4 Ways Hospitals Can Use Virtual Urgent Care to Drive Patient Acquisition
If you're a hospital administrator, patient acquisition is probably one of your top challenges. Whether it's competing with local hospitals or urgent care centers, you need new patients to drive your organization forward. Here are 4 ways hospitals can use virtual...
The Benefits of Telemedicine: Why Aren’t Hospitals on Board?
As telemedicine remains in-demand by patients, hospitals across the country have recognized additional benefits than previously noted. But there is a major disconnect between what patients are demanding and what healthcare providers have been offering. This...
Evaluating the Performance of Telehealth Providers
By Dr. Bobby Park, RelyMD CMO As I reflected on the topic of this blog post, it occurred to me that the question of provider quality rarely comes up when talking to hospitals and health systems who are considering adding telehealth as an additional way to...
How Telehealth is Impacting the ER
Telehealth Can Help Cut Infections and Costs An estimated 76% of U.S. hospitals have embraced the use of telehealth and other forms of technology to connect with their patients. The growing use of on-demand telehealth has led to an uptick in concerns among healthcare...
The Benefits of Telehealth for Consumers
According to the Harvard Business Review, 84 percent of 1,600 respondents said they would prefer to use telemedicine services if they were offered. Patients want digital features to help them manage their healthcare plan, from printing ID cards, accessing digital...
Using a Telemedicine Platform for Revenue Generation
Patient experience, better healthcare outcomes, and gaining a competitive advantage are all virtual visit benefits. But if you haven’t considered using a telemedicine platform for revenue generation, you could be missing out. A major component and justification for...
Generate New Patients, More Revenue & a Competitive Advantage with Unscheduled, Reimbursable Telehealth Visits.
Virtual urgent care for unscheduled visits can increase patient acquisition while also driving more reimbursable business to your existing specialty and primary care services. This infographic clearly differentiates between virtual urgent care and virtual primary...
COVID-19 Shines a Spotlight on the Value of Telehealth
By Dr. Bobby Park, RelyMD CMO At a recent Congressional hearing about telehealth, a number of the senators expressed their support to make permanent the expanded access to Medicare telehealth services that were initiated in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.1...
Infographic: Telehealth Use Throughout Your Entire Network of Care
Telehealth is often regarded as a siloed approach to either patient acquisition, primary care for existing patients, or for in-hospital, high-acuity monitoring. Implementing a telehealth solution throughout an entire network of care can play an essential role in...
Increasing Downstream Revenue with Virtual Visits
Due to recent healthcare mandates surrounding value-based reimbursement models, the realm of healthcare is, more than ever, focusing upon direct, objective, and data-driven information. As such, the need to measure and understand ultimate patient outcomes and the...
Telehealth’s Role in Revenue Recovery
The topic of telehealth, or of telemedicine, has recently been a major point of discussion in the general realm of healthcare and in healthcare systems - especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Predominantly, the affordability and accessibility of the medium...
Managing Post-Acute Patients Remotely
While telehealth is currently in the spotlight for its unprecedented impact on the mitigation of infection risk for COVID-19, such technology is not strictly limited to initial consults or routine check-ups with Primary Care Physicians or specialty providers. In fact,...
Telehealth in the Aftermath of COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our community has made substantial efforts to mitigate risk of infection exposure- such of which is primarily implemented through appropriate social distancing protocols. Included within this is first, a call to limit operations...
Telehealth’s Role in Reducing PPE Usage
As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic continues to spread globally, healthcare systems have, as a result, become increasingly overwhelmed by an influx of potentially infected individuals seeking testing and care. The reduction of infection risk and exposure from...
Prioritizing Telemedicine in Hospitals to Address COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic we’re experiencing is unlike anything that has happened in our lifetimes. We are all being forced to rapidly adapt to the constantly evolving (often worsening) situation. People don’t know if their symptoms are those of the cold, flu or...
