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Patient experience is evolving as providers embrace telehealth

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But as the new realities of staffing challenges and value-based care become apparent – and regulatory and reimbursement policies evolve to accommodate it – more and more healthcare organizations are embracing telehealth. Focus on Patient Experience. Their vision? Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

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Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. The post Prelude to Health 2.0

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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Statistically, this was an inverse-shift: In the previous year, the second quarter of 2019, 15% of telehealth encounters happened through a local physician’s practice, versus 46% in Q2 2020; and, In the second quarter of 2020, 41% of telehealth occurred through a telehealth company with a nationwide network of doctors, versus 13% in Q2 2020.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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The proportion of people tracking at least one health metric digitally was 38% in 2018 and grew to over one-half, 54%, in 2020. This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable.