Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

The explosion of telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered, in turn, conversations about how to achieve seamless electronic health record integration. Some telehealth platforms offer agnostic integration with a host of EHR systems, while some EHRs offer their own in-house telehealth option. What works for one system won't necessarily be right for another, suggested panelists at Wednesday's Teladoc-sponsored Telehealth Innovation Forum.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox. Once COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic and states across the country began issuing shelter in place orders, one thing became very clear: there was a crucial need for healthcare […]. The article Meeting Patient Demands With Virtual Care Beyond COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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. The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2020

Flare Capital Partners principal Ian Chiang identifies the innovators and trends that will drive decentralization of healthcare in the coming years.

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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Recently, millions of patients have realised how their health is dependent on access to a healthcare facility infrastructure. For the clinics and physicians, the pandemic brought a double challenge: providing access to care for COVID-19 patients and keeping chronically ill patients under control so that they can stay safe at home. It became clear that continuity of care for large patient cohorts required reliable communication channels and decision-support systems.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

In the U.S., the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 20, 2020

Former U.S. Medicaid CMO Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky outlines how tech entrepreneurs, investors and digital-transformation leaders can impact a legislative fix and enable long-term telehealth access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. "We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. The temporary waivers issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 23, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ray D’Onofrio, principal data architect, SPR. Could Amazon’s personal assistant, Alexa, predict when you will be sick? Or, if Siri is the first to know you have COVID-19. It’s not as far-fetched as it […]. The article Machine Learning Is Poised To Transform The Patient Experience — If We Let It appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Happy Friday everyone! You made it through another week. This week I came across this amazing image from Lisa Forte from Red Goat Cyber Security. In her LinkedIn post where she shared this, she says: Don’t forget physical security as people start re-populating workplaces. It is just as important as ever. Our minds are full […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 19, 2020

According to Omron, the robot can get up and running with a simple software integration and does not require modifications or construction of the premises it is used in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

Curavi Health, CarePointe and U.S. Health Systems announced this past week that they have merged to form Arkos Health, a new company designed to bring analytics-driven telemedicine to vulnerable senior populations nationwide. WHY IT MATTERS. Pittsburgh-based Curavi, which develops telehealth technology tailored for post-acute and long-term care settings, was launched in 2016 as a spin-off from UPMC (which will continue to be an investor in Arkos Health) and has built itself up with acquisitions

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 22, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Water dispensers are becoming a vital appliance in our homes today; in the recent past, they were only found in offices and public places. Today water dispensers are offering a healthy alternative to tap water. […]. The article 10 Reasons Why You Need A Water Dispenser appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

I think we’d all been waiting for the shoe to fully drop, but it now seems official that there will be no large health IT conferences for the rest of 2020. We’ve been tracking the various Healthcare IT 2020 Conference cancellations and virtual events and we just updated the CHIME Conference moving to a virtual […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 20, 2020

A new study conducted among SilverCloud Health program users employed machine learning to identify relationships between app-use frequency and clinical outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The Boston-based MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium was created for Federally Qualified Health Centers to come together to master telehealth so that their patients could access quality care despite the pandemic. Before this time, FQHCs generally struggled to get telehealth off the ground because of the expense, lack of reimbursement and issues related to access.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 22, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As the need for increased testing and vaccinations in response to global pandemics continue to rise, more laboratories are popping up across the country. In order to meet the growing demands, however, it becomes necessary […]. The article Solutions For Improving Laboratory Workflow and Productivity appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2020

We’ve all been watching the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID-19 and a number of the reimbursement changes that have come as part of the pandemic. While we’re all waiting to see if these telehealth reimbursement changes are permanent (Looks like Telehealth reimbursement may even be included in the Heroes Act and extended through the […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 23, 2020

Dr. Hans Henri Kluge, the World Health Organization’s director for Europe, presented on digital tools during the FutureMed conference this afternoon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The COVID-19 global crisis has undoubtedly brought about huge changes in healthcare systems all over the world. One of the major impacts which it had would be its role in serving as an impetus to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare globally. At the HIMSS APAC Malaysia Digital Health Summit session titled “Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Healthcare” hosted by Tim Kelsey (Senior Vice President HIMSS Analytics International), Christian Besler (Chief Digital Of

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 22, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s mostly not news to anyone anymore (at least to those within cybersecurity and healthcare circles) that healthcare is heavily vulnerable to cyberattacks. In 2018, the healthcare industry received about twice the number of attacks […]. The article Why Is Cybersecurity In Healthcare Still Struggling?

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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is transforming healthcare by enabling providers to track patient health outside traditional clinical settings. This blog explores the role of technology in RPM, including wearable devices, mobile apps, and connected medical tools that collect and share real-time data. Discover how RPM expands care access, improves outcomes, enhances patient engagement, and reduces costs by shifting from reactive to proactive care.

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI Assistants. I thought this would be a major theme at the HIMSS20 Annual conference. Then, everything blew up included HIMSS20 being cancelled. Needless to say, it’s hard to talk about new, […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2020

The startup combines free assessments and in-person therapy with telehealth and digital care-coordination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2020

A new KLAS report found that organizations have turned to a wide range of vendors – most frequently those providing telehealth technology – to help provide care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. "Most notable is the very high number of vendors that organizations have adopted: the 174 respondents who report heavily utilizing [virtual care] technology mentioned 43 different virtual care vendors," read the report issued this week.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Scott Galbari, chief technology officer and CISO, Lyniate. For as long as healthcare data has existed, so has the healthcare industry’s challenges with interoperability. The pursuit of healthcare data interoperability has been a longstanding […].

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