Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

The platform creates a frictionless experience for patients calling to access care while increasing efficiency for generally overwhelmed medical office call centers. “What we’re doing will become the norm in 5 years and we will lead that charge,” said Jeff Liu, Co-Founder and CTO at Assort Health.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Over the next four days, I will discuss several of the Big Announcements shaking up the retail health ecosystem in the U.S., I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

In fact, “pharmacy” is the jumping off point for the expanding and increasingly beloved retail health ecosystem, J.D. Power found in the company’s latest 2021 U.S. One in two retail pharmacy customers used at least one form of health and wellness service from the store, J.D. Pharmacy Study. Each year, J.D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. Now, Walgreens is enabling cancer patients to say, “Hello, Jasper.”. Jasper’s data ecosystem complements the patient’s clinical data on the psycho-social side of the person – that is, “real life.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. Think: grandma’s kitchen table wisdom , the barber-surgeon, and doctors who operated office spaces attached to their houses.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Concerningly, more people dealing with a chronic condition avoided health care more than people without a chronic disease — 48% versus 31%, meaning that 1 in 2 patients with a diagnosed condition delayed health care during the pandemic in 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Digital health tools generate data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

Embracing the Menopause Boom in 2024 A significant part of the shift in women’s health is the impressive growth in the menopause market, expected to reach $24.4 billion in 2021. Beyond physical well-being, there’s a growing emphasis on the connection between physical and mental health. billion by 2030, up from $15.4

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While NPs are essential to addressing the provider shortage and improving the patient experience, they’re also indispensable when it comes to mental health treatment. The type of NP working in the mental health field is called a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner or a PMHNP.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Connected wellness and lifestyle services also grew in subscriber bases in 2021 in the U.S. That’s on average.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

There is desperation, and there is hope to re-imagine and re-build a health care system and, indeed, a larger ecosystem that bolsters health for all as we look beyond the pandemic and toward 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

This trend was already in motion at the start of 2020, after which the public health crisis raised patients-as-consumers’ awareness and value of hygiene, food-for-immunity, and physical distancing. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S.

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Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

But in today’s telehealth market, it’s crucial to also focus on how to improve patient satisfaction. Virtual medical and mental health professionals are prioritizing patient satisfaction with Telemedicine more than ever before. A high satisfaction rating can drive more patients to your practice. Schedule a Demo.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2021

However, COVID-19 isn’t the only reason we’ve seen record VC investment in healthtechs in 2020 and 2021. 2021 will be the year of healthcare IPOs in Brazil. In the last year, Brazil has seen a number of startups being born with the goal of disrupting the health insurance sector. Healthcare giants are finally waking up.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Improved access to care is great on the surface, but the industry as a whole must do more fine tuning to significantly improve health equity…and subsequent revenue capture. When I started at Xealth in October 2021, SDOH was an acronym I wasn’t familiar with … I remember Googling it and having an “a-ha” moment.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Growing orders for Peloton and other connected exercise equipment were noted by CTA’s 2021 consumer-tech forecast , anticipating this as a trend that would mainstream as scale economies and competition expanded the market segment while prices fell.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. Today in the U.S., The Policies for Streamlining Care. Reimagining Technology’s Role.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2021, about one-sixth of hospitals reported using telepsychiatry with a wide variation across states. Still, healthcare organizations have a lot to consider when implementing virtual specialty solutions like telepsychiatry, and patient comfort should be a top priority. Common telehealth misconceptions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger Health (part of the Kroger food chain) has several partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans, including Select Health (part of Intermountain Health) and Priority Health in Michigan , and began to work with Anthem (now Elevance) in 2021. How Instacart and Mom’s Meals are addressing food-as-medicine.

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Mend

MARCH 14, 2024

Outlined in the regulations are the standards and procedures necessary for OTPs to operate effectively while ensuring the safety and well-being of patients. Patient Evaluation and Treatment: The regulations specify criteria for patient evaluation, admission, and ongoing treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

APRIL 27, 2021

Jan Yeager, Service Designer, UCSF shared experiences co-designing a Chronic Illness Center with patients, caregivers, UCSF physicians and clinicians, and community providers at MadPow’s 2021 Health Experience Design Conference. It’s mainly been through putting the tools into practice.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

For the 43% of us in the role of unpaid caregiver, 70% have at least one significant mental health impact,” Alexandra Drane, founder of Archangels , pointed out in an email to me. Sanjay Gupta and Mark Hodesh of TEDMED, bringing together people re-making health and healthcare for the better.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This behaviour change can be capitalized upon with new care delivery models, consumer directed care, and products that bring transparency to the patient experience, allowing us to act more like consumers. Youper is a direct to consumer platform that utilizes AI to improve access and frequency of mental health therapy.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and. We also saw the use of blockchain, AI and cognitive computing, smartphones, neural networks, among other tools in the digital health toolkit.

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

You provide excellent medical care and deliver a high-quality patient experience. But you lost revenue, and patients fell behind on their regular care routines. So what are some creative ways to increase patient volume using telehealth programs? That’s what your patients experience with Mend. Easy to use.

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