Digital Health Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Trilliant Health published a new report that’s pretty close to required reading for anyone working in behavioral healthcare – Trends Shaping the Health Economy: Behavioral Health. Behavioral health volumes were 18.1% Should high demand shift care settings for behavioral healthcare?

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.” ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0%

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Mend

AUGUST 3, 2023

Learn 10 proven methods for mental health practices to reduce patient no-shows. Reducing no-show rates in mental health practices is a critical objective in 2023. As many as 50% of mental health appointments aren’t completed. This significantly impacts patient care and provider revenue.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

These worries and concerns can be very isolating when the topic is trending with seemingly everyone else being excited for it. What health IT trend has you concerned? Most “mental health” apps are actually “mental wellness” apps. What can be done about it and what’s the impact if we do nothing?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Amwell's Converge does not require patients to app downloads and features chat-based support, mental health services and in-visit enrollment for clinical programs, according to Suki's announcement. Early on in 2023, small health systems began using ambient voice technology and generative AI to improve EHR workflows.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Most consumers who own smartwatches and health and fitness trackers also use those devices every day, as shown in the household penetration/usage chart here from the report. I’ve been tracking this study since its inception, when it focused on “Connectivity and Mobile Trends.”

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. Virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis , while teleneurology is improving access and care for veterans.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Pertinent to CTA’s larger stakeholder community, areas of the home such as connected kitchens and cooking at home, smart bathrooms, the growing sleep category, and even connected cars are all taking on health and wellness features to meet the evolving home as peoples’ personal health hubs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being. The Fund’s bottom line.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

healthcare consumers, which also found stress and social isolation are still fueling demand for remote behavioral and mental health services. D’Orazio said he was encouraged that providers in specialty care are taking the opportunity to embrace virtual care, beyond already accepted use cases like tele-stroke and telepsychiatry.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

These products and companies sustain t rends I tracked in Years 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic when several of these were most-trusted, bolstering peoples’ lives living in, working from, and making health at home.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The first chart illustrates the deferred care identified in Castlight’s assessment of 160 million medical claims in its commercially-insured population data. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. One example is Amazon.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Telehealth platforms enabled virtual visits most disruptively for mental health, GI, allergy, neurology, rheumatology, endocrinology, primary care, ENT and cardiology, as the bar chart illustrates. Lab tests across all sites of care sharply fell since early March, with fewer office visits and, thus, fewer diagnoses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S. has evolved in a unique way, as health insurers continue to re-define just what a “health plan” is. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. One of the obstacles facing some U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. As the letter outlines, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the DEA waived the prior in-person evaluation requirement for patients being prescribed controlled substances via telehealth. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. Our OECD peers generally invest more in primary care access than America does.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” ” than, “when can I return to my primary care doctor or cardiologist?” Can you see yourself?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A report from Wolters Kluwer suggested that patients are willing to shift primary care to new care settings if it means the cost of care will decrease. National specialty hospital PAM Health selected AtlasJobs for its talent acquisition and engagement app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Snyder also is hoping primary and specialty care providers build upon what they started during the pandemic and not only provide services “within the four walls of an office or the hospital, but also at the [patient’s] home or at different locations.” Including mental health in the mix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

What do I care how many steps the patient is taking?” But the data is invaluable when processed to look for trends or anomalies. Alleviating the Mental Health Crisis Another plank in the AdvancedMD platform is to integrate mental and physical health. Analytics are thus the crucial companion of devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

Uniper Care's system allows users to adapt their televisions into an interactive platform using an HDMI cable; its cross-platform service is also available on desktop or mobile devices. A 2018 study found that loneliness is closely associated with depression and suicidal ideation among veterans in primary care. Like VA St.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

Key health service factors among the town leaders are lower rates of chronic disease and hospitalizations, and greater access to primary care. A tally among these top ten clues us into trends in the pack: there are three towns in Virginia, four in Colorado, and one each in Indiana, Massachusetts, and New Mexico.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A report from Trilliant on the 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy helps to inform our response to that question. Start with Sanjula Jain’s bottom-line: that every health care stakeholder will be impacted by reduced yield. health economy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

"Telehealth revolutionized access to primary care and mental health services," Ku noted. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care." " ARPA-H plans to host a day for teams applying in Phoenix, Arizona during the week of February 12.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

They calculated the average distance between patients' home addresses and their assigned primary care clinics, and used Oregon Department of Transportation data about how individuals run errands to estimate what percentage of in-person trips were taken by car. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And as the RWJF/NPR/Harvard Chan study shows, these social determinants risks travel in groups and double-down on those health risks for people who rent, people of color, those without access to healthy food, and folks who earn lower incomes. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, the new law mandates that insurers cover virtual behavioral health services at the same rate as in-person services, and requires rate parity for primary care and chronic disease management services for two years. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Julian Cyr, D-Truro.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

A current example comes from Kroger, partnering with Ascension’s health system in Tennessee, enhancing the organization’s community-based health services in communities where people live…and shop. This is a trend under the growing “farm-to-table” movement.

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MARCH 25, 2021

As more consumers view their homes as personal and safe health havens, there is no shortage of suppliers in the food, retail, and mobility sectors working fast to meet that demand for convenient and accessible services. Diving further into U.S. They identified a shift happening in U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A report from Wolters Kluwer suggested that patients are willing to shift primary care to new care settings if it means the cost of care will decrease. National specialty hospital PAM Health selected AtlasJobs for its talent acquisition and engagement app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

The survey found that 62% of respondents had a virtual care visit of some kind from March 2019 through March 2020 – and for 71% of them, it was their first time doing so. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 8, 2023

Whether you are a primary care physician, specialist, therapist, or nurse, this article will provide valuable insights into how you can leverage virtual healthcare to enhance patient care and improve patient outcomes. As such, it is becoming an increasingly important part of modern immediate care delivery.

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