Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

billion in 2016 to a staggering 6.3 This widespread access to digital health tools positions it as an affordable and scalable public health strategy. Among the most exciting prospects of digital health is its capacity to reshape dietary management. billion in 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Walmart has long committed to health care, leveraging pharmacy as a “front door to primary care,” AHA describes. is expanding virtual care and telehealth, and building long-term partnerships across the health care ecosystem — including one with UnitedHealth Group over a ten-year agreement.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This feeling of political stress was uncovered at the time of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election by the American Psychological Association in their Stress In America study, which I discussed here in Health Populi. tomorrow having spent nearly three weeks getting smarter about health and healthcare in various parts of Europe.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. Cardiac health has a growing evidence base for digital health tech, IQVIA pointed out in their recent study on The Growing Value of Digital Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

Among the many health disparities the pandemic shined a light on were a few that converge, highly relevant to these scenarios: The lack of access to broadband connectivity negatively impact Black Americans ‘ ability to work from home, be educated at home, and receive telehealth from home. for decades.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Note the last line of that matrix, population with health care coverage: the U.S. It’s important to realize that this statistic is based on data from 2016 at a historic high, when the Affordable Care Act was in full implementation]. ranks lowest on that, at 90%. [It’s

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Furthermore, telehealth is proving to be extremely effective in maximizing the efficiency of healthcare delivery, thus optimizing the way healthcare systems respond to rising demand for healthcare services. Two forms in which telehealth presents itself are teleconsultations and remote monitoring devices. 2021 [6] Regina M.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the World Health Organization ( 2015 ), phone addiction is a public health concern. What is Telehealth? Activities such as using mobile Internet are associated with smartphone addiction because these behaviors contribute to increased checking behaviors, which can develop into phone addiction (Jeong et al.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 25, 2022

The Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a worldwide public health concern that can cause both acute and chronic liver diseases. Using Telehealth like Remote Patient Monitoring Technology to manage HCV patients may indicate a viable solution. From 2013 to 2016, an estimated 2.4 5 FAQS About Hepatitis C Infection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Established in 2016, My Emergency Doctor has been providing acute care after hours via video and phone across regional Australia. It has established partnerships with over 40 healthcare services, including ambulances, primary health networks, residential aged care facilities, hospitals, urgent care centres and multi-purpose centres.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

The second article , which will publish next month, examines gaps in care delivery and the related public policy challenges of providing appropriate, accessible. Arguably, the nation’s public health defenses should anticipate global pandemics and apply resources. ” That distinction is. of a charging Gray Rhino.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

He was awarded a full scholarship to attend classes at Harvard University, holds an advanced project management certification from Stanford University, and completed his master’s degree in public health and management from the University of North Texas. Telemed J E Health 2016 May;22(5):395-9. Source : [link]

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system saw an unprecedented surge in virtual care. Indiana University Health. Gundersen Health System.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

There was a 250 percent increase in the number of healthtech deals compared to 2016. Telehealth and mobile health apps To help make healthcare advice, diagnosis and monitoring more accessible, telehealth services in Brazil are expanding. This digitization of records is estimated to save the federal government about $6.8

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Congressman and House of Representatives Majority Leader ( with whom I collaborated at CES in 2016 ); Morad Fareed, (another CES collaborator of mine on that Wizards of Maternal Health panel )’ and David Pogue, who leads Corporate Responsibility at CBRE Group, among many other experts.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section). Without them, the U.S.

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Health Recovery Solutions

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2016, the opioid-related overdose deaths reached an all-time high of over 42 thousand, prompting President Trump to declare a public health emergency. [i]. In recent years, the use of opioids has skyrocketed, drawing attention from all levels of government across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. She says that a reversal would limit digital health access, which an overly burdened and understaffed industry has come to rely on.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

"My career has been about helping people live healthy lives," Levine told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "As the assistant secretary for health, I would be committed each day to helping the people of our nation and improving our public health."

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