Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, the agency had laid the groundwork for virtual care expansion through established telehealth programs in more than 50 clinical specialties. The COVID-19 crisis, though, triggered a rapid scale-up. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3

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Clocktree

JANUARY 23, 2018

On October 26, 2017, The White Housedeclared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and the administration acknowledged a need to expand treatment throughout rural areas specifically by making telemedicine more accessible. Access to telehealth services has enabled many patients to have the ability to discuss medication issues etc.

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American Well

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Steps to Telehealth Success. Preparing for 2017. As the year comes to a close and healthcare organizations prepare for 2017, telehealth success initiatives are expected to remain high on the list of priorities. For providers competing for patients, telehealth services are a significant differentiator.

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KevinMD

APRIL 15, 2019

Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands.

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Health Recovery Solutions

OCTOBER 24, 2023

According to 2017–2018 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than two in five adults (42.4%) in the United States are obese—and these numbers have almost certainly increased since then.  Obesity is a global epidemic, affecting not only wealthy nations but countries of all economic levels.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

The owners of a national telehealth company pleaded guilty this week to charges of conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and to commit healthcare fraud. Law enforcement agencies have ramped up the pressure on telehealth fraud, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement released by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

Between July 2016 and June 2017, said the Justice Department, Raffai allegedly signed prescriptions and order forms for durable medical equipment, including orthotic braces, that were not medically necessary. In return, said the agency, telehealth companies allegedly paid Raffai about $25 or $30 per patient consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. million people in Suffolk County, New York. The opportunities telemedicine provides.

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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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Enzyme Health

JULY 31, 2019

Get to know the most important data on telehealth market growth, insurance and telemedicine, telehealth technology, telemedicine patient demographics, telehealth patient satisfaction, provider adoption of telehealth, and specialty telemedicine statistics. Telehealth Market Statistics. As of 2017, 61.2%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Researchers from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine released an issue brief this week aimed at exploring the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and future prospects of telehealth. The researchers noted that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered an enormous paradigm shift when it comes to certain telehealth needs.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

In 2017, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Ozempic for diabetes treatment, and in 2021, the drug Wegovy for weight loss. Telehealth weight loss companies have been marketing telemedicine weigh

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2019

Nearly three quarters of Americans said they are unaware of, or unable to access telehealth services, even though one in 10 said they had previously used telehealth technology. While telehealth awareness lowest in rural areas, low levels of awareness nationwide, coupled with lack of access, are hindering adoption, the study concluded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2019

Expansion of telehealth coverage and reimbursement at the state level has grown since 2017, according to the latest American Telemedicine Association. " Another telehealth barrier concerns requirements that trained staff or providers be at least immediately available to a patient during telehealth encounters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

" For Prisma Health – which is now the biggest not-for-profit health organization in the state, following the 2017 merger of Palmetto Health and the Greenville Health System – virtual care represents a big opportunity to boost access while also, hopefully, improving quality outcomes and lowering the cost of care delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs to use distributed tablet devices to provide telehealth benefits to patients is working. “Telehealth technology remains a vital platform to provide high-quality healthcare to all veterans, regardless of challenges they may face in accessing care,” VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Benefits of Telemedicine to Patients.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As telehealth adoption continues to grow, telehealth competency education and training or the key to providing safe, effective, evidence-based telebehavioral health (TBH) services. Many providers have offered virtual care for nearly three years, but how many of these practitioners were trained in telehealth?

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VSee

JANUARY 10, 2018

This article is based on the 2017 Telehealth Failures & Secrets To Success (TFSS) conference talk Telehealth Reimbursement Models for Non-medical Services given by Brenda Schmidt. is always one of the first questions people have when starting to do telehealth.

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation. States around the country are creating new legislation to increase access to telehealth services , but one state is going above and beyond when it comes to enacting meaningful change within the healthcare system. Kentucky Doubles Down on Telehealth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since January 2017.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Requires the commissioner of health to study and report on recommendations for legislation concerning telehealth and telemedicine under existing statute.

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19 Labs

MAY 21, 2021

Exam cameras are a fundamental component of enhanced telehealth. One was taken with a $5,000 HD camera from 2017, and the other with a $100 HD camera from 2021. New technologies are being introduced all the time, and a strong telehealth solution should be able to utilize these out-of-the-box. Can you see the difference?

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American Well

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Telehealth has recently gained traction for its ability to transform pediatric care. Here’s a short summary of Pediatric Associates approach to pediatric telehealth. Pediatric Associates partnered with American Well to transform its triage line and implement telehealth as a care option. The Problem. The Solution. The Results.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 17, 2019

Telehealth technology is helping provide better access to healthcare and easing the healthcare disparity gap among core American populations from seniors to rural residents. Find out how telehealth is showing promise for some of the biggest challenges to equitable healthcare access. How telehealth can help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Marshfield Clinic has introduced a tablet-based telehealth program in partnership with software specialist Health Recovery Solutions. million patient encounters in 2017. After years of under-fulfilled promise, telehealth efforts are gaining momentum in a big way. HRS is honored to have been chosen as their telehealth partner."

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ria Health , a leading telehealth provider specializing in Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) treatment, announced receipt of a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a randomized, controlled trial evaluation of Ria Health’s intervention to increase telehealth screening and treatment for alcohol use disorders.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Telehealth has recently gained traction for its ability to transform pediatric care. Here’s a short summary of Pediatric Associates approach to pediatric telehealth. Pediatric Associates partnered with American Well to transform its triage line and implement telehealth as a care option. The Problem. The Solution. The Results.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Two approaches quantified in this year’s KFF survey are the use of lower-cost settings, such as retail clinics and telehealth, as well as workers generating health data shared via mobile apps and wearable technology. employers ask. Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2021

Kinderhook Industries, LLC (“Kinderhook”) today announced a definitive agreement to sell Telehealth 2017 Holdings, LLC, (“Synzi” or the “Company”) to AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. NYSE: AMN) for a purchase price of $42.5 The acquisition signed and closed on April 7th, 2021. Synzi, based in St.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 31, 2018

Expanding Quality Metrics to Include Telehealth. Even with this growth, there are no current measures to evaluate and assess the impact of telehealth or address concerns about the utility and benefit of telehealth services. Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 1 PM CDT. Register Today!

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

February 02, 2022 — GlobalMed, an international provider of virtual health solutions, is proud to announce that its eNcounter® telehealth software suite, ClinicalAccess® Station Lite and multiple diagnostic examination cameras are now compliant with the European Union’s (EU) strictest medical device regulation MDR 2017/745.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of the questions many health systems ask when considering telehealth is whether the patient will use the service. To help health systems answer that question, American Well conducted a nationally projectable survey in 2017 —a telehealth patient satisfaction survey—to measure patient perception and experience with telehealth.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of the questions many health systems ask when considering telehealth is whether the patient will use the service. To help health systems answer that question, American Well conducted a nationally projectable survey in 2017 —a telehealth patient satisfaction survey—to measure patient perception and experience with telehealth.

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American Well

JUNE 30, 2017

1 Telehealth directly addresses these goals and responds to the consumerism trend. Here is a couple of ways in which telehealth helps health systems meet consumer needs and goals: Improve the Health of Populations. For consumers, telehealth offers a quick and easy option for addressing healthcare needs.

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