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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

Reviewing the annual 2023 report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science discussing The Use of Medicines in the U.S. It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027.

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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. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Reimbursement Repercussions for April 2023 End of Public Health Emergency

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024. Comments are due on this proposed rule by Feb.

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Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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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? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit).

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. Morning Consult surveyed 6,631 U.S. Few people in the U.S.

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Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In a new survey of U.S. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. But uncertainty about those regulations also dogs the industry.

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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

Now that the worst of the coronavirus acute impact is in our rear-view mirror, it appears medical care providers are reassessing these implementations and may “rip [out] and replace” those systems, according to The Great Shakeup, a survey report from Panda Health. hospital and health system leaders in March 2023.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I

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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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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

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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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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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today.

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States Reimburse Many Aspects of Medicaid Telehealth without Federal Approval

Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Behavioral health issues are most prevalent in Medicaid enrollees, with Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) data from 2020 indicating that approximately 39% of Medicaid enrollees experience mental health or substance use disorders. Medicaid telehealth is positioned to provide solutions. Race and gender.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2023

Survey results we released in May show that nearly 6 in 10 of active college students first accessed mental health services during their K-12 years and 42% experienced their first formal care in high school. Regardless of their health coverage status, Gen Z values the convenience of care access from any location.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The COVID-19 hangover will be a key inflator of medical costs in 2022.

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South Korea forms national commission for promoting bio-health tech and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Indonesia eases access to population health data The Indonesian Ministry of Health has built a one-stop Data Services Portal for accessing population health data. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with SVH to jointly contribute to the kingdom's national cancer screening programme.

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One-Third of People with Chronic Conditions Delayed or Forgone Care During the Pandemic

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In their JAMA editorial on these data, Dr. Bauchner and Dr. Fontanarosa call “these deaths [reflect] a true measure of the human cost of the Great Pandemic of 2020.” The researchers studied data from the Coronavirus Tracking Survey of nonelderly U.S. adults ages 18-64 as of September 11 through 28, 2020.

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Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. Healthcare consumer data vendor Freshpaint launched its Healthcare Privacy Platform.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance.

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. adults 18 and over in August 2021.

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Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Then there are telehealth apps that cater to patients looking for quick one-off visits. Health plans are offering “virtual primary care plans,” which prioritize virtual visits with telehealth doctors over in-person visits to primary care providers. Medicare has also dramatically loosened its restrictions on telehealth coverage.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

That information control is a major issue for 70% of health care consumers, “concerned about data privacy and commercial tracking associated with ‘my’ online activities, behaviors, location and interests,” Accenture’s survey learned.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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COVID-19-triggered threat changes will linger beyond crisis, say most security pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

In advance of its now-virtual USA conference, the security event series Black Hat found that 94% of current and former attendees believe that COVID-19 increases the cyber threat to enterprise systems and data. Two-thirds, meanwhile, said they believed current remote-access systems were "never built to carry such a level of secure data."

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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2022

. “While brands may enjoy the initial buzz over these launches, it often takes a while for the public to become comfortable enough to fold them into their daily lives,” the Morning Consult analysts noted. And, men are more open to sharing their data than women. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

treated more patients in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting their practices to telehealth platforms. Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020. Most psychologists in the U.S. 21% saw more adolescent patients ages 13-17.

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Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Welcome to the “rebalancing of the homebody economy,” in the words of McKinsey, out with new data on consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis. This analysis was based on data generated through McKinsey’s COVID-19 US Consumer Pulse Survey conducted in mid-February 2021 among 2,000+ U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Reimbursement Repercussions for April 2023 End of Public Health Emergency

Survey Findings: Medicaid Telehealth For Behavioral Health Care

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

Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Vast majority of specialists increased use of telehealth tech during COVID-19 pandemic

A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

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

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

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

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

What will the next year look like for telehealth? 'Well above pre-pandemic levels'

States Reimburse Many Aspects of Medicaid Telehealth without Federal Approval

Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

South Korea forms national commission for promoting bio-health tech and more briefs

One-Third of People with Chronic Conditions Delayed or Forgone Care During the Pandemic

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

Why Telehealth is a Lifeline for Primary Care Physicians

Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

COVID-19-triggered threat changes will linger beyond crisis, say most security pros

Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Depression and Anxiety are Toxic Side Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

Gender-Affirming Transgender Telehealth: TDG Youth Utilization Study

How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

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