Digital Health Global

APRIL 4, 2024

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death globally, underscoring the critical need for accessible and innovative clinical cardiovascular solutions. ” The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health solutions, with the CDC reporting that 36% of adults used telehealth services in 2021. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The research team from the University of Pennsylvania health system sought to compare the demographic characteristics of patients who completed a telemedicine encounter (either via phone or video) with those who were scheduled for one, but did not complete it. Otherwise telehealth won't work." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2023

South Korea expands telemedicine pilot Starting 15 December, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will be introducing additional measures to its national telemedicine pilot. Patients who have had face-to-face treatment within the past six months from a clinic can now also access telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2022

Electronic Caregiver, a digital health technology and services company, is debuting Addison the Virtual Caregiver at HIMSS22. The company labels Addison the next generation of remote patient monitoring technology that offers a solution to the caregiver shortage by providing healthcare management outside a doctor's four walls.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

In order to keep members safe, the organization made the decision to close all 120 of its clinics across the country and transition to 100% virtual opioid use disorder treatment services. When Groups saw the gap in quality it was approaching with its previous technologies, it took a big step back to reevaluate its virtual treatment services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

Think: advanced home care, enabled through virtual health technologies and wrap-around services both clinical and scaled social determinants support. Virtual care, post-COVID-19 pandemic, is a new patient expectation as millions of consumers gained access to telehealth in the crisis — and liked the user-experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The Medical Board of Australia, which is responsible for regulating medical practitioners in the country, has made some revisions to its telehealth guidelines. Based on a media release, these changes to the telehealth guidelines will take effect on 1 September. " "Prescribing medication is not a tick-and-flick exercise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

Monash Health pilots virtual clinic for blood pressure management. Monash Health, a public health service in Victoria, has piloted its pharmacist-led virtual clinic for managing the blood pressure of patients with chronic diseases. Australia offers telehealth subsidy for COVID-19 antiviral prescription.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

When health systems work to implement a new platform, not only do they need to ensure new platforms integrate into their current technologies, but they also must get team buy-in and ensure it makes their workflows and systems easier — not more complicated. Additionally, what is the usability like?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 report found that nearly two in three healthcare leaders are prioritizing investments in telehealth – but that priorities will shift to artificial intelligence in three years. by collaborating with other private hospitals and health technology companies. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

" Meanwhile, an expanded scope of medical humanities will also be integrated into the programme to equip students with the foundational skills to critically engage with technology, manage clinical uncertainty, and adapt to changes in healthcare practice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The purpose of the survey, which measured across all ages and specialties, according to AMA, was to investigate physicians' motivations and requirements for onboarding digital health technologies and integrating them into their medical practices. The average number of digital health tools in use by a physician grew from 2.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the 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's in store for behavioral health in 2022?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

New funding round led by Nina Capital enables Healee to empower unique digital health models and accelerate telehealth adoption. expansion and technology development. expansion and technology development. Supporting Unique Use Cases in Digital Health. Eliminating Barriers to Telehealth Adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2023

As hospitals and health systems seek to dig out from particularly tough couple years for their bottom lines, the large majority are planning to boost spending on technology the next year as they continue their efforts toward digital transformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

Swinburne University of Technology, a public university located in Melbourne, Australia, has partnered with Coviu, a telehealth software platform, to further embed digital health technology in the classroom, clinic and research. What’s it about.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 1, 2022

BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, December 1, 2022 — DrKumo is proud to announce that it has earned URAC full accreditation for Telehealth Support Services 2.0: DrKumo is a multi-awarded Connected Health Technology leader that provides Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Disease Management Programs (DMPs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

That is one of the big findings of the Future Health Index 2022 report, entitled "Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift as healthcare leaders navigate a changed world." healthcare leaders also see how technology can help alleviate them. Peers and health IT vendors can help deliver much-needed expertise.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

And the outlook for 2023 is practical and Show-Me: that is, demonstrate clinical outcomes and return-on-investment before “I” (for investors) can take a leap of faith to spend a dollar, a Yen, a Euro, or British pound on a shiny new-new healthcare thing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 4, 2023

FINDINGS The country's Ministry of Health earlier projected a need for as much as 24,000 additional allied health professionals and support care staff to meet the demands of their nation's ageing population by 2030. As much as 84% of them have committed to investing in health AI over the next three years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Food and Drug Administration has released a draft guidance focused on using digital health technologies to acquire data remotely from participants in clinical investigations of medical products. " At the same time, it said, sponsors and stakeholders should ensure their technology of choice is fit for its intended purpose.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2021

Additionally, guests who require more care can seek follow-ups and mental health support through videoconferencing. In a statement, Telstra Health said it quickly deployed its digital health solutions following a request from the Australian federal government to support returning travellers, including seasonal workers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. '" Mahoney continued.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. Other non-clinical considerations. Clinical applications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. "I think we all realize that telehealth absolutely took off in the COVID-19 pandemic," said Bates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Colorado Health had been developing multiple virtual care systems over several years. Further, the health system was beginning to develop technologies to remotely monitor patients at home, specifically for diabetes care. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? For mental health — particularly, low-to-mid-level anxiety and depression — there are cognitive behavioral therapy apps and tools that have been shown to be useful for many patients backed by clinical evidence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The technology was struggling to get off the ground despite it being available for years. The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Medicare currently doesn't reimburse federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or rural health centers (RHCs) for RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

"ACP’s collaboration on this project is an important step forward in identifying and creating digital health tools that are valuable and safe for our members and patients," said Dr. Ryan D. As noted on the framework's website , more than 86 million people in the United States currently use a health or fitness app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the recent IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2021 Predictions report, experts at IDC Health Insights offer their thoughts about the issues healthcare and life science organizations will contend with over the next year and beyond. WHY IT MATTERS. Here are IDC's 2021 predictions. THE LARGER TREND. 'Tis

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

More people are in need of mental health treatment today than ever before, but there just aren't enough therapists to meet the growing demand. received mental health treatment or counseling. And while telehealth has helped provide sweeping access to high-touch treatment, virtual care still is limited by the shortage of therapists.

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