Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

"Nurses, doctors, and hospital staff working in extremely harsh and dangerous settings have reported that their stress was greatly reduced through this system," Kim shared. It has six points: technological value, data, operational efficiency, medical service quality, user experience, and post-implementation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Please elaborate.

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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? While the concept of the digital front door has been a popular topic in healthcare for some time, telemedicine has the potential to expand its impact beyond simply acquiring new patients or providing a digital entry point for care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

"The savings that result from telemedicine versus an office visit for the long-term care supports and services provider that operates IDD residences is significant." “Station MD, our telehealth vendor, was providing similar telemedicine triage service to nursing homes on Staten Island that housed medically frail residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2024

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"We had to deploy not only new beds, nurse call systems, oxygen lines and infection control solutions, we also had to prepare for staffing the new departments," said Dr. Kevin Dawson, CIO at Howard University Hospital. "Inpatient telemedicine seemed to be the perfect solution for solving this problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Patients have embraced the shift to digital, with nurses supporting digital engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Propelled into mainstream use by the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is becoming standard practice for many healthcare providers. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. Telemedicine’s technological pain points. While telemedicine has undoubtedly come a long way, it still has significant limitations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2024

" Recognizing having two EMTs or paramedics available for every call is not a feasible option, especially during the pandemic when officials sought to limit in-person interactions, Nebraska DHHS turned its attention to telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

She talks about physicians' newfound familiarity with telehealth and what it means for the future, the possibility of physicians working full time in telemedicine, and how virtual care can help with staffing shortages in healthcare. I want every doctor and nurse to feel empowered to follow the career path that works best for them.

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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. The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. What did you learn about expanding access with behavioral health telemedicine?

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine. This means patients can receive care wherever they are – at home, nursing home, assisted living, etc. How can healthcare provider organizations tackle privacy issues related to HIPPA when it comes to telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

Virtual nurse and virtual doc triage To make this happen, the health system implemented a virtual nurse and virtual physician triage program designed to get patients moving through the ED process sooner rather than later. The tests included physicians, nurses, technicians, scribes, EKG techs, etc.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

"Patients seeking testing call a hotline nurse – who then triages patients based on symptoms, exposure history and medical problems, and directs qualifying patients to a drive-up COVID testing center. "This physician can either be on site using an iPad, or one of the physicians off site at the Avera eCARE telemedicine hub.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2023

Telemedicine tools can ensure physicians and their care teams can better manage patient care , and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their healthiest, he added. You suggest that telemedicine services can serve as disease-prevention tools for populations of patients. Please elaborate.

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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? This leaves many doctors, nurses and other health professionals in charge of their own licensing verification and updates, a task for which they are not formally trained, nor do they have the time.

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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 is accessible for nurses and doctors via Windows, iOS and Android mobile phones, tablets and computers. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

But the center is now down to only two physicians working remotely via telemedicine, with two additional doctors onsite. Last year, it expanded to having one of its onsite physicians also doing telemedicine sessions with one of its other offices in a different city. To read this special report, click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 18, 2021

One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2022

Half the country is a member of both the Nurse Licensure Compact and the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact , with 16 more states claiming membership in one. " Steps exist to address those hurdles, however: Many states have established compacts to try and ease the process for cross-border care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association has gathered a number of speakers to share their expertise on integrating virtual care into healthcare delivery. Each session has multiple speakers including doctors and nurses, C-suite executives, operational directors, academics and others. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We tried to build our model around the notion that each patient will now have two nurses coordinating their care."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual nursing has been getting an increasing amount of attention in healthcare, especially with telemedicine entering the mainstream during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Baptist Health has a successful virtual nursing program up and running, as does Providence. For more on virtual nursing, click here and here and here.)

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

How overworked and understaffed nurses and physicians could also benefit. Henry Ford Health System gets ROI from employer-based telemedicine clinic. Talking points: How hospital stays can be challenging for patients, and the pain points that could be improved with relatively simple technology. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The deal strengthens Avel eCare’s existing clinician network and builds on the company’s successful acute and post-acute telemedicine solutions to help hospitals, health systems, and senior care facilities throughout the United States deliver state-of-the-art care to their communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 16, 2023

"When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. "Patients were roomed by a nurse at one of our offices where the telemedicine equipment was already set up, and our providers would be at another one of our offices or possibly working from home," he continued.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 14, 2024

The emergence of virtual nursing heralds a transformative approach to patient care, reshaping how we tackle healthcare hurdles. With an expanding population and surging healthcare needs, virtual nursing introduces groundbreaking remedies to bridge existing gaps.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2024

She serves on several non-profit and private boards that support the advancement of digital health, technology and equity, and is an advisory council member at the American Telemedicine Association. Collaborating closely with patients, oncologists, nurses and technology experts, we pinpoint key pain points and opportunities for innovation.

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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Virtual nursing units are a great example of this notion in action.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association held its 28th annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, this past week in Phoenix. Four telemedicine experts who attended the ATA conference reported into Healthcare IT News with their perspectives on the event. We must surround nurses with the resources they need to work at the top of their license.

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