Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The organization decided it wanted to be able to approach the challenge of meeting patients and families where they are and improving access to care, and telehealth was a tool to do that. The vendor approached the hospital with an opportunity to consult as it developed its platform to meet the needs of pediatrics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Rock Health points out that younger people and people of color are less likely to have ongoing relationships with primary care doctors or as the phrase goes “medical homes.” The important takeaway is that, for most consumers, virtual care is now a fixed expectation on that spectrum.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. MEETING THE CHALLENGE Memorial was an early adopter of Keycare and became the first site to go live with pediatrics.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 19, 2020

Patient-focused care is no longer just a platitude; it’s a platform that will ensure long-term viability for providers who can successfully implement primary care models, says Mike Davis, who examines the growing digital technology market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S. with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team.

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iSALUS Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2019

Providers are constantly searching for methods to increase patient engagement and improve the patient experience. When patients are actively engaging with their providers, they are involved in the necessary communication and collaboration it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve health outcomes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. More than 10 years in the making. "Even determining an appropriate metric for a successful visit is a bit of a moving target.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The website notes that there is a 12-visit maximum under this plan. In the program’s FAQs, one question clearly addresses this, transparently and in layperson’s terms: Q: “Do I need health insurance to use GNC Health?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

The health system's expansion into remote patient monitoring is meant to directly address two of these issues. "We knew this would lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced total health expenditure for patients – and we were right," Cunningham noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

"With MDLIVE now part of Evernorth, we've fast-tracked our ability to offer a broader suite of differentiated, future-state care solutions that make the patient experience easier and more convenient," said Eric Palmer, president of Evernorth, in a statement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Providers continuously pushed themselves to invest in new tools and solutions — with one overarching aim — to enhance the patient experience. Lacking a centralized platform adds to the administrative overhead — overwhelming care providers and frustrating patients. What’s the driving force behind this growth?

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Science is trusted especially when it fits my paradigm for self-care and how I define the “CEO of me.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mortality will be up in the U.S. along with health disparities and inequities.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

The meeting will be a strategically important, as the title of the conference asks: “What Now? Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity. Preventive and primary care. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and. Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022. Mental and behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

THE PROBLEM The massive health system recently set three goals: Improve patient outcomes by monitoring and actively managing patients with chronic diseases, with a specific focus on remote medication titration to get more patients to guidelines. More than 80% of patients are using Cadence devices 16 days or more a month.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. "But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available."

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of virtual care across all medical specialties and primary care has been critical, especially in behavioral health. At Iris Telehealth, it’s not unusual for our partners to use telehealth 50-70% of the time for primary care or behavioral health care services.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Holly Health, already partnered with over 150 GP (Primary Care) practices, is dedicated to addressing the growing challenge, through fully digital, personalised coaching support. The project features a three-month RCT focusing on patients with hypertension and depression/anxiety with Northumbria Primary Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health. "Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Additional services were implemented, across all venues of care, many of which focused on care in the convenience of the patient's own home. "For ambulatory services, primary care and specialty scheduled virtual visits were implemented and offered," Vice President of Clinical Informatics Tiffany Cross said.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Addressing the access and affordability pillars, Sam’s Club launched a collaboration with Humana called Care Accelerator. This isn’t meant to be a fully-loaded insurance plan, but a product that “curates” selected medical services consumers want to access at relatively low-cost to care for basic health care needs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While NPs are essential to addressing the provider shortage and improving the patient experience, they’re also indispensable when it comes to mental health treatment. Across the country, healthcare organizations are experiencing a primary care shortage that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in rural areas.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

DECEMBER 3, 2015

In January 2015, Stanford Medicine launched ClickWell Care, a new type of Primary Care clinic which leverages technology to allow patients to virtually connect with their own Stanford primary care clinicians and wellness coaches via video or phone visits. ClickWell staff have seen 1,223 patients.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. Similar to retail customers, patients seek more convenient and accessible ways to interact with healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To ensure all New Yorkers could access this new service, NYC H+H also needed a telehealth vendor that enabled it to offer virtual urgent care to all patients in their patients' preferred language and without a clear need for the Internet or a smartphone. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. How will the technology be used, and how will it fit into clinical workflows?

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints. “With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom. We have since transitioned all synchronous “virtual visit” telehealth services to Zoom.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

A “one layered delivery network through which patients can move seamlessly as they age and their needs evolve” will be the new health care platform to meet patients’ demands by 2030, according to a forecast from KPMG’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute. delivery and financing system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2023

Hyndman Area Health Center – a holistic Pennsylvania-based health center providing family medicine, dental health, behavioral health and more – transitioned from client-hosted servers to eClinicalWorks cloud-based servers to expand its network capacity and meet a rising data demand. The ROI favored moving to the cloud.

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