Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. 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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Asan Medical Center has launched an AI-powered integrated service platform for its international patients. HOW IT WORKS According to a media release, the newly launched web-based platform of AMC International Healthcare Center allows patients to register, share their medical records, book a pre-consultation, and receive remote treatment.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. The fact that telemedicine hasn’t been permanently enshrined into law yet is just a function of our democracy.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Like a lot of health systems, MedStar rapidly launched new telemedicine technology in response to COVID-19, which resulted in 100,000 video visits in the first two months of use. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 22, 2024

With a large patient population in rural areas, Geisinger expanded its use of telemedicine to scale access and leverage a national workforce to serve them. Today, Geisinger Behavioral Health serves more than 45,000 unique patients annually, with more than 80% of services offered via telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. "In recent years, our users of healthcare services have had the ability to shop for services, through marketplace and many other tools offered through payers and individual platforms. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare It News

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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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2024

As this field has expanded, so has healthcare in the way in which it delivers its services to its patients, specifically telehealth. Telehealth has been promising for the healthcare field to provide easier delivery of care where, when and how patients need it. Why should a health system care?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. " David Fletcher, Geisinger. MARKETPLACE.

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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. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 10, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. "Orders can be sent directly through this existing integration and be processed efficiently.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. THE PROBLEM In the year after COVID-19 struck, healthcare changed. Then COVID-19 hit. Operations changed.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 25, 2023

Gonzales, operations manager II, virtual care, at Geisinger, said the prominent health system has faced a problem that is the biggest problem in behavioral healthcare: access. "And now, moving into phase two, working on an integrated care project, we feel an innovative solution is much more possible with Iris Telehealth."

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Further, with today's healthcare staffing challenges, even if Baptist Health recognizes a need for extra workers, it may not have the resources to upstaff appropriately. " "Where else could you receive a healthcare service with a wait time of only six minutes, especially as a walk-in patient?" " Dr. Brett A.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2025

Set for public pilot some time this first quarter, the autonomous and self-evolving virtual healthcare setting will be run by these genAI-driven doctors, which have shown high accuracy in examining, diagnosing, and treating patients in a recent study. Ping An Health has doubled down on AI integration in recent years.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As was the case with many healthcare organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a significant increase in telehealth visits for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – especially in outpatient clinics. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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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. But it cannot always do the job on its own.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2025

The platform integrates telemedicine, at-home and in-person lab testing, and personalized treatment plans overseen by expert medical professionals. With this new investment funding, Hone Health has acquired ivee , a provider of in-home healthcare services. “Securing this investment is a pivotal moment for Hone Health.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2022

An array of disconnected, niche, point applications, and those not purpose-built for healthcare, are further fragmenting an already disjointed healthcare experience – and potentially marginalizing the role of local health systems in the lives of the communities they serve. Please explain exactly how. They yearn to trust.

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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. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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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

MARCH 11, 2025

Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group The advent of wearable technology has revolutionized healthcare, offering unprecedented opportunities for managing chronic conditions like Parkinson’s disease. This data can be invaluable for both patients and healthcare providers.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Justin Sirotin, Founder and CEO of OCTO Amidst the backdrop of the United States being the world’s highest spender on healthcare, a sober reality emerges: despite this immense investment, the nation faces many alarming statistics on the state of public health. is unsustainable. is unsustainable.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2022

"An obvious potential driver of this finding is that many clinicians delivered care virtually via telemedicine, including both phone and video visits," observed researchers. Researchers pointed to the effect telemedicine may have had on both of these components. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2023

As digital health and telemedicine technologies continue to explode, patients increasingly are being drawn into their care in ways unlike ever before. Gary Hamilton is CEO of InteliChart (HIMSS23 Booth 3406), a vendor of patient engagement tools for healthcare provider organizations of all sizes.

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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. Once the design phase is complete, we focus on seamless integration and implementation of these virtual care models into clinical practice.

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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. Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care. During the last two years, U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The technology-enabled form of healthcare delivery has huge momentum coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. We anticipate rapid expansion of virtual care that will dramatically reshape how healthcare services are accessed, coordinated and delivered.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. More than 10 years in the making. Recent technology upgrades this summer.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. "We've also been able to integrate the platform with other systems we have in place to improve the patient experience," he continued.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

The study, published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health , took a closer look at the rollout of telemedicine at two federally qualified health centers serving primarily Chinese and Latino immigrants. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND.

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