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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By Bill Siwicki | June 16, 2023 News Community Health Network finds big ROI in consumer-centric technology Since implementing discovery, navigation and merchandising tools, the health system achieved a 300.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

The title of their analysis, Hospital volumes hit unprecedented lows , is subtitled, “revenue losses mean long recovery ahead.” billion is an underestimate because it does not include health systems operating in New York City and San Francisco. National Health Expenditures are expected to consume 19.7% of the U.S.

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Telehealth and Program Integrity

Connected Health Initiative

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis. Postal Service—to detect these schemes and stop them.

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Bonus Features – September 3, 2023 – 60% of cybersecurity incidents impact patient care, the average medical device has six or more security vulnerabilities, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said. Healthcare saw a 700% jump in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022, according to an analysis from Zayo.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Amends the Laws concerning telemedicine; creates the Telemedicine Act. LEGISLATION. Passed Legislation. Arkansas.