American Well

APRIL 26, 2016

Welcome to the April 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today newsletter! In case you missed them, here are a few updates from Avizia: Avizia is among the 10 Most Promising Telemedicine Solution Providers of 2016. Brazilian Doctor Crafts a Telemedicine System to Combat Zika. Telemedicine is bringing patients new hope.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Telemedicine Today. 5 Factors Driving Telehealth to Top $1 Billion by 2018. Large health plans and even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are starting to reimburse for virtual care, starting first and foremost with the telehealth platforms. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

Welcome to the first installment of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today, #tday for all you Twitter users. Each  Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. ” Read More. Healthcare Informatics.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys. billion in 2018.

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American Well

JUNE 22, 2017

A bipartisan group of US Senators recently reintroduced the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (or CHRONIC, for short) Care Act of 2017 (first introduced in 2016 ), intended to improve healthcare outcomes for Medicare recipients living with chronic conditions.

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American Well

JUNE 22, 2017

A bipartisan group of US Senators recently reintroduced the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (or CHRONIC, for short) Care Act of 2017 (first introduced in 2016 ), intended to improve healthcare outcomes for Medicare recipients living with chronic conditions.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Throughout 2018, we witnessed across-the-board advances in the world of telemedicine. In 2018, more states introduced telemedicine parity reimbursement laws. But above all, in 2018, our definition of telehealth changed. Leaving the hospital doesn’t mean you’re getting lesser care . Hindsight is easy.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Rural hospital closures disproportionately occurred in the South, among for-profit hospitals and among organizations with a Medicare-dependent hospital payment designation. According to GAO, just 17% of rural hospital closures occurred in states that had expanded Medicaid as of April 2018. One potential lifeline was Medicaid expansion.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Throughout 2018, we witnessed across-the-board advances in the world of telemedicine. In 2018, more states introduced telemedicine parity reimbursement laws. But above all, in 2018, our definition of telehealth changed. Leaving the hospital doesn’t mean you’re getting lesser care . Hindsight is easy.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

In our review of 2018 Uniform Data System data—the most recent available—from a 100 percent sample of US CHCs, we found that our nation’s health centers are largely unprepared for this transformation. Across the US, 56 percent of 1,330 CHCs did not have any telehealth use in 2018 ( exhibit 1 ).

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American Well

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The specialist may be the right person in the right role, but at a given time they may not be the ideal primary care provider. The reason for this lies in the current structure of care in the United States, a structure I see as the healthcare pyramid. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The specialist may be the right person in the right role, but at a given time they may not be the ideal primary care provider. The reason for this lies in the current structure of care in the United States, a structure I see as the healthcare pyramid. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

This forced hospitals and health systems to dramatically reduce elective surgeries, lay off thousands and significantly change care delivery with the adoption of new practices and services like telemedicine. Overall, hospitals saw a 21% decline in operating margins in 2018-2019. Telemedicine typifies this phenomenon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. Another segment of startups focus on a separate driver of health care costs—the prices of medical services.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During M Health Fairview (MHF) went live with a telestrokepilot program in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"We follow these patients longitudinally, meaning when someone enrolls with us, we will manage them alongside their primary care physician and specialists throughout their entire care journey. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare | 2018” list, which highlights hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies that promote diversity within the workforce, employee engagement and professional growth. 17 on its list of Best Workplaces in Health Care.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. To be fair, the news wasn’t all bad.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

Ripple effects from 2018 will continue well into the new year as players deal with some massive policy and business shifts. Progress on behavioral and population health is happening in tandem with — or perhaps existing symbiotically alongside — the growth of telemedicine. Medicare Advantage still lucrative, popular.

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