Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. While technologies such as telehealth offer a promising solution, we must continue striving to find more ways to effectively manage the revenue cycle to redistribute the available dollars where they count most.

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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. Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

This Ohio primary care practiced acquired three practices and added five physicians to its existing sites. The practice employed a suite of eClinicalWorks apps called healow , enabling patients to schedule after-hours visits and avoid going to the ER or urgent care. actually grew.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

" "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring." Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology."

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards virtual visits and telehealth? Everyone from practice leadership to billers should be educated about information blocking rules. This means staff can get more done with less stress — a huge win for office morale, practice efficiency, and patient experience.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2020

I will be meeting in a private conference with a leadership team of a dozen execs from one of the world’s largest Big Pharma companies to brainstorm around my wheelhouse of consumers + technology + health/care. Digital health at CES will grow 25% since last year in terms of exhibitors and attendees focused on the category.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

As healthcare leaders and the general public increase their AI literacy, they can apply their learnings to improve equity in healthcare with investment in AI-driven medical and telehealth systems. And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. When physicians were unable to see patients in person, telehealth and RPM became a necessary capability not a nice-to-have.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction. 2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. Doctors rarely aware of online feedback from patients. by HIMSS TV June 12, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Emergency departments and urgent cares are over capacity nationwide, and patients often wait weeks to see their primary care physician. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hands-On Data Collection I talked to Dr. Geoff Rutledge, chief medical officer of HealthTap , a company that came early to telehealth and that I covered several times as far back as 2011. He believes that the doctor should discuss SDoH with patients, collecting data and discussing its implications. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774.

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