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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr. Chris Gibbons of Johns Hopkins University, who wrote about Broadband as a Health Imperative back in 2014.

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New Survey Confirms Employers Want Telemedicine

American Well

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. These priorities point to both a clear belief in quantifiable ROI and an understanding of the more qualitative benefits of a telemedicine offering.

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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine. Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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House bill would compel states to join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

and Guam, was formally introduced in the fall of 2014 in recognition of the fact that physicians will increasingly practice in different states via telehealth. The American Telemedicine Association has not itself pushed for national licensure , but rather for regional compacts. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.,

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DOJ charges four in $37M global telehealth fraud scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

According to the indictment , starting in May 2014 the defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly used telehealth to generate prescriptions for compounded medications and durable medical equipment, regardless of medical necessity. billion in schemes relating to telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS.