Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. The 39 telehealth-eligible eCQMs for the 2021 performance period can be found here.

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Telehealth Primary Care Interoperability Medicare 192

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. In October 2023 the company created the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATco) to collaborate with health systems in re-imagining and implementing a blueprint for “interoperable” health care.

Primary Care 212

Primary Care Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 212

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Mental health Digital Health Primary Care Interoperability 373

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

Life Science 215

Life Science Pharmaceuticals Mental health Telehealth 215

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S., The second chart shows six developments that drive the future state of health care and spending in the U.S., and a slowing of mass/general pharma manufacturing.

Primary Care 170

Primary Care Public Health Interoperability Medicare 170

Redox

MARCH 24, 2021

Prescription 2: Make interoperability a greater priority. I talked about interoperability last week in this blog post (above). The result was a 50% increase in telehealth adoption for primary care visits between January and June 2020. Here’s to telehealth in 2021! Prescription 1: Double down on innovation.

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Interoperability Telehealth Primary Care Medicare 52

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. Healthcare interoperability is the ultimate goal.

Primary Care 64

Primary Care Telehealth Interoperability Healthcare Innovation 64