Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2022

For the 95th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the future of primary care. We discuss the different challenges primary care is currently facing. Then we take a look at retail care and tech players to see how they can impact primary care. Google Podcasts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. " The results, panelists said, were subpar : Due to technical difficulties, the overall video success rate was 49%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword."

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Together, these centers provide roughly 650,000 visits annually, including critical primary care, behavioral health, dental care and care management services to more than 115,000 patients of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay. Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit."

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 25, 2019

Humana is teaming up with telehealth company Doctor on Demand to launch a virtual primary care health plan, called On Hand, that gives patients access to preventive care, urgent care, and behavioral health through video visits with lower monthly premiums.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative.

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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. The findings indicate that medication prescriptions were lower for video and telephone visits at 38.4% telephone visits.

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KevinMD

MAY 15, 2019

When Dr. Fleming found penicillin mold in his Petri dishes in 1928, he had no idea of the impact he — and it — would have on global health. Penicillin and the antibiotic revolution that it triggered have saved countless lives and change world history. Less than a century later, though, antibiotics occupy a space […].

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). AARP sponsored the poll.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new 10-year partnership between the two groups will investigate how best to deploy the ATENTIVmynd video game therapy to young ADHD patients receiving care.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This isn’t the first experience they have of trying to run a healthcare service for employees as in 2013 at Zappos.com (a subsidiary since it was acquired in 2009) they launched TurnTable Health as a ‘next generation primary care clinic’ for staff next door to their huge office in downtown Las Vegas. At Doctors2.0

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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 keys to success of any virtual care program implementation are in the people, processes and technology.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The bar chart arrays the CX values, starting with the plan’s mobile app’s quality and reliability, followed by access to primary care doctors, specialists, and hospitals, and website satisfaction. With that in mind, all health care feels like a retail experience, for better or worse, when the patient is the payor.

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KevinMD

APRIL 21, 2023

In a Black Mirror-esque video I watched recently on YouTube, a young man with a persistent cough notices a booth labeled “Instant Doctor” as he’s waiting in a train station, and decides to give it a try. The somewhat pleasant robot voice immediately recognizes him and dutifully (creepily?)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some of those obstacles are shown in the chart here, noting a shortage of the mental health workforce, affordability for accessing services along with limited insurance coverage, and a disconnect between primary care and the mental/behavioral health system. Sadly consistent with other aspects of the U.S.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 22, 2023, Amazon Health announced the acquisition of One Medical , a membership-based primary care practice with an impressive footprint. One Medical has been offering 24/7 virtual care services, on-site labs, preventive care, chronic care management, care for common illnesses and mental health concerns for 15 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Using this data, clinicians could establish connections with individuals in the ER and make sure they had a primary care provider upon discharge. The results were not only fewer ER visits, but more access to care. Watch the video for more insights about the use of AI to intervene in patient care.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

consumers found that only 5% of people had received in-home healthcare in the past year, while 89% of people received care at a doctor’s office or hospital/medical facility, in-person. The last chart arrays tasks that consumers would be comfortable performing for self-service health care — expressing their top two preferences.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 25, 2022

It is no secret that telehealth adoption has skyrocketed as a result of the pandemic, and because of that, many health systems are in the process of shifting to a virtual-first hybrid care model. Unfortunately, video visits, which most will equate with telehealth, have done little to help with the age-old issues of patient access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Telehealth has been an elegant solution to this and has allowed staff to hold family meetings where care providers can show their face via video and provide time to answer questions, she said. This also has been highly effective in coordinating multiple physicians caring for the same patient on one video call, she added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Check out their answers in this video compilation below. We don’t just have one type of provider, we don’t just have one primary care provider, we also have surgeons and specialists. Huge thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to come speak with us to make this video possible!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST : Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Architect, and Anand Nair, Head of Healthcare Payer. He also said that the benefits go beyond doctors; for instance, care coordinators can be more efficient and AI can help drug development.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

One Medical has set the bar for what a quality, convenient, and affordable primary care experience should be like. If you fast forward 10 years from now, people are not going to believe how primary care was administered. How does One Medical differ from a typical primary care or urgent care practice?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

million ($700,000) funding package to set up the RACF Virtual Care Service, which is powered by Health Teams, a provider of a digital health platform for the aged and home care sector. Funding for this service also supports staff and providers' training on virtual care delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

NurseTok” is a specific category of videos on the app; a preexisting niche providing a way for nurses and other healthcare professionals to provide tailored content to an already invested audience. The format of the app shows users the video view count, something unique from previous platforms. That is, if it is used properly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"Patients needed a mechanism to connect with their primary care providers for chronic or acute care needs when virtual care was appropriate. The organization implemented virtual visits across all primary care, integrated behavioral health and pediatric behavioral health service lines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“With the telemedicine solution, we could potentially serve our patients in all of our primary care centers from the comfort and safety of their homes,” said Jeffrey M. The eClinicalWorks telemedicine system was integrated directly into the EHR the primary care centers already were using.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In January, the NHS published a long-term plan in which it promised to redesign services so that, by 2024, up to a third of hospital outpatient consultations would be undertaken by video link. Yes, video consulting is no longer science fiction. Proof-of-concept examples (mostly in primary care) already exist and are gaining traction.

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Clocktree

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Most people are familiar with telehealth services offered by their primary care doctor, therapist or other healthcare provider as a convenient alternative to an in-office visit. Telehealth has emerged as a standard, even expected, part of certain healthcare practices.

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