Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China.

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JULY 26, 2021

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. Expands the early intervention services that can be provided through telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system created a telehealth program, the main problem it was trying to solve was how to improve access to care across the state. We used these county health departments as a way to deliver subspecialty care across our state. "This was all too clear during COVID.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says it will temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities around prescription of certain controlled medications as it sifts through comments on its proposed plans for post-PHE remote prescibing guardrails.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. A bipartisan group of U.S. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams.

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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About the ATA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More than 230 healthcare and industry organizations wrote a letter to governors across the country asking for expanded access to telehealth via licensure flexibilities. The letter was signed by a diverse range of organizations, including: Industry representatives such as Amazon, Amwell, Epic and Kroger. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., WHY IT MATTERS. In its letter, the CHI supported these provisions and urged Alexander and his colleagues to go further.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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MARCH 2, 2022

A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

"The future of mental health care requires omnichannel care where telehealth plays a role in a larger continuum of treatments," said Dr. Carlene MacMillan, vice president of clinical innovation at Osmind, in a statement. We are thrilled to partner to offer their industry-leading solution." " THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. It's very clear to one and all that the pandemic has truly brought telemedicine into the mainstream. And how will near-term changes in healthcare delivery affect telemedicine?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The report, released this week from consumer credit reporting company Experian, notes that the pivot to new technologies necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic will continue to leave businesses, including those in the healthcare industry, vulnerable to data breaches. "Cyberattacks are nothing new to the healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. ” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform. Telehealth consultations are CSC’s new normal. Another telehealth benefit to HIE participation is the newfound ability to reconcile medications. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Please explain.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. ATA, which represents the full range of providers that deliver telehealth, has intervened with some states as they grapple with health data privacy legislation, he said.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

At the same time, both PCPs and the patients who need them face many challenges – and now both are finding that telemedicine may be the answer. Then there are telehealth apps that cater to patients looking for quick one-off visits. Like most physicians, PCPs spend considerable time on administrative documentation and managing capacity.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

May is Mental Health Awareness Month each year, so time to be even more vigilant in calling out the Gallup findings and continued stigma and barriers to accessing needed services. In the meantime, more older people feel the mental/physical health service gap even more acutely than younger health citizens.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. Telehealth, too, is embraced by 3 in 5 people for both physical and mental health services.

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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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Ortholive

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We’re nearing the end of the fourth quarter, 2019, and telehealth shows no signs of abating. In November, one of the largest insurance companies in the nation reported extremely high patient satisfaction scores for their subscribers, along with a cost reduction from using telehealth.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care). Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. We must address the poor state of the public health infrastructure.

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