Five Ways Telehealth Is Better Than In-Person Care
Health System CIO
AUGUST 3, 2022
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Telehealth Utilization Rates Increase Again in May
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 17, 2022
Judging from the numbers, telehealth is becoming increasingly popular across the country. National telehealth utilization rates among private insurers grew by 10.2% in May, signaling that telehealth utilization is a serious contender for mental health and serious pandemic interventions.
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How telemedicine can leverage the shrinking number of physicians
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AUGUST 15, 2022
Physicians are burning out and leaving the front lines of healthcare in big numbers. The pandemic has aggravated this problem. Solutions to this critical problem are needed.
Study: Telehealth could increase physicians' after-hours work
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2022
Researchers found physicians who provided more care through telemedicine also increased their time spent on after-hours EHR-based clinical and administrative work
The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives
Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions
This webinar with Chris Wolpert will expose the hidden misaligned incentives in the employee benefits space and help you modernize your approach to benefits by leveraging technology and communication.
Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023
Health Populi
AUGUST 29, 2022
The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic.
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AUGUST 16, 2022
Today I went with my son to tryouts for flag football. My son has always been active, but he’s never played in organized sports before. Needless to say, I went to the tryouts with a little trepidation for how he’d do. Many of the other kids had been playing already for a couple years.
Is Virtual Reality Mental Health Part of Your Practice-Building Plan Yet?
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AUGUST 17, 2022
Immersive 360-degree videos represent a recent development in virtual reality mental health, whereby users can utilize digitally simulated realities similar to the real world (Slater & Sanchez, 2016 ).
4 Growing Trends In Healthcare Technology
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AUGUST 19, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare innovation relies on expanding base knowledge as it improves technology designed to provide specific solutions in the healthcare field.
A Guide to Virtual Care Technology: 5 Steps to Creating Your Continuum of Care
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This guide addresses the increased demand for and benefits of expanding your virtual care options to help retain patients, cut down on hospital readmissions, and expand revenue opportunities.
Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things
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There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.”
Study: Symptom checkers' diagnostic, triage accuracy is low
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AUGUST 29, 2022
A review of studies published in npj Digital Medicine found diagnostic and triage accuracy varied but was generally low, raising concerns about using symptom checkers as patient-facing tools
Former Amazon medical officer examines Surgeon General's clinician burnout warning
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AUGUST 19, 2022
The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural and organizational causes – including excessive workloads, administrative burden and lack of organizational support.
CommonWell, MEDITECH, TEFCA, and QHINs
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 18, 2022
The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward.
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JAMA Article Shows Telehealth Slowed Opioid Overdoses During Pandemic
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AUGUST 31, 2022
WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
CENSUS: Senior care growth means tech change will be mandatory
Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 11, 2022
The Census knows the growth and potential explosion of care needs and older adults. Consider their newly published document explaining the industries to those who may still not see what’s happening.” Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly saw a 34.4% increase in revenue from 2013 to 2020.
Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read
Health Populi
AUGUST 14, 2022
“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.
Amazon Care to shut down at the end of 2022
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 24, 2022
Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said the telehealth service was "not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term
Burnout, Tele-Health, and Accessibility: How to Manage the Expectation of a 24-Hour Workday
Speaker: Keith Carlson — BSN, RN, NC-BC, Host of The Nurse Keith Podcast
Learn how the healthcare industry can promote compassionate care and reduce burnout in a variety of ways.
AI-powered telehealth improves PT care at Essen Health Care
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AUGUST 1, 2022
Essen Health Care, a medical group in New York City, has a Center of Excellence for Pain with physical therapy, pain specialists, neurology and orthopedic specialists. It serves patients with acute and chronic issues in need of physical therapy.
Clinically Validated Vital Signs for Mental Health
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AUGUST 1, 2022
Remote patient monitoring is everywhere in healthcare today. We see that in our ever expanding list of remote patient monitoring companies. It’s not a reach to say that healthcare and startup companies are working hard to monitor every piece of your health remotely.
New Research into Child Migraine Telehealth, CBT & Medication
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 17, 2022
According to the American Migraine Foundation , migraine is a widespread global problem and one of the most disabling. In the US, more than 10% (39 million) of the population suffer from migraine headaches.
Five Sensor Technology Offerings to Benefit Older Adults 2022
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AUGUST 4, 2022
Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. What’s the big deal? Remote monitoring products and services built with sensors have been around for decades.
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The More Chronic Conditions, the More Likely a Patient Will Have Medical Debt
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AUGUST 24, 2022
There is a direct association between a person’s health status and patient outcomes and their financial health, quantified in original research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Report: Popular period tracking apps share data with third parties
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AUGUST 2, 2022
A report by the U.K.-based based Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps found 84% of 25 apps shared data outside of the developer's system
MaineGeneral hits congestive heart failure readmission rate of 0% using RPM
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MaineGeneral Health in Augusta had high, rising readmission rates for congestive heart failure. In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. THE PROBLEM.
Using Data-Driven Fintech Tools to Tackle the Healthcare Affordability Crisis
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The following is a guest article by Chiranjib Gupta, Chief Risk Officer at PayZen. We are witnessing a healthcare affordability crisis in America.
19 Massive Telehealth Learnings After 4,000,000 Visits in 2021
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Join Matt McBride, CEO of Mend, for an engaging discussion of the current state of Telehealth and patient engagement, including how your organization can streamline workflows to improve patient care.
Growing Your Telehealth Services: What is a Digital Front Door?
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Reading Time: 2 minutes. It could be said that Covid-19 opened the digital front door to traditional healthcare, as well as telehealth services. What is a digital front door? Digital front doors are the electronic gateway to seamless healthcare across multiple digital channels.
New technologies may mitigate fall risk – and just in time
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The stats on death from falls are startling – especially for the 65+. Death rates are rising, projected to be 7 up to deaths per hour for the 65+ by 2030. And that falls are the leading cause of injury death among the 65+.
Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation – for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike
Health Populi
AUGUST 22, 2022
“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations.
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