Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

The report, which was in its sixth edition, surveyed almost 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries from December 2020 to February 2021. Nearly eight in 10 respondents said they are heavily investing in telehealth at present. From India, there were 200 participants. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A survey published by the Larry A. According to the survey, which drew on answers from 1,263 respondents from nearly every state, the pressures of providing care amidst COVID-19 have continued to weigh heavily on primary care clinicians. In general, primary care is facing severe challenges, the survey said. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2019

employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 14, 2023

Effective healthcare strategies play a vital role in driving better health outcomes for patients and populations. This blog post discusses examples of effective healthcare strategies and provides tips for developing and implementing them. This approach reduces errors, duplication, fragmentation, gaps, and delays in care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

Virtually all of the 787 pediatricians and clinicians who responded to an online survey reported currently using a telemedicine platform, with 96% saying they offered telemedicine during regular business hours. Burgess, R-Texas, introduced the Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. Access to Telehealth Services Private Health Insurance Coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by state and private insurance plans. Resources for other end-of-pandemic decisions are also provided.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The report surveyed leaders in the healthcare field about their top innovations before the COVID-19 pandemic and how they'd changed. Unsurprisingly, telehealth stood out, with nearly half of respondents saying they'd shifted to virtual care as an innovation priority.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Medicaid telehealth is positioned to provide solutions. Before looking at Medicaid for telehealth, reviewing these data from a new KFF study may be helpful. To clarify the workforce issue, KFF surveyed state Medicaid officials about their strategies to address the behavioral health workforce shortages for FY 2022 and FY 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Even as telehealth has made many aspects of care more seamless, a few elements have routinely emerged as points of difficulty. Mend's enhanced virtual waiting room attempts to give patients a reason to stay on the right page – while aiming to help subsidize the cost of telehealth for providers.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

In the 2023 Patient Consumer Survey report, the topline lesson is that “cost and location drive patient decisions, while service and comfort drive experience.” adults had a telehealth visit, down from 45% the year before. Initial consultations via telehealth were flat for around 1 in 4 people each year.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 13, 2023

Given the fact that this program functions by sweeping the internet for useful information, it only makes sense to see what ChatGPT knows about selecting a telehealth technology vendor. What Are the Challenges Telehealth Decision-Makers Face, According to ChatGPT? Choose wisely to reap the advantages of telehealth innovations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. "Then and now, the provider decides whether to accept telehealth as a service in their practice based on the clinician experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telehealth encounters have the potential to save $250 billion in healthcare expenditures annually across covered populations, a McKinsey & Company analysis has found. When the pandemic emerged, healthcare organizations had to ramp up their telehealth investments in just a matter of days to meet the sudden surge in demand.

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Xealth

JANUARY 24, 2023

David Slifka, Senior Director, Commercial Engagement & Strategy There is exciting discourse these days about digital health tools and their role in improving patient care and bottom lines. If your digital health strategy isn’t measurably impacting access to care among underserved communities, it’s missing the mark.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Health Recovery Solutions

JULY 19, 2023

According to the latest McKinsey survey , 31% of nurses say they are considering leaving their jobs in direct patient care in the next year. Industry estimates indicate that the healthcare workforce lost 20% of its workers during the pandemic, including 30% of nurses, and the fallout continues today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2023

employees are expected to sustain serious health impacts that will drive employers’ health care costs, envisioned in the 2024 Large Employer Health Care Strategy Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH). Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

"While telehealth has evolved and scaled significantly during the pandemic, continued work is needed to ensure health equity and to bridge digital divides for future paradigms of care," observed Dr. Saima Aftab, vice president of organizational initiatives at Nicklaus Children's Health System in Miami.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Towers Watson predicts that by 2018, 80% of employers will offer a telehealth benefit to their employees. This projection is in stark contrast to 2014, when just 22% of employers had adopted telehealth, and the close of 2015, which marked a further rise to a third of employers offering the benefit. Drivers of Growth. Behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"Telehealth is a great example," he said. " The example of telehealth highlights the importance of advocacy at multiple levels of government to simplify the complex regulations that make it such a challenge to use the technologies that are prevalent in so many other fields of business, he insisted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2019

Despite its clear potential to improve access to high-quality care in underserved communities, telehealth is underutilized by safety-net providers due to a range of barriers, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. In some cases, telehealth is the only way to bring specialists into remote places. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“The loosening of the telehealth requirements by CMS, specifically mandating that telehealth visits be reimbursed on par with office visits, was essential to successfully navigate through the early days of the pandemic,” said Dr. Steve Martel, chief medical information officer at Central Maine Healthcare. MARKETPLACE.

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E-CareManagement

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Two recent surveys shed light on the issue of patient loyalty to local care providers for telehealth visits. While the findings are mixed, local providers should be concerned about how they're faring in the telehealth platform wars. Let's take a look at both surveys. appeared first on The Healthcare Platform Blog.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Those patients trying to stay medication-adherent tried various strategies such as stretching out their prescriptions, skipping doses, or reducing those doses — not sticking to the prescribed regimen, which can result in an adverse event or compromise the intended health outcome. As the COVID-19 crisis led to large parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

"Pushing the boundaries in digital health should be done very cautiously until data security and the right skills are ensured," said John Rayner (UK), Regional Director, EMEA, Analytics, HIMSS, who moderated the event ' Telehealth adoption in Europe: The findings of the HIMSS e-Health Trendbarometer. '

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. This year, providers want to get back to running a profitable practice, and implementing a full virtual care strategy may very well be critical to achieving this goal.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But is telehealth really viable for the oldest? . Although a telehealth visit can be held via a phone call or FaceTime today, eventually its use will require more secure tools and likely will require broadband or a smartphone. According to Pew Research’s 2019 survey, 59% of the 65+ have broadband in the home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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MeMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

FAIR Health reports that telehealth claims in April 2020 shot up more that 8,000% over the prior year – and as much as 26,000% in some parts of the U.S. Popularity soared, too: A McKinsey & Company survey showed 76% of respondents were likely to use telehealth going forward, and 74% were highly satisfied. In a time when U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec.

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Xealth

MAY 2, 2024

Telehealth platforms enable remote patient visits & consultations. Leveraging Content for Automatic Patient Engagement An effective strategy involves developing a content calendar tailored to the specific needs of patients. Leave No Patients Behind Embracing an all-patient approach in digital health strategies is essential.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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