Interviews with primary care practice leaders in Florida and New York revealed numerous challenges to telehealth implementation, including a need for more explicit telehealth visit triage guidelines...
Fredericksburg, Virginia-based Mary Washington Healthcare has implemented a virtual nursing program at Stafford Hospital to enable registered nurses (RNs) to work from a virtual operations command...
Amid the growing popularity of remote patient monitoring (RPM) services, several health systems have partnered with companies to launch programs and bring the benefits of RPM to their patients.
RPM use skyrocketed during the COVID-19...
In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that hospitals could continue to bill for various outpatient therapies delivered via remote...
Atrium Health has launched a virtual care clinic to provide Peppertree Apartment residents of Ascent Housing with remote care options.
The clinic includes an onsite healthcare technician, a medical...
Created and launched by the Guthrie Clinic (Guthrie), a new innovative care delivery system aims to provide patients with care through various virtual services, working to improve outcomes and expand...
Amid the staggering rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies were tasked with classifying these new care modalities to ensure adequate reimbursement. In its 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare...
Emergency medical services (EMS) provider Falck announced a collaboration with MD Ally to expand the scope of care for Alameda County, California residents by enabling EMS professionals to connect...
The Telehealth Service Implementation Model (TSIM), which originated from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), will begin a new online training course to assist telehealth leaders in...
A new model that incentivizes primary care providers (PCPs) to use new modes of delivery, such as remote care, can "drastically improve upon" the traditional fee-for-service structure, new research...
After receiving thousands of comments asking for an extension of pandemic-era virtual prescribing flexibilities, the Drug Enforcement Administration has acquiesced.
The flexibilities allow healthcare...
Provided by PA Consulting Group, new data indicates that not only do healthcare providers have the necessary tools to transition to hospital-at-home services, but they also believe these services will...
Beginning on May 1, Penn State Health will provide respiratory therapy services as part of virtual intensive care unit (ICU) services within two of its medical centers to improve communication between...
More than half of physicians surveyed (60 percent) felt that the quality of video-based telehealth was generally inferior to the quality of in-person care, according to a recent study.
The study,...
Under a new partnership, MetroHealth System and Fern Health will begin creating digital pain management programs that are complementary to traditional pain management treatments.
MetroHealth, based in...
XRHealth recently merged with Amelia Virtual Care to create an extended reality (XR) Therapeutics Platform through the combination of virtual and augmented reality technology and flexible virtual...
CHI Saint Joseph Health is one of the first hospitals to implement a virtual nursing model using technology developed by CommonSpirit Health, according to a recent announcement. The model adds a...
A new pilot program from Aetna Better of Maryland and Mae is looking to eliminate maternal health disparities through doula support and engagement tools.
According to Gayle Jordan-Randolph, MD, Chief...
With the advent of virtual care technologies, healthcare has increasingly become available outside the four walls of the hospital. One of the significant ways this has been accomplished is through hospital-at-home programs, where...
Oracle and Amazon announced new virtual care and communications offerings at the HIMSS 2023 conference.
Oracle has expanded its partnership with Zoom to add telehealth capabilities within Oracle...
