Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "With remote patient monitoring, we saw a 60% reduction in hospital admissions for those who were ongoing users of the emergency departments for chronic conditions," she continued.

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p3care

JULY 28, 2022

Telemedicine and Its Benefits. Telemedicine offers patients and physicians many benefits at a meager cost and accessible ways to access quality healthcare services. 2021 – The Peak in Telemedicine Usage. 2021 – The Peak in Telemedicine Usage. The Year 2022 Is Going to Affect Telemedicine; Let’s See How!

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2024

The American Medical Association and the American Telemedicine Association joined major health systems like Geisinger, John Hopkins and Mass General Brigham along with health tech companies to call for Congressional support for the future of home-based care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. Patient Ron Slone of Farragut, Tennessee, said he was elated to be home and that his home hospital supplies were already set up before he was transported back. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Health Care 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care. Healthcare IT News interviewed Kristin to get her expertise on the subject of the future of telemedicine and hybrid care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. When that happens, the future of telemedicine will be very bright indeed. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them. As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

COVID has shown us that telemedicine is effective and easy to use. With providers and clinicians under increasing strain from staffing gaps and other issues, telemedicine is a valuable solution. While telemedicine use has leveled off somewhat since early 2020, it’s still seeing sustained interest from across the care continuum.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. In early 2020, as the nation’s healthcare system almost buckled under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, providers searching for a way to stay connected to their patients turned to telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Its program Focused on Feeding has helped families go from hospital bed (with malnutrition) to the dinner table – entirely via telemedicine. And how did telemedicine come into the mix? Your program called Focused on Feeding is designed to help families go from hospital bed to the dinner table through virtual care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID patients out of hospitals as possible. The question becomes, how do we evolve and improve telemedicine so that it’s an even more viable option permanently? That said, telemedicine is still nascent.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2024

This pilot program expands access to Healthy.io’s Minuteful for Wound solution to patients in the division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Utilizing New Patient-Facing Technology to Improve Wound Care Management The CDC reports that over 37.3

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2023

They go on to describe how integrated tools on hospital and telemedicine websites can not only send PHI information directly back, but third parties like Google and Meta/Facebook may continue to track and gather information about patients even after they navigate away. tracking technology vendors) includes PHI.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 3, 2024

Not too long ago, Rush Memorial Hospital in Rushville, Indiana, did not have the capability to staff an ICU 24/7. THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital.

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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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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 Leadership

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This week on HCLDR we welcome two very special guest hosts: Stacy Hurt @stacy_hurt and Andrew Watson, MD @arwmd They will be leading us in a discussion on health equity + telemedicine. Our entire healthcare system from home to hospital and clinic to caregiver is digitally driven. This chat will be in conjunction with #TelemedNow.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 31, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical are among the groups in support of the Centers for Medic | Organizations signed a letter pledging support for a CMS-backed transitional coverage for emergency technologies pathway, which they say could improve (..)

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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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HIT Consultant

JULY 22, 2022

. – In partnership with Driven Care, patients will now be able to easily access treatment options, including antiviral prescription services and consultations, through its newly launched telemedicine services. Why It Matters.

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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

JULY 12, 2023

Private tertiary hospital Subang Jaya Medical Centre has launched what could be the first connected health service in Malaysia. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The 400-bed hospital joint venture by Ramsay Health Care Australia and Sime Darby Malaysia seeks to "revolutionise" healthcare delivery through its latest service called Connected Care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location. Health disparities from the digital divide. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Patient satisfaction is a high priority for many healthcare systems that have implemented real-time feedback strategies like text-message surveys that follow emergency room visits, inpatient telemedicine with specialists and self-service automation that improves access and reduces clinicians' administrative burdens.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2022

Following the FDA ruling to authorize the emergency use of PAXLOVIDTM, Alpha providers are now able to prescribe COVID-19 treatment when appropriate, to a patient’s local pharmacy through their asynchronous telemedicine platform. Why It Matters. With the rapid transmission of the Omicron variant, cases have surged in recent weeks.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. 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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. Hospitals are not logisticians (with apologies to the materials management folks working hard out there in health systems).

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The FY 2022 report highlighted a number of key enforcement initiatives including telemedicine fraud and exploitation, unnecessary COVID-19 testing and services along with fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief funds, and opioid and prescription drug abuse.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

"We found that many patients like the convenience of telemedicine, but we also need more research into who is being left behind in the process, such as small practices or people without access to high-speed Internet," Schrandt continued. are being incorrectly diagnosed, contributing to up to 17% of adverse hospital events.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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