Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. Stacy Lindau, MD, founder of NowPow, discuss how connected care is boosting health equity efforts , and how patients and community organizations can be engaged to capitalize on its promise.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Abner then went to Mexico and witnessed the emergence of telemedicine there. which was under-served by the nation’s health care system, realizing the promise of virtual care could have a positive impact for these patients. For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By Tyler Williams, Directory of Strategy, AR Optimization, ZOLL Data Systems. ” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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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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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2021

Researchers evaluated three years of claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to compare patients treated for an acute upper respiratory infection via telemedicine versus an in-person visit, finding that patients who used telemedicine were almost twice as likely to have a related downstream visit (10.3 percent vs. 5.9

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Providers will be focusing on building the most effective 'digital front door' strategies to stay relevant to a hyper-connected audience. Reforms in national health policies and budget constraints will increase the appeal and appetite towards Opex business models. This development will also drive growth in virtual care.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

By putting this report out at this time, the AMA hopes to help identify opportunities for health care stakeholders to support digitally-enabled care as they, in the words of the report, “develop their coverage and payment policies and strategies in the years ahead.”

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Henry Kotula

MAY 23, 2020

Better to support businesses in creating comprehensive screening strategies (with some offering their own app-based solutions), coupled with a testing plan for symptomatic employees. Health systems have been surprised by the hunger for information on COVID-19 among the business community.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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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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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

HRI predicts that in 2020, more companies will take action to make sure healthcare is accessible to their employees, opening and expanding clinics as a strategy to control the cost trend. How those benefits are designed, and how employees perceive the costs, will shape the effectiveness of site of care strategies.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 9, 2020

Telemedicine , for instance, allowed us to pivot quickly from in-person care to virtual care. All of these strategies are intended to significantly reduce risk while allowing for vital, high-quality care for our patients. The Covid-19 crisis has changed the practice of medicine in fundamental ways in just a matter of months.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 6, 2018

CMS Administrator Seema Verma released a rural health strategy in May aimed at improving access and quality of care in rural communities. Among its objectives are expanding telemedicine, empowering patients in rural areas to take responsibility for their health and leveraging partnerships to advance rural health goals.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital firms provide funding to startups judged to have potential to disrupt existing industries in exchange for ownership and some control over strategy and operations. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1). Strategies For Disruption.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many organizations are already exploring delivery reform with initiatives that focus on: Remote health monitoring and telemedicine; Population health management; Patient engagement; Social determinants of health; and. Primary care.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

You need a national strategy that will equitably distribute this vaccine and we first look at the vulnerable populations. Unless you get further disease, you then get telemedicine. You figure out if you need to go to the health system. And if you’re positive, then you self-isolate.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 15, 2021

These two lions of health policy and strategy came together recently to pen an editorial in Health Affairs examining the impact of large integrated health systems on the nation’s response to COVID-19. Larger health systems were able to mobilize the resources to secure protective gear as supplies dwindled.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

He said shifting away from traditional delivery models and fee for service to bundled payment models will lead to more remote monitoring and telemedicine. Wiggins said innovations will also play a larger role in keeping down costs.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

While an important first step, policy makers cannot simply infuse more funding to CHCs and expect them to withstand the challenges of the COVID-19 era.

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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. Policymakers can help counteract the negative impacts of the workforce shortage through a variety of strategies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Government policy is increasingly focused on incorporating SDoH into all aspects of healthcare delivery, from individual patient care planning to quality measures to population health objectives, as part of the government’s strategy for tackling health disparities.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 5, 2020

. “The deficits in our [infectious disease] physician workforce today have left us poorly prepared for the unprecedented demand ahead,” study authors said, highlighting telemedicine as a key strategy for expanding access to this speciality. To view the full study, click here.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 10, 2021

But AI investments will shift over the next two years to prioritize telemedicine (38%), robotic tasks such as process automation (37%) and delivery of patient care (36%), the survey found. About a third of executives said AI has improved administrative efficiency. Only 18% said the technology helped uncover new revenue opportunities.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

The letter continues to argue for the elimination of financial barriers facing patients who would access telehealth care, waiving a copay requirement to ensure that people can get care when they need it.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sustainable funding strategies for safety net hospitals will be needed. We have seen the proliferation of new technologies — telemedicine, artificial intelligence, robotics, and precision medicine — becoming an integral part of everyday clinical care. Mike Gentry. Executive Vice President and COO of Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, Va.):

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America. coverage for telehealth, and.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A growing volume of outpatient care will be provided in ambulatory surgery centers, primary care clinics, retail clinics, urgent care centers, nurse managed health centers, imaging facilities, emergency departments, retail clinics, and patients’ homes. Consolidation will continue industry wide.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

The macro-strategy for Optum is that, in their mission-words, “health care should be equally available to everyone, when and how they want it. In person, on the phone or online, quality health care is wherever you are,” their website informs us.

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