Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 This could be data like lab results from a patient’s rheumatologist not being sent to their primary care doctor. million in 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members). I exhaled in a mindful moment.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular , I learned so much from a conversation during CES 2019 with Sean Carney , Philips’ Chief Design Officer. These three scenarios, and Philips’ usual work-flow, involves a lot of design research, which I’ve discussed previously here on Health Populi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. You and your research team just evaluated a VA telehealth program for outpatient general teleneurology care.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $123 billion by the end of 2030. The healthcare industry is already at the tipping point.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

While Peloton was a punchline in some peoples’ jokes at the 2019 holiday season ( see here ), the company had an enviable growing waiting list in 2020 — the right thing at the right time. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. Specifically, more geared toward patient choice, shopping for services, and price competition for out-of-pocket expenses. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). 57 A recent change in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that allows physician billing for time spent managing and interpreting data from remote monitoring (e.g., Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., mHealth Insights.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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