Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telemedicine is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Here are 8 steps to starting – and succeeding – with telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors. ” she added. This week, the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? imagined Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director and Health of Global Healthcare Practice. This week convened the ATA annual conference where healthcare industry stakeholders met up to deal with the current telehealth environment and imagine what the future prospects would/could be.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

When providers avoid treating Medicaid patients on a large scale, the medical industry is effectively assigning care based on income and social class. Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. That number will rise to 82 million by 2026. Request a Demo.

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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. So what can we expect for 2020 ? 42 states and Washington, D.C., 42 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To CVS, the Signify purchase isn’t a wager on home health. trillion healthcare industry. The through-line for all of us who work in the broader health care ecosystem is that care is shifting “everywhere,” from home to work to wherever we “are” or where we want that care to be delivered.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. government would have saved $2.6

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said. That compares to a 200% increase over the same time period across all industries. Zyter|TruCare integrated findhelp , a social care network, into the latest release of its Connected Health platform.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The healthcare industry experiences more data breaches than any other industry, with over 700 reported breaches in 2020 alone. This alarming statistic underscores the importance of protecting patient data in the healthcare industry. Healthcare cybersecurity differs from traditional cybersecurity in a few ways.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As we look back on 2019, it's worth remembering how far the industry has traveled to get here. -- Mike Miliard, Editor. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Health IT implementation best practices.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Those virtual care stories were based on interviews with a range of providers and industry representatives, shown in the graphic labelled “collaborators.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, speaks at Health Affairs briefing on Feb. Photo courtesy Health Affairs). Connected care” is gaining more momentum in the health care industry. Health care providers are adopting electronic health records with federal support and standard setting.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If you know anything about telemedicine, you might be thinking, “Can’t virtual care bridge this gap?” As with all things virtual health, reimbursement and awareness haven’t always been where they should be. An Air Force Veteran's Telemedicine. Even more disturbing, the supply of U.S. And the answer is yes – it can. Learn more.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. Food-as-medicine and your healthy kitchen in 2023.

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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. The CONNECT Act is aimed at removing what AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA called “antiquated restrictions in the Medicare program” while addressing alternative payment models and the reimbursement approval process. billion by 2025.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Take George and Audrey. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But to gain a sense of the landscape going forward, here's a refresher of Healthcare IT News' top 10 telehealth stories from 2020: Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. This guide, routinely updated with additional vendors, offered a snapshot of the wide variety of telemedicine tools available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

More than 330 healthcare and industry organizations asked Congress this week to facilitate a pathway to comprehensive, permanent telehealth reform after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. THE LARGER TREND. This past week, dozens of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Consumers can expect grocers to expand retail food-health programs in the forms of food “prescriptions,” incentive/loyalty, medically tailored nutrition, and personalized nutrition education in 2022. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online. FarmboxRx works with providers and insurers in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees have access to the health system’s community education program offering hundreds of classes, and over 60 percent of Mercyhealth partners use some kind of flexible scheduling. For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Medline Industries (Northfield, Ill.).

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