Release Notes: RelyMD 4.0
Typically release notes are reserved for regular application updates, but we’re excited to launch this very special edition for the brand new RelyMD app. As patients log-in to see a RelyMD provider after December 2, they’ll be surprised with a fresh look and feel that...
8 Things to Consider When Selecting a Telemedicine Vendor
After researching and reviewing the many benefits telemedicine has to offer organizations, your team has decided it’s time to launch your own virtual health program. That’s great! But as the HR or benefits manager, you’re the one tasked with finding the best...
Infographic: How Rural Hospitals Can Utilize Telemedicine
Infographic: How Rural Hospitals Can Utilize Telemedicine Rural hospitals now represent more than half of all hospitals in the United States and are constantly facing threats of closure. Embracing technology could allow these hospitals to leverage nearby health...
How to Work Against Rising Employer-Paid Healthcare Costs
How to Work Against Rising Employer-Paid Healthcare Costs National healthcare costs are rising every year, as you probably already know, and according to the National Business Group on Health, the cost of health benefits is expected to increase by another 5% this...
Infographic: Average Wait Times to See a Doctor
Infographic: Average Wait Times to See a Doctor It comes as no surprise that wait times to see a doctor have crept up and up over the years. Whether patients have a long wait just to get an appointment or they’re disgruntled at the time they sit in the waiting room,...
Presenteeism in the Workplace
Presenteeism in the Workplace: How to Keep Your Employees Healthy and Productive Workers are the backbone of your company. So what happens when they get sick? Rather than take a day off, many workers are chugging the cough syrup, loading up on pain medications, and...
Here’s How UNC Lenoir Reduced Healthcare Costs While Improving Employee Attendance
Home / Blog / Here’s How UNC Lenoir Reduced Healthcare Costs While Improving Employee Attendance It might be hard to believe, but even doctors and nurses can get sick. And when they do, they need to go to the emergency room or urgent care facility just like...
6 Hospitals See Impressive Telemedicine ROI
Home / Blog / 6 Hospitals See Impressive Telemedicine ROI When an organization needs to cut costs, there’s often a huge downside. Lay-offs. Fewer comp days. Cuts. It’s a list we’re all familiar with, and yet we still cringe when we see those words. Reader- I’m telling...
EMS Telemedicine, an Aid for Rural Areas Impacted by Hospital Closures
Home / Blog / EMS Telemedicine, an Aid for Rural Areas Impacted by Hospital Closures The healthcare industry has seen and will continue to see many changes which impact the viability of certain care structures and even facilities that can withstand the change....
Why Hospitals Are Built to Be the Best Adopters of Employee Sponsored Virtual Healthcare
Home / Blog / Why Hospitals Are Built to Be the Best Adopters of Employee Sponsored Virtual Healthcare It’s the number that has been heard around the telemedicine world, by 2018 90% of large organizations are expected to be deploying telemedicine to employees. This...
Barriers to Telemedicine Hospitals Are Facing and Potential Solutions
Home / Blog / Barriers to Telemedicine Hospitals Are Facing and Potential Solutions Telemedicine is continuously making headlines in the news, numerous studies are being shared each year about the impact virtual health is having on hospitals and health systems. Those...
Using Telemedicine to Improve Patient Loyalty & Satisfaction
Home / Blog / Using Telemedicine to Improve Patient Loyalty & Satisfaction Acquiring new patients is the prime focus for any hospital or health system’s marketing department, but how much attention is being paid to patient retention? In many lines of business, the...
Important Considerations for Nursing Homes When Implementing Telemedicine
Home / Blog / Important Considerations for Nursing Homes When Implementing Telemedicine Potentially avoidable hospitalizations tend to be top of mind for nursing home leadership and staff members due to the high costs associated with the transfer. In addition,...
5 Reasons Why an Entire Healthcare Community Should be Focused on Community Paramedicine
Home / Blog / 5 Reasons Why an Entire Healthcare Community Should be Focused on Community Paramedicine Community paramedicine allows paramedics and emergency medical technicians to operate in expanded roles to provide routine healthcare services to underserved...
