Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. " she said in a statement. A resources toolkit that includes a new road map.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 16, 2023

MedArrive , a home care management platform, partners with virtual cardiology player Heartbeat Health to deliver essential heart care services to underserved groups, particularly Medicaid beneficiaries. MedArrive , led by former Lyft and Uber executive Dan Trigub , launched in 2020 with an innovative approach to home health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

" As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. TimeDoc Health is a vendor of virtual care management, chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring technologies and services. But telehealth can help in a significant way.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., the leader in end-to-end population health management solutions and services, today announced it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., The strategic acquisition combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. People with lower-incomes were also more likely to delay or not get health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2022

There is a commonly held belief that social determinants of health like income and education level may negatively impact the use of digital health programs, and that this could widen gaps in health equity. Please describe the remote diabetes monitoring program/social determinants of health study you conducted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Telemedicine in these areas provides chronic patients, for example, with access to medical specialists without traveling an extended distance, and can allow providers to identify particular social determinants of health such as lack of access to food. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. The best U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Based on the influx of research studies and position papers on social determinants of health flowing into my email box and Google Alerts, I can say we’re past the inflection point where SDoH is embraced by hospitals, professional societies, health plans and even a couple of pioneering pharma companies.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 3, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The buzz around social determinants of health (SDoH) is making waves across the healthcare industry. Linked to roughly 80 percent of overall health, stakeholders are increasingly embracing the opportunity of addressing SDoH in care management workflows.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. Aligning clinical care and social service.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Already worth $350 billion in 2019, the industry is expected to continue increasing given our rapidly aging population and that national healthcare spend is almost 20% of the GDP , as well as the surge in new digital tools, devices, and therapeutics that can drive better patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Alaina Victoria, PT, DPT, Marketing and Sales Enablement Manager at OneStep With more patients looking for novel care options, technology has stepped in to bridge the gap between in-person care and everyday life. The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. One site used SDoH to ensure equity for under-served populations when there wasn’t enough of a critical drug for all patients. (Of

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

SDoH Success Stories to Inspire Adoption and Action in Your Organization Healthcare organizations are spending significant resources – time, money, and human capital – to address social determinants of health (SDoH) and health equity. According to Data Bridge Market Research , the U.S. in SDoH over a two-year period.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul Barnes, Partner at CWH Advisors Today, there is widespread consensus that Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) have an impact on health inequities among various populations; resource scarcity in food, housing and other areas result in different health utilization and outcomes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exec Summary: The intersection of large language models (LLMs), electronic health records (EHRs), and social determinants of health (SDoH) holds immense potential for revolutionising healthcare delivery and improving population health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

With consumer and prescriber interest in GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs “soaring,” health plan managers have a new source of financial stress and clinical questions on their to-do list. Because of rising costs and the conditions downstream health impacts, Virta noted in the report. Why diabetes and obesity?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company. By offering equitable healthcare, health systems can become more efficient overall.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Resources from specialties like cardiology and endocrinology to services like case management and social services are often siloed, making coordination even more difficult. You say hospitals and health systems need to shift the focus from discharge planning to hospital-at-home care orchestration.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Scott McFarland is President of HealthBI , where he leads the organization’s health information technology platform team. The practices get information to help address social determinants of health via the platform as well. As Scott said, it takes chart chasing and faxing out of the equation.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2020

per 100,000 population to 18.0 The data can be quite granular with information on mental health diagnoses and treatments, toxicology tests, and stressors such as health problems, relationship-, financial- or work-related challenges. Creating opportunities for employee social connectedness. The rate of suicide in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year. In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. Financial health must be recognized as inseparable from health.

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Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

2024 got off to an auspicious and promising start for the everyone vested in promoting telehealth and remote patient monitoring as viable solutions to advancing health equity and providing high-quality care to rural and geographically isolated U.S. And, Clear Arch Health is thrilled to play a role!

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2019

Better understanding this group of people will be critical to helping manage a fast-growing health care bill, and growing burden of chronic disease, for America. In distant second place were family and close friends (27%), the pharmacist (19%), and the health plan (17%). The patient portal is one such example.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

hospitals are in poor fiscal health. In The Rural Health Safety Net Under Pressure: Rural Hospital Vulnerability, the Chartis team documents the erosion of these small, remote institutions which provide the only inpatient resource for health citizens living in their geographically large service areas.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Keep reading to learn more about the different provider types available in a remote setting and how to recruit psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. You’ll also learn how to find the best fit for your population, organization, and care team. Next, how will your population respond to telehealth?

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