BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Editor’s Note: Health care executives and providers have shed fears about the deployment of telemedicine services. The demand for telemedicine services pressures payers into staying current with telemedicine based offerings allows payers flexibility with policy updates. Report Highlights: Telemedicine delivers ROI.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.

Telehealth 203

Telehealth Telemedicine Patient Experience Accountable Care 203

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. CHI tracked the many policy changes affecting connected health technology since the start of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association: Six Misperceptions about the Telemedicine Market Healthcare is a $2.5 It’s the gold rush of the 21st century and health technology is where a lot of companies are staking a claim. And now the excitement is turning to telemedicine. So was the VCR. population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Its financial checklist offers physicians and administrators 14 tips to help business during the public health emergency, such as consolidating administrative resources like coding tools and making better use of digital health technologies. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

"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. ON THE RECORD.

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Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Medicare 199

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances.

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Telehealth EHR RCM Healthcare IT 107

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

So there was much consternation recently when the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a report saying that digital interventions weren’t helping people with diabetes much and weren’t worth their added costs. So do doctors and patients, before they go through the trouble of adopting a course of treatment.

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Digital Health Health Technology Medicare Telehealth 87

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. In and beyond 2023, a trusted future is a healthy future.

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Much of the bill takes a broad approach to health reform; financing, insurance options, etc., Nor does it include some telemedicine provisions that are included in the House bill, such as the establishment of a Telehealth Advisory Committee. The language refers to the role of health information technology in addressing such needs.

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care innovations

AUGUST 8, 2018

Back in 2014 , the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) collaborated with a network of local and national health technology leaders to build the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network, an effort to extend quality care into rural and underserved regions with high rates of chronic illness. Wicker in their op-ed.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Fortunately, telemedicine is closing several treatment gaps. It’s worth noting that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently increased reimbursement for substance abuse treatment. Virtual health technologies can reach patients anytime, anywhere. Dead End Options in Rural Towns. Contact Us.

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Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Medicare 56

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Finally, the healthcare industry relies heavily on technology, including electronic medical records systems, telemedicine platforms, and medical devices connected to networks. This increased reliance on technology makes healthcare organizations more vulnerable to cyber threats, and requires a strong focus on cybersecurity.

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LinkousThink

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s the gold rush of the 21st century and health technology is where a lot of companies are staking a claim. And now the attention is turning to telemedicine. Every week there is a new conference, a newsletter or journal and even a new association targeting some aspect of telemedicine. population.

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Telemedicine Medicare Health Technology 28

GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If you know anything about telemedicine, you might be thinking, “Can’t virtual care bridge this gap?” As with all things virtual health, reimbursement and awareness haven’t always been where they should be. Audiology-Specific Virtual Health Technologies. An Air Force Veteran's Telemedicine. Learn more. Contact Us.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

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. To make it easier to adopt virtual health technologies, there are telehealth funding programs available right now. It seems that the future is here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, recognizing that health equity is important and that we should work on addressing the root causes underlying inequity is not enough to engender change. Q: The role of telemedicine is shifting. I predict we'll continue to see creative ways to leverage telemedicine to address challenges facing the healthcare industry.

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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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Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, BIDMC staff expect telemedicine to continue at the current volume of 20% of all ambulatory care visits. During the pandemic, a health technology company provided IoT devices to people's homes that monitored COVID-19 symptoms, along with a platform for data collection. In the U.S.,

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees have access to the health system’s community education program offering hundreds of classes, and over 60 percent of Mercyhealth partners use some kind of flexible scheduling. For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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