Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. "It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We need a “new needs model” for the digital age, asserts a new report, Human Needs in a Digital World , the 2019 Digital Society Index report from the Dentsu Aegis network. The post Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 24, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 12, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Click the image below to view the full PDF update. Click edit button to change this text.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere. In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020. Life expectancy in the U.S. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. . Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. we see an over-indexing of office, institutional and telehealth visits (at 108) and a 104 gauge on new prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speakers will also be touching upon cross-border health policy implementation, and the challenges and facilitators that have contributed to successful collaboration between territories. For example, the telehealth market continues to mature in a post-pandemic world – particularly in more developed countries.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. To supplement information provided in the webinar, the South Central Telehealth Resource Center would like to share information and resources regarding national and regional changes that may be helpful to you. Medicare Telehealth Services Fact Sheet.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same percentage of people over 50 own a voice assistant, a market penetration rate which more than doubled between 2017 and 2019, AARP noted in the 2020 Tech and the 50+ Survey published in December 2019. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. The Dilemma is the risk of “too little” or “too much” health data being shared.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

Outcomes produced by the NHS for the UK’s health citizen are also less optimal compared with most OECD nations, except for the U.S. which lands dead last in the league table of nations’ mortality rates from avoidable causes in 2019. health care system?” Like our health citizen cousins in the UK, more U.S.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Subcommittee Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at school site.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. Telehealth, too, can serve rural U.S. There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. Note that Best Buy says its 997 Best Buy stores in the U.S. have 70% of the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services. Cost reduction ranks high, with the inference that investing more in digital “should” have the impact of saving cash in operations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mental Health Policy Gap Excavated by Data Brokers The COVID-related surge in mental health disorders and the limitations on accessing in-person therapy Ignited a rapid shift towards telehealth and mHealth apps, where downloads increased by 200% between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

TCMHCC Initiatives The state of Texas has recognized the severity of the youth mental health crisis and in 2019 created the TCMHCC to address gaps in mental health care for children and adolescents. The program was expanded in 2021 when the Texas Legislature approved federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

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JUNE 15, 2022

And the caregiver crisis was already a huge challenge , all caregivers already knew in 2019 into 2020. Even before the coronavirus emerged in early 2020, the U.S. had a supply shortage of nurses and some physician specialties. We’re in essentially a supply chain crisis for caregiver human capital.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2021

A new study out this week revived an old argument about whether telehealth visits spur more downstream care utilization compared to in-person visits, potentially raising the total cost of care. percent vs. 5.9 percent, respectively). Our take: so what?

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

Why aren’t more providers offering telehealth services? Make sure your claims capture all services provided via telehealth, including codes for both live video transmission and diagnostic services. Resources like the Center for Connected Health Policy can help. Get funded. Patient Changes. Educate your patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The 2019 Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new billing codes for services that allow clinicians to prescribe asynchronous telehealth services, e-consults between clinicians to consult on a patient case, and virtual check-ins for patients and their doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. Along with other health policy, system infrastructure changes, and digital health solutions, RPM can and should be part of a multi-prong approach to advance strides in achieving health equity.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology.

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