Lloyd Price

AUGUST 13, 2023

Exec Summary: The five funding trends for Telehealth in 2023 are 1) Gastrointestinal care 2) Mental health 3) Weight management 4) Women's health 5) Wound care. The telehealth industry has seen a significant increase in funding in recent years, with the global market size expected to reach $634.7 billion by 2027.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. This setup has worked well for the mental health center over the last few years. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"When the temporary order from the government to allow telehealth was announced, that gave agency providers hope that they could still provide services to the families they serve, while not financially draining them," said Sheila Hunt, the chief managed care officer at OLV Human Services. "The telehealth platform doxy.me

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services in the health IT market today. Through funds awarded to View Point Health through the FCC’s telehealth program, the behavioral health agency was able to fully transition all of its providers to Zoom for Healthcare to deliver telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeon Telehealth, digital communication, and remote patient monitoring rose to the forefront during the pandemic and are now well-established care delivery options. When thinking about home care, it’s also worth mentioning how technology really empowers at-home care providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT. However, we now were left with a clinical staff of three: one doctor, one nurse and one referral coordinator to meet the medical needs of 1,200 patients in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2024

2024 Health IT Predictions : Health Equity. First up is health equity, where our experts anticipate an emphasis on bidirectional data sharing, collaborative care, and community health. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : Cybersecurity. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : Value-Based Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Read more… Meet Growing Demand for Mental Health Services With Personalized Digital Solutions. Nearly half of Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals, and wait times can last months. That’s where virtual nursing comes into play, according to Holly Miller at Collette Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2022

The strategic partnership broadens access to high-quality and affordable pediatric mental health care at a critical time. This strategic investment and partnership will create greater access to innovative pediatric mental health services across the New York Metro area at a critical time for families.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. Read more… Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. Mental health screening tool Aiberry secured $8 million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. ” To support staff and patients, the health center began reviewing a telemedicine application called Otto that could integrate with its NextGen EHR. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions. Please expand on this.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A survey from virtual care platform KeyCare concluded that 92% of patients would be somewhat or very likely to use telehealth within the next year for routine medical care such as urgent care, chronic condition management, or mental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

" Others, meanwhile, are focused on remote monitoring, secure information exchange, patient engagement, mobile health workforce and training tools. A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. Rose Health. Grapefruit Health. IoT Solutions Group. Kare Mobile.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2022

According to a recent study from Health Affairs , newly acquired rural hospitals are eliminating surgical care services and mental health treatment access, despite a sharp rise in depression, suicide and addiction in the hard-hit rural communities.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 13, 2024

Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Reduced Burden on Providers: Answer engines can answer basic questions, freeing up doctors and nurses for more complex inquiries and patient interactions. Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. " Sandy Hall, Lighthouse Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. THE PROBLEM.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This team, comprised of emergency care nurses and medics, provides consultations similar to those in a physical A&E. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Subscribe Today! Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Prior to COVID, we had very limited use of e-consults and asynchronous telehealth services to support patients' needs for certain specialty services," Silvestri noted. Pre-COVID, there were technologies available to support telehealth, but reimbursement was not uniform nor at parity with in-person or face-to-face visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. " Margo Brooks, Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

"They also could help decrease the strain on health system resources that occurs when patients don't receive the right interventions at the right time. "ICPs are drafted by a team of nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinical care coordinators and physicians involved in each patient's care," she continued.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2021

healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. healthcare system — overused, over-stressed, under-paid, detailed n How Health Systems Can Care for Caregivers , published in the NEJM Catalyst July 2021 issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In addition to community health workers, the integration of digital health solutions will be imperative for addressing health disparity and advancing health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In early March, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of skilled nursing facilities restricted access to residents. “With regard to patient care, Executive Mental Health primarily provides mental health care to skilled nursing facility residents, and that care was abruptly cut off,” said Dr. Ari D.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. Video also provides a powerful delivery mechanism for mental healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Traditionally manual tasks like utilization management reviews hinder nurses’ productivity, increasing the risk of burnout. Chief Medical Officer at Iris Telehealth. Dr. Ujjwal Ramtekkar, Senior Medical Director, Mental Health at Teladoc Health. A good example is collaborative care models in mental health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Regulators have a greater success rate when engaging industry experts to develop rules in health IT.

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