Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Like Fisne at Geisinger, Hilburn of Grady Health System has had his hands full with telemedicine during the past year or so. Hilburn said one lesson that Grady has learned is that its telehealth capabilities required significant expansion in order to rise to meet the public health need. " Collaborative IT.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Innovate long-term care.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Highmark, which covers health insurance for members in Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, has been working on social determinants of health programs for several years.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Helps support faster diagnosis, enabling earlier treatment of eye conditions Enables a more digitally connected primary care exam Facilitates collaboration and education among primary care clinicians, specialists, patients and family members DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS head of medical affairs, Front Line Care, Baxter.

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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S. Watch this space for more evidence-based tools to help all of us deal with the toxic side effects of the public health crisis, ongoing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. "Federal leadership in the U.S,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year… a growing concern. Those, and the ongoing stigma to reaching out for services — which can be partially alleviated through digital mental health connections. health system for patients across demographics. that NAMI wants us to know: 1 in 5 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News’ Chairman, believes that this project will give, “citizens, community leaders and policy-makers the tools to assess health in their communities and develop a blueprint for positive change” with learnings that can translate to less-healthy communities. In addition, lower stress in the workplace also improves health status.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As I write this in the midst of attending the 2020 CES , the world’s annual and largest exhibition of technologies developed for peoples’ everyday lives, we see the growth of tech’s that people can use, wear, connect to for the benefit of their health, fitness, and medical care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps.

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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? Particularly for those health citizens who have been long under-served by healthcare and digital health tools.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. GoodRx has developed a tool to help consumers navigate where they could find a COVID-19 test locally.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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., A self-developed remote diagnosis and treatment service platform connects with IOT medical equipment used by clinicians at local public health centres. chat, video conferencing, etc.) via a portal or a mobile app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

In third place, one-half of health plans are prescribing food-as-medicine, which increasingly consumers are also keen to use for a variety of conditions — like heart disease, gut issues, and general energy and well-being.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My focus in this Health Populi post is on the health consumer’s mindset in the age of COVID-19 and the re-shaped “enlightened” expectations of patients as the public health crisis persists longer than many people had anticipated. Regarding the most important health care issues U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

In these conversations about how technology might be used in different scenarios, and the terms that are applied, we always emphasise that the prefix ‘ tele ’ simply means ‘ at a distance ’ and that students should focus on the intervention, the health and care being provided. Scaling up technology tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration. Ramped up ransomware incursions from aggressively opportunistic cyber crooks.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

In addition to the food supply impact for the Planet Earth’s patients, climate change impacts public health in many other ways. The American Public Health Association founded the Center for Climate. Rural and urban dwellers, alike, often cannot afford data plans charged by Internet Service Providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services, Tellus and Tyto Care. “Diabetic retinopathy is a huge public health problem that is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults in the U.S.,”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

, I point you to APA’s 2022 New Year’s Resolutions for mental health shown in more granularity in this bar chart from the Morning Consult poll. Note that 1 in 2 people were interested in dealing with that mental health intention through a meditation tool or app, and over 1 in 3 people by seeing a therapist.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

The success of AI in health care will fully depend on how clinicians embrace these tools, using them to automate repetitive tasks while channeling augmented outputs through human clinicians’ relationships with patients. We should vet every tool for its underlying methodology and its accuracy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. Pre-COVID-19 programs focused on specialty care access. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. But there are clinically validated tools to ask about some problems. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data. JAMA Intern Med.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Diabetic retinopathy screening was particularly difficult during the early COVID-19 pandemic period, but the investment in developing workflows leveraging this tool continue to reap access benefits for patients, even as the pandemic recedes, he said. "Providers also had to do significant technology troubleshooting with their patients."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

A survey from the Health Management Academy and Outbound AI reported that almost half (48%) of health systems are using AI technology for workforce management , and 85% expect to see a moderate to significant increase in the use of such tools in the next one to three years. Tennessee-based Highland Physicians Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advances in telehealth technology allow specialists and primary care providers to work together to treat patients even when the specialist is several hours away.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

On the downside, lack of access to digital tools and literacies can increase disparities among people already at-risk for other social determinants of health. The authors lay out several dimensions of digital literacy and access, including: Skills.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Digital health as a category has been a growing feature at CES for over a decade, starting with the early wearable tech era of Fitbit, Nike, OMRON and UnderArmour, early exhibitors at CES representing the category.

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