Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

In the 2023 Patient Consumer Survey report, the topline lesson is that “cost and location drive patient decisions, while service and comfort drive experience.” adults had a telehealth visit, down from 45% the year before. Initial consultations via telehealth were flat for around 1 in 4 people each year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Most people over 50 years of age are cautious but open to receiving health care virtually via telehealth platforms, according to the National Poll on Healthy Aging from my alma mater, the University of Michigan. We’re in the Field of Dreams moment in telehealth, especially for older people.

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Waracle

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Check out the entire event below. Key Takeaways.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Today’s patients are more savvy about how to spend their healthcare dollars and they have more options than ever regarding where to get their care. Retail clinics, walk-in urgent care centers, telehealth companies, and pharmacy clinics are readily available, significantly more convenient, and often less expensive.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Consider the plethora of EHR systems, scheduling idiosyncrasies, physician adoption and workflow considerations, and patient matching challenges, for example. It’s a potential consumer/patient market that AmWell could serve, but not every person with access to telehealth services takes advantage of that supply side.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

Before I dive into the details of digital health in CTA’s tech trend consumer survey , I’ll share some of Steve’s top-line insights that provide important context for the evolving home as health hub. planning to continue using these services (like Peloton or Hydro as examples).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM.

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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. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. Patients have come to expect certain conveniences – telehealth, contactless check-in, SMS texting – and I believe patients will want those options going forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Additionally, we used other key partners to drive some of the patient experiences," he continued. "While Epic is our key platform to deliver the video visits or the patient portal, we also have Veta Health to accomplish some of our remote patient monitoring and hospital at home initiatives.

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MeMD

APRIL 7, 2022

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in telehealth can be a win-win for both patients and providers, streamlining and accelerating the healthcare journey while improving patient outcomes through data-informed decision-making. How Can AI Be Applied in Telehealth? AI bolsters these benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. THE PROBLEM. " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) are two technologies that have revolutionized the way healthcare is delivered in the modern era. Together, telehealth and RPM have the potential to improve healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and reduce the need for in-person visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. Telehealth technology and services company Amwell now is promoting the concept of "virtual primary care." And are patients receptive to this kind of primary care? But it worked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Patients seeking neurologic care can face physical, geographical and financial challenges as they deal with chronic and disabling conditions. Telehealth is offering one way forward. You and your research team just evaluated a VA telehealth program for outpatient general teleneurology care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Now is the moment to capitalise on a remarkable shift in the energy and expectations of younger healthcare professionals, among whom the rapid accumulation of experience throughout the COVID-19 response has significantly changed attitudes to digital health technologies. Staying power.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The second chart from CTA’s report illustrates’ consumers’ awareness of mental wellness technologies relative to other digital health techs — with fitness tracker apps and telehealth visits best-known among the many items in the digital health portfolio.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

At the insistence of customers and prospects, technology offerings (beyond telehealth) will be required in all of these settings, especially at home -- and so as long-predicted , they must proliferate and improve. We are used to citing population surveys to cite trends. ATA 2022: Five telehealth offerings for older adults.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, the National Quality Forum (NQF) developed a framework that provides a guide to the development of measures that assess and evaluate telehealth in the areas of access to care, cost, effectiveness, and the overall patient/provider experience. What are the benefits of telehealth and reducing substance abuse?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2023

For instance, according to a recent national survey of nurses, 100,000 nurses quit their jobs during the pandemic, and by 2027, nearly 900,000, or almost one-fifth of the 4.5 Hospital leaders view this program as a means of supporting nurses on the frontlines without compromising patient safety or patient experience.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. We may admire care providers, Press Ganey notes, “but admiring caregivers does not mean patients trust that their needs will be met safely and well.”

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the shortage of behavioral health providers in this setting makes meeting patients with timely care challenging. hospitals surveyed, 54% had no psychiatrist on staff or available for medical ED or inpatient consultations. That’s what I’ve enjoyed so much about my relationship with Shannon [Iris Telehealth CAE].

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Business Group on Health’s survey into large employers’ plans for health benefit designs in 2023 has a strong focus on value, concurring with employee benefit consulting studies from Mercer, SHRM, and WTW, among others. Costs, too, can delay patients’ seeking care, which Qualtrics learned in their recent survey of health consumers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

As the program grew to more than 100 patients, the organization expanded to allowing referrals for patients with any chronic condition or COVID-19, and hired additional clinical staff. "When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

” Noting that health data are more valuable than financial data, DHS worked with Kantar on a survey learning that trust is a key barrier to health innovation adoption (I’ll cover this survey in a separate post in Health Populi later this week).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And we realize there’s also more inter-play between the north and south parts of this diagram with, for example, CVS Health’s acquisition of Signify Health earlier this year as health care to the home and closer-to-home begins to take shape. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 14, 2023

Achieving positive health outcomes is challenging due to various factors, including resource availability, service coordination , evidence-based practices, patient engagement, and organizational culture. Effective healthcare strategies play a vital role in driving better health outcomes for patients and populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

The high-income nations surveyed include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. PCPs reported offering after-hours arrangements for their patients seeking care “off-hours.” For example, comparatively less U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "UCTH treats a range of conditions with extended hours 365 days a year via browser-based video visits," said Dr. Angela Skrzynski, clinical lead for urgent care telehealth for COVID-19 remote patient monitoring and care after COVID-19 programs at Virtua Health.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

According to a survey in the Journal of General Internal Medicine , nearly half of healthcare workers have experienced burnout. In fact, a survey by PureSpectrum found that 58% of clinicians have lost their passion for their careers due to stress. Another aspect at play is the patients. But stress is only part of the problem.

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