Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2021

The following is a guest article by Sid Kandan, CEO at Stel Life, Inc. With last year’s $200M Telehealth Program and $100M Connected Care Pilot Program, this combined $550M investment is the government’s largest investment into connected health devices and services. As […].

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Please view telehealth and remote patient monitoring information resources at the end of this article. RPM is passive monitoring of a patient’s health status between face-to-face visits. This technology helps to keep clinicians informed through vital signs data that are delivered via a combination of connected health devices (i.e.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. Meanwhile, this week we get more evidence that “connected health” may be winning the terminology battle over mobile, wireless and digital health.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Other providers worry that adding technology to a patient visit will be too complicated or time-consuming – but modern solutions are so easy to navigate that both clinicians and patients can immediately connect with each other to focus on the treatment.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

“Telehealth remains a lifeline for diverse patient communities and healthcare providers across the nation, ensuring access to safe, affordable, and quality care whenever and wherever it is needed … Today, the ATA’s most important message is more critical than ever before: Telehealth. .” – American Telemedicine Association.

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Clear Arch Health

JULY 17, 2023

Please view telehealth and remote patient monitoring information resources at the end of this article. RPM is passive monitoring of a patient’s health status between face-to-face visits. This technology helps to keep clinicians informed through vital signs data that are delivered via a combination of connected health devices (i.e.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst , a remote position with a California-based client of Stoltenberg Consulting, posted to Healthcare IT Central.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The American Telemedicine Association named three new board members : Marc Adelson at Teladoc Health, Kavita Patel, M.D., at Mary’s Center, and Sarah Pletcher, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? and Wesleyan University about reform and innovation in the health care system.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Specific statutes can shape telemedicine growth as well, such as encouraging specialty consults but not remote patient monitoring – depending on which service is best compensated. Generous policies can drive telehealth offerings, just as restrictions can create a financial disincentive.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: An article in an August 2020 Forbes noted that, “Coronavirus May Help Best Buy Become A Key Healthcare Player. Since starting GreatCall Rides with Lyft in 2018, three-fourths of the pilot riders have continued to patronize the service as repeat riders.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. This article focuses on revenue, because I and other writers frequently cover impacts of televisits on access and care plans. The premise of this article embraces an irony. ” Remote patient monitoring.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Karl Bode’s Motherboard article is intensely central to that pesky, contemporary social determinant of health that emerged so visibly in the COVID-19 pandemic: connectivity. And those problems are access, affordability, and adoption, Gonsalves concludes.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This, to assure the physician that he would not be tracked by the sort of FBI state licensing compact concerns described in the linked article above. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

On March 15 at 1 PM CT , Mei Wa Kwong, JD, Executive Director, and Christine Calouro, Policy Associate, from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) will present a free National Telehealth Resource Center webinar to provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy actions and to discuss issues that may arise throughout the year.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Recently we’ve talked about criteria when evaluating telemedicine platforms – how the right solution will be provider agnostic , compliant and evidence-driven. If your goal as a provider is to practice responsible, outcome-focused medicine, you likely understand the importance of a sophisticated virtual health platform. Contact Us.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In Fierce Healthcare’s report of the first telehealth study , which author Matt Kuhrt describes as a letter published in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association , researchers found a “ notable uptick in the use of telemedicine among primary care physicians between 2015 and 2017.”.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to that point, I noted with interest this week’s Wall Street Journal article on the re-birth of commercial retail real estate markets in the U.S.]. with retailers, via contactless experiences, curbside pickups, BOPIS (buy online, pick up inside store), and good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar physical shopping in stores. [to

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Sheetal Chawla, VP and Head of Life Sciences at Capgemini Americas. In fact, a recent Capgemini Research Institute report found that 99% of biopharma executives agree that connected health will create new treatment pathways, and that it will make healthcare more personalized and integrated.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 25, 2022

This article tackles the top 5 health-related causes of death in the world. With the advancement of connected health technology, remote patient monitoring (RPM) can help detect and prevent these top 5 killer diseases. Heart disease. Accidents or unintentional injuries.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information. If you are interested in learning more about telehealth growth, read these articles: Telemedicine could be great, if people stopped using it like uber.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, if the patient has no motivation or knowledge about which foods to eat and which to avoid, their health condition might be at risk. In our previous article, DrKumo talked about ways to reduce the burden of COPD through RPM. In the next article, we will talk about some recipes and good food for people with COPD.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. In other words, the U.S. “Just imagine if you were 100% fee-for-service,” commented Dr.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

internet households have at least one connected health device , with about one-quarter possessing three or more. This new paradigm in care was particularly useful for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, heart failure and hypertension, some of whom have a high potential for complications if not receiving regular care.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

million Northern California members in a discussion sponsored by the journal Health Affairs. Here is Dr. Pearl’s article in the recent issue and a video recording of the event and slides. Grabowski described the positive impact of telemedicine to support the care of nursing home residents after hours and on weekends.

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

So why are some providers reluctant to adopt telemedicine solutions? To help providers separate fact from fiction, we just published a guide called The Truth About Telemedicine Revenue and Reimbursement. For now, here are a few tips for maximizing telemedicine reimbursement in your practice or hospital. Administrative Changes.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 30, 2019

We’ve had an action-packed year in telemedicine, but now it’s drawing to a close. Technology captains of industry have long talked about disrupting healthcare through telemedicine ; this year we got a clearer look at what that looked like. But no one grabbed more telemedicine headlines than Amazon. billion by 2025.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. This only accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, and this time around, bolstered by digital health tools and access to broadband unavailable 14 years ago. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Virtual healthcare refers to delivering healthcare services remotely, using telemedicine, telehealth, and e-health. In this article, we explore the pros and cons of virtual healthcare and inform the reader about the benefits of remote patient monitoring, an innovative, cutting-edge form of virtual healthcare. How Does it Work?

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Chilmark Research

JULY 11, 2016

No, I’m not talking about The Wall Street Journal declaration that telemedicine is transforming healthcare. The top-fold placement of the story was indeed nice, as was the accompanying interview suggesting that technology in general can improve population health , but the article wasn’t exactly news to the healthcare industry.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

.” A consumer poll by America’s Health Insurance Plans reported a strong consumer preference for telehealth to remain available, with 73% of commercially-insured telehealth users indicating that Congress should make telehealth provisions permanent. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) has also published its annual State.

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