Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

The study – a collaboration among researchers from Northwest Permanente, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School – examined six years of outpatient care at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, which serves more than 600,000 people in Oregon and Washington. healthcare industry increased by 6 percent.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, people with mild periodontal disease are twice as likely to suffer a stroke. working age adults went to a dentist in a year. working age adults went to a dentist in a year. P&G launched the Oral-B iO in a press conference on Sunday, announcing the product was a 2020 CES Innovation Award Honoree.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 23, 2024

My own research for the NHS also pinpoints anxiety as a significant factor in the relationship between patients/carers and healthcare estates. Healthcare estates are often large, busy and difficult to navigate, which we know can make people feel stressed and anxious. There were 122 million NHS appointments booked in 2022.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020. consumers in the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. declines in expected inpatient volume and 34.5%

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. There are other forms of fear taking hold of the COVID-19 era health consumer: namely, financial anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. There are other forms of fear taking hold of the COVID-19 era health consumer: namely, financial anxiety in the wake of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2019

Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019. No other financial concern had that growth in increase-of-money-worries in the past year. Health care costs rank the top financial problem for people across all income levels.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last 30 years. As this field has expanded, so has healthcare in the way in which it delivers its services to its patients, specifically telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. in 2020, 43.9% in 2020, 43.9% WHY IT MATTERS. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2017, 54.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, Colorado's Boulder Community Health had put the infrastructure in place to support telehealth, but struggled to gain adoption because of limited provider and patient demand. "During this past year, we saw a steep decline in overall visits, and we know that a lot of that was care that was necessary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

" Rural residents are in poorer physical condition, have more health risks and are more likely to lack health insurance, she added. In fact, it has doubled in the last 30 years. Improving the quality of healthcare while lowering costs and increasing access in rural Pennsylvania counties is challenging, she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Geonetric

AUGUST 25, 2020

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's, like many other healthcare organizations, saw an uptick in mental health patients during the pandemic, it knew it needed to act fast to meet their needs – and be able to ensure continuity of care for patients, even for those who contracted COVID-19, while keeping the organization's providers and employees safe.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For years, UMass Memorial Health has leveraged technology as a means of augmenting in-person care at the bedside. UMass Memorial Health is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts and the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School. THE PROBLEM. That effort was well underway when COVID-19 struck.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The deal, which is expected to be finalized by the end of the fourth quarter in 2020, builds upon the shared company culture at both organizations, said Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic. The organizations have framed the deal as a way to offer "whole person" healthcare to users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. It's clear RPM will be playing a bigger role in healthcare than it ever has before. How can RPM help?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. This year, providers want to get back to running a profitable practice, and implementing a full virtual care strategy may very well be critical to achieving this goal.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

As these latter technologies developed and generated lots of digital data, researchers, clinicians, and third parties have mashed up the information for wellness and medical and other reasons that have had nothing to do with the context of health/care. Remember that in 1996, there were no smartphones, mobile apps, or Internet clouds.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Medscape polled 12,339 physicians representing over 29 specialties between late August and early November 2020 to gauge their feelings about work and life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In the second half of 2020, about 4 in 10 U.S. What factors contributed most to clinician burnout in this year’s survey?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

healthcare system and, thus, patient care. This year’s annual Medscape poll of physicians was titled “ the National Physician Burnout and Depression ” report to call out this top-line finding. Here’s a New Yorker cartoon I’ve used in my meetings for over ten years. Physician burnout is a real challenge to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom. Looking year over year, we more than tripled monthly visit volume in 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Oliver Patterson, Director of Product Management, VIPRE Security Group In the digital era, email has become an indispensable communication tool for healthcare organizations. According to various studies, the healthcare industry experiences a high frequency of data breaches and cyberattacks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.). The new importance of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the chance to ask Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , for his perspective via email. An analogy I use for people not steeped in healthcare is air travel. In this analogy, TEFCA is like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which establishes the rules of air travel. But what are they?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. " Prior to March 2020, only a few providers or employees were connecting remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama, was headed for telemedicine. "Thankfully, the electronic health record companies and our other vendors adapted rapidly, so we got telemedicine up and running through our EHR," said Cory Harris, COO at Christ Health Center.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Three years after Covid-19 was declared, healthcare systems have been slow to change, despite their inadequacies. However, the healthcare sector is undergoing a technology-driven evolution, attracting significant venture capital investment and government collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Recent Zoom research found that in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On February 12, 2020, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. The Chairman responded pointedly: “The outcomes are perfectly average for a first-world nation, but we spend 6 percent to 7 percent of GDP more than other countries…So it’s about the delivery. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I've seen it said before that year-ahead predictions are like weather reports: Everyone reads them, but almost no one looks back later to see whether they were accurate. Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. What significant changes will there be this year?

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put immense pressure on the healthcare system in Brazil, the silver lining is that it is contributing to the meteoric growth in the healthtech sector. However, COVID-19 isn’t the only reason we’ve seen record VC investment in healthtechs in 2020 and 2021. Healthcare giants are finally waking up.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

In years past, getting older adults online was a lower priority for senior advocates, social service agencies or healthcare organizations. Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K/year in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). Stay tuned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 6, 2022

Earlier this year we offered a sneak peek at how Houston Methodist went live with its virtual ICU in February 2020, just as the pandemic proved the value of having such a thing. The decision to deploy a technology-enabled virtual care approach took place after years of deliberative discussion and preparation.

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