Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2018

As the sector learns how to be more consumer and patient focused for customer experience, health care providers would be wise to leverage this highly-valued touch point. Whether in face-to-face health care, virtual/telehealth modes, or call centers, patients love and appreciate nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization; Mass media; and, Social media. FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. [FYI, How do health care providers build trust? Press Ganey asks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. ” "For these more complex visits to be successful, CIOs must also prioritize telehealth that is equipped to maintain rules of engagement for both patients and physicians." " Dr. Roy Schoenberg, Amwell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"Promoting access to care and health equity using telehealth has great potential to mitigate healthcare disparities for patients living in underserved communities," Aftab continued. The COVID-19 pandemic unlocked new avenues to extend care beyond brick-and-mortar facilities.

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Xealth

JUNE 22, 2023

Retail has figured out how to engage and connect with consumers – especially with its in-store layouts and navigation, putting as many products and options in front of the customer’s eyes as possible. However, these trips always end up with me loading more stuff into my car than what was on the list. Why is that? population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

If so, how? Technology leaders need to have a vision that looks beyond the affluent customer and embraces the entire patient population. How can telehealth address health disparities for vulnerable populations to promote health outcomes and equity? We have to rely on a combination of telehealth tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2013, Cincinnati Children's Hospital wanted to establish a Center for Telehealth. At the time, the interest in video visits and other forms of telehealth was growing, and the provider organization had a few clinical programs already up and running. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

HRI also interviewed numerous thought leaders from throughout the industry and frontline clinicians to understand their on-the-ground experiences during a historic year. This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

Whether integrating disparate sales and marketing resources, or redefining the buyer journey, HealthTech companies must ensure they understand how best to reach, influence, and prioritize their intended customer base. Research suggests the number of Telehealth companies will increase by 29% by 2025.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is transforming its technology systems to create foundational change, says its chief modernization officer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. Healthcare IT News interviewed Berg to gain some of his telehealth and mobile health expertise. How can physicians work to mitigate long patient wait times by using prescheduling tools?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists. 570 counties in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Some patients did not have devices to connect with Mount Sinai, did not know how to use the various connectivity platforms, did not have WiFi connection, or did not have “minutes allocation” for broadband connectivity. “The devices are customized according to the specification of our various provider groups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

Renton, Washington-based Providence knew healthcare was becoming more consumer-driven and believed that meant digital needed to play a role in how care was accessed and delivered. THE PROBLEM. The Digital Innovation Group at Providence was built to help the health system and the industry more confidently adopt digital solutions.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The pandemic may have changed healthcare, but it’s telehealth technology that will continue moving the sector into the digital realm. A Definitive Healthcare report found that 90% of hospitals looking to invest in telehealth services are planning to do so quickly. How does it work? Telehealth integration is no different.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

When considering the future of telehealth, it helps to look backward. 2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. So what does the future of telehealth look like? We’re also likely to see new advancements in technology and software that help digitize the patient experience from start to finish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Health System CIO

APRIL 14, 2021

Care was reinvented as alternate sites were rapidly created to accommodate surges of patients, and digital technology adoption rates soared to new heights. With our thought leadership and partnerships, we can think through how to solve many complex problems,” he said during a recent interview. It’s a great time to be a CIO.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Neither of those concepts are new in 2024, but I predict more focus in those areas.

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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. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. The program began with COVID-only evaluations in March 2020, and quickly expanded to providing a wider range of telehealth services under UCTH in July 2020."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

The service provides employees with access to telehealth consultations, in-person follow-ups, and prescription deliveries. PillPack: In 2018, Amazon acquired PillPack, an online pharmacy that specializes in delivering medications to customers' homes. This acquisition aimed to enhance Amazon's presence in the pharmaceutical space.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health care providers’ and plans’ investment in digital technologies while reducing capital spending on new physical assets, we learn in Building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

MedStar Health received a $2 million grant to continue research into how telehealth access impacts health equity. The granted-funded, follow-up research will explore ways to connect patients with chronic conditions and other vulnerable populations to telehealth services. Department of Justice challenge of the deal.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 11, 2023

Maman and Chander will address key challenges facing the healthcare industry while providing advice to startups, entrepreneurs, students and nonprofits on how they can effectively create and deploy solutions. 2-3 at Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California. “We CEO of CharmHealth. “We CEO of CharmHealth. “I

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

With offerings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan and California, it delivers comprehensive, integrated and person-centered care by coordinating the services of local staff, provider partners and community organizations. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Here, four C-suite executives and an innovation VP share lessons they've learned on such strategic imperatives as organizational evolution, good governance, virtual care, system localization, cloud infrastructure and underserved communities – and describe how they plan to put them into practice in the year ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In an ever-evolving world where technology often takes center stage, there is a transformative force that is key for a successful telemedicine program. Read how Ram Fish underlines three vital pillars beyond the technology, as we have seen in Oaxaca, Guyana, and each customer we work with. Watch his full presentation here.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, as artificial intelligence (AI) takes center stage, new regulations may be needed to disclose the nature and source of care dispensed. New drugs and delivery models are going to challenge what can be delivered over telemedicine and challenge the regulations of how in-person services are delivered.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

So, how can PT clinics take advantage of today’s technology to be most competitive moving forward right now ? These technologies tap into consumers’ deep desire for human, personal, immediate connections that can transform the patient/clinician relationship and create greater profitability for clinics. And a selfie? What was that?

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care innovations

JULY 27, 2018

After many years in the telehealth business, with much of it spent out in the field working directly with our customers, I noticed a trend out of the most successful ones. Courageous leaders know how to be bold without being reckless and he or she does it for the right reasons. This gives them the conviction to be courageous.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JULY 30, 2019

As a result, health plans and health systems such as hospitals, physicians’ offices and urgent care centers are turning to outsourcing partners to handle critical processes to compete and thrive in the changing market. In terms of affordability, access, digital capabilities, and engagement — consumers are consistently upping the ante.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 2, 2023

Considering the degree to which people suffer from hypertension, arthritis, COPD, diabetes, obesity, mobility impairment and heart disease, a number of these same adults are likely living with more than one chronic condition, creating an ever-increasing burden on U.S. healthcare resources and impacting quality of life for many.

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