Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. However, 55% of the time, patients did not have an in-person follow-up visit – regardless of coverage. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Please explain.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. Our initial pilot quickly evolved into four active telehealth services. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. So the organization had a solid foundation on which to build and improve its telehealth solution.

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Healthcare It News

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.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 14, 2023

A new telehealth study by the University of Texas McCombs School of Business found that virtual care did not significantly lower costs, or reduce the number of future visits to emergency rooms or specialists for circulatory, respiratory and infectious diseases.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. Cerner users at hospitals, health systems, physician offices and clinics will be able to launch secure Zoom visits directly within EHR workflows, the companies say. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Three components to the program The health system's Virtual Provider program has a few components to it. "When a patient is referred to this part of the program, our provider sees them virtually within 24 to 72 hours, which removes the barrier of having to wait for an in-person appointment."

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S. The Digital Reshaping the Health Care Ecosystem publication said that virtual care is set to "become a staple" of healthcare delivery. Who are the telehealth 'super utilizers?'

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

The state government of Victoria has announced the rollout of Microsoft HoloLens across the East Gippsland region to expand access to virtual care. Now, 11 HoloLens have been deployed across the region with 25 clinicians trained in using it for telehealth. Its rollout for home visits will follow soon.

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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. The virtual series that began Monday continues today with discussions on aging, home testing use cases and reimbursement and increasing equity in mental healthcare access.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2022

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The results suggested enduring interest in virtual care among physicians.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

Between March 24 and June 23, researchers found that Latinx patients were significantly less likely to have video telemedicine compared with audio-only visits. And between June 24 and December 2020, Black patients were more likely to use virtual surgical consultations. Women were also more likely to have a virtual visit than men.

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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. Telehealth plans quickly changed.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. Why do you feel virtual-first makes sense? Did the pandemic play a big part in this?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 16, 2023

are not ready to participate in video visits. These findings have since been supported in subsequent observational studies on telehealth adoption during the pandemic. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. Enterprise Taxonomy: WHY IT MATTERS. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 5, 2022

The provider organization realized through virtual care it could enable its clinicians to see patients much faster. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As many as 20-30% of the Knoxville-based health system's patients could receive virtual care through the program. Enterprise Taxonomy: "That’s what’s driving all this – the availability of this technology and better patient care," he said. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Emergency departments should be a last-stop medical option, but for people with disabilities, who visit EDs at a disproportionate rate compared with those without disabilities, this last stop becomes more commonplace. Offering individuals with disabilities quality care from their homes can help to prevent avoidable visits.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. million people in Suffolk County, New York.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

San Francisco-based Osmind announced today that its electronic health record system for mental health clinicians has integrated Zoom virtual visits within its technology platform as part of the company's regulatory-compliant ISV Partner Program. Enterprise Taxonomy: WHY IT MATTERS. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. "If you were to look at the statistics at that time, just 1% of visits across the nation were performed virtually," she remarked.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

GP visits were lower among people in remote communities than those living in metro areas. THE LARGER TREND SA Health has been trying to reduce hospital admissions over the past few years by leveraging telehealth. The SA Virtual Care Service provides urgent patients on the scene with responders a personalised assessment via video link.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 12, 2022

We interviewed her to talk about why she believes this is so, the relationship between telehealth and health equity, and how a hybrid future for telemedicine is important. The door to telehealth has finally been opened, and I don't think it will ever return to its original state.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2022

Walmart Health's telehealth company MeMD launched a virtual care diabetes program this past week aimed at helping individuals improve management of the disease. The Walmart Health Virtual Care Diabetes Program combines personalized diabetes education, behavioral health awareness and counseling, said the company.

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MAY 1, 2023

In-person visits are still perceived more positively than virtual visits when it comes to telehealth quality, outcomes, convenience and utility, according to a soon-to-be-released healthcare survey of more than 6,000 consumers in the U.S., Consumers were less willing (12%) to use virtual for chronic disease consults.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

As multiple startups emerged with models to provide mental health services using a virtual care model, health systems have turned to these startups to extend their mental health services to their patients and employees. Even high-profile unicorn Noom has laid off many of its staff amidst complaints of high fees for canned advice via text.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

As more data has emerged about telehealth after the initial spike in March 2020, many industry-watchers, providers and patients are seeking to dig into who's using virtual care – and who's eased off. 2020, she said, was a year of "forced adoption" where telehealth was concerned.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2022

Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. Less explored, however, is virtual care's possible role in reducing carbon emissions, specifically by allowing patients to connect with providers without relying on a car.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Virtual care technologies and artificial intelligence are helping health systems and healthcare retailers to improve care delivery. Amazon Clinic virtual care visits are now available in all 50 states The ability to access more immediate care via telehealth, including prescription refills, is now possible in every U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"Looking for ways to solve for bringing the right care to the right patient at the right place and time is imperative to stay ahead of the ever-changing landscape," said Ashley Bard, IT director, care navigation and virtual care technology, at AdventHealth.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. Over the course of the pandemic, virtual care was implemented out of necessity to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 infection. Barriers to in-person care.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida. 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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