June 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
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For High Point (N.C.) Regional Hospital, telemedicine has helped to fill a gap in staffing its intensive care unit, while helping the provider to significantly reduce its mortality rate as well as the lengths of stay for its patients.
June 21, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Here’s a look at several HRSA Office for Advancement of Telehealth grantee organizations and their recommendations for what CIOs, CTOs, and CMIOs need to do to achieve integration and interoperability in telehealth.
June 20, 2012
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has set a goal to conduct more than 200,000 clinic-based telemental health consultations for mental health specialties in the fiscal year 2012, in what the department calls is an effort to increase Veterans’ access to mental healthcare, Last month, the VA announced Veterans would no longer be required a co-pay when they receive care in their homes from VA health professionals using video conferencing.
June 8, 2012 John DeGaspari
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Electronic communication is certainly changing the way physicians and patients interact, and if there is a single area where its impact is most evident, it is in telemedicine. This is worth paying attention to: in a report released last month, WinterGreen Research, Inc., a market research firm based in Lexington, Mass., forecast that the market for telemedicine devices and software will increase from $736 million in 2011 to $2.5 billion in 2018, implying a wide reach that will encompass a growing number of physicians and patients.
The question is what affect telemedicine will have on the quality of care and the relationship between physicians and patients. Alan Rosenthal, M.D., a board-certified internist who practices in Monterey, Calif., provides his perspective as a primary care physician.
June 4, 2012
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According to a paper produced by the non-profit research consortium Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute, the use of video ethnography helped contributed to a rapid reduction in hospital readmission rates for elders with heart failure. At the Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center in Southern California, hospital readmission rates dropped from 13.6 percent to 9 percent in six months as a result of a quality-improvement framework that incorporated video ethnography as a care transitions tool for elders with heart failure.
May 3, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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The Boise, Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Health System has developed multiple applications for telemedicine among its four-hospital, 714-bed integrated healthcare system that have, as of January this year, saved the system $1.7 million in medical transport (life flight or ambulance) costs and has allowed more patients to be treated in their local communities.
April 27, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Since April 2009, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system has facilitated more than 4,000 electronic visits (eVisits), and even more importantly, has engaged four different payers to reimburse for this electronic service. This eVisit program earned the 20-hospital UPMC health system in western Pennsylvania a finalist award in the Healthcare Informatics IT Innovator Awards that was presented at this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Las Vegas.
April 24, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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To improve the level of emergency care provided to children presenting to rural and underserved hospitals in Northern California, the University of California Davis Children’s Hospital (UCDCH) has created a pediatric telemedicine program. Even though this program has a relatively low volume of patients, it has provided high impact services and high satisfaction scores from family members.
April 20, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Earlier this month I had a conversation with Gary Capistrant, senior director, public policy, American Telemedicine Association, and he brought up a really interesting point relating military servicemembers and telehealth, and it got me thinking what really needs to happen to get more widespread adoption of telemedicine. Gary and I were discussing what’s important for CIOs, CTOs, and CMIOs when they’re purchasing telemedicine hardware, and he mentioned how servicemembers, who are increasingly using Skype and other Internet calling services to speak to their family and friends while deployed, are also expecting to use those same technologies to serve their healthcare needs when they return stateside.
April 19, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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HEALTHeLINK, the Buffalo-based Beacon Community, has had early successes with its diabetes telemonitoring pilot that identifies high-risk patients through mobile monitoring before they are hospitalized. The pilot, which has enlisted local home health agencies to help monitor patients without flooding physicians with data, has seen both physician and patient satisfaction.
April 9, 2012
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.....only clinician involvement can orchestrates the process by which clinicians are “integrated” in the process of delivery of quality-centered care. An obstructionist clinician team can derail an otherwise successful HIT adoption project and/or your EHR application implementation.
April 9, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Before the Arkansas START (System To Access Rural Telecolposcopy) program began offering telecolposcopy through rural clinics, thousands of women were either delaying important gynecological treatment or simply going without. Telemedicine projects like these are contributing to a growing telehospital/clinic market, which was worth $8.1 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow to $17.6 billion in 2016, according to BCC Research (Wellesley, Mass.).
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