Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Developing smart hospitals has been a way for South Korea to meet the growing demand for more personalised healthcare in their fast-ageing society. " KHIDI piloted the smart hospital project in 2020. It involved 17 partner hospitals that were supported in their transformation into model smart hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2023

South Korea expands telemedicine pilot Starting 15 December, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will be introducing additional measures to its national telemedicine pilot. According to a media statement, the programme is now allowing the conduct of telemedicine services at night and on holidays.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As it happens, Erica works in telemedicine, as a clinical operations specialist at VirtualMed Staff. Typically, my dad would only spend a few hours recovering and then quickly be dismissed from the hospital without a treatment plan, only to return a month or two down the road from another overdose. Even more surprising, he accepted.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 7, 2023

The multi-year partnership combines Atrium’s hospital-at-home program and existing telemedicine infrastructure with Best Buy’s at-home care business, along with the retailer’s home installation and supply chain capabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? For patients enrolled in chronic disease management programs, telemedicine can be a game-changer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

"They thought to let the interaction or the clinical situation dictate the level of care that is needed… If they can handle [visits] over telemedicine and take care of the patient, the patient doesn't need more expensive care. They don't have to come to the emergency room or the hospital or the physician's office.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With more than two decades of telemedicine experience and research, the Washington, D.C.-based based Children's National Hospital Telemedicine team identified a disparity in access to the internet and digital tools that disproportionately affects low-income and rural communities, causing a digital divide.

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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 8, 2023

FirstHealth staff thought of a way to increase hospital bed capacity without laying a single brick. "While there are many hospitals that have started a hospital at home program, we decided to look at this type of program from a different angle," said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. HIMSS noted the hospital's regular tracking and reporting of KPIs, with each department having its own departmental-level indicator.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital is an inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center based in St. As a pediatric hospital with an extensive geographic reach, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital serves patients from Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and beyond. Louis, Missouri.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Heidi West, head of healthcare at Zoom, to discuss telemedicine's future, hybrid in-person/telehealth care, communities that could be hurt without virtual care, and challenges to telemedicine becoming fully mainstream. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

" The pandemic also further reduced access to routine care leading to an increase in preventable complications due to chronic conditions, including emergency room visits, hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs, she added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. Many telemedicine professionals, as well as a good number of healthcare providers, suggest that as healthcare evolves post-pandemic, virtual-first is the way to go. In the meantime, people got comfortable with telemedicine during the pandemic.

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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. What do you see?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. The country's health spending has also been raised to $13.39 ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Learn how telemedicine drives revenue growth by keeping complex patients and reducing length-of-stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2024

This means after a call for help is placed, it can take nearly half an hour for an ambulance to arrive, followed by an additional 30- to 60-minute drive to the hospital. Additionally, they can proactively call the receiving hospital to inform them of an incoming patient, ensuring medical staff are prepared for the patient's arrival.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

Many clinicians are hungry for new opportunities that allow them to continue to serve patients without dealing with long-standing administrative burdens and the aftermath of burnout from COVID-19 in their hospitals, health systems and doctor's offices. What do you think this familiarity means for clinicians moving forward?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report pointed out that most telemedicine services were conducted by neighbourhood clinics (accounting for 93.6% million people from February 2020 to January 2023.

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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 - 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.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. There is only so much one can solve via a video interaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 12, 2024

Kettering General Hospital has reduced its neurology waiting lists by 50% by using telemedicine technology to triage 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

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. If we build it, it doesn’t mean they will come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2022

Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres over 2 years in India. German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer is setting up 27 telemedicine centres in 12 districts across eight states in India over the next two years through Bayer Foundation India. It will offer about 20 medical specialties via telehealth.

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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

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. Why is this?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

So in terms of population health, we participated in a lot of community health projects and the vitals will be useful in drafting a lot of policies by communities, hospitals." "And so this can happen because AlteaCare is successfully integrated with the electronic medical records in the hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. So telemedicine helps bridge that gap in rural or other markets that may not have adequate resource availability. The second major theme was acceptance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

American Hospital Association. American Telemedicine Association. We owe it to our patients to make health care access easier, and patients with Medicare should not be excluded from this opportunity," said Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

" Scott Wilson leads ambulatory care and general platform strategy for Teladoc Health's hospital and health systems division. The other piece of the technology we'll be discussing includes the physical elements that help optimize the impact of telehealth: in-room and mobile telemedicine endpoint devices.

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Chu Canh Chieu, Director of Global Healthcare Center, FPT Software One of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic was the rise of telemedicine. Specific to telemedicine, estimates suggest that AI-powered telehealth solutions could represent a multi-billion-dollar market segment within the next few years. from 2024 to 2030.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Operations Patient Access Analytics AI Business Care Data and Information Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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