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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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Telemedicine Medicaid 87

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. UVA Health's response to COVID-19 has been multipronged.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Electronic Medical Records Hospitals 161

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

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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 194

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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. There is a dedicated help line. Lack of connectivity?

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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine 150

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. THE PROBLEM.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Nurses 207

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. THE PROBLEM. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 217

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2021

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. Q: You said that your patients have not really embraced telehealth, which surprised you. Did clinicians like it?

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes 147

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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction 182

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Franciscan Health was in the infancy stages of its telemedicine program and had not moved to an ambulatory rollout. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. InTouch was its primary telemedicine technology vendor. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Nurses Patient Satisfaction 203

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. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction HIPAA 183

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health Patient Satisfaction 177

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.

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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Nurses 138

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.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 319

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. As such, providers are starting to give more thought to their telemedicine technology deployments. During the last two years, U.S.

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Nurses Telemedicine Hospitals COVID-19 317

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

He has been providing telemedicine long before the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM "My journey into telemedicine was sparked by a genuine concern for a subset of patients facing physical or psychological barriers to accessing healthcare," he said. Click here to read the special report.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Doctors 152

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. Implementation of the telemedicine technology was smooth.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Licensing 276

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.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes 191

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

Telemedicine has helped to bridge the access divide between the clinic’s rural and urban communities. The particular telemedicine solution depends on the need presented. Alternatively, direct-to-patient video telemedicine is used to offer follow-up care at a distance. ” MARKETPLACE.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Nurses Patient Satisfaction 201

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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COVID-19 Medicare Medicare Public Health 215

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

"We found that telediagnosis has potential, although there is still much to learn about how virtual diagnosis can be done most effectively," said Suz Schrandt, senior patient engagement advisor at SIDM and principal investigator on the project, in a statement.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 154

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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COVID-19 Nursing Homes Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 182

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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Hospitals COVID-19 Nurses Patient Satisfaction 170

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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COVID-19 Licensing Patient Satisfaction Doctors 319

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report, The Intersection of Value and Telehealth , surveyed nearly 100 qualified representatives about their organization's prioritization and adoption of telemedicine. 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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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Doctors 188

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2017, the VA announced a new initiative called "Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care," followed by bipartisan legislation enabling interstate telemedicine for VA providers and patients. The COVID-19 crisis, though, triggered a rapid scale-up.

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Department of Veterans Affairs COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 156

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. MARKETPLACE.

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COVID-19 Licensing Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 183

HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2023

Providers are tasked with not only delivering a positive health outcome but also with the patient experience and level of satisfaction as they make their way through their healthcare journey. These studies all support that trust in doctors ultimately correlated with higher patient satisfaction in remote visits.

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Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Health Outcomes COVID-19 98

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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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine 154

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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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Public Health Doctors 172

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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COVID-19 Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 209

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Today, a digital transformation in healthcare means we can gather data from a host of different sources with the goal of improving patient care, but it’s up to healthcare professionals to make sense of it and build meaningful insights from it in order to develop a better understanding of someone’s health journey.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 132

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The main referrals staff see from PCP and convenient care are COPD exacerbations and acute respiratory infections such as COVID-19, influenza or pneumonia in at-risk populations. Occasionally, we need to initiate a tele-video visit where patients are either re-enrolled into the OAH program or advised to go to the ED."

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COVID-19 Nurses Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 135

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and.

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COVID-19 Doctors Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use, value and importance of telehealth and remote patient monitoring services.n To solve the problem, NorthShore University HealthSystem went with telemedicine technology from vendor TytoCare. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction 189

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic unlocked new avenues to extend care beyond brick-and-mortar facilities. But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction HIPAA 118

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. At Memorial Healthcare System, telehealth has been a major help in addressing the issues of healthcare access during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Hospitals 131

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston, Maine, the pandemic created an acute need to adopt novel tools to deliver on its commitment and ability to ensure that patients were able to receive the care they needed without increasing their risk of exposure to COVID-19. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Hospitals 142