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. Retail giants in the United States appear to be betting big on telehealth, even amidst looming uncertainty about its regulatory future.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others. "A primary health IT focus for 2021 must be empowering clinicians with solutions that deliver relief today," said Laureau.

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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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APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Specialty care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2021

Researchers from West Virginia University have set out to determine the optimal frequency of telehealth appointments for patients with chronic conditions. In a study published in E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks , the team reviewed other work concerning telehealth and chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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?” Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The five pillars of the Quint Aim grew from 3 goals of the Triple Aim: to improve patient experience, to drive better health outcomes, and to lower per patient costs. This was my mindset as I entered into a conversation discussing patient experience with Joyce Gottbetter, Microsoft’s General Manager with the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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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. What’s the work-around to ensure that patients can access care from their personal physicians?

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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. Partnerships.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth. Consumers’ valuing convenience won’t last forever as they will seek more features to stay with telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

In summer 2021, patient engagement technology company, Twistle, joined forces with healthcare data and analytics company, Health Catalyst. Revis will also discuss how patient engagement technology can help organizations achieve the promise of population health.

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APRIL 21, 2021

As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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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? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. Q: What are a couple of the biggest technology product implementation challenges for healthcare CIOs in 2021, after a momentous 12 months?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

Blayney and Tina Hernandez-Boussard saw firsthand how the use of telehealth shot up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Optimization of clinician and patient experience, including through provider training. Embedded quality, value and patient-reported outcome metrics. Stanford-affiliated researchers Ran Sun, Douglas W.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

Roy Schoenberg, president and CEO of Amwell, to get the lowdown on these discussions at The Clinic, as well as his opinions on where telehealth will be five years from today. We’re using telehealth in more profound ways than we did before or even during the pandemic. What is the focus here, and why now?

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JANUARY 3, 2022

And about one-in-three Americans has made a 2022 New Year’s resolution involving some aspect of mental health, the American Psychiatric Association noted approaching the 2021 winter holiday season. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S.

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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. Fear of technology.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. Connected wellness and lifestyle services also grew in subscriber bases in 2021 in the U.S. That’s on average.

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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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MARCH 1, 2022

At the same time, the pandemic fostered growing experience with and appreciation for virtual care platforms and on-ramps to health care when needed. Patients have come to accept telehealth in their health care workflows when they value virtual care’s virtues: convenience, access, availability among other features.

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MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., health citizens. health citizens.

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JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients.

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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). I’ve returned to the U.S. Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion in 2021. A McKinsey & Company article revealed that telehealth usage witnessed a staggering 38x surge compared to pre-pandemic levels, and 60% of consumers expressed interest in a broader set of virtual health solutions. Innovative technologies, particularly AI , have emerged as key enablers of better patient experiences.

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JULY 29, 2021

Power found in the company’s latest 2021 U.S. This is the 13th year of the study, which surveyed responses from 12,646 consumers who had filled a prescription in the 3 months prior to September 2020 through May 2021. Pharmacy Study. Each year, J.D. This year, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "UCTH treats a range of conditions with extended hours 365 days a year via browser-based video visits," said Dr. Angela Skrzynski, clinical lead for urgent care telehealth for COVID-19 remote patient monitoring and care after COVID-19 programs at Virtua Health.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

" According to the company's announcement Tuesday, the partnerships enable more coordinated and personalized patient experiences and simplify healthcare for employers, providers and patients. "It’s not an either/or; it’s both." "To be clear, we’re not talking about the lowest costs.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Flexibility and Telehealth : In response to evolving healthcare needs and public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the regulations allow for flexibility in treatment delivery In this article, we’ll explore the recent key changes to 42 CFR Part 8 and their implications for healthcare professionals striving to combat OUD.

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