Data, Mental health, Primary Care and Telehealth

Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

perceive a dramatic rise in mental health conditions among fellow health citizens growing over the past five years, people note barriers of cost, insufficient supply of providers, and stigma as barriers to getting care in the latest Gallup and West Health poll on the subject. grading mental health a “B.”

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

While virtual care is ubiquitous across the U.S. health care delivery landscape, patients-as-health care consumers are becoming more savvy and discriminating based on their “maturity” and exposure to various flavors of telehealth.

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine. They self-identified their point of maturation.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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How CrossFit and 23andMe Are Moving from Health to Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. The converging factors are: Primary care. Telehealth.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. " Dr. Joshua Merok, Michigan Avenue Primary Care. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM.

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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

The survey covered peoples’ perspectives on mental health care, anxiety, COVID-19, children’s mental health, and the workplace. “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.” The time is now to make mental health more accessible. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care

Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. This diagram illustrates aspects of the “surround sound” concept of care around the patient, namely ‘You.”

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The Next Step Forward in Cardiac Care. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19.

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What a year's worth of telehealth data from athenahealth can teach us

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a new era in medicine in which telehealth appointments are a core aspect of the patient-provider relationship and provide broader access to healthcare. Q: In your experience, what was telehealth adoption like over the past 12 months? million appointments held by 60,000 providers.

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network.

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URAC CEO talks virtual care access, tele-mental health, post-COVID regs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P.

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How telepsychiatry is helping chip away at the mental health crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is no secret that the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis due to aggravated conditions from the pandemic exacerbated by of a shortage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists. As many as 80% of individuals seeking mental health treatment in the U.S.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. But even so, roughly 50% of people experiencing no symptoms still found the various telehealth concepts attractive.

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

right now have no mental healthcare providers at all. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. "The most-organized efforts now are the primary care access programs and collaborative care models.

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TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. The Consortium’s success is due to efficient processes, a data-driven approach backed by a technology platform, and a shared sense of purpose.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. Patients experienced a lack of resources in the areas of having data coverage for video transmission and living in rural areas where there was not a significant signal, which affected how e-consents would be signed. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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CVS Health Launches Virtual Primary Care to Improve Consumer-Centered Care

David Chou

MAY 27, 2022

CVS Health is making a big bet on telehealth with the launch of CVS Health Virtual Primary Care. The new virtual care solution will connect CVS Health's services, clinical expertise, and data for a more collective and consumer-centric healthcare experience. What's next? What's next?

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10 Ways To Reduce No-Show Rates at Mental Health Organizations in 2023

Mend

AUGUST 3, 2023

Learn 10 proven methods for mental health practices to reduce patient no-shows. Reducing no-show rates in mental health practices is a critical objective in 2023. As many as 50% of mental health appointments aren’t completed. This significantly impacts patient care and provider revenue.

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

To give you a sense of their topline for digital health, Deloitte titled that section of its report, “Virtual health and fitness find their rhythm.” But on the upside, note that a growing percentage of health consumers were very satisfied with the virtual health encounter, up from 39% in 2021 to 56% very satisfied in 2023.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform.

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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

The first chart illustrates the deferred care identified in Castlight’s assessment of 160 million medical claims in its commercially-insured population data. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. compared with 916,7 visits per 1000 members in 2020.

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Roundup: New telehealth services launched in Hong Kong and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2022

According to a media release, the telehealth service is meeting a quota of 3,000 COVID-19 patients amid a severe fifth wave of COVID-19 infections in the city. It also enables teleconsultation with doctors from Apollo TeleHealth. The IHL digital health centre can collect data on risk factors of patients in Khagaria, home to over 1.6

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s recommendation here is for the supply-side executives from providers, pharma and health plans to determine which virtual care services make “the most sense and for whom.”

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The Business Case for Virtual Primary Care

MeMD

JUNE 13, 2022

While telehealth is traditionally known for convenient, at-home access to urgent care, widespread adoption fueled by the pandemic has paved the way for additional healthcare services via a virtual platform. Virtual primary care, on the other hand, eliminates these barriers for consumers and businesses alike ?

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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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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? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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One expert travels the country to see how telehealth is holding up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Travel to virtually any U.S. Where were providers excelling?

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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How COVID-19 Has Re-Shaped Health Care Delivery So Far

Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. health care since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: Patients’ use of health services.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Bloomberg reported that Walmart’s projected visit volume for the company’s new health clinic in Duluth, Georgia, exceeded expectations.

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Telehealth use rises, but new trends highlight demographic divides

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer perspectives towards telehealth. However, data indicates groups facing the greatest risks right now, including older people and those with lower incomes, are not sharing in these benefits equally. "We have no doubt that telehealth adoption will continue to grow.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. Those who had a telehealth encounter more likely lived in the Western U.S., Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Why Having Pets is Good for Your Mental Health? Top 5 Reasons

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MAY 9, 2022

Science supports that owning a pet can be good for your mental health. According to some studies [1] dogs can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, encourage exercise, and improve human health. But what do pets do to contribute to some good impact on our mental health? Let’s check out these top five reasons.

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Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

How CrossFit and 23andMe Are Moving from Health to Primary Care

Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Mental Health Risks in Mid-2022 Related More to Global Anxieties and Safety, Not-So-Much COVID

Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care

Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

What a year's worth of telehealth data from athenahealth can teach us

GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

URAC CEO talks virtual care access, tele-mental health, post-COVID regs

How telepsychiatry is helping chip away at the mental health crisis

Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

CVS Health Launches Virtual Primary Care to Improve Consumer-Centered Care

10 Ways To Reduce No-Show Rates at Mental Health Organizations in 2023

Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Roundup: New telehealth services launched in Hong Kong and more briefs

The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

The Business Case for Virtual Primary Care

Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

One expert travels the country to see how telehealth is holding up

How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

How COVID-19 Has Re-Shaped Health Care Delivery So Far

Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

Telehealth use rises, but new trends highlight demographic divides

Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Why Having Pets is Good for Your Mental Health? Top 5 Reasons

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