Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As WHO says it’s, “a chance to celebrate health and remind world leaders that everyone should be able to access the health care they need, when and where they need it.” Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

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. 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. This week, Health 2.0 The post Prelude to Health 2.0

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth in 2019. With telemedicine, patients are able to seek services from providers in larger communities without having to coordinate travel plans or using the distance as a valid excuse to not seek treatment or care. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 23, 2019

Considering only since the beginning of 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies, such as the Office of National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) and the Department of Health and […]. One of the greatest challenges in healthcare is keeping up with the changing landscape.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

These conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, exacerbated for some patients due to peoples’ “medical distancing” — avoiding or postponing outpatient visits for routine health services and chronic care management. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 31, 2019

Blog Login Sign Up March 2019 Telemedicine News Enzyme Health Team March 31, 2019 Review the latest telemedicine innovations, partnerships, and research making news in March 2019. Only 20% are listed here. Sign Up to see them all. And you don’t have to leave the country to enjoy.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Neurosurgeons top the salary list, telemedicine is one of the fastest-growing sectors and primary care physicians are the most in-demand, according to a new physician labor market study.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There’s no mistaking that more Supercenters are located in areas with greater levels of people without insurance based on data from 2019 (Walmart store location count) and 2018 (uninsured rates). Indeed, outpatient and ambulatory care is the New Black for hospitals and health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. 570 counties in the U.S.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. Walmart Health then debuted in 2019, and it’s a more comprehensive offering than it seems to get credit for.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

Medscape surveyed 15,181 physicians across 28 specialists in June through September 2019 to gauge clinicians’ perspectives on burnout and depression for this study. Two-thirds of physicians have not felt suicidal, but one in five doctors has thought of suicide — but not attempted it. Women in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

will be short as many as 124,000 physicians in 2034, according to The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand Projections From 2019 to 2034 from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). “Demographics continue to be the primary driver of increasing (physician) demand from 2019 to 2034,” AAMC asserts.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

With the disclaimer of not possessing an 8-Ball, below are some of the things we believe are “around the proverbial corner” for the industry in 2019. 2019: It’s not your grandpa’s version of telehealth anymore. For more 2019 telehealth predictions, watch Dr. Schoenberg’s presentation here.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Because telemedicine can save time, money, and worry, 65% of patients surveyed are very or somewhat interested in seeing their primary care provider via video visits. When Patients Choose Telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In 2019, Walmart took a stand when it re-imagined its sporting equipment and hunting aisles to stop stocking certain firearms. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Home is evolving as an impactful site for health care, we are learning from the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

They calculated the average distance between patients' home addresses and their assigned primary care clinics, and used Oregon Department of Transportation data about how individuals run errands to estimate what percentage of in-person trips were taken by car. per year through 2019 – but declined by 46.2%

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. hours per eight patient scheduled hours.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 30, 2019

A study by investigators at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh published in the journal Pediatrics found that telemedicine providers were much more likely to prescribe antibiotics to children for respiratory conditions than those at in-person urgent or primary care appointments. (52%

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Walgreens-backed VillageMD locked in the acquisition of Summit for the cool sum of $8.9B, immediately establishing it as one of the largest primary care providers in the country. Capturing that extra revenue probably doesn’t hurt either. The transaction was made possible through a $3.5B The Takeaway.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Nearly 150 companies were surveyed in May and June 2019 across industry sectors, with a majority of organizations falling into the Fortune 500. In 2020, on-site or near-site primary care centers are or will be adopted. Primary care are the services provided by clinicians as gatekeepers and front-line providers for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

The research team notes that despite an assumption that a COVID-19-fueled shift to virtual care happened "all at once," that may not have always been the case – potentially leading to some patients who didn't feel safe seeking in-person care being left behind. 1, 2019, and Dec. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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KevinMD

MARCH 6, 2019

Now, in 2019, I […]. In 2015, I had to beg doctors to work in telemedicine. Because so many doctors were wary of it, I started to get licensed in multiple states, and now, I have 15 state licenses. Well, what a difference a few years makes. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Demand for consumer-facing connected health technology is being driven by both health citizens themselves as well as the larger healthcare ecosystem of providers, health plans, and employers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Its virtual healthcare program began in July 2019 with the launch of the UHS Virtual Walk-In. "We achieved URAC Consumer-to-Provider Telehealth Accreditation for the Virtual Walk-In in December 2019 and hold the distinction of being the first health system to receive that designation. " Sean J.

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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. I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. State level.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health is seeing utilization rates among Medicare Advantage members up 54% for virtual urgent care services and up 635% for virtual mental health services when compared to 2019. What is the current state of virtual care for those 65 and older? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

Healthcare organizations that are most successful in 2019 will know what challenges and changes are coming down the pipeline, and they will prepare accordingly. To help ensure you don’t get left behind, we’ve assembled the top six challenges the industry will face in 2019. That will need to change in 2019. Primary care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2019

Spending on medical care costs crowded out other household spending for millions of Americans in 2018, based on The U.S. adults 18 and over in January and February 2019. Healthcare Cost Crisis , a survey from West Health and Gallup. Gallup polled 3,537 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. We forecast that this will expand over the near and longer term as all health consumers are seeking more convenient, accessible, value-priced health care services. There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

With the disclaimer of not possessing an 8-Ball, below are some of the things we believe are “around the proverbial corner” for the industry in 2019. 2019: It’s not your grandpa’s version of telehealth anymore. For more 2019 telehealth predictions, watch Dr. Schoenberg’s presentation here.

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