Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Congress to address telehealth right now? has known how to deliver.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that although medical oncologists recognized the convenience and access to care presented by telehealth video visits, many raised doubts about its clinical effectiveness. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

Telehealth has revolutionized the patient experience by making it easier to attend appointments, communicate with their provider, and reduce no-show rates. On top of enabling continuity of care for patients, telehealth also increases clinician satisfaction and provides financial benefits for organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for "on-demand" telehealth services will grow, technology will normalize access to health experts via telemedicine, virtual chronic care management is growing and personalization will influence telehealth engagement. Q: You've said that personalization will influence telehealth engagement. billion by 2026.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. "It was important to us that the implementation of a telehealth/RPM program would provide the best patient experience," said Dr. Lance M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., chat, video conferencing, etc.) In Singapore, approximately ten telehealth companies are active in this space and employ inhouse doctors or a panel of doctors to offer the service. What more should/can be done in telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

It's no secret, at this point, that telehealth rates exploded in response to the COVID-19 crisis. But a KLAS report published this week found that, while some telehealth technology vendors rose to the occasion, others have struggled to deliver. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to a survey released Tuesday by the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, the majority of physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals say telehealth is positively influencing clinical outcomes, patient experience, cost and professional satisfaction. Workflow was also an issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

Athenahealth announced this week that it had launched an embedded telehealth tool to allow practitioners to conduct virtual visits without having to download separate software or use another third-party app. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new project in the Australian state of Victoria aims to improve the telehealth capabilities of mental health and palliative care services. million) funding from the federal government-backed Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) for its Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities project. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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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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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Patient experience, trust, and satisfaction are other significant benefits offered by live technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in so many cases, this was Zoom – a video conferencing technology that today practically everyone is familiar with. Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons.

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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

JUNE 11, 2020

As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just as we experienced “e-business” departments blurring into ecommerce and everyday business processes, so is “telehealth” morphing into, simply, health care delivery as one of many channels and platforms. Telehealth and virtual care are key education topics and exhibitor presences at HIMSS19.

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SteadyMD

AUGUST 29, 2023

Telehealth service celebrates extending access to trusted care services and provider network across the U.S. SteadyMD was one of the first telehealth providers available through Amazon Clinic when it launched in November 2022. “We To learn more, please visit SteadyMD.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Cancer is one of the few diseases where we must make patients sicker to get them better. Telemedicine is best applied in low-acuity situations – cases where being on video or engaged in a live video chat or discussion is not inconvenient. Communication between patient and clinician is critical during this journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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

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. "We use Epic with Zoom as the video solutions," Sarantis said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. The experience was often frustrating. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. The industry can help evolve these standards and make medical devices work seamlessly as part of video conferences." WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Consider the seven Fjord 2021 trends together, and you’ve got a recipe for telehealth – virtual health platforms that enable people to DIY health/care at home and anywhere, as long as the health citizen can connect to the internet.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Early in the pandemic, healthcare providers had to use telehealth as a substitute for in-person care. Now, many healthcare professionals are trying to determine how to move past COVID-19, asking, “Is telehealth additive or substitutive?” Is Telehealth Additive or Substitutive? The patient’s medical condition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2022

"Together, we can transform the patient experience for the many people who are desperate for effective digestive health treatment." Patients connect with specialized providers via telehealth visits, their care plan is continuously informed and refined by their symptoms, food and bowel movement monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

UPMC has been working with Pittsburgh-based Abridge, a telehealth-focused startup that uses natural language processing to create after-visit summaries – enabling patients to revisit their physicians' instructions after remote consults. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

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