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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway? visits per 100 member-years.

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Team members looked back at the total number of in-person and telehealth visits from 2015 through 2020.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). The largest positive change in adoption was seen in telehealth and remote monitoring, and.

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How one health system harnessed AI, telehealth to combat coronavirus

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. "Many departments had achieved 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

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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Walmart hires Ochsner exec to lead healthcare push

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This summer, Insider reported that Walmart Health's primary care provider had filed to do business in 37 states – likely related to the company's telehealth aspirations. Carmouche has been with Ochsner Health, where he is an executive vice president of value-based care and operations, since 2015.

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Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Today, more than one million people from all 50 states and 140 countries come to Mayo Clinic to receive care at sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin. “Mayo Clinic has operated an RPM program since 2015. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS. For Mayo Clinic, this is twofold.