Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Telemedicine 374

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years.

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Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy 359

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. and around the globe) over the past three months.

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Telehealth Medicare Patient Experience Mental health 398

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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EHR Primary Care Patient Experience Digital Health 140

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Politico reported this past Friday that Amazon was set to announce that Amazon Clinic would be available to patients in all 50 states today, but that promotional campaign was pushed back to July 19. According to the report, an email source said Sens. They requested a detailed response to their concerns from Amazon by June 30.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Fabric will dedicate a large portion of the funding to team growth and advancement of its care enablement system that delivers convenience and workforce automation through a unified platform that replaces a patchwork of fragmented technology solutions.

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Health Technology Primary Care Nursing Health IT 66

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. Some departments such as psychiatry and primary care were exceeding their pre-pandemic clinical volumes."

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Telehealth Psychiatry Primary Care Healthcare IT 208

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. In that initial vision, Philips already envisioned care settings outside of hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"Continued availability and promotion of telehealth services might play a prominent role in increasing access to services during the public health emergency." The percentage of virtual care encounters with children actually decreased from 2019 to 2020. " WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Telehealth Public Health Healthcare IT Medicare 178

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Healthcare IT EHR 168

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. THE PROBLEM. "We were forced to teach and train our partners from a distance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

The following is a guest article by Sonia Singh, Chief Insights Officer at AVIA Health Amazon’s latest venture into healthcare, the integration of One Medical into its Prime service, marks a significant shift in the healthcare industry.

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Primary Care Leadership Healthcare IT Telemedicine 116

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

have chosen to use a non-traditional health care setting. Those non-traditional sites of care include walk-in and retail clinics, outpatient surgery centers, virtual health (whether on the phone, on video or via mobile apps), on-demand services, and digital therapeutics.

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Telehealth Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 288

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. It aims to set itself apart with its fully bilingual service offerings. Including how you deliver primary and multi-specialty care, and how you work with payers and employers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that. He talks about where providers are excelling with virtual care, where they are facing challenges, the experiences of Global Medical Response, and what he thinks 2022 will bring in the world of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Called Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS), it will provide free, round-the-clock teleconsultation service for mental health concerns. Presently, five regional coordination centres have been set up, along with 51 state or union territory-level Tele-MANAS cells. WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

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Mental health Psychiatry Telemedicine Telehealth 152

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Doctors are deploying telehealth across a range of care workflows, shown in the bar chart. Most frequently, virtual care is being used for treatment or therapy, screening or diagnosis, and follow-up care, by at least 70% of clinicians.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. By improving the experience of our care team, we positively impact patient safety and experience.”

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Nursing Telehealth Connected Care EMR 88

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. The state of emergency and stay-at-home orders introduced the need to keep at-risk patients out of healthcare facilities and at home whenever possible.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Healthcare IT EHR 162

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

"When the first wave of COVID-19 kind of died down, we met with all of our heads of departments, including cardiology, pulmonary and other key service lines, and we asked them about the limitation of that telehealth interaction," he recalled. Then, if they need to drive to the urgent care or ER, they're told to do so.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Healthcare IT 176

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "Design-wise, the UCTH services were not set up as pages upon pages of questionnaires," he noted.

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Telehealth Nursing Digital Health Patient Experience 120

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Musculoskeletal (MSK) is routinely one of the three most expensive categories of care (along with cardio-metabolic disease and cancer care). Unfortunately, 25-40% of that care has been attributed to waste and inefficiency, and to low-value, no-value or even harmful interventions." You need answers to these questions fast.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Accountable Care Healthcare IT 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US population is aging and will be needing more care. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022). The last-ditch choices will be emergency room visit or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Mental health Telehealth Health Information 69

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 15, 2024

This urgency is highlighted by the NHS England Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services, which places a significant emphasis on relieving pressures experienced by hospitals. Data Sharing – Limitations on the sharing of data between service providers.

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Healthcare Innovation 59

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

Capacity is a long-standing problem for healthcare leaders as demands for services are much more dynamic than the static nature of physical infrastructure. "Providence strives to deliver the same standard of excellent, coordinated care to the communities we serve that we would want for ourselves and our loved ones," she added.

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Telehealth Nursing Telemedicine Healthcare IT 162

American Well

APRIL 3, 2020

Americans who are sheltering at home and worried about COVID-19 are increasingly turning to virtual care, as are those seeking routine urgent care unrelated to COVID-19. At Amwell, we are seeing an unprecedented surge in demand for our services each day. Telehealth is not an emergency service.

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Telehealth Patient Experience 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the very end of 2022, a new offering, ChatGPT, emerged from OpenAI , funded in the billions by Microsoft and others, that puts online access to information in a smart new light – even Google is nervous about its possible future obsolescence, if it can eliminate the need for ad-fueled search, where it makes most of its money.

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Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 131

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S., health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 278

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. There are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health Primary Care 153

Ortholive

DECEMBER 15, 2021

How does a virtual urgent care visit work? What are the benefits of virtual urgent care? How can you use virtual urgent care in your business? That changed with the pandemic, as clinics shut down for safety but continued to provide care with telemedicine technology. . Let’s take a closer look.

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Telemedicine Telehealth 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home. Pearl calculated.

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Primary Care Patient Experience Connected Health Digital Health 156

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” But the consumer pressures, along with evidence-based self-service options for health – both for “care” and for wellness, fitness and prevention – bring us to this inflection point for virtual health.

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Digital Health Telehealth Connected Care Health Information 263

Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Ten years ago, helping healthcare organizations understand virtual workflows and virtual care pathways was much more complicated than it is today. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of virtual care across all medical specialties and primary care has been critical, especially in behavioral health.

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Nursing Telehealth Primary Care Patient Experience 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to medication non-adherence cost more than $300 billion a year, according to National Institutes of Health research. In the U.S.,

Telehealth 207

Telehealth Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 207

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. We closely monitored Zoom from the time the pandemic hit, although we already had a signed contract with another company for synchronous telehealth services.

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Telehealth Telemedicine eCare Primary Care 144

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power,” your mind probably imagines reviews of automotive performance, retail shopping experiences, or perhaps even health insurance plan customer service. were under 44 years of age, women more than men (much of this driven by moms caring for children and pediatrics access during off-hours), and suburban dwelling.

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