Bryan-based Texas A&M Health partnered with Let’s Talk Interactive as its new telehealth partner for behavioral health.
Category: Health IT
Albany Med Health System making headway in Epic EHR rollout
Albany Med Health System said its Epic EHR rollout will launch in two waves, with Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center rolling it out in March 2024 and Hudson, N.Y.-based Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based S…
Telehealth expansion comes at a cost of $5B, budgeting office sayst
The bipartisan Telehealth Expansion Act, making specific COVID-19-era telehealth provisions permanent, would cost $5 billion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office, The Hill reported June 27.
88% of physicians say telehealth increases access to care
Eight-eight percent of U.S. physicians said telemedicine has been a vital tool in helping patients access healthcare, particularly in patient populations that have historically faced barriers to care, according to a June 29 report from digital healthca…
From four clicks to burnout: How tiny stressors pushed me to the edge
Four clicks. That’s all it took. Four additional clicks were added to the process of putting in a post-op order after surgery, arriving without any warning or explanation. Eleven seconds of additional work on top of the tripling of the time taken…
Epic completes first EHR exchange of structured genomic data
EHR giant Epic completed the first EHR to EHR exchange of structured genomic data, according to Catherine Procknow, a senior software developer at Epic specializing in genomics, GenomeWeb reported June 28.
Cleveland Clinic to outfit new $80M hospital with telehealth technology
Cleveland Clinic’s new $80 million hospital in Mentor, Ohio, will have telehealth technology installed in inpatient and outpatient rooms, which will allow patients to consult remotely with physicians from different locations, Ideastream Public Media re…
11 charged in $2B telehealth fraud scheme
The Justice Department has charged 11 individuals in connection with telehealth fraud schemes that resulted in more than $2 billion in false claims.
Epic's biggest moves in the first half of 2023
From partnering with Microsoft and Nuance to add GPT-4 powered clinical documentation to its software, to getting leading health systems and hospitals from across the U.S. to use its software to share health information with the Trusted Exchange Framew…
Regulations on EHR AI use could come later this year
HHS has proposed a rule that would require EHR systems using AI and algorithms to provide additional information to its users about how those technologies work, FedScoop reported June 28.
