Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

UAB partnered with our Alabama Department of Public Health to obtain funding and purchase videoconferencing equipment for each of our county health departments. We used these county health departments as a way to deliver subspecialty care across our state. Click here to read the special report. Then two, then three.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform. LANES combines and provides visibility of all prescribed medications so CSC providers can discuss the drugs with patients during telemedicine appointments. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The firm, which monitors legal policy in the telemedicine and digital health industry, reported that 43 states and the District of Columbia implemented a version of a state telehealth commercial payer law – and the experts believe this year will trigger even greater expansion. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says it will temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities around prescription of certain controlled medications as it sifts through comments on its proposed plans for post-PHE remote prescibing guardrails.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Applying for telemedicine jobs and want to stand out? 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. Just getting started in the field?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey adds yet another data point to the massive increase in telemedicine use amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. But uncertainty about those regulations also dogs the industry. In a new survey of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big moment.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2022

The study, published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health , took a closer look at the rollout of telemedicine at two federally qualified health centers serving primarily Chinese and Latino immigrants. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Health care is undergoing similar digital and omnichannel transformation following other industries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More than 230 healthcare and industry organizations wrote a letter to governors across the country asking for expanded access to telehealth via licensure flexibilities. The letter was signed by a diverse range of organizations, including: Industry representatives such as Amazon, Amwell, Epic and Kroger. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Taking Stock of Progress and Looking Ahead.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. Every company’s in the health business, I wrote here in Health Populi ten years ago.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

May is Mental Health Awareness Month each year, so time to be even more vigilant in calling out the Gallup findings and continued stigma and barriers to accessing needed services. In the meantime, more older people feel the mental/physical health service gap even more acutely than younger health citizens.

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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About the ATA.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. FYI, I am sharing these data with permission from CTA, grateful to be able to do so.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. Make permanent the disaster waiver authority, enabling Health and Human Service to expand telehealth in Medicare during all future emergencies and disasters. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The issues of health equity and sustainability are also on the minds of RSNA and attendees, and we are seeing evidence of this in content as well as product development. The health care industry is a major contributor to the world’s carbon footprint, and radiology plays a role in this, too. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. How to deal? Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For this report, Deloitte interviewed 60 health care chief financial officers to gauge their perspectives during the pandemic looking at the future of their organizations in the post-COVID environment. Deloitte has been talking about resilience in leadership across all industries, globally, throughout the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The truth is, many – if not most – of the most important health IT tools in use today have emerged from long periods of incubation and struggle rather than capsizing an entire industry. Telemedicine also has a long history and has actually been in use for decades. Take wearables, for example. I agree with Goldsmith.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The legislation seeks to push forward with wider access to and use of telehealth – even beyond this public health emergency with its numerous waivers, allowances and temporary rule changes. The bill was immediately greeted with enthusiastic approval from a chorus of healthcare industry groups. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

Advocates and health industry professionals cheered the passage of the bill, which they say will help preserve access to care throughout the state. As of March 2021, 22 states had changed telemedicine laws during the pandemic, although not all of those will still be in effect after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The report, released this week from consumer credit reporting company Experian, notes that the pivot to new technologies necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic will continue to leave businesses, including those in the healthcare industry, vulnerable to data breaches. "Cyberattacks are nothing new to the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2023

Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. Drug Enforcement Administration's proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications at the close of the COVID-19 national public health emergency.

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Ortholive

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The nation’s largest public health system, the Veteran’s Administration shared data showing a 17% jump in telehealth utilization from the prior year, with more than 2.6 million encounters occurring annually through the use of the technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. Fam Med Community Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. In any other year, the new regs would have been the talk of the industry for months.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Now, to the country rankings, which like the OECD or Commonwealth Fund rankings on health always provide engaging thinker-toys for more questions and more research. trillion (addressing health, fitness, nutrition, appearance, sleep, and mindfulness). Health eating, nutrition, and weight loss = $946 billion. Spas = $68 billion.

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