Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This article will be a roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, partnerships, research studies, company launches, and more from the annual conference. Studies Almost half (48%) of American women don’t have a PCP or get regular preventive care , according to a survey from Tia Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

" He said OIG is "working hard to assess how telehealth utilization changed during the pandemic – what that means for corporate integrity, what that means for access, what that means for health equity. They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances.

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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. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. A recent study noted that African American and Hispanic adults are less likely than white adults to have a usual source of care or have had a health visit in the past year. Then COVID-19 hit.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Many studies and healthcare research findings show that a Chronic Care Model is an evidence-based approach to chronic illness care that can positively impact a patient’s well-being. Some advantages include increased utilization of recommended therapies, shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, and better health outcomes.In

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After years of study and documentation, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that remote patient monitoring (RPM) is among the most efficient and effective tools available for chronic disease management for older adults — particularly those with diabetes, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lead investor Mercia, alongside Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal, invests in Optellum’s pioneering AI-powered lung-health technology. ” Physician-led, female-founded fund Black Opal Ventures has a mission to build better businesses and a better future at the intersection of healthcare and technology. About Optellum.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On behalf of the State, NYeC leads the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY), a network to connect healthcare providers statewide, develops policies and standards that support the utilization of health technologies, and assists healthcare providers in adopting and effectively using electronic health records.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ER physicians spend only 28% of their time in direct face to face patient contact and can go through 4000 computer mouse clicks in one shift. Opportunities thus exist for life sciences and technology companies to develop products for this new therapeutic approach.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It’s the gold rush of the 21st century and health technology is where a lot of companies are staking a claim. The variety of new entrants is vast: vendors selling devices or software; health systems using telemedicine to expand their market share and new providers of remote health services. population.

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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. As one can see, registries performed with quality technologies can have profound effects on healthcare from many standpoints.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. We cannot afford to let that happen. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries. We cannot afford to let that happen. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

A Kaiser Health News study found that overall, 18 million people live in ?counties Many restrictions have been lifted and providers can now offer telehealth services to Medicare patients and be paid equitably for a virtual visit just like a face-to-face visit. An unexpected catalyst of change has arrived in COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Health equity and technological innovation are top priorities for the healthcare industry – with new standards, technology and policy driving the way. Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Growth of digital health: Digital health technologies, such as wearable devices and health apps, will become more widely used to monitor and manage health. Employers and insurers will offer incentives for employees to use these technologies. payers, health systems, etc.).

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Higher-risk mobile health technologies are considered medical devices under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Mobile health technologies, in contrast, often combine hardware (e.g., Trust in mobile health technologies and the extent of their adoption will depend on how these and other details are resolved.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Campbell County Health (Gillette, Wyo.). For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , during the pandemic, telehealth services for urgent care have grown by 683% and by 4,345% for non-urgent care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth and remote monitoring have found their place in routine clinical practice like never before.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

are not confident that they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more, discussed in October 2023 in a study on patients and medical costs conducted by Access One. But health care costs in and of themselves create stress in patients-as-payors, as well – another uniquely American phenomenon.

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