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. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. do not receive any treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021. colonoscopy).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Care-at-home is gaining momentum. The demand for personal support workers (PSWs) as well as home nurses is rising. TytoCare , a virtual care company, recently launched its Home Smart Clinic that enables primary care from home. billion USD in 2021 to $62.1 Homecare services providers are growing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S. As health/care goes omni-channel enabling patients-as-consumers to express their service demands across a platform of virtual and in-person front-doors, so the pharmacy will be embedded in these work- and life-flows. adults online in mid-August 2022.

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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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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. The latest telehealth budget is part of a A$308.6 It includes the following: A$58.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Citing a 2021 study, they noted that the use of telehealth in harm reduction primary care programs providing buprenorphine helped to increase access to care and overcome health inequities.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The process started at the beginning of 2021, and by September 2021, I started with the clinic in Missouri. How does telehealth compare to in-person care? We do PHQ-9s and AIMs, and then the nurse scans it so that I can see everything. I have a designated nurse that I’ve worked with throughout my time at the clinic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

SIP provides incentives for TRU Community Care facilities to provide interim care for patients who have historically high hospital utilization rates. The goal of SIP is to deliver intensive care coordination for patients to connect them with a primary care physician.

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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). Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. I’ve returned to the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 12, 2023

Editor’s note: The following column by Society for Participatory Medicine board member Brenda Merriweather originally appeared in this space in December 2021. Because I had developed the pain questionnaire, administration asked me to be the Sickle Cell Coordinator for Care Advisor. Visit [link] for tickets and information.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. This last chart (Figure 4) gauges behavioral health issues for patients during the pandemic, from PwC’s clinician poll of March-April 2021. population health burden.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 1, 2022

When you bring the primary care physicians, nurses, or critical care team out with you, they have a greater sense of urgency because they are witnessing what you are experiencing. As a result, telemedicine improves the quality of care provided to patients. Provides ICU Physicians & Nurses a Second Set of Eyes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers spend in the average primary care office visit. Notably, since acquiring Caravan Health in March 2022 , Signify Health has further expanded its focus on value-based care and population health. In 2022, Signify Health’s clinicians expect to connect with nearly 2.5

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

His LinkedIn describes the role as the "founding medical director of the medical practice for Amazon Care." " As Christina Farr explained for CNBC in February 2020, Amazon Care's "care providers, including the physicians and nurses, are technically employed by a separate subsidiary called Oasis Medical.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, they are essential for billing and receiving reimbursement for patient care from insurance providers. However, EHRs have also produced a generation of doctors, nurses, and others who have had to become both caregiver and data-entry clerk. We determined that providers saved an average of 5.1 minutes per patient encounter.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. economy, not just in the health care economy. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 17, 2023

This medical office building is planned to ultimately house TMH Physician Partners – Primary Care, Tallahassee Memorial Urgent Care Center, an ambulatory surgery center, as well as cardiology and orthopedic services. Development plans include an 80,000-square-foot medical office building scheduled to be complete in 2024.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. In the U.S., ” Consumers-as-patients are seeking and hungry for help and support to get healthy and stay that way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

"Lack of care opportunities due to transportation, limited primary care locations and inadequate income opportunities can send many patients running to the emergency department. Most of the results go to the individual patient's primary care physician for final review."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That digital divide applied whether they live in senior living communities, nursing homes or remained in their own homes. In fact, in April, 43% of primary care visits for Medicare patients were through telehealth. Their efforts will likely be more formalized through multiple proposed 2021 regulatory changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How are hospitals and primary care physicians expanding access to mental health and addressing the burden they're experiencing from the mental health crisis through telepsychiatry? visit either in an emergency room or their primary care provider, rather than a psychiatrist.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

MGMA found that value-based care is less than 15% of practice revenue , and less than 7% of primary care revenue. In addition, claims denials saw a 2x increase from 2020 to 2021. It can be hard for physicians and nurses to justify taking time away from practice to attend a conference.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 17, 2023

The fund’s initial investments include Greater Good Health , a company redefining value-based care through the first primary care model centered around nurse practitioners, and KeyCare , the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? alone is predicted to hit more than $40 billion by 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

With the billions of dollars invested into digital health companies in 2021 alone, these non-traditional players will serve as even greater competition in the future. "We use our nurse triage call center to recommend virtual options whenever clinically appropriate. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 13, 2023

year drop in life expectancy in 2021 and the 1.8-year Offloading outpatient care to lower-cost caregivers — Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, and others — cuts into the work and profit of primary care physicians in independent and health-system-owned group practices. life expectancy at birth is at the lowest level since 1996.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To this we must also factor in an issue of inefficiency of healthcare delivery, consisting in poor scheduling practices, underutilized resources, inadequate coordination of care. Healthtech can play a fundamental role in the enhancement of preventative care, as discussed previously. 2021 [6] Regina M.

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Henry Kotula

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Record numbers of workers have quit their jobs in 2021, with some 4.4 Pharmacy and retail chains Walmart and CVS Health both detailed their intended expansions into primary care. Here are five major trends that hospitals and health systems may see in 2022. Workforce pressure. million people quitting in September. Climate change.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Trust in information from doctors declined 23%, 21% for hospitals and 16% for nurses, according to Trilliant Health’s 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy. For example, total patient statements with balances of $7.5K+ tripled between 2018 and 2021, while statements with balances of $14K+ nearly quadrupled in that time.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2023

The inaugural report on consumer technology software and services from the Consumer Technology Association (the folks who put on CES) named digital therapeutics as the fastest-growing software and services market, with 25% growth from 2021 to 2022 and 19% growth from 2022 to 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

billion raised in the first half of 2021 across 372 deals. “To The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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