ATA urges HHS to protect telehealth coverage by extending public health emergency through 2022
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OCTOBER 22, 2021
ATA urges HHS to protect telehealth coverage by extending public health emergency through 2022. Fri, 10/22/2021 - 11:07.
A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report
Health Populi
MAY 4, 2023
health care: “Wake up, public health!” ” I’ve pulled out a few of the data points that speak to me about population health, prevention and early diagnosis (or lack thereof), and alarm bells on women’s health — notably, young women and girls.
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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022
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. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.
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House extends virtual care flexibilities beyond public health emergency
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 10, 2022
House of Representatives approved an omnibus spending bill late Wednesday night that extends temporary telehealth flexibilities under Medicare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate, several COVID-19-era telehealth policies will remain in place for about five months after the public health emergency ends. WHY IT MATTERS.
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.
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Reimbursement Repercussions for April 2023 End of Public Health Emergency
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JANUARY 17, 2023
While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024.
Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness
Health Populi
DECEMBER 28, 2021
.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. along with health disparities and inequities.
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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year
Health Populi
JANUARY 3, 2022
There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people. Mindfulness and meditation apps, food and nutrition, are also well known by over 50% of U.S.
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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast
Health Populi
JUNE 8, 2021
In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.
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Bipartisan House bill proposes permanent telehealth benefits
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.
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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM
Health Populi
JANUARY 24, 2022
A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. How will virtual care play out in 2022? 55 percent of U.S. 55 percent of U.S.
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Health Care and ESG on Earth Day 2022
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2022
As health care industry stakeholders and policymakers have begun to recognize and address the underlying drivers of peoples’ health, there’s another acronym that is taking hold in health care beyond SDoH: that is ESG, standing for. The post Health Care and ESG on Earth Day 2022 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 14, 2021
This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL
Health Populi
MARCH 9, 2022
If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).
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Key Telehealth Law Update: Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 4, 2022
On July 27, 2022, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) celebrated the House passage of their Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022. It extends critical Medicare telehealth policies and is implemented during the pandemic through December 31, 2024. Reading Time: 3 minutes.
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State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 11, 2023
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.
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White House Ends COVID National & Public Health Emergencies: What Is the Telehealth Future?
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
After years of federal controversy and conjecture, the White House announced Monday that the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies (PHE) will end on May 11. The federal end of the PHE also has reimbursement repercussions that have set precedents for the telehealth future. Permanent reimbursement.
Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 6, 2024
billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.
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CareCloud CEO predicts what's around the corner for telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 1, 2021
By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms.
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Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID
Health Populi
MAY 25, 2022
With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The results were published May 22, 2022. 1 in 2 U.S.
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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds
Health Populi
JUNE 27, 2022
Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. But flat growth is expected for 2022, Castlight forecasts. compared with 941.9
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HHS to put $35M toward telehealth for family planning
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would make $35 million in American Rescue Plan funding available for Title X family planning providers to strengthen their telehealth infrastructure and capacity. "Increasing our investment and access to telehealth services remains critical." THE LARGER TREND.
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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 15, 2022
A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. million telehealth visits during the study period, nearly 3.7 million adults found telehealth comparable for chronic conditions.
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MobilTEK Launches First International Telehealth Program
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The following is a guest article by Sara Hendren, Global Telehealth Lead at MobilTeK by Care on Location. MobilTEK , launched its first international telehealth program in the department of Chuquisaca Bolivia in March of 2022.
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JAMA Article Shows Telehealth Slowed Opioid Overdoses During Pandemic
Continue Education Journal
AUGUST 31, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About the ATA.
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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”
Health Populi
JUNE 14, 2023
Telehealth was one of the most-influenced digital health adoption category in the pandemic, noted by 97% of providers. For remote patient monitoring, 82% of hospitals deployed RHM since the pandemic emerged, with 19% of health systems adopting remote monitoring in the past 12 months (March 2022-23).
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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, large employees have many concerns about worker and dependents’ health.
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HIMSS promotes key policies on telehealth expansion, maternal health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 25, 2022
As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively.
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2022 Predictions for Health Equity
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 14, 2022
Health equity has long been a challenge, but in 2022 it promises to be a top-of-mind issue. The COVID pandemic has made it clear that health inequity has a broad impact not only on public health, but on the financial well-being of entire communities.
The Wellness Economy in 2022 Finds Health Consumers Moving from Feel-Good Luxury to Personal Survival Tactics
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The Future of Wellness in 2022 is, “shifting from a ‘feel-good’ luxury to survivalism as people seek resilience,” based on the Global Wellness Institute’s forecas t on this year’s look into self-care and consumer’s spending on health beyond medical care — looking beyond COVID-19.
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Virtual care service expansions in Australia
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 22, 2024
Expanding the VVED will also enable it to support more direct referrals from aged care, paramedics, primary health networks, the Nurse on Call service and self-referrals from the community.
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2022 Telehealth Outlook: A Clear Path Ahead for Virtual Care
MeMD
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. shows that telehealth use has stabilized at levels 38 times higher than before the pandemic. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care. Fortunately, telehealth has stepped in to fill this gap, too.
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DEA moves to extend telehealth prescribing flexibilities after voluminous stakeholder feedback
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 4, 2023
With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. At issue for a large number in the telehealth, behavioral health and medical communities as well as some policymakers would be the barriers to care access many patients experienced before the pandemic.
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What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2022
Amazon has already built many tracks in health care, from telehealth to pharmacy, medical supply ecommerce platforms and company health clinics. The post What John Mackey of Whole Foods Said at the 2022 HIMSS Conference – and Why This is Important for the Whole Health Ecosystem appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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Long-Term Telehealth Coverage in Question for Physicians and Hospitals
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The White House recently announced a two-year extension for telehealth waivers, but higher telehealth coverage for physicians and hospitals is only approved through the end of 2023. Executives invested in technology and infrastructure for telehealth to meet the unprecedented demand for telehealth services.
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Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 20, 2022
Other hazards concern enduring ramifications from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply-chain shortfalls, inadequate emergency shortfalls and poor outcomes resulting from telehealth workflow.
HC3 warns of Clop ransomware targeting medical images
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 19, 2023
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. "These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment."
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Prescribing Psychedelics via Telehealth?
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Given recent, widespread state actions to decriminalize the production and use of psilocybin, prescribing psychedelics via telehealth is showing signs of soon becoming a booming telehealth specialization. To read a summary of work accomplished during the development period, please see the OPS 2022 Year in Review.
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States Reimburse Many Aspects of Medicaid Telehealth without Federal Approval
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Behavioral health issues are most prevalent in Medicaid enrollees, with Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) data from 2020 indicating that approximately 39% of Medicaid enrollees experience mental health or substance use disorders. Medicaid telehealth is positioned to provide solutions. Forty-four states responded to the survey.
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Telehealth Update on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rules
Iris Telehealth
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
In November 2022, CMS finalized new rules to expand access to behavioral health. Key initiatives include flexibility in billing and supervision as well as permanently covering certain telehealth services. These new flexibilities improve access to substance use and mental health services for patients all across the country.
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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. Together, the three big trends can inform health care industry stakeholders’ plans, services, and technology innovations.
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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more
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. Preventive care delivery platform Fullscript has joined the athenahealth Marketplace app store.
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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JANUARY 26, 2023
Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.
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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 6, 2023
Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.
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