Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Mental health is an area where investment accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, even beyond telehealth visits with therapists and other mental health professionals. While the growth of telehealth platforms has been substantial, a more exciting area of investment in mental health is in digital therapeutics. billion that year to $5.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

An example is the vCare or Virtual Care unit and their role is to provide emergency and acute care support to the 35 rural hospitals, which started in 2008. How a virtual health service looks like in Western NSW. The vCare unit has also been enhanced to support the inpatients as many of the facilities do not often have doctors available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. "Prior to telehealth services, this has constantly created problems for maintaining a substantive caseload in each of these seven counties and to adequately provide services," Brooks added. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With the COVID public health emergency (PHE) scheduled to end on May 11, 2023, the issue of prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine and telehealth has taken center stage. The initial ruling was put in place to protect consumers against unscrupulous Internet-based sales of prescriptions, which has continued in other forms.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018. Two approaches quantified in this year’s KFF survey are the use of lower-cost settings, such as retail clinics and telehealth, as well as workers generating health data shared via mobile apps and wearable technology.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

The literature on treating suicidal patients via telehealth group therapy is sparse. Telehealth Group Study Overview Seventeen participants were enrolled in a 10-week, manualized video group. The video equipment chosen to deliver PLF via telehealth included either VA Video Connect (VVC) or VA WebEx software.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced its long-awaited proposal for permanent rules regarding telehealth prescriptions for controlled medications. The proposed rule would allow telehealth prescribing for the following: Consultations that do not involve the prescribing of controlled medications.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. We believe arbitrary restrictions on telehealth must be permanently removed to make way for a modernized and more accessible healthcare system.”. But those calls were largely ignored.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS In aiming to prevent drug diversion by telehealth, DEA misses the point of the gains made by telehealth during the pandemic , says ATA. ATA is also concerned that the "telehealth stamp" on legitimate prescriptions has already resulted in a rise of denials at the pharmacy counter.

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eVisit

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Kaiser Family Foundation released data showing a 65% increase in the cost of employee provided healthcare for family coverage from 2008 to 2018. In 2008 the total cost for an employer to cover an employee’s family was $12,679. That cost jumped up to $19,616 in just 10 years, and as an employer, you pay 70% or more.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. ” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

Radiology caseloads per full-time radiologist had already increased by some 78% between 2008 and 2018, according to Buehl, and hospitals expect a further caseload increase of more than 50% over the next three to five years.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Editor’s Note: Telehealth services extends networks beyond urban hubs and expands payers’ member enrollments. Staying current with state telehealth laws allows payers flexibility with policy updates. Private Payer Reimbursement: 36 states and DC have laws that govern private payer reimbursement of telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. Read more.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Interest in telehealth has reached an all-time high, with many of the most prestigious health systems in the U.S. Out of all the reasons health systems are implementing telehealth, however, reducing medical costs is one of the largest driving factors. Telehealth could save as much as $6 billion annually in U.S. healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. Do these visits result in recommendations for telehealth? category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The GAMMAs have actively been involved in the telemedicine sector as far back as 2008 and have accelerated the pace of investment in the sector. Alphabet has in parallel invested in telehealth companies like Hello Heart, specializing in heart monitoring, and Klara, a virtual care platform. For instance, Capsule, the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 25, 2024

NHS polyclinics were first introduced in England in 2008 as part of a wider reform of the NHS. Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. Lowering costs and prices means moving healthcare to less expensive sites of care (say, retail clinics, telehealth, and pharmacies providing primary care) and lowering utilization or allocating more self-care to patients at home.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

2008; Chóliz 2010). What is Telehealth? Concerns about phone addiction began appearing early in the literature (Billieux et al. Other concerns involving dangerous consequences were phone use while driving (Bianchi and Phillips 2005 ; White et al. 2004 ), and using phones in forbidden areas (Nickerson et al.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

The growth of virtual care and telehealth, adoption of wearable technologies ( discussed here in Health Populi in yesterday’s coverage of the Capgemini health consumer study), and growing use of the cloud were all shown off at CES 2020. .

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Interest in telehealth has reached an all-time high, with many of the most prestigious health systems in the U.S. Out of all the reasons health systems are implementing telehealth, however, reducing medical costs is one of the largest driving factors. Telehealth could save as much as $6 billion annually in U.S. healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

This lightbulb moment finding happened in the 2008 Edelman Health Engagement Barometer study and it holds true today… This is particularly impactful in the current moment as Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was found guilty by a jury of her peers. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

Note that David — a fashion and style maven — talks about the adoption of telehealth and e-health in The New Healthy as part of this message. Some examples to expect going forward are: In hospitality, virus-scrubbed air in hotels and cruise shifts with state-of-the-art filtration systems. .”

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Providers masks and in protective gear, waiting in an automobile or physically-distanced queue to gain access to a doctor’s office, or convening with a doctor via a virtual telehealth visit or encrypted email are all new-new life-flows for a health consumer. The economic recession in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Ryan Haight Act, passed in 2008, aims to prevent the abuse and misuse of controlled substances, including prescription drugs, through the Internet. Basic Telehealth Legal Issues: Rules, Regulations & Risk Management. Bring your telehealth practice into legal compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

According to an AARP Healthy@Home report from 2008 , the only home tech device that had any level of awareness (91% of responders) was Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS). Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. How has the context changed? Consider the emerging general consumer technology market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Start with Hims and Hers, moving in the opposite direction from telehealth care focused on men’s and women’s health, morphing into a physical pharmacy distribution model. Now consider GoodRx, linking up with HeyDoctor to help the prescription drug discounting platform expand telehealth services.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

As experienced in the Great Recession starting in late 2008, consumers took on more do-it-yourself (DIY) tasks in terms of more cooking at home, more home care DIY projects, and more self-care. The Dove brand has been working on re-defining our concepts of “beauty” overall, quite mindfully bringing inclusion into focus.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Dr. Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. .” Out of the mouths of Mom’s, right?!

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