Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. Fjord points out that health care is no longer “something that happens to people,” but instead is a pursuit where people are playing a more active role.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care. Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. Youth Mental Health Crisis Mental health has long been a neglected area of healthcare, particularly when it comes to children and teenagers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is no secret that the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis due to aggravated conditions from the pandemic exacerbated by of a shortage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists. As many as 80% of individuals seeking mental health treatment in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. will reach $845 million based on the forecast of the Consumer Technology Association, convening the annual 2021 CES this week in a virtual format. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021.

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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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MeMD

JUNE 13, 2022

While telehealth is traditionally known for convenient, at-home access to urgent care, widespread adoption fueled by the pandemic has paved the way for additional healthcare services via a virtual platform. Virtual primary care, on the other hand, eliminates these barriers for consumers and businesses alike ?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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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?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

drop from 2021, CTA expects software, gaming, video and audio streaming spending will grow by 3.5% With that macro context, CTA expects “healthy growth for health tech,” illustrated in the first chart, with over $13 bn in U.S. Underneath the overall industry spend of $503 billion, a 0.2% and hardware to fall by 1.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. Virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis , while teleneurology is improving access and care for veterans.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 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. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2023

SVB notes that venture funding in healthcare fell in terms of both deals and dollars each quarter of 2022 after hitting records in 2021. Healthtech (shifting toward early-stage investment with mental health and primary care dominating the category).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We Zócalo Health is available to individuals living in California.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

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%. Commercially insured workers in low-income communities also had fewer visits per 1000 members for telehealth in 2020 and 2021.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

A Year into our collective coronavirus experience, Americans remain stressed, with physical health taking a back seat to our daily grinds based on the 2021 Stress in America survey from the American Psychological Association (APA). adults 18 and older in February 2021. The APA has been updating us on U.S.-stress

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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. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists. right now have no mental healthcare providers at all.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

Historically, HMSA has seen the highest volume of virtual visits for behavioral health. That changed during the pandemic, when members were looking for safe ways to get care from their primary care providers and specialists. HMSA’s primary goal is to give members access to affordable, quality healthcare.

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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. As TT notes, the rise in home-based care is a déjà vu back to health care delivered in the 19th and early 20th century before the hospital-industrial complex as we know it existed.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Among large employers, the most-favored tactics for managing health benefits and costs in 2020 are to adopt virtual care services across many objectives (from sleep and mental health to managing conditions and wellness coaching), and to focus on high-cost claims (to manage costs and quality).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2021

Licensed insurance agents will assist consumers in assessing their best options for these plans for the 2022 Medicare enrollment period which begins 15th October and ends 7th December 2021. For more on Hy-Vee’s growing role in health care, see my previous posts on their efforts, Health@Retail. In the latest J.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Still, the Homebody Economy will persist even post-COVID, with a growing realization that “home” has become a safe haven for many life-flows — with continued investments planned in 2021 for home renovations as well as luxury goods. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. As the letter outlines, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the DEA waived the prior in-person evaluation requirement for patients being prescribed controlled substances via telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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?

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor). In the U.S.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 24, 2022

Teladoc went public in 2015, launching primary, urgent, and mental health care through BetterHelp, its mental health services. . Though Teladoc’s growth has continued unabated through 2020 and 2021, it has also reported substantial financial losses over the past two years, most notably the $6.6

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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. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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MeMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In fact, the Business Group on Health’s 2021 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey showed exponential growth in virtual care across the healthcare continuum. This is particularly true in two important areas where traditional benefits plans fall short: behavioral health and primary care.

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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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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Unlike many other areas of healthcare, behavioral health doesn’t appear to be a small group of high utilizers driving up volumes. In 2021, two-thirds of patients diagnosed with a mental health condition saw a provider five times or fewer. Should high demand shift care settings for behavioral healthcare?

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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

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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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. 2021, July 22). Gilbert, G.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It has infused A$114 million ($88 million) more funding for this purpose under the 2021-22 Budget. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system. million ($42 million) to extend the provision of subsidised mental health support to December 2022; A$41.2 It includes the following: A$58.8

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