Few Care Options Leave Rural Residents Out of Luck After-Hours
Home / Blog / Few Care Options Leave Rural Residents Out of Luck After-Hours Greg, a resident of a rural area in North Carolina, finds it hard to access healthcare especially for unscheduled care needs that may occur during after-hours when his primary care physician...
The Surprising Way to Reduce Readmissions in Rural Hospitals
Home / Blog / The Surprising Way to Reduce Hospital Readmissions in Rural Hospitals The Readmission Problem Hospital readmission is a big problem in the United States. It is estimated that one in five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within...
Ten Crucial Best Practices for Implementing a Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Program in Your Health System
Home / Blog / Ten Crucial Best Practices for Implementing a Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Program in Your Health System You’ve crunched the data, done your research, and decided that telemedicine is a good fit for your hospital system. Whether it’s the cost savings,...
5 Ways Telemedicine Is Helping Rural Hospitals & Their Communities
5 Ways Telemedicine is Helping Rural Hospitals & Their Communities Change has been hard on rural hospitals and their communities. Since 2010, more than 48 rural hospitals have closed and much more are on the brink of the same fate. Patients are seeking higher...
The Growth of Telemedicine and the Reality of Its Potential
The growth of telemedicine has caused the expected number of patients using telehealth services to rise from less than 350,000 in 2013 to nearly seven million in 2018. It’s no secret that telemedicine has been growing in past and recent years, but what has been...
The Promise of Telemedicine & Shorter Appointment Wait Times
Home / Blog / The Promise of Telemedicine & Shorter Appointment Wait Times Long wait times, often the first thing associated with health care and doctor visits, have been on the rise over the past few years. Research shows patients are spending more and more time...
Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems – Part 4 of 4
Home / Blog / Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems, Part 4 of 4 Welcome to the final part of our 4-part series where you’ll learn about the top benefits telemedicine offers health systems when they use it as an additional channel of care for their...
Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems – Part 3 of 4
Home / Blog / Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems, Part 3 of 4 Welcome to part 3 of a 4 part series where you’ll learn about the top benefits telemedicine offers health systems when they use it as an additional channel of care for their patients. Read...
Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems – Part 2 of 4
Home / Blog / Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems, Part 2 of 4 Welcome to part 2 of a 4 part series where you’ll learn about the top benefits telemedicine offers health systems when they use it as an additional channel of care for their patients. This...
Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems – Part 1 of 4
Home / Blog / Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems, Part 1 of 4 Benefits that health systems provide to their patients are only as good as their utilization. Whether it’s purchasing the latest FitBit or using an online portal to chat with their doctor,...
6 Frequently Asked Questions About RelyMD for Nursing Homes
Home / Blog / 6 Frequently Asked Questions About RelyMD for Nursing Homes 1. To what types of nursing homes does RelyMD offer services? All types, including but not limited to skilled nursing facilities, CCRCs, independent living centers, assisted living, post-acute...
Reducing Hospital Readmissions with Telemedicine
Home / Blog / Reducing Hospital Readmissions with Telemedicine Research completed by CMS found that approximately 45% of hospital admissions among individuals in Medicare-Medicaid nursing facilities could have been avoided. This accounted for $2.6 billion in Medicare...
Telemedicine as an Added Benefit
Home / Blog / Telemedicine as an Added BenefitAre you one of the many organizations looking to incorporate telemedicine as an added benefit? According to the National Business Group, nine in 10 large employers will make telehealth services available this...
Learn What to Expect of Telemedicine in 2017
Home / Blog / Learn What to Expect of Telemedicine in 2017 This year is the year for telemedicine to shine. There are big predictions for the year 2017 and a little uncertainty, but rest assured that it will be a big one for telemedicine in 2017. The main theme you’ll...
5 Ways Telemedicine Can Help Your Population Health Management Plan
Home / Blog / 5 Ways Telemedicine Can Help Your Population Health Management Plan A population health management plan is put in place to improve the quality of healthcare for patients while reducing associated costs within a healthcare organization. By implementing a...