Search Results: "telemedicine"
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MedKitDoc Founder Develops Advanced Telemedicine Platform Integrating Medtech for Effective Remote Healthcare
MedKitDoc Founder Dorian Koch shared the journey of the startup, which wants to transform the way patients receive healthcare.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Countering the Growing Physician Shortage with Telemedicine
While telemedicine seems to be the ideal solution to this ever-increasing shortage problem, it still has challenges and benefits that need to be considered before deciding to add a telemedicine program of your own.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Telemedicine Can Combat Clinician Burnout, the Biggest Challenge Facing the Healthcare Industry
To fully reap the benefits of telemedicine, it is crucial to provide comprehensive education to both staff and patients. Clinicians, doctors, and other medical care providers should all be trained on telehealth software — its functionality, integration into their workflow, effective communication during consultations, and where to seek technical assistance.
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How Penn Medicine’s Telemedicine Program Saved It $113 Per Patient Visit
Penn Medicine recently published a study on the economics of providing telemedicine — it showed that when the health system began offering virtual urgent care services to its employees, the visits ended up being 23% less expensive to conduct than in-person appointments.
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Telehealth Companies Applaud DEA for Delaying Telemedicine Restrictions of Controlled Substances
The Drug Enforcement Administration received 38,000 comments on its proposed rule that would roll back Covid-19 flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine. In response, the DEA chose to temporarily extend the flexibilities, a decision telehealth companies like Bicycle Health and Mindbloom are in support of.
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Reading Between the Lines of the DEA’s Proposed Rules on Telemedicine
In some ways, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) proposed rules for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine are a sign of progress. Behavioral health could be getting some much-needed clarity, but at what cost?
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Study: More OUD Patients Stay in Treatment When Offered Buprenorphine via Telemedicine
Patients with opioid use disorder are more likely to stick with their treatment plan when offered buprenorphine via telemedicine, according to a new study. The study involved 1,378 patients, and their 180-day treatment retention rate was 56.4%.
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Providers Mostly Agree with the AMA’s Views on Controlled Substance Prescribing Via Telemedicine
The American Medical Association recently released its comments on the DEA’s proposed rules for controlled substance prescribing via telemedicine. Many telehealth providers are supportive of the organization’s recommendations, such as its suggestion to extend the timeframe patients have to refill their buprenorphine prescription after their initial supply is prescribed via telemedicine.
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How pharma companies can leverage asynchronous telemedicine
Through apps, pharmaceutical companies can actually influence patient adherence and mindset after that patient has been prescribed that company’s medication by their physician.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Competing in the age of telemedicine
Hospitals and health systems must take a comprehensive and proactive stance to protect themselves from emerging competition in telemedicine and shore up operational practices.
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DOJ charges dozens for $1.2B in telemedicine fraud scheme
The charges involve some of the first cases in the country involving fraudulent cardiovascular genetic testing, a “burgeoning scheme,” according to a news release from the DOJ.
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Teladoc Health CEO highlights evolution of telemedicine
In an interview, Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic talked about its services for primary care, chronic conditions, mental health, and how it works with hospitals and health systems.
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How to incorporate telemedicine in an orthopedic practice
Telemedicine has a place in orthopedics; not only can range of motion measurements be taken virtually as effectively as in-person, but telehealth offers additional advantages including the potential to take 2D measurements that help …..
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Lessons learned from 2020: Expanding virtual care beyond traditional telemedicine
The advancements made around telemedicine over the last 18 months are significant, but should be viewed as the first steps of an important journey for healthcare going forward.
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MedCity Spotlight Video: Fruit Street Health on diabetes and telemedicine
Although it has focused on diabetes management, Founder and CEO Laurence Girard says that the company is growing its telemedicine services to include virtual primary care support for other chronic conditions such as hypertension, mental health and smoking cessation that pair community and clinical components.