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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We must add structures that will achieve health equity," said Dr. Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team from the University of Pennsylvania health system sought to compare the demographic characteristics of patients who completed a telemedicine encounter (either via phone or video) with those who were scheduled for one, but did not complete it. healthcare system and digital connectivity landscape fraught with inequity.

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the special HLTH 2023 edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Optum and Uber are partnering to make non-urgent medical transportation and healthy food delivery covered benefits for certain Medicare Advantage plans beginning in 2024. Highmark Health tapped Spring Health for increasing access to behavioral health.

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Telehealth needs medical interpreters, broadband expansion to reach underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Especially hard hit have been safety-net clinics serving medically underserved and rural areas, many facing alarming drops in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements as a result of the drop in face-to-face consultations," wrote the report authors. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. RPM is an effective way to ensure all patients are able to receive the quality, continuous care their condition requires. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.