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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care.

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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness. But what about after the public health emergency?

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Tablet-based RPM keeps TRU Community Care patients and caregivers happy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Abnormal results trigger telehealth RN follow-up."

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Tytocare is Making Home Medical Care Easier and More Accurate

Healthcare IT Today

Care-at-home is gaining momentum. The demand for personal support workers (PSWs) as well as home nurses is rising. TytoCare , a virtual care company, recently launched its Home Smart Clinic that enables primary care from home. Traditional audio and visual telehealth doesn’t really cut it,” said Heshes.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Q: What is the connection between telehealth and RPM, and how can the combination of these technologies make healthcare more streamlined and efficient? Then COVID-19 hit.