Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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. – 8 a.m.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, implemented a patient monitoring at home, or PM@H program, using fully managed device kits prior to the pandemic. Studies show great benefits for patients, as well as hospitals, when patients are monitored in the 30-day post-discharge period. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19, with an option to be admitted to a virtual ward.

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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 the healthcare organization’s efforts were subject to challenges on the patient side. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2021

Just like many healthcare provider organizations across the country, Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, offers patients a multitude of services spanning several floors in multiple buildings that were constructed at different times on varying terrain. " Mike Mistretta, Virginia Hospital Center. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to the organizations, Medically Home's platform and ecosystem enables acute care for patients outside of conventional brick-and-mortar settings. More than 7,000 patients have been treated using the platform across the country, said the company. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

PROPOSAL The OAH program is designed to help increase bed capacity across the health system by discharging stable patients who can be managed at home via the program but would otherwise need to have stayed in the hospital if taken care of by traditional medicine. Patients enrolled in home health who may have an acute issue arise.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

"To recruit clinicians outside of the geographic region, it was necessary to ensure the entirety of the clinician's visits could be completed remotely and that they were licensed in the state in which the patient is located at the time of the visit," he added.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

The UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was the nation's first center to perform organ transplantation in children. 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. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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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. Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. Expand Your Patient Base.

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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. " Dr. Christina Olson, Children’s Hospital Colorado. THE PROBLEM.

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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. Patients may live miles away from the nearest clinic and may not have reliable transportation or resources. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entities to bring specialty care to underserved communities and patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For providers and payers, partnering with these apps to provide access to their patients is a way to improve outcomes and patient satisfaction while addressing the underlying causes of systemic bias. One way is to partner to help them investigate their data to understand the compliance of their hypertensive patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. Parodi also flagged the patient satisfaction component: "We're consistently running at 4.95

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "The Advanced Care at Home Program does not limit the role of nurses in hospitals."

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

For healthcare leaders, investing in AI as a strategic enabler can significantly bolster clinician performance, operational efficiency, and patient satisfaction. Capacity Planning: AI tools help hospitals predict admission surges, ensuring adequate staffing and resources during peak demand periods.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More than half (56%) of hospital and health system leaders say they are planning to increase their investment in telemedicine during the next two years, according to a new survey from telehealth vendor Amwell and HIMSS Analytics. It's no secret – the COVID-19 pandemic caused telehealth adoption to skyrocket.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Many of the telehealth flexibilities are temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, faced many challenges with telemedicine and the ability to scale quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic grew in force last year and the organization had to close its outpatient offices for elective services. Remote patient monitoring. " Mitchell Fong, Renown Regional Medical Center.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

This community practice includes general acute care hospitals, rural health clinics, physician offices and critical access hospitals. Community hospitals are able to access specialty and subspecialty providers at another site, facilitated through a video connection. “Mayo Clinic has operated an RPM program since 2015.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 1, 2022

Hospitals continually seek new strategies to streamline operations and boost efficiencies. This is especially true in the wake of COVID-19 and increasing financial distress. These are the new metrics that matter—with overall cost reduction and patient satisfaction in mind.

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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. This allowed providers and staff to call into COVID-19 rooms from the nursing station.

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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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. Upon discharge, patients often need support to understand their symptoms and warning signs after returning home. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

These new strategies have emerged over the last few years and have accelerated as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the reality of disparities in health and health outcomes among minority populations. These social needs have not always been viewed as the purview of the traditional healthcare delivery system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Further, many executives are even considering how to extend the technology deeper within the hospital, into all departments. During the last two years, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

Over the next 10 years, hospital-based programs in telehealth for stroke, psychiatry and ICU were developed with partnerships across several states. " Notably, Ochsner's technology array is one conduit that has allowed the health system to quickly respond to patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. out of 100.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

Marshfield Clinic Health System based in Marshfield, Wisconsin, has nine hospitals – plus Marshfield Children's Hospital inside the flagship hospital – and more than 60 healthcare centers in more than 30 communities across Wisconsin. MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. The post Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. They have seen better patient engagement, lower no-show rates and higher provider and patient satisfaction."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

"We believe that healthcare institutions should focus on the value telehealth can deliver both to patients and the healthcare system overall," wrote the report authors. The report sought to identify trends in virtual care utilization amidst the recent months of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. " Nicklaus Children's Hospital developed a technology roadmap and implemented telehealth platform enhancements with a focus on interoperability and integration with its EHR.

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