Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. You have identified three trends in telemedicine for 2023. And the third 2023 trend you suggest is that telemedicine is more than just a check-up. For example, the U.S. What do you see?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. The platform was built to keep COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms out of hospitals given the lack of hospital beds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At Bumrungrad International Hospital, chief digital MarTech officer Wisut Ua-Anant has led the development of a comprehensive digital health application that brings the benefits of transformation directly to its Thai and international patients. The patient can also easily access their health information through the Application.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, Thailand began development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces, according to an article by the Bangkok post. The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

Telemedicine provider Medgate saw a 170% increase in teleconsultations in Philippines last year, with an 80% case resolution rate. Our high case resolution rate is proof of telemedicine’s efficiency as a platform for delivering quality care,” said Medgate Philippines President Stavros Athanasiou in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

Queensland Virtual Hospital extends to emergency care The Queensland state government has set aside A$27 million ($18 million) to expand the Queensland Virtual Hospital's services to cover emergency care. It noted that cases of aggressive assaults on public hospital staff have increased in recent years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and the Heart Institute at Safra Children's Hospital have partnered to launch a programme for children with complex heart defects. The program will use remote monitoring technology provided by Datos Health , a member of Sheba’s Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate (ARC) telemedicine hub.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

American Hospital Association. American Telemedicine Association. Brian Hasselfeld, medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement. On Tuesday, the campaign released survey results further supporting patient interest in telemedicine. Alliance for Connected Care. Athenahealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics , the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. hospitals – and explored opportunities and barriers to growth. hospitals – and explored opportunities and barriers to growth. with broadband.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. Telemedicine expands access to healthcare, providing patients with convenient options for education and clinical interventions. The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

AIIMS has made the AI solution available to cancer hospitals and research centres for implementation, with deployment already made to five undisclosed district hospitals. The Neurology Department at Aster CMI Hospital has created an AI tool for screening Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face? Telemedicine companies encounter these challenges more frequently than traditional providers. Licensing is a complex, tangled web of varying requirements, timelines and red tape, regardless of the state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2019

UPMC already offers infectious disease services to some patients via telemedicine and has for several years. The startup already serves 10 UPMC and five non-UPMC hospitals in the Pennsylvania region. As it rolls out, it will focus first on smaller hospitals with fewer than 300 beds. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

With phone calls, through an app and teleassistance or telemedicine they can check up on them and have a clinical evaluation of patients. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication. Climate change is here to stay and we need to find novel means of climate change adaptation such as this COVID-19 telemonitoring tool.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2019

Samitivej Virtual Hospital will be available from April 1, 2019, with services on offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition, the services of the Samitivej Virtual Hospital do not require appointments to be made in advance. There are also plans to expand the Virtual Hospital service to BNH Hospital in the future, he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. "Our neonatal service would not have survived in its current state without telemedicine," Dewhurst continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2022

Telehealth sustainability and government advocacy. Henry Ford Health System includes Henry Ford Medical Group, with more than 1,900 physicians and researchers practicing in more than 50 specialties at locations throughout Southeast and Central Michigan, and five acute care hospitals. Telehealth sustainability and government advocacy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2021

At the second installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday, leaders in the healthcare space reiterated the importance of cybersecurity as a patient safety issue. Jarrett noted that this could be a good opportunity for the government to intervene. "The key here is going to be people.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

Out of the $15 billion invested in digital health in 2020 and $29 billion in 2021, on-demand healthcare – including telemedicine streaming video or text-based visits with a healthcare provider – has been the single largest trend, although it is still just the tip of the iceberg with all of the funding activity occurring now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2024

Robotic telesurgery continues to take off in Indonesia with the support of the government of Iran. The Robotic Telesurgery Center, a project between the two governments, is being expanded to connect the western and eastern islands of Indonesia at a distance of 3,500 kilometres.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. There is concern that "hospitals will be set to lose money on every COVID case they treat. "There's a lot of financial uncertainty," Cash admitted.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly care. Their number is projected to continuously rise and make up about 30% of the population by 2040.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Located in the heart of North Philadelphia, Temple University Hospital serves one of the nation’s most economically challenged and diverse urban populations. More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Mike Mistretta, vice president and CIO at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. Providence has conducted more than three million telemedicine encounters since January 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

If the online doctor prescribes medication, Samitivej Hospital will handle the prescription at a 20% discount with free delivery. Last year, Samitivej launched its Virtual Hospital app in Thailand, offering teleconsultation, blood testing and medicine delivery services. Managing Director and CEO of Samitivej and BNH Hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

With the sudden easing of restrictions by the government and equally sudden reimbursement from payers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s very clear telemedicine has never been more used or more vital. Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

This article explores the challenges of telemedicine and examines solutions to resolve current issues. Main Obstacles the Telemedicine is Facing Today. Not only did the pandemic accelerate the implementation of telemedicine, but remote health services became a necessity. On the legal side, telemedicine faces two main drawbacks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. This hospital already had called 150 different places to try and find a tertiary care center to transfer folks to, but to no avail.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center due to the stringent "safer at home" order from local government as well as the need to meet residents' healthcare needs while protecting the safety of both providers and patients. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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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. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

New research has looked into the number of dental institutions around Japan that conducted telemedicine for first and follow-up visits last year. The same was the case for university hospitals where a fee is also being charged for first visit consultations without referral documents. THE LARGER TREND.

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