Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. They also looked at the differences in the rate of in-person follow-up based on a patient’s insurance coverage.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

Executive Summary: The future of telemedicine is poised to be promising and transformative, driven by advancements in technology, changing patient preferences, and evolving healthcare needs. Telemedicine is likely to become an integral part of healthcare delivery, expanding across various medical specialties and regions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

CTA unveiled the 2021 key trends we’ll see presented this week through the online exhibition hall and in educational sessions on the CES.Tech platform. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. For the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. Fjord points out that health care is no longer “something that happens to people,” but instead is a pursuit where people are playing a more active role.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When it comes to policy changes that could help bridge the gap, report authors pointed to ensuring health coverage, investing in social services, reducing administrative burdens and improving service delivery – including via telemedicine and licensure modernization. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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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

MAY 14, 2020

The survey found the majority of respondents (78%) who have used telehealth were satisfied with their experience, although older adults are reluctant to use telehealth – the overwhelming majority of consumers age 55 to 64 (81%) and age 65+ (84%) who have access to telehealth have not had a virtual or telemedicine visit.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

Most importantly, we learned that telemedicine wasn’t just a pandemic trend, as more and more people continued to see their healthcare providers virtually even as in-person offices opened up. Be a Part of Future Telehealth Trends. The post 7 Trends 2021 Taught Us About The Future of Telehealth appeared first on Mend.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

AristaMD this week announced its new unified care transition platform, which it says will enable primary care practices to provide patient-to-provider specialty matching, process electronic referrals and access peer consultations to minimize patient wait times for specialties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. The team also discusses the state of telehealth more broadly, including the trends Kat observed at last week's congressional hearing.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Rush Health Systems and Ochsner Health System are partnering to bring innovations in telemedicine to patients. In addition to gaining access to Ochsner’s telemedicine capabilities, Rush’s hospitals and primary care clinics also will be able to tap into Ochsner’s billing practices and other support services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

More about this episode: How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth ? How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician. American Board of Telehealth launches certificate for virtual primary care.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

That decline in face-to-face physician visits was supplanted, in part, by hockey-stick growth for telemedicine visits. In the week of April 3, telemedicine visits with physicians comprised 1 in 4 interactions. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " THE LARGER TREND.

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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. Citing a 2021 study, they noted that the use of telehealth in harm reduction primary care programs providing buprenorphine helped to increase access to care and overcome health inequities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Walmart Health's moves in this direction echo that of Amazon Care, which quietly filed to do business in dozens of states before publicly announcing its intention to provide app-based services in all 50 by this summer. THE LARGER TREND. As Livingston notes, it also plans to expand into Florida this year.

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Clocktree

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This includes ditching the traditional primary care physician for a combination of walk-in clinics and telemedicine services that are instantly available. Unlike doctors’ offices, where charges are often opaque and disclosed only after services are rendered, many clinics and telemedicine sites post their ­prices.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Telemedicine is not a new concept. Its proponents say it will reduce costs and improve access to medical care. Let’s review the literature over the past decade and determine where telemedicine has helped and where improvements are still needed. reported that Medicaid patients very rarely utilized telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." " "On the one hand, telemedicine visits can make care more convenient and accessible by removing physical barriers such as distance or transportation costs.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 14, 2020

After all, GlobalMed is a telemedicine company and we should be all about expanded options for remote care. Unfortunately, these convenience consults rarely add long-term gain to a patient’s care outcomes or a clinician’s insights. Closing gaps in care. Home health care. Choosing Responsible Telemedicine.

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eVisit

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Research shows this generation prefers not to have a regular primary care provider. They prefer convenience and they want affordable care. While many others still use the emergency room as a primary care office, it is not something Millennials do.

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TeleMed2U

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

UPCOMING CPCA QUALITY CARE CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON BEST PRACTICES AND INNOVATIVE PROJECTS The California Primary Care Association (CPCA) will hold its annual Quality Care Conference from March 1-2, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. The post Telemedicine News and Events appeared first on TeleMed2U.

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Henry Kotula

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here are five major trends that hospitals and health systems may see in 2022. Pharmacy and retail chains Walmart and CVS Health both detailed their intended expansions into primary care. The pandemic helped the telemedicine industry take off in a big way. Workforce pressure. million people quitting in September.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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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. Behavioral health showed the highest rates of adoption and satisfaction among telemedicine offerings. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The survey, which reached out to primary care physicians around the world, found that despite having powerful health IT tools at the ready, U.S.-based based PCPs are still finding it difficult to coordinate care with other […]. healthcare system today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

The findings predominantly indicate that the use of telemedicine is likely to extend beyond the pandemic, with reduced waiting times and general efficacy of end-to-end processes cited as contributing factors. Would respondents use telemedicine again? Of total respondents, 79% said that they would use telemedicine again.

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