Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CMS issued temporary measures to make it easier for people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to receive medical care through telehealth services during the COVID-19 public health emergency. This trend in remote access to care has expanded widely and is expected to continue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

At the same time, stakeholders and thought leaders voiced concerns about health inequity, and lobbyists mounted the pressure for long-term regulatory reform. As far as segments go, telemedicine providers, platforms and marketplaces saw their first decline in six quarters, with mergers and acquisitions at a record high. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

would remove the statutory requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in person within six months of receiving mental health services through telehealth. "Medicare patients deserve direct access to telemental health services, and this bill removes barriers, to make this possible," he said. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. ” A high scenario of medical trend calculates a 10.0% The headline might be, “U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

San Francisco-based Osmind announced today that its electronic health record system for mental health clinicians has integrated Zoom virtual visits within its technology platform as part of the company's regulatory-compliant ISV Partner Program. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action group issued a statement on Monday outlining their opposition to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's proposed permanent changes to rules around the prescribing of controlled medications via telemedicine. Mark Warner, D-Va.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I welcomed the opportunity to spend time for a deep dive into the trends and findings with the GWI community yesterday exploring all of the data, listening through my health economics-consumer-technology lens. Public health, prevention and personalized medicine = $375 billion. Mental wellness = $131 billion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"COVID-19 has changed not only the way we live, but the way healthcare providers support their patients, especially in regard to mental health," said Cuomo in a statement. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Extend the coverage requirement to public employee benefit plans and student health plans. "During the COVID pandemic, we've seen an expansion of telemedicine used in Montana. THE LARGER TREND. As noted at the American Telemedicine Association EDGE policy conference last week. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers also found that genetics and nutrition are the specialties that made the most efficient use of telemedicine. And while 15% of mental healthcare and psychiatry telehealth appointments required in-person follow-up in the next three months, that specialty had the largest volume of all studied for telehealth utilization.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Major themes likely to take centre stage at Arab Health 2024 include: 1. Future of Healthcare: Technological Disruption: AI, Big Data, Robotics, and Telemedicine will be central, with discussions on their impact on diagnosis, treatment, and overall healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. THE LARGER TREND. Pritzker signed a bill this past week that expands access to virtual care throughout the state. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. THE LARGER TREND. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%. consumers likely to use an FDA-approved health tracking tool.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Key opinion leader Molly McCarthy and I covered a lot of ground in this webcast conversation as part of Microsoft’s series of three “Expert perspectives on trends driving change in healthcare.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ? Laurel Williams, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

THE LARGER TREND. Early on in the pandemic, hospital executives saw telemedicine as a way to help close the maternal health gap , providing a number of pregnancy-related services, including lactation support, mental health support and at-home monitoring. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A JAMIA Open study published in 2019 showed it successfully reaching veterans in rural areas and helping patients with mental health conditions; another, published by Psychiatric Services , found the tablets helped lead to improved clinical efficiency. " THE LARGER TREND. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Many of the telehealth flexibilities are temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH. This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Social networks facilitate virtual cocktail hours, work groups, and religious communities to come together, bolstering one of Maslow’s key human needs: the need for connections to avert isolation and loneliness, risk factors for mental health, exacerbating dementia, and other physical health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

" Medicare, Australia's universal health insurance scheme, will provide patients with a A$75.75 ($56) rebate for the GP service, whose fees are equivalent to Level C face-to-face appointments. THE LARGER TREND. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Digital Health Care Technology. ON THE RECORD.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With students receiving care in the school, it will provide faster treatment, opportunities for mental health coverage, higher presenteeism, and less pressure on parents who need to stay at work if possible.”. With this technology, patient access is trending upward and quickly developing in a number of areas.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This trend couples with one in another research question in the study finding that the pandemic increased interest in work automation this year compared with last year. Community, with collaboration around data, mission, and inclusion key to bolstering public health and trust that then inspires health engagement and mutualism.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. You predict that with telemedicine there will be a greater focus on care coordination.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 12, 2021

Tempering a universally-sunny funding forecast across all digital health start-ups, Sunny explained a few key issues shaping the highly-variable funding trend: while there has been, in his word, a “flood” of new investors entering the space, but many do not have deep health-tech experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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JANUARY 28, 2021

.” Calm is but one of a growing portfolio of tools that health citizens can use to manage anxiety and stress, get to sleep (and stay sleeping), and bolster mental well-being. This is one of nine key trends identified the annual go-to primer on the wellness market from the Global Wellness Institute. Just breathe!

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