Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. 2020-2021 was a sort of “catching-up-with-healthcare” year, seeing the PMPM spend grow by 8.7%.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. One-half of doctors plan to increase their use of telemedicine in the next 12 months, the survey learned, across both primary care and specialty practices.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Practice across multiple states: Telehealth gives the opportunity for providers to increase the number of patients they can see across states. Specialized physicians for unique cases/conditions are in high demand for provider-to-patient care delivery as well as provider-to-provider consultation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans. For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

This month, one physician and IT entrepreneur posted on his Substack had posted other unconfirmed reports that suggested Optum was ending its telehealth service – and asked whether brick and mortar healthcare had the capacity to replace Optum's millions of virtual visits. million in 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What is the status and future of remote care technologies? As the research interviews for the 2020 report “Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults” wind down, a few themes become apparent. This work began in the summer of 2020 as the Covid-19 lockdown was underway. The total of 34.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. "Many departments had achieved 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The cohort study, which researchers called "the first large-scale study to characterize inequitable access to telemedical care," relied on data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. Otherwise telehealth won't work." Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.,

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Redox

MARCH 24, 2021

Three: Facilitate Telehealth through Infrastructure. But in 2020, necessity was the mother of adoption , and by this, I mean technology, especially as it relates to telehealth. Prescription 3: Facilitate telehealth through infrastructure. Today, let’s address how to facilitate telehealth through better infrastructure. .

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. economic outlook for 2020 to 2030 on July 1, 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new report from CoverMyMeds details the current state of medication access weaving together key health care industry and consumer data. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. patients were already making painful trade-offs, some of which are illustrated in the first chart from the report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. What about physicians?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Virtual care, for example, has become an essential part of healthcare delivery. Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. Today, virtual care has taken its place as a mainstay of the U.S. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care.

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Mend

JANUARY 4, 2021

Federal officials have clarified new telehealth reimbursement rules for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs), giving those sites more opportunities to use connected health services during the Coronavirus pandemic. The post Telehealth Guidelines for Your FQHC Facilities appeared first on Mend.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There's no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. " A change in New York State and Medicare reimbursement along with receipt of the $753,367 FCC grant infused working capital on top of Sun River Health's investment in telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. It also was instrumental in supporting access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic, creating new ways to support our members.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It also includes tools such as telehealth platforms that facilitate communication between physicians and patients, smartwatches that track heart rate, and other technologies used to manage chronic disease such as respirators and CPAP devices or other remote monitoring devices. We need to reframe our collective mindset around preventive care.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

At the start of 2020, widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring was still in the distance. And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Then COVID-19 hit. Then came COVID-19.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

On Monday, 340 organizations signed a letter urging Congress to make telehealth flexibilities created during the COVID-19 pandemic, permanent. . The use of telehealth has skyrocketed under in-person restrictions under COVID-19. It has already been renewed once. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s analysis is something of a contrarian view given the never-ending upward cost-curve that has been stubborn to bend for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 26, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) March 25, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the congressional passage of the latest Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This makes it far more difficult for them to take advantage of telehealth opportunities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients. Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Underneath this statistic, it’s important to compare the payor mix of patients delaying care: nearly one-third of people with private, commercial insurance delayed care by 2018; 22% of people enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare put off care. Consider the 2020 Presidential elections and calls for universal health care.

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American Well

JUNE 22, 2017

Will Expand Medicate Telehealth Coverage. 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

Will Expand Medicate Telehealth Coverage. 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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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Across the country, only half of primary care doctor practices say they have enough cash to stay open for the next four weeks, according to one study, and many are already laying off or furloughing workers. They’ve really left out primary care, really all the independent physicians,” he said.

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic stressed healthcare systems worldwide, propelling the first time use of telehealth for patients and providers alike. As we continue fighting this deadly new disease and race against time for a vaccine, it is expected that telehealth technologies are here to stay. More Telehealth Topics.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

From partnering with primary care providers to innovative digital tools, leaders are stepping up with these effective and creative solutions. Psychiatrist shortage by the numbers: The current workforce of about 45,580 psychiatrists must increase by 2,800 to meet today’s demands for psychiatric care. Asynchronous Telepsychiatry.

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