Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte.

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Efforts to extend regulatory flexibilities for virtual care gained some wind in their sails from a new study in Health Affairs that linked telehealth use to significant quality improvements and a relatively modest bump in spending. patients, 576 systems). Where do we go from here?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Medicare 193

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. This also continues to remind us the primacy of (many) patients’ relationships with physicians or other trusted prescribers or health coaches.

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Health Data EHR Digital Health Health Technology 407

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

million research grant; favorable study results for One Drop. Also: Smoking cessation app trial wins $2.7

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Digital Health Medicare 135

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Most consumers who own smartwatches and health and fitness trackers also use those devices every day, as shown in the household penetration/usage chart here from the report. I’ve been tracking this study since its inception, when it focused on “Connectivity and Mobile Trends.”

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

In part 1 of our blog series, Mend reviews the permanent Medicare changes to the Telehealth policy. The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. This has had myriad effects on Telehealth policies as well as how providers deliver digital care.

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Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

A large study published in JAMA showed that Medicare patients at hospitals acquired by private equity firms went on to experience significantly higher rates of adverse events – such as infections and falls – within just three years of the acquisition. appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Award Winning AI-Powered Risk Stratification – Free For All Medicare ACOs The first new product launching is ClosedLoop’s ACO-Predict , the industry’s first free solution for AI-powered population health risk stratification. With ACO-Predict we are bringing AI-powered prediction to every Medicare patient in the country.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

The tagline on this paper is, “Convenience and choice drive patient decisions as new digital options take hold.” ” The study found that one in three telehealth visits resulted in a face-to-face physical office visit. adults in the first half of January 2022 for this study. JLL surveyed 4,060 U.S.

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Telehealth Medicare Life Science Mental health 227

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The previous article in this series explained some of the ways payers, providers, and digital health companies demonstrate that they have made a positive difference in their patients’ lives. DecisionRx Runs a Study With Specific Measures The importance of carefully choosing what you measure can be illustrated by DecisionRx.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 31, 2024

A study from November showed that the Crisis Care program was effective at eliminating suicidal ideation in an average of six sessions. Another study in the March 2023 issue of Psychotherapy Research found that supplementing teletherapy with video lessons helps address depression and anxiety.

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Psychiatry Medicare Telehealth Digital Health 59

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

Some Basics About the Report PHTI did a typical literature review, evaluating a wide range of published studies and combining their conclusions. Their rigorous standards identified 1,139 possible studies but eliminated all but 49 in the end. These studies are listed in the appendices , along with other details.

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Digital Health Health Technology Medicare Telehealth 94

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medicare 308

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The Florida Association of ACOs announced Spatially Health as its newest business partner ; the company’s technology helps identify barriers to health equity.

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Medicare Telehealth Telemedicine RCM 85

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 159

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey.

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RCM Medicare EHR FHIR 103

The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Public Health Health Technology Digital Health Mental health 68

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. A survey from The Harris Poll and ClearDATA found that 81% of Americans incorrectly assume that all protected health information collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA.

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HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 92

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The initiative, a coalition of industry stakeholders including providers, payers and vendors, applauded efforts to make permanent changes to Medicare's statutory restrictions on telehealth coverage in its letter. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Commercial Member Plan Study for the past 15 years.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Patient Experience Accountable Care 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Teladoc Health. The campaign website includes information about the flexibilities that have enabled telehealth utilization and cites studies about the modality's benefits. Congress must act to expand patient choice in every American community, meet patients where they are, and bring health care into the 21st century.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Connected Care 207

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This month’s October 2019 study finds a cohort of Boomers and older peers few of whom have actually used telemedicine — only one in seven people over 50 said their providers offered care via telehealth, and only 4% of people had a telehealth visit in the past year. It’s not enough to build/offer digital health tech to patients.

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Telehealth Digital Health Medicare Mobile Health 196

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. By no means is this a complete discussion of opportunities for digital health. in the approval process of drugs. Social Media.

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Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S. Healthcare Consumer Experience Study.

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Medical Billing Life Science Medicare Pharmaceuticals 235

Redox

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Top stories Health systems will increase 2024 IT budgets More than 85% of health systems are boosting next year’s spend on digital health and IT projects, with cybersecurity and EHR modernization topping the list. Healthcare IT leaders weigh in. Complement more and compete less, advises Symplr’s CEO.

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FHIR Digital Health EHR Telehealth 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Telehealth Digital Health Telemedicine Health Information 144

Digital Health Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Elevance just published a great report leveraging data from its affiliated health plans to color in the picture that’s been loosely outlined by a few other studies: patients face higher prices and lower care quality after independent hospitals are acquired by health systems.

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Medicare 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes also represent one of the latest advancements to modernize reimbursement for digital health. consumers want virtual care services.

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Telehealth Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 208

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Results of a survey from Optum, Qualtrics, and DocASAP quantified consumers’ demands for digital on-ramps to health care. The Optum study found a gap between patients’ expectations for accessing information and easy scheduling and what folks have experienced. Heath Populi’s Hot Points: The J.D. Power 2022 U.S.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Proteus Digital Health’s CEO once confidently proclaimed that in a couple of decades, “every medicine will have a chip in it.” It’s all about evidence,” explained Everett Crosland, an expert in market access within the digital health field, when asked about the possible missteps that led to Proteus’ funding woes.

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Digital Health Medicare Primary Care Mental health 70

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Medicare Healthcare IT Connected Health EHR 79

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That study published by the American Medical Association September 15, 2021, found that by September 2020, the following specialties were using teleconferencing for patient visits: Dermatologists, 87.3%. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies More than 9 in 10 (93%) of clinicians use RPM technology in cardiac care rehab , according to a survey from Vivalink. ONC and The Sequoia Project released Version 1.1

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Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR 113

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Five in six (84%) Atrium Health clinicians reported an improved documentation experience using Nuance DAX Copilot. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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