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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

For Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, CEO of telemedicine company Coviu, the permanent changes to telehealth is "long overdue," although it demonstrates the government’s commitment to the future of the country's digital healthcare system. It has infused A$114 million ($88 million) more funding for this purpose under the 2021-22 Budget.

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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

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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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. " MARKETPLACE.

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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. 2021, May 11). Telemedicine and E-Health.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

" Another problem Baptist Health was facing was non-traditional players such as Amazon, Walmart and Google entering the healthcare industry, along with dedicated national telemedicine companies such as Amwell, LiveHealth and others. There are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consulting firm, has set out to determine whether telemedicine, a high-growth technology, is here to stay.

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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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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. The pandemic helped the telemedicine industry take off in a big way. Workforce pressure. million people quitting in September. Climate change.

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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. The same with telemedicine. The current decline — 77.0

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

Although some of these changes were only temporary and have been dropped since the beginning of the pandemic, other changes have been made permanent or are still active given the increased utilization and popularity of Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. Telemedicine and remote work immediately became the solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What are the problems in the field of neurology that you feel telemedicine can help overcome? There are two key problems in neurology that telemedicine can help address. First, there are not enough neurologists to care for the growing population of persons with neurologic disease. Telemedicine can help address both problems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With the boom of telehealth caused by the pandemic, patients by and large are more comfortable than ever looking for telemedicine advice and care. Today, more than one-third of Americans live in a county that does not offer adequate access to primary care providers, hospitals, pharmacies or trauma centers.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During Indiana University Health. Penn State Health.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

They include a report that says the US could see a deficit of 200,000 to 450,000 registered nurses by 2025. million lower-wage healthcare workers, such as medical assistants, home health aides, and nursing assistants. Within the next five years, another report also projects a shortage of more than 3.2

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More seniors will be cared for in homes and/or in PACE programs versus skilled nursing facilities. I’m not suggesting that most current patients could be cared for remotely in a decade — but I do think we’re moving in that direction. Schuster, MD, PhD. Tyson School of Medicine (Pasadena, Calif.): Shireen Ahmad.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

2) adoption of digital health and telemedicine, especially due to COVID-19. food deserts, access to care), while clinical interventions and risk scores are created at the patient-level. Doing so creates exciting opportunities for personalized engagement, whole person care, precision medicine, and improved health outcomes.

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