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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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was a “bright spot in the ‘new normal,’” according to a report from J.D. Power, Telehealth Patient Satisfaction Surges During Pandemic but Barriers to Access Persist. Power assessed two categories of telehealth vendors: direct-to-consumer (DTC) and payer-provided.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 22, 2019

Definitive Healthcare released results from its 2019 Outpatient Telehealth Study. The article Definitive Healthcare Survey: 2019 Outpatient Telehealth Adoption Remains Flat While Overall Adoption Remains Flat appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2018

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability. (..)

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

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Clocktree

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

million telehealth episodes in Fiscal Year 2019, making it the largest telehealth program in the country. In addition to a 235% in video visits, there was a 17% increase in overall telehealth services over the previous fiscal year, according to new data released by the VA.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 31, 2019

Get to know the most important data on telehealth market growth, insurance and telemedicine, telehealth technology, telemedicine patient demographics, telehealth patient satisfaction, provider adoption of telehealth, and specialty telemedicine statistics. Telehealth Market Statistics. billion in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Her interview here in HealthLeaders speaks to her vision, recognizing, “It’s just stunning that there’s such a lag between what is possible in telehealth and what is actually happening.”. I’m so keen on telehealth, I’m personally participating in three sessions at #ATA19. That “future” as Ann Mond Johnson notes is do-able “now.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Team members looked back at the total number of in-person and telehealth visits from 2015 through 2020.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

” The lack of net neutrality on health care could further complicate and slow the adoption of telehealth, especially in rural and under-served areas. There was a lot of Twitter activity in my tweet-feed about an Amazon Alexa-enabled toilets at CES 2019. The post The Caveats of CES 2019 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. million telehealth encounters occurred from January through March 2020 – what the agency calls the "early pandemic period.

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Shifts in state and federal policies fueled massive growth for both commercial and government reimbursement for telehealth and, admittedly, there was also growing maturity in the understanding of how to blend technologies into the way we consume and deliver care. More payers added telehealth to their benefits. Hindsight is easy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Department of Veterans Affairs published a $1 billion contract opportunity this week aimed at procuring remote patient monitoring and telehealth services to meet the needs of veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been relying on telehealth since before the pandemic. In 2019, the agency delivered more than 2.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first four months of the pandemic, telehealth visits accounted for 23.6% of contacts in 2019. of all interactions – compared with 0.3%

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday. In 2019, ”cost” for health consumers translates into the premium, deductible, out-of-pocket spending, and surprise medical bills — an issue that’s getting a lot of attention in U.S.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

Telehealth demand hasn’t exactly lived up to expectations, but that might have more to do with manic forecasting than real-world performance when a 6,000x utilization increase isn’t enough to satisfy the naysayers. As of Q3 2023, sustained declines have left telehealth volumes 54.7% of antidepressants, 38.9% of stimulants, and 5.4%

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. The largest positive change in adoption was seen in telehealth and remote monitoring, and.

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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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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. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Increased telehealth utilization points to wider use as a diagnostic and triage tool, particularly among those with chronic conditions. The use of telehealth is especially evident among those with chronic conditions. Provider gender also affected patient adoption of telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. For this research, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. How can increased telehealth services address and minimize this gap?

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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. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

The most popular consumer-facing health service where providers are collaborating with third parties are virtual health services (think telehealth vendors like American Well or Teladoc), digital experience tools (like Welltok or Salesforce), outpatient lab (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was slowly embracing telehealth as a new modality to deliver patient care. Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was watching the telehealth industry expand to meet the demand for patients. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. WHY IT MATTERS. of the time across the three organizations. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While telehealth expansion efforts during COVID have significantly improved access in many groups ; research associated with access to care for low-income mental health populations has been limited. A November 2022 study published in JAMA Network Open has shown how telehealth expansion in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that while telehealth grew across surgical specialties in response to the COVID-10 pandemic, rates have declined as in-person care resumed. The pandemic-fueled boost in telehealth use across the medical industry has been well documented.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

It then began its telehealth program using Agnes software, but recently switched to Tyto hardware and software. “To give a bit of background, in the fall of 2019, we began implementing telehealth in our schools,” said Brenda Reetz, CEO of Greene County General Hospital. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

Telehealth experienced sudden and massive growth starting a year ago, but it didn't happen everywhere. For the report, RAND researchers examined insurance claims from more than six million people with employer-based health insurance in 2019 and 2020. " THE LARGER TREND. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 1, 2019

There are several plans to engage Mississippi and I look forward to promoting telehealth across the four corners of that state. Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi), I’m beginning to see the many opportunities to promote our telehealth and telemedicine resources, events, projects, and all that the SCTRC offers at each stop along the way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

"Some physicians may have been nimbler than others in making the transition [to telehealth], potentially influencing patients' experience of physician access and availability," wrote the research team. 1, 2019, and Dec. Early adopters (those who adopted telehealth during the week of March 15). WHY IT MATTERS.

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