Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Congress to address telehealth right now? has known how to deliver.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., chat, video conferencing, etc.) In Singapore, approximately ten telehealth companies are active in this space and employ inhouse doctors or a panel of doctors to offer the service. remote care and monitoring).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in so many cases, this was Zoom – a video conferencing technology that today practically everyone is familiar with. Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

.” In their forecast on “what’s next” for the trend, Fjord IDs health care as a key opportunity area, with the proviso that inclusive design must be a priority. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just as we experienced “e-business” departments blurring into ecommerce and everyday business processes, so is “telehealth” morphing into, simply, health care delivery as one of many channels and platforms. Telehealth and virtual care are key education topics and exhibitor presences at HIMSS19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. "We use Epic with Zoom as the video solutions," Sarantis said.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

“On-demand virtual care services, like 24/7 video chat and easy in-app messaging, are included in the membership at no extra cost. That offer covered access to the One Medical on-demand and asynchronous virtual care (telehealth) services via the One Medical app enabling 24/7/365 on-demand video chats with licensed clinicians.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out. Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

As the program grew to more than 100 patients, the organization expanded to allowing referrals for patients with any chronic condition or COVID-19, and hired additional clinical staff. "When COVID-19 hit, patients avoided coming into the office when possible," said Laura Mrazik, telehealth coordinator at MaineGeneral Health.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

When considering the future of telehealth, it helps to look backward. 2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. So what does the future of telehealth look like? We’re also likely to see new advancements in technology and software that help digitize the patient experience from start to finish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

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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 Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Ruiz’s appointment with the cardiologist was then conducted at Exalta using a remote video call with help from the interpreter. However, its location is central to suburban residents who live south of Grand Rapids ― less so for the urban, mostly nonwhite patient base at Exalta. Sixty-four percent of Exalta patients have no insurance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River's 64 health center sites (including both directly operated FQHCs and sub-recipient sites) serve more than 245,000 patients annually in both urban and rural medically underserved communities. "Notably, our persistently mentally ill and chronically ill patients were the first to benefit from this service expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

A survey conducted on behalf of Kyruus, a patient-experience software vendor, found that the majority of consumers say they still prefer in-person care for long-term needs. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. Traditional care delivery is not working for far too many consumers.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." " Here he offers a peek at the session's themes and goals.

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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. In this video, Leanne Knight, Director of Health Informatics, explains how they streamlined their organization to achieve this success. actually grew.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

This includes improved video conferencing platforms, remote monitoring devices, wearable sensors, AI-powered diagnostic tools, and virtual reality applications. These technological advancements will enhance the quality and scope of telemedicine services, enabling more comprehensive and personalized care delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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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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InTouch Health

JUNE 18, 2020

How Telehealth Can Improve Outcomes for Cardiovascular Patients. Many seniors and chronically ill patients will need around-the-clock cardiovascular care services in the years to come. However, many rural areas lack access to specialty care services, including cardiology. around $219 billion every year.

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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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InTouch Health

AUGUST 27, 2019

How Telehealth is Changing Substance Abuse Treatment. As more patients struggle with pain management and addiction recovery, many health organizations are looking at telehealth as a possible solution to the opioid crisis. The project will focus on serving patients within the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Brian presented this vertical bar chart illustrating consumers’ pandemic-era utilization of telehealth, Rx delivery, pharmacy purchases online, among other expanding pharmacy shifts occurring by November 2020. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

The deflating, lowering-cost factors will be: Consumers looking to lower-cost sites of care and. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. It comes as little surprise that the top story on this list explores the dimensions of a theretofore much-discussed but underused modality of care: Telehealth. CMS final rule poses big hurdles for payers.

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