Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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Mental health Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care 171

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience Medicare 74

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Henry Kotula

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Shore Up Primary Care Compared to the United States, the world’s most-effective and highest-performing healthcare systems deliver better quality of care at significantly lower costs. One important difference between us and them: primary care. This will help attract the best medical students to the specialty.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. This grant comes as we near the conclusion this month of our first two-year, $1 million award studying how telehealth transformation impacted primary care access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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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. gross domestic product in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calculated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

News and Studies The American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care : Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a toolkit including all previously released resources.

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Medical Billing EHR Medicare BioTech 106

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Mahoney said the restrictions inadvertently create a "donut hole" for Medicare Fee for Service patients, allowing the health system to offer care to everyone but them. "Telehealth is a tool in our toolkit that is largely substitutive, not additive, to in-person care," she said.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy 190

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan. Digital health tools can and will play a role in bolstering these three pillars for consumer health.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

That said, the last four years have demonstrated to us that patients will ultimately drive the need for advancements that ultimately move us towards adopting more efficient care delivery models and at scale. When thinking about home care, it’s also worth mentioning how technology really empowers at-home care providers.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

From partnering with primary care providers to innovative digital tools, leaders are stepping up with these effective and creative solutions. Psychiatrist shortage by the numbers: The current workforce of about 45,580 psychiatrists must increase by 2,800 to meet today’s demands for psychiatric care. Telemedicine.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Telemedicine Today. Large health plans and even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are starting to reimburse for virtual care, starting first and foremost with the telehealth platforms. Read more about these 5 factors driving 24/7 care through telehealth. February 2016. mHealthIntelligence.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

"Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann. "Medicare announced its coverage at noon, and we saw our first [Medicare] patient at 5 that day." " Testa also noted that telehealth goes beyond ambulatory care.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. The Pew Research Center reports that in 2017, 67 percent of people with incomes of $30K or less had a smartphone, indicating that most Medicaid patients have a way to complete a telemedicine visit. Solving Medicaid Challenges.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As providers accept value-based payment, they have an incentive to adopt digital health tools that empower patients to align with them, virtually and economically.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys. billion in 2018.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

" The group plans to lobby policymakers to broaden coverage for care services in the home – including extension and expansion of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Without Walls provisions – advocate for bundled-payment models, home-based care and more.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 15, 2024

In the rapidly advancing field of healthcare, Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) have risen as indispensable pillars, fundamentally reshaping the landscape of patient care. This plan outlines specific goals, interventions, and strategies tailored to the patient’s unique needs.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience EHR 40

Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my experience, a newly innovative health system isn’t anywhere close to being prepared to leverage cloud tooling at this level of complexity. telemedicine, primary care, diagnostics, etc.). But outside of cutting-edge data scientist applications, this prediction makes less sense.

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Interoperability FHIR Primary Care EHR 64

Beyond Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2021

Monitoring programs can collect a wide range of health data from the point of care, such as vital signs, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood oxygen levels, heart rate, and electrocardiograms. If the new hospital room is the bedroom, then RPM is the tool to help that become a reality.

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Nursing Primary Care Health Data Telehealth 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

What’s most important and impactful about telehealth is the technology’s ability to enable care and improve accessibility. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The specialist may be the right person in the right role, but at a given time they may not be the ideal primary care provider. The reason for this lies in the current structure of care in the United States, a structure I see as the healthcare pyramid. The result: a fragmented healthcare experience for the patient.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Medicare 48

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. The implications of these changes extend to reimbursement strategies, service delivery methods, and overall patient care quality.

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Medicare Telehealth Mental health Digital Health 40

American Well

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The specialist may be the right person in the right role, but at a given time they may not be the ideal primary care provider. The reason for this lies in the current structure of care in the United States, a structure I see as the healthcare pyramid. The result: a fragmented healthcare experience for the patient.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing 48

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sean Cavanaugh, who serves as the chief policy officer and chief commercial officer at Aledade, whose technology offerings include population health and telemedicine. Primary care practices were using telehealth for as much as 50% of all visits during the height of the pandemic.

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Telehealth Medicare Primary Care Telemedicine 182

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Life Science Pharmaceuticals Mental health Telehealth 207

Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Digital Health Mobile Health Telemedicine Primary Care 32

Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

This forced hospitals and health systems to dramatically reduce elective surgeries, lay off thousands and significantly change care delivery with the adoption of new practices and services like telemedicine. Telemedicine typifies this phenomenon. This discouraged adoption of an efficient, high-value care modality until COVID.

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Primary Care Public Health Telemedicine Accountable Care 32

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues. What role does health IT play?

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