Life insurer AIA Singapore and telehealth company WhiteCoat have partnered to offer digital corporate mental health solutions.The partners are expanding their Think Well programme to provide text, video, and in-person mental health coaching and…
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Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep’s advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals.WHY IT MATTERS
The collaboration utilizes LookDeep’s Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist…
BroadbandOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development, selected OCHIN as its statewide telehealth administrator to help expand healthcare services for Ohio’s K-12 students.WHY IT MATTERS
The new initiative aims to help administrators in…
The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston has a unique telemedicine program in place to help pregnant and postpartum women.The program is called Listening to Women and Pregnant and Postpartum People,…
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Bradi Harrison, the mother of Jack Nathan, who is the Founder of Happy Jack’s World, an online community and apparel brand focusing on mental health, mainly targeting GenZ and younger Millennials joins eHealth and…
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place.So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. And in so…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
6 Organizations Approved As Initial QHINs Under TEFCA. CommonWell, eHealth Exchange, Epic, Health Gorilla, Kno2, and KONZA were named the inaugural QHINs. The announcement wasn’t much of a surprise, but John said it will be interesting to see which technology vendors ultimately get behind which QHINs. Read more…
Exploring LG’s Partnership With Amwell. LG…
The pandemic has forced healthcare organizations to rely heavily on telehealth services. In 2020, virtual visits accounted for more than a quarter of all outpatient visits in the U.S., and they’ve been steadily increasing since then. But there is a flip side to this trend. Recent data shows that telehealth is declining in healthcare, which could create a burden for both healthcare systems and patients. Let’s take a look at why this is happening and what can be done about it.
Reasons behind the decline There are several factors driving the decline in telehealth utilization in healthcare settings. One reason is cost…
Dr. Alisha Mavis, a Pediatric Hepatologist at Duke University where she cares for pediatric patients with liver disease joins eHealth Radio and the Children’s Health & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Alisha Mavis discuss the following:
What is the prevalence of fatty liver disease in children, and who should we be screening?
When screening a child for fatty liver disease, what are some of the tools used to evaluate for the disease, and how is the diagnosis of pediatric fatty liver disease made?
What is the natural history of pediatric liver disease, and how does this…
The so-called metaverse and virtual reality are up-and-coming technologies that could offer healthcare quite a bit.Medical practitioners can test out the effectiveness of new surgical methods in the metaverse before attempting on real patients. And as an extension of telehealth, medical professionals can use virtual reality to access patients and examine them virtually.
What exactly is the metaverse? How does virtual reality work? What can they contribute to healthcare? And where will these technologies offer innovations in the years to come?
To get answers to these questions, we sat down with Pari Natarajan, CEO of Zinnov, a global management and consulting firm focusing…
