Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2022

A research team from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health is looking to implement telemedicine for managing chronic diseases in Pakistan to study whether it can be used by specialists in the cities to support health providers in rural communities.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

A study of 40.7 "Telehealth accounted for a large share of ambulatory encounters at the peak of the pandemic and remained prevalent after infection rates subsided," said researchers in the study, which was funded in part by the American Telemedicine Association. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 12, 2022

The Biden administration recently signaled that it will extend the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which has been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years, beyond its current July 15 expiration date. As shown in the graphic above, a number of key pandemic-era policies would end if the PHE were discontinued.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 27, 2023

Authors of a recent study published in Telemedicine and e-Health evaluated telehealth services supported healthcare access for transgender and gender-diverse (TDG) youth within Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic (SCGC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. More patients in the post-telehealth period used “they” pronouns.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine. Digital health tracking. We all know the mantra that our ZIP code impacts our health and well-being more than our genetic code. This is especially evident for telemedicine and digital health tracking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons sought to take a closer look at the patients who sought surgical consultations in-person and via telemedicine in 2020. From June 24 through the end of the year, referred to as "Phase II," the study showed a different story. THE LARGER TREND.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Among the other recommendations was a call to make electronic medical records must be made interoperable, more accessible, and searchable by public health personnel to aid in state and federal situational awareness and emergency management. " Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. The researchers also found that genetics and nutrition are the specialties that made the most efficient use of telemedicine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

study, Edelman interviewed 1,500 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This 21-year low for the tech industry has implications for health care as digital health technology blurs into everyday healthcare the way “e-business” and the Internet melted into our daily work and personal life-flows. For the U.S.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But what isn’t as well known is how telemedicine is helping patients manage their condition – and even saving their lives in the COVID-19 pandemic. Marrero , director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Border Health Disparities in Tucson, says, “Diabetes may be the most serious public health crisis of our time.”

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Applying for telemedicine jobs and want to stand out? This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. ATA : ATA stands for the American Telemedicine Association and is the prominent professional telemedicine organization in the United States.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But what isn’t as well known is how telemedicine is helping patients manage their condition and live healthier lives. Marrero , director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Border Health Disparities in Tucson, says, “Diabetes may be the most serious public health crisis of our time.” Contact Us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. A recent study published in Nature found 37% of deaths related to heat exposure around the world between 1991 and 2018 were related to global warming caused by humans. Europe had its second warmest July on record this year, with temperatures 1.4 THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The study polled U.S. “It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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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. Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. Drug Enforcement Administration to collaborate with the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Commercial Member Plan Study for the past 15 years.

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Mend

AUGUST 11, 2022

Increasing government funding of telemedicine during the pandemic led more minority populations and patients in metropolitan areas to use telemedicine. Johns Hopkins University studied 30 million Medicare claims that were submitted between 2019 – 2021. Before the CMS waiver expanded telehealth access, only.42%

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Over the past week, I’ve culled several studies and resources to divine a profile of the U.S. FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For this study, APA polled 1,787 licensed psychologists (both members and non-members in the Association) in the U.S. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. Stress in America series here in Health Populi earlier this year. between late August and early October 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. Make permanent the disaster waiver authority, enabling Health and Human Service to expand telehealth in Medicare during all future emergencies and disasters.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Familiarity with virtual care breeds demand, based on the Parks Associates study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The legislation seeks to push forward with wider access to and use of telehealth – even beyond this public health emergency with its numerous waivers, allowances and temporary rule changes. Mike Thompson, D-California, Peter Welch, D-Vermont, Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, and Doris Matsui, D-California. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

In response, CMS has approved an unprecedented COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expansion of Medicare payment for telehealth services. Those studies include the following: September 2021 Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot1 CMS, Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot: March 2020–Feb. 2021 (2021). Healthcare Inequities.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. Across all three medical conditions studied, videoconferencing, in particular, garnered relatively rave reviews among patients using the platform for the first time. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Health care is undergoing similar digital and omnichannel transformation following other industries.

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