FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 4, 2021

Survey: Roughly 1 in 7 people got low acuity care via telehealth instead of going to ER. Wed, 08/04/2021 - 10:36.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. believe the pandemic won’t be under control until sometime after June 1, 2021. A survey published by Metova last week featured survey results of over 1,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

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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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Practice across multiple states: Telehealth gives the opportunity for providers to increase the number of patients they can see across states. Check out our list of telehealth licensure requirements by state here. Why is now the right time to embrace telehealth as a permanent way of delivering care?

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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

Royal Philips has published its latest Future Health Index 2021 report that explores how healthcare leaders are confronting the present challenges of the pandemic and where their current and future priorities lie. Nearly eight in 10 respondents said they are heavily investing in telehealth at present. ON THE RECORD.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. provider survey, which was complemented by a poll conducted among 1,024 health consumers for the patient perspective in September 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

survey likely to seek answers through internet searches or social media content WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS The survey found that two-thirds (66%) of patients have questions after a provider encounter and one in five patients (19%) has new questions following the appointment. The survey was conducted online in November 2022.

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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. Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But telehealth may be becoming an emerging strategy to help fill in gaps within hospitals and health systems , contended Chris Franklin, president of LocumTenens.com, a self-service job board and a full-service physician and advanced practice recruitment agency working in high-demand medical specialties. Burnout also is at an all-time high.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

However, that ubiquity comes with its own set of market pressures…shifting from pandemic-responsiveness to market- and consumer- responsiveness, ” according to The new era of consumer engagement, Rock Health’s ninth annual Consumer Adoption Survey published 18 March. While virtual care is ubiquitous across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items in Australia – including the termination of 128 items, amendment of 17 items, and the addition of two more items – have taken effect this week. Some healthcare leaders in the country have pointed out potential consequences of the MBS telehealth changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2022

New survey results suggest that the availability of telehealth-based mental health services — and the high level of mental health symptoms Americans experienced during the pandemic — led more consumers to seek mental health care online than ever before during 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. For the survey, Deloitte polled 2,018 U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2023. While 2 in 3 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Time for the Market Overview Technology for Aging 2021. Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021. Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021. CES 2021 – roll the press releases and turn on your computer. Fast forward to 2021. Older adults and broadband in 2021. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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Geonetric

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

New questions in the survey this year answer what impact the pandemic has had on accelerating digital transformation efforts and how organizations are scaling everything from telehealth to personalization. Read Download the 2021 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends eBook at Geonetric.com. The […].

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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. MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A telehealth satisfaction study released this past week from the data analytics and consumer intelligence company J.D. Power found that even as telehealth adoption has spiked, pain points exist – especially among patients with higher-risk profiles. Power survey from this past year. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In its second "state of telemedicine" report, virtual care platform vendor Doximity found that roughly three-quarters of patients surveyed said they plan to continue using telehealth after the pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. Report authors observed that this rate was consistent across different race and ethnicity groups.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy. To be sure, mental health services expansion will be part of virtual care growth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2022

"Offering telehealth options no longer is just a ‘nice to have’ for providers like us. intake appointments, group meetings) to telehealth in March 2020 and rolled out a pilot of its proprietary mobile app in April 2021. It’s now a necessity." " Michelle Cartier, Groups. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"While telehealth has evolved and scaled significantly during the pandemic, continued work is needed to ensure health equity and to bridge digital divides for future paradigms of care," observed Dr. Saima Aftab, vice president of organizational initiatives at Nicklaus Children's Health System in Miami.

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E-CareManagement

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Two recent surveys shed light on the issue of patient loyalty to local care providers for telehealth visits. While the findings are mixed, local providers should be concerned about how they're faring in the telehealth platform wars. Let's take a look at both surveys. appeared first on The Healthcare Platform Blog.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

During COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) facilitated the use of telehealth services through regulatory flexibility and expanded telehealth allowances. To better understand the role of telehealth and other emergency responses during COVID, the OIG surveyed a sample of 400 HHAs in the fall of 2021.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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