Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. "Even simple electronic chart review consultations of in-patients have been found to be beneficial in some contexts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. But telehealth can help in a significant way.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes. Health care is omni-channel.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Interoperability in Healthcare? The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to work together and exchange information seamlessly is known as interoperability in healthcare. Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. In October 2023 the company created the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATco) to collaborate with health systems in re-imagining and implementing a blueprint for “interoperable” health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

AristaMD this week announced its new unified care transition platform, which it says will enable primary care practices to provide patient-to-provider specialty matching, process electronic referrals and access peer consultations to minimize patient wait times for specialties. CT at South Building, Level 4, room S401.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

"Pushing the boundaries in digital health should be done very cautiously until data security and the right skills are ensured," said John Rayner (UK), Regional Director, EMEA, Analytics, HIMSS, who moderated the event ' Telehealth adoption in Europe: The findings of the HIMSS e-Health Trendbarometer. '

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

Portugal is making big leaps in telehealth development with the newly introduced National Strategic Telehealth Plan (PENTS), the first document in the National Health System in Portugal and one of the first of its kind in the world. “Many of our telehealth services are local.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. ” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On the upside, digital health investors see greatest opportunity for start-ups to focus on value-based care models and consumerization of healthcare businesses (each with 29% of investors keen), followed by interoperability and connectivity and reimbursement for digital health solutions (with over 17% enthusiastic for each).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speaking during a panel session at the recent AFR Healthcare Summit , Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) President Dr Harry Nespolon said the way remote healthcare and telehealth is offered has changed little since the 1960s. “Doctors still need to see patients in front of them to dispense care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their employer pays for a level of care and services above which Quincy spends additional funds for services they value. Quincy’s community appreciates that everyone has access to primary and tertiary care, most of which starts with virtual services delivered at home or work or on-the-go. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

"Far too many digital tools have disregarded interoperability and integration with EHRs, and have actually added to the administrative burdens and unnecessary work that frustrate providers – and keep them from practicing at the top of their license and building relationships with patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2

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Redox

MARCH 24, 2021

Three: Facilitate Telehealth through Infrastructure. But in 2020, necessity was the mother of adoption , and by this, I mean technology, especially as it relates to telehealth. Prescription 2: Make interoperability a greater priority. Prescription 3: Facilitate telehealth through infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

As health systems ramp up telehealth and, especially, remote patient monitoring programs, they're looking for technologies to help them manage multiple connected devices as they extend care delivery into patients' homes. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth. The latest advancements in digital health technologies This could include discussions on artificial intelligence, machine learning, telehealth, and other emerging technologies. Among many others.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. By Bill Siwicki | May 18, 2023 News Augusta University Health saves $1.1M

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. Capturing and sharing interoperable and transparent data. In other words, the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S., The second chart shows six developments that drive the future state of health care and spending in the U.S., and a slowing of mass/general pharma manufacturing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2023

E-prescribing is an interoperability success, but regulatory standards get in the way of bringing innovation to medication management. Read more… Pushing From Interoperability to Digital Transformation. Read more… Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations.

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Redox

MARCH 17, 2021

Two: Make interoperability a greater priority. Prescription 2: Make interoperability a greater priority. Prescription 3: Facilitate telehealth through infrastructure. Today, let’s address making interoperability a priority. Here’s to interoperability in 2021! I talked about innovation in my last post here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A survey from virtual care platform KeyCare concluded that 92% of patients would be somewhat or very likely to use telehealth within the next year for routine medical care such as urgent care, chronic condition management, or mental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

While the advent of modern interoperable approaches is gaining attention by reducing data entry burden – such as through pre-population of eCRFs using electronic health record data – the available data is still limited to a participating site’s point-in-time interactions with a given patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Dr. David Bates, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital, compared the priorities set out by the declaration to the real-world response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the United States.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic. Reimbursement for digital/telecare/virtual care services for both public and private payors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Issue of interoperability, communication and collaboration within countries, and across Europe.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

This integration will enable seamless information exchange, real-time monitoring, and data-driven insights, leading to more comprehensive and coordinated care. Expansion of telemedicine beyond primary care: While telemedicine initially gained popularity in primary care settings, it is increasingly being adopted in specialty care areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Q: What role will digital health and telehealth play in the structuring and building of a healthcare system resilient to pandemics and other shocks in the future? This is where integration and interoperability become very important to ensure collaboration and communication between different systems and operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Read more… Telehealth Visits Can Improve Clinical Revenue – to a Point. Andy Oram talked to several experts about the future of telehealth. They discussed why HIEs have unique IT infrastructure needs , along with the potential of HIEs to address interoperability challenges and improve health inequity at the same time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Formed in 2001 as the eHealth Initiative, EHI has advocated for federal reimbursement for e-prescribing, EHR use, and telehealth, all while convening competitors to foster industry-wide collaboration. Included Health is partnering with Dispatch Health to connect virtual primary care to in-home urgent medical care.

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