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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

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I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute.

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

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“This is going to become health care,” says Dr. Neil Evans of telehealth. A physician board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, Dr. Evans also serves as Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care (OCC) at the U.S. By 2020 … Telehealth Is Part of the Job’. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

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Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. million telehealth episodes of care – representing a 98% increase in telehealth episodes of care when compared to fiscal year 2020. The COVID-19 crisis, though, triggered a rapid scale-up.

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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

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Here’s what I wrote about the 2020 FHI , research conducted in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was in the midst of the fast-pivot toward virtual care and telehealth on-ramps welcomed by both clinicians and patients.

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RAND Report: FQHC Telehealth Implementation for Underserved Patients in Health Centers

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In March 2020, many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving low-income patients started delivering high volumes of telehealth visits to maintain access to care. Audio-only visits were the leading telehealth modality for primary care and behavioral health throughout the pandemic study period.

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"The sustainable advancement of telehealth is one that removes inequalities in healthcare"

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

According to the HIMSS study conducted in January and February 2020 , more than 90% of European providers who took part in the survey have already applied some telehealth solutions. Patient care is not about separate primary care, secondary care, hospital care. Fast-track implementation.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2017, AccessHealth set goals that were modeled after the Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2020 Program. "Connected care services to be provided by AccessHealth with the grant include primary care for adults, pediatrics, prenatal care, behavioral health and nutrition services.