Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

” "Yes, the cost savings are important, but the improvement in patient lives is just as important." Traditional telemedicine has its place as a scalable and cost-efficient tool in a physician’s armamentarium, but it has limits, he contended. A simple cough or cold can be treated with traditional telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t know the history of the stethoscope and definitely didn’t understand how it worked. Although, we certainly all know how iconic the stethoscope is in healthcare. It’s been a fixture in medicine that hasn’t really been innovated on in years. At least until now.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Older people are re-framing their personal images and definitions of aging, from continuing to work past typical retirement age, Skyping and texting with grandchildren, and traveling to destinations well beyond the “snowbird” locales of Florida and Arizona to more active and often charitable/volunteer situations in developing economies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. 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. The new technology has definitely helped to reduce provider stress.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here, I’m using the word “demand” in the economist’s definition: that is not just sheer “need” but “demand” in terms of a consumer’s willingness-to-pay for a service. When the patient faces a copayment or deductible obligation to meet, that’s real money to a consumer.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This isn’t the original definition or conception of so-called consumer-driven health care , but it’s absolutely a rational and normal response by the patient-as-payer, facing growing out-of-pocket costs for many shoppable health care services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of this rigorous study design, AMA used particular definitions for the seven tools the study gauged: remote monitoring for efficiency, remote monitoring and management for improved care, clinical decision support, patient engagement, tele-visits/virtual visits, point of care/workflow enhancement, and consumer access to clinical data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

’ ” An application Programing Interface is a set of protocols and definitions allowing digital services and products to communicate with each other over the Internet. The test was conducted over two weeks with six months of static code analysis. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

NeuroFlow is the definitive leader in behavioral health integration because its technology effectively connects mental and physical health and supports integrated care models at scale,” said Ralph Muller, Executive Chairman at SEMCAP Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

For consumers to embrace their health data via smartphone or any other digital delivery channel, people will need to believe the overall experience is trustworthy, secure, and relevant to them based on their values and personal definition of health.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

High levels of patient compliance contribute to better treatment outcomes, reduced healthcare costs, and improved overall patient satisfaction. RPM encompasses various monitoring devices, sensors, and communication platforms to enable continuous monitoring of patients outside of traditional clinical settings.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study. One in five seniors is monitoring health issues via technologies, which include by definition websites, mobile apps, digital assistants, personal medical devices, or fitness monitors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Enter the second chart, which expands what we traditionally have called “home healthcare” into new areas for care at home. Typically, home healthcare has covered (definitionally and in terms of reimbursement) services addressing activities of daily living, durable medical equipment, and hospice.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

John: We see how expanded internet connectivity and now 5G technologies have opened the door for “healthcare” organizations (the definition of a healthcare organization is evolving before our eyes) to collect and process data at an incredible scale. How else are these Edge Devices and Data Changing the Landscape for the Healthcare Industry?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

The term “customer journey mapping” may sound like consultant jargon, but taking the steps to undertake a true mapping exercise will go a long way toward having a positive impact on both patients and healthcare facilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Advantages for Physical Therapists According to a new report from Definitive Healthcare , approximately 22,000 PTs left the healthcare workforce in 2021. The end user gains more significant benefits when digital solutions are designed for age and cultural sensitivity, not just a specific clinical need.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

International definitions of HealthTech: Government Organisations: The World Health Organization (WHO) : defines healthtech as "the application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives."

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

Introduction to Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Definition and concept RPM involves the use of digital technologies to collect health data from individuals in one location and transmit it to healthcare providers in another location for assessment and intervention.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans. Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. 2019 feels like the tipping point where the notion of “patient experience” is being supplanted by the “consumer experience.”

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Therefore, some help for lay people, and even people who might have a cognitive impairment, would benefit many patients. asks for a way of “identifying specific definitions of words or phrases used in an unusual or restricted way, including idioms and jargon.” For instance, Success Criterion 3.1.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Mend

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps providers to better meet the specific needs of these patients. At Mend, we realize some patients are more prone to miss appointments than others. What if you could move those patients to telemedicine where no-show rates average in the single digits for Mend customers?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. GlobalMed offers software, stations and diagnostic devices for telemedicine delivery. First Stop Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

This scientific risk is bolstered by the fact that, at least as of the date of this article’s publication, there have been no peer-reviewed independent clinical studies proving that any such technology can definitively meet the critical performance targets required by the current regulatory “gold standard” — ISO 81060-2:2018 [ 26 ].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team. This whole telehealth option is definitely for me, even post-COVID” she says. Now, let’s visit with Nikita and Daniel.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

From virtual and hybrid site models, eClinical platforms, data-driven recruitment strategies, mobile sample collections, telemedicine, and more, industry leaders can expand patients’ access to trials, helping to ensure all necessary populations are represented in clinical research.

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care innovations

JANUARY 9, 2019

Though Roth makes it clear that “virtual care” is often used synonymously with other terms for digital healthcare delivery like telehealth and telemedicine, it’s specifically the “virtual” aspect that many experts see as the real harbinger of things to come. Leveraging Technology to Make the Patient Experience Better’.

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Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

Over 90% of respondents were very happy with their experience, with 95% reporting being very satisfied with the quality of care they received. Almost 100% reported they would “definitely” use telehealth again and recommend it to others. It can also add extra features that streamline workflows and enhance patients’ experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

As our patient populations changed and as our vEngagement program changes, the RPM program and platform must change with us. "We were growing and changing and the appeal of iteratively evolving Myia's solution with clinician feedback was definitely well received," he continued. MARKETPLACE.

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