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. Patient satisfaction: level of satisfaction with this device/service as gauged by a questionnaire embedded into the devices. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Children's Mercy said the center – modeled after NASA's mission control – will localize team members to break down bottlenecks, identify potential barriers and increase patient satisfaction as they advance through their patient journeys. "Inefficiencies came to a head during COVID-19.

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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

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

JULY 8, 2021

Patients seem to like the convenience of telehealth, as well as the ability to remain safe from COVID-19 transmission – especially before the vaccine rollout in the United States. The average overall satisfaction score was 4.4 WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kaiser Permanente believes that providing this type of care is a way to improve access to safe acute and restorative care for an older population and for other patients with serious or complex illnesses," Parodi continued. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite this growth, health systems have yet to maximize the potential of AI to improve upon load balancing and optimization of patient throughput. With staffing shortages and lack of resources at an all-time high due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it is vital for health systems to use their resources in the most effective way possible.

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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. Allows for Easy Patient Follow-Up.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

By consolidating platforms, Geisinger was able to standardize many of the workflows and training processes required to rapidly deploy a new modality for seeing patients. Geisinger had been using telehealth prior to the pandemic to create better access to care for patients.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the United States Department of Health & Human Services demonstrated flexibility by superseding state licensure mandates, thereby allowing providers with valid medical licensure in one state to care for patients in all states.

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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. Transplant activity at UPMC Children's Hospital was able to be safely maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. “We were able to use iPads with the hospitalist and nurses to see patients on the COVID-19 unit, connected through telemedicine to interdisciplinary teams.” THE PROBLEM. " Craig Miller, Franciscan Health.

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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

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. MARKETPLACE.

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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.

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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

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. Furthermore, some of these units are discharging patients before noon 44% more than their traditional nursing counterparts. During the last two years, U.S.

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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 - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Telemedicine has been particularly important because of the large, multistate service region with many rural and frontier patients, mountain passes and snow that complicate travel, and limited numbers of pediatric subspecialists in the Rocky Mountain region outside of Denver. THE PROBLEM. An improved model for multidisciplinary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The hospital wanted to be able to alleviate its capacity issue by using a service where staff could care for patients in a way that would help prevent more emergency department visits and readmissions. "While in the first wave of the pandemic, we used the PM@H program on only a handful of COVID-19 patients," Knudson recalled.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. Oliver, chief medical information officer at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

" "The Kaiser Permanente Advanced Care at Home is an innovative person centered program rooted in quality, safety and patient satisfaction. Patients enrolled in the program must meet established clinical and safety criteria," the representatives continued. THE LARGER TREND. Twitter: @kjercich.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 1, 2022

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. Savvy Health Information Management (HIM) leaders must steer their teams in new directions to succeed.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 1, 2024

THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and forced the health system to reinvent not only how it diagnoses patients, but also how it treats them nonoperatively.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

On the consumer demand side, patients’ growing use of telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic along with more frequent digital contacts with health plans bolstered member satisfaction, discovered by t he J.D. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 60% of providers told BDO they are adding new digital projects in 2021.

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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 - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

" With the onset of COVID-19, UVA Health pivoted as an academic health center to scale telehealth technologies that addressed the challenge of clinic closures and the need to limit exposure to COVID-19 both for providers and patients, and provided critically important continuity of care. '" PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It's no secret – the COVID-19 pandemic caused telehealth adoption to skyrocket. Meanwhile, health plans reported visit volumes, member satisfaction scores, improved outcomes and improved access to care as their top priorities for virtual care. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

“A little over two years ago, I developed the policies and practice around telehealth, but it was not well-promoted or used by many, in contrast to the explosion of use we have experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic.” Click here for the feature story on telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19.

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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. Please describe the process for using local data to train predictive machine learning models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel. As the program grew to more than 100 patients, the organization expanded to allowing referrals for patients with any chronic condition or COVID-19, and hired additional clinical staff. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

The program uses technology and a nursing-care coordination model to improve patient disease management, resulting in decreased readmission rates and increased patient satisfaction and self-efficacy.” “We are very grateful to have been awarded funds under the COVID-19 Telehealth Program,” Ommen remarked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. The advent of COVID-19 radically disrupted the paradigm in which Sun River Health was operating. THE PROBLEM.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis, though, triggered a rapid scale-up. "VA also rapidly scaled its Tele Critical Care program to support intensive care units across the country as they managed surges of critically ill patients, particularly in COVID-19 hotspots," he said.

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