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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. "It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. we need to implement telehealth effectively into primary care," Gupta added. Provide coverage for at-home monitoring devices.

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Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Why the Benefits Outweigh the Initial Cost of Implementing Telehealth. Costs for sustainable telehealth programs can seem prohibitive, especially when organizations are still grappling with the effects of COVID-19 on their revenue streams. How Can a Telehealth Model Reduce Costs and Increase Revenue Over Time? Here’s how: 1.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator. He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. . Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care).

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Telehealth Policy 2018: Keeping You In The Know

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. To supplement information provided in the webinar, the South Central Telehealth Resource Center would like to share information and resources regarding national and regional changes that may be helpful to you. Medicare Telehealth Services Fact Sheet.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Telehealth Policy Barriers to Observe

BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. One of the top telehealth obstacles is reimbursement. Reimbursement.

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Licensing and Credentialing in Telehealth

American Well

MAY 16, 2017

In the world of telehealth, licensing and credentialing issues are amongst the initial concerns many health systems have when considering integrating telemedicine into their system. There is a nursing compact for RNs interested in streamlining the licensing process as well. What is Credentialing?

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Licensing and Credentialing in Telehealth

American Well

MAY 16, 2017

In the world of telehealth, licensing and credentialing issues are amongst the initial concerns many health systems have when considering integrating telemedicine into their system. There is a nursing compact for RNs interested in streamlining the licensing process as well. What is Credentialing?

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. health care spending wasn’t utilization — it was the underlying pricing of medical services and prescription drugs.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice. Health Populi’s Hot Points; Health citizens in the U.S.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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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Do Medicare providers located at a Distant Site have to be hospital-based to provide services?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Q: Per Medicare regulations, do the providers at a distant site have to be hospital-based or can they be in a private setting – for example, a group of pulmonologists who want to create a telehealth system on their own? Also, all telehealth services must meet the Medicare established set of criteria for reimbursement.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In addition, policies that address underlying social determinant risk factors like housing, jobs, food security, and access to social services would be critical, ASPE believes. . The nurses will conduct a 13-question SDoH survey and assess risk factors that compromise the good management of patients’ MS conditions.

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The Care Crisis – Robots Won’t Save Us

Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2022

Most commonly, these are child daycare service jobs, followed by nursing and residential care and individual and family services, hospital and ambulatory services, and education. had a supply shortage of nurses and some physician specialties. Even before the coronavirus emerged in early 2020, the U.S.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March & April 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Subcommittee Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at school site.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – May 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

." The University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine states, "Real-time telehealth sessions are live and interactive, and frequently use video-conferencing technologies. ""Synchronous telehealth models improve convenience, access, and efficiency of care by offering walk-in telehealth services."

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Agency: Board of Nursing. LEGISLATION. Passed Legislation. Arkansas. REGULATION.

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Patients most-trust their clinicians, physicians and nurses, as safe places in which to have an honest SDoH discussion, compared with a health insurance representative. But age is a factor in these conversations, where younger people are more comfortable talking about SDoHs with clinicians than older people.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. Furthermore, Genentech added health care providers into the study subject mix: they polled 403 HCPs covering physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants.

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Doctors Without Patients: ‘Our Waiting Rooms Are Like Ghost Towns’

Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. Telehealth is more inclined to be about strictly what you are there for,” she said.

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Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare

Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. Some insurers have also said they will cover telehealth visits at parity with in-person visits.

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Telehealth’s Missing Link: Training and Support

GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Training and support – or the lack thereof – can make or break a virtual health program. In a recent interview with Managed Care magazine , Mei Wa Kwong, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy, listed training as a major implementation obstacle. Creating an Optimal Environment for Telemedicine Adoption.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. Clinical applications.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. As The Lancet stated on July 1, 2023, “Strengthening of primary and community care, public health, and broader preventive measures beyond the health sector” will be an important remedy to assure NHS survival and effectiveness. health care system?”

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Navigating Healthcare Industry Challenges: Privacy, Access, & Patient Satisfaction

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

This shortage has been further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has placed significant additional strain on health systems worldwide. One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation.

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HHS puts $48M toward rural public health IT, workforce expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Qualitative insights from Orygen (Australia) revealed that young people report privacy concerns in having telehealth consults with family members in the background. The Mental Health Foundation survey reported that respondents felt increasingly lonely, and that this was most pronounced for people aged 18-24 (44%) and 25-34 (35%).

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. Some telehealth flexibilities that were allowed under the PHE are also staying in effect, at least until the end of 2024.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Telehealth Policy 2018: Keeping You In The Know

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Telehealth Policy Barriers to Observe

Licensing and Credentialing in Telehealth

Licensing and Credentialing in Telehealth

Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Do Medicare providers located at a Distant Site have to be hospital-based to provide services?

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

The Care Crisis – Robots Won’t Save Us

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March & April 2018

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March 2018

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2018

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – May 2018

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018

Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Doctors Without Patients: ‘Our Waiting Rooms Are Like Ghost Towns’

Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare

Telehealth’s Missing Link: Training and Support

Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Navigating Healthcare Industry Challenges: Privacy, Access, & Patient Satisfaction

HHS puts $48M toward rural public health IT, workforce expansion

Early warning signs of a mental health tsunami: A coordinated response to gather initial data insights from digital services providers

Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

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