Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2019 PZU Zdrowie directed 37% of patients with new health problems to telemedicine consultations.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Seeking a way to achieve a better work life-balance, Jensen decided to explore practicing telemedicine. With the goal of spending more time with his family in Lakeside, he adopted the telemedicine app in the summer of 2019. " Dr. Scott Jensen, Jensen Family Medicine. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%). Counterbalancing the lack of in-person visits, thousands of physicians have pivoted to virtual care and telemedicine platforms. On the payor front, large U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, Thailand began development of its telemedicine programme at 32 hospitals located in rural areas in eight provinces, according to an article by the Bangkok post. The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, providers have continued to ink deals with big names in tech including Google, Amazon and Apple. The conversation around patient-centered care and technology is also picking up steam.

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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. This premium growth was 1 percentage point below the 5% uptick in 2019. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

adults in August 2019 regarding 25 issues concerning health care and digital technology. The Center analyzed the perspectives of 1,000 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The first phase of the Telemedicine Command Center provides first level healthcare advisory services to patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019. Initially it was a guy-thing – an Apple.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Stanford Medicine interviewed 523 physicians and 210 medical students and residents in September and October 2019 to assess clinicians’ perspectives on digital health topics for this study. The vast majority of doctors are using electronic health records, and four in ten have adopted telemedicine in their workflow.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 23, 2019

Samsung introduced BotCare , a caring robot, at CES 2019. As the early adopters of retail clinics, telemedicine visits, and food subscriptions have shared their experiences with others, these services have reached tipping point-mainstream status in the health/care landscape. The post Are Robots Coming to Healthcare?

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

UAB went from 1,000 video visits in 2019 to 280,000 video visits in 2020. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. RESULTS Through its telemedicine programs, UAB has racked up many solid successes, including: Increased census and case mix index of rural hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey adds yet another data point to the massive increase in telemedicine use amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. The same report also found that telemedicine mobile app downloads had dramatically increased.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 27, 2019

The article Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. However, healthcare has always been considered a very conservative area in terms of technology deployment. This is because, in its very nature, healthcare mainly deals with human life […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health is seeing utilization rates among Medicare Advantage members up 54% for virtual urgent care services and up 635% for virtual mental health services when compared to 2019.

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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. 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. State level. State level.

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Clocktree

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

million telehealth episodes in Fiscal Year 2019, making it the largest telehealth program in the country. FY 2019 was the first full year of the VA’s Anywhere to Anywhere initiative, which enables care teams to treat veterans regardless of their location, including across state lines or outside a VA facility.

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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 ). billion in the U.S.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 1, 2019

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. We participated by presenting a general overview of the SCTRC and participated in a telehealth/telemedicine brainstorm session.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019. These folks felt less personalized visits and were less likely to understand information provided during the visit. This is the second year that J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019."

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American Well

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Throughout 2018, we witnessed across-the-board advances in the world of telemedicine. In 2018, more states introduced telemedicine parity reimbursement laws. With the disclaimer of not possessing an 8-Ball, below are some of the things we believe are “around the proverbial corner” for the industry in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The study proposed that if telemedicine expansion indicates physicians spending more overall time in EHRs, health systems and policymakers may need to alter productivity expectations and their reimbursement policies. They found that physician time spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled hours increased from 4.53

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

A new report from the RAND Corporation suggests that the biggest upticks in virtual care availability occurred in more affluent and metropolitan communities, and that telemedicine