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Has telehealth hit the high watermark?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Teladoc reported that total visits rose 92%, from 1,063,000 to 2,045,000 in the past quarter.

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Why have billion dollar digital health companies struggled since the pandemic?

Lloyd Price

Digital health funding pre pandemic: 2018 Digital health companies raised a total of $8.1 There were 368 deals in the digital health space in 2018, with an average deal size of $22.2 Other areas that received significant investment included telemedicine, digital therapeutics, and health insurance technology.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

Software: This includes software that is used to manage patient records, provide remote care, or deliver educational content. Wearable devices: These are devices that are worn on the body and can track health data such as heart rate, sleep, and activity levels. Examples include telehealth, e-prescriptions, and patient portals.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

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2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Get more details here. January 18, 2018.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Then COVID-19 hit. This clearly is not a sustainable approach.