Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On a relative basis, we were fortunate compared to many others in that our basic clinical and operational models for telepsychiatry existed well before the PHE and we continued to operate during COVID-19 without relying heavily on many of the PHE’s specific telehealth flexibilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2022

From the time Burrell Behavioral Health in Springfield, Missouri, received initial reports of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the surrounding areas, clients and staff members became concerned about their physical health and wellbeing. Burrell team members wanted to be able to work remotely and reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

The pressures of COVID-19 pushed clinician burnout to new heights – one out of five physicians and two in five nurses say they will leave their profession within two years because of it, an American Medical Association study shows. How can chatbots and automation tech be used to combat clinician burnout?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As seen in other areas of healthcare where the pandemic drove RPM adoption, the survey identified a rapid increase in RPM adoption in cardiac rehab since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , with 65% of respondents having started using the technology within the last two years.

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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. With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. Multi-way communication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Users in the greater Seattle area can also access in-person care – including a COVID-19 test – or have prescription medications delivered. The Mobile Care nurse may collect lab samples, perform some onsite testing (such as strep tests), administer common vaccines, or perform certain physical examinations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

COVID-19 changed everything. "That all changed when the greatest impetus for telehealth that we have ever seen came about with the arrival of COVID-19," said Michael Jefferies, CIO at Boulder Community Health. "In March 2020, it was clear that COVID-19 was coming to Colorado," Jefferies said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis presented several challenges to the health system that amplified the need and impact of telehealth services. Provide supportive services in med/surg units to allow nursing staff to cluster care activities to reduce utilization of PPE and potential staff exposure. " Challenges for physicians and nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. MaineGeneral already had selected the RPM vendor prior to COVID-19. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior housing/skilled nursing communities in the Midwest, was exploring different ideas to give its staff time back, improve resident outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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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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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

License verification, especially nursing license verification, is essential to ensuring that only the most qualified practitioners are seeing your patients. And according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the U.S. are employed in nursing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"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. Lastly, several providers at Geisinger were asked to self-quarantine due to potential exposure to a COVID-19 positive patient.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 6, 2023

are worsening helped along by state boards and other licensing authorities taking months to process nursing licenses, a recent NPR survey claims. As a result, thousands of new nurses who want [.] Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Staffing shortages at hospitals across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. If anything, COVID-19 served as an accelerant to solving many of the challenges, since the organization had no alternative but to move forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. Phase Two was mitigation, stabilizing the delivery of care and mitigating the risks and effects of COVID-19 on team members, patients and families. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 arrived in Maine on March 12, 2020. Staff was able to care for patients with preexisting conditions without putting them at risk of exposure to COVID-19. These appointments allowed patients to receive care while staying safe at home, and may have helped slow the spread of COVID-19, Tucker said.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

Those in the greater Seattle area can also have a nurse dispatched to them for follow-up treatment such as blood draws. However, it will likely have to contend with changing regulations regarding licensing and telehealth as lawmakers look toward the horizon of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"The number of COVID-19 cases was extremely high in Erie and Niagara counties, which are the main two counties we serve," Hunt recalled. "Erie County actually had the highest number of COVID -19 cases in New York State. " COVID-19 also became a major stressor for clients and clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services Premier made the case that some two-dozen federal regulatory waivers – enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic to enable rapid response to COVID-19 – should be made permanent once the public health emergency has ended. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

BrightView Health, a behavioral health facility that specializes in addiction treatment and substance abuse, already was using telehealth when the COVID-19 pandemic and associated response happened. "And the nursing team does patient education – how to properly store and use medication, how to keep it safe.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This included human resources, credentialing, billing, medical, support and scheduling staff, and clinical, nursing, IT, and quality team representation. “This allowed us to set up specific medical assistant/nursing staff alerts based on specific provider appointments. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. Two additional platforms were launched in response to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, less than 1% of visits were via telehealth.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2023

NP-C, CSE Nurses have the highest level of public trust across medical professions, yet there’s a huge chasm between Americans’ appreciation for nursing and the profession’s uncertain future. Left unchecked, the country will experience a critical shortfall of nearly 200,000 nurses in just a few years, according to the latest U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Immunexpress has also demonstrated that the Septicyte RAPID test can be used to stratify Covid severity.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

are worsening helped along by state boards and other licensing authorities taking months to process nursing licenses, a recent NPR survey claims. As a result, thousands of new nurses who want [.]. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Staffing shortages at hospitals across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

All of the other seven smaller counties only have services for two or a maximum of three days a week from a therapist, and often only twice a month from a nurse practitioner for medical evaluation services," Brooks noted. "Prior to June 2020, only one nurse practitioner was using a service online to provide telehealth services.

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Redox

MAY 21, 2020

The response to COVID-19 has shown that the US healthcare system is ill-equipped to address a huge spike in demand. COVID-19 disease has accelerated remote patient monitoring programs from nice-to-have to absolutely essential. Allow patients to live at home longer and avoid moving into skilled nursing facilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"If it is decided that a patient needs further care beyond that of the social worker, the equipment is rolled to the bedside and a licensed psychiatrist is called," Alcera explained. Calling the psychiatrist. FCC funds for telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

But the health system needed to rapidly ramp up ambulatory support to address challenges brought on by the COVID-19 health crisis. It kept COVID patients in isolation. THE PROBLEM. It immediately recognized a need for virtual employee-health-screening to clear staff for work each day and minimize spread of the coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

With regard to sustainability, attendees acknowledged that the current state of telehealth is the product of a rapid scale-up in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Among the key themes that emerged from the discussion were sustainability, accessibility and research.

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