prevent some patients from seeing their doctors virtually – a particularly troubling matter for immunocompromised people still at risk for COVID-19. WHY IT MATTERS.

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