Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Studies Roughly 5 in 6 providers want virtual care to remain a permanent part of their clinical practice (83%) and believe telemedicine supports continuity of care (84%), according to a Doximity survey. The suit alleges violations of multiple state and federal laws.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 29, 2019

is located away from metro areas, Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet has unveiled his healthcare plan for rural America – and it relies heavily on big investments in telemedicine. Tim Kaine, in 2017. Noting that 72 percent of land in the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. " But it isn't available to everyone.

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Clocktree

APRIL 2, 2019

US News just released a summary of a study done by FAIR Health which looked at telehealth trends based on insurance claims in the year 2017. Here are some of the highlights: In the single year from 2016 to 2017, telehealth usage as measured by claim lines grew 53 percent – a rate greater than for any of the other venues of care studied.

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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. Telehealth in 2019.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The Association of American Medical Colleges reported in May the results of its 2017 Medical School Enrollment Survey, which found that medical school enrollment has increased 29 percent since 2002-2003. One of the biggest issues at hand is the increasing shortage of healthcare professionals to meet this aging population’s needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2019

So Texas Health Aetna found CirrusMD, a vendor of text-based telemedicine technology that enables asynchronous, ongoing communication. There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 million units with revenues of $4.5 billion.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. And the grocer is expanding its pharmacy footprint , having piloted tele-pharmacy back in 2017.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Telemedicine is growing with a forecasted market increase of? percent from 2017 to 2023. While there are many benefits to telemedicine , they don't all come without valid concerns. While there are many benefits to telemedicine , they don't all come without valid concerns. It is already used by more than?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018. 2017 – Employees Continue to Pick Up More Health Insurance Costs, Even As Their Growth Slows. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Telemedicine, said Wyden, highlights what meeting those challenges is all about. In 2017, he worked with Sen. "We have a major section on telemedicine [in the law] because we envisioned: Here was a place to put a stake in the ground and say 'We're going to make sure telemedicine plays a bigger role in Medicare.'"

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 1, 2016

No matter how you define telemedicine - whether it’s real-time video conferencing or the transmission of photos - it’s going to see exponential growth in 2017, and your organization needs to be ready, says John Halamka.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

The risk of security breaches through indirect access to other systems, like telemedicine solutions, can expose the entire health system. Subsequently, a new threat emerges: older telemedicine solutions that have often been exempt from broader security standards.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. In the U.S., the highest levels of unemployment are in places that often have the lowest access to broadband connectivity. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019. There’s an important backstory to this initiative that has important health and public policy implications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

"We found that many patients like the convenience of telemedicine, but we also need more research into who is being left behind in the process, such as small practices or people without access to high-speed Internet," Schrandt continued. In 2017, a report from the National Quality Forum found that 5% or more patients in the U.S

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

Guam has an extremely high rate of TB: In 2017, the case rate of TB in Guam was 50.2 There are many vendors on the market today offering telemedicine technology, including American Well, Avizia, GlobalMed, MDLive, Novotalk, SnapMD, Teladoc, TeleHealth Services and Tellus. THE PROBLEM. per 100,000 residents. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Concentra is a Texas-based healthcare organization that serves the occupational health needs of one in four injured employees through 517 medical centers across the country, another 150 clinics at employer locations, and telemedicine. Concentra has seen telemedicine as a much-needed additional option for the delivery of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

According to a press release , the surgeon, 56-year-old Dr. Elemer Raffai, is accused of allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare in exchange for kickbacks from telemedicine companies. According to the indictment, which was unsealed this week, Raffai was paid by telemedicine companies for each consultation with a beneficiary.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017. adults were online health information hunters. These findings are based on Rock Health’s survey of some 4,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. We discussed other research demonstrating that the proportion of consumers who use alternatives to seeing “their” primary care provider, like telemedicine and retail clinics, is growing. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. A telephone survey of patient satisfaction with realtime telemedicine in a rural community in Colombia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Telemedicine: opportunities and developments in Member States: report on the second global survey on eHealth. 2017; 7: e016242.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Senate on September 14, 2017. House of Representatives, allows for an expansion of telehealth/telemedicine coverage under the Medicare Advantage Plan B. The updated telehealth/telemedicine coverage has the potential to positively impact our region’s retired and disabled populations. Medicare Participants.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact became operational in 2017. Some doctors in Philadelphia, for example, have pointed out that without the waivers they could not treat patients via telemedicine who lived within walking distance over the river in New Jersey. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Bernstein was the former vice president of clinical affairs at Carena and was "actively involved," according to a bio listed on the Telemedicine Telehealth Service Provider Summit , with Carena's telemedicine-related growth. Carena was acquired by Avizia in 2017.).

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

MARCH 29, 2018

This is what one attendee had to say about the third annual Telemedicine & Telehealth Service Provider Summit (SPS), held in October 2017. That’s why the Arizona Telemedicine Program and Southwest Telehealth Resource Center are bringing SPS back for the fourth time Oct. 8-9, 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. ” All 50 state Medicaid agencies have adopted some coverage for telehealth, with 10 states not advancing coverage since 2017. State level. For this research, J.D.

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American Well

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Preparing for 2017. As the year comes to a close and healthcare organizations prepare for 2017, telehealth success initiatives are expected to remain high on the list of priorities. The segment showed an ED physician using a telemedicine cart at the bedside of the patient to enable a video consultation with a remote specialist.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 30, 2019

Visibly, a Chicago-based company that offers direct-to-consumer online eye exams, is taking the state of Indiana to court over the state’s ban of ocular telemedicine. View article in mHealth Intelligence > Telemedicine Fraud Scheme Tarnishes Telemedicine’s Promise.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 31, 2019

If you are working in telemedicine, you should be aware of the latest data supporting this method of healthcare delivery. Telemedicine is a big business; by 2025, it is projected to exceed $64.1 Telemedicine visits increased at an average compound annual growth rate of 52% per year from 2005 - 2014 ( JAMA ). As of 2017, 61.2%

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

That post was written in tandem of CES 2017 when I did a deep dive into the potential for autos to bolster wellness and promote safety and hygiene (well pre-COVID).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Three in four large firms covers telemedicine in 2018, KFF found. This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. Explore the latest insights on telemedicine patients and find out what to expect the next time you pick up a telemedicine call.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

In that regard, Thailand has begun development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces since March this year. Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That post was written in tandem of CES 2017 when I did a deep dive into the potential for autos to bolster wellness and promote safety and hygiene (well pre-COVID).

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CiscoHealth

JANUARY 24, 2017

It’s 2017 and we’re still waiting for the flying car (well, one we can afford). However, one futuristic vision is not only here – it’s become a way of life. I’m talking about video communication. Sure, applications like Skype and FaceTime have been popular for a while. But recently, video has exploded into the […].

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 30, 2018

Have you been to any telemedicine meetings lately and wondered what’s happened to the basic research presentations? Surely it can’t be that we’ve solved all the challenges and finally proved to everyone that telemedicine really does have all the advantages we’ve been touting for years. It all depends on what you are looking for.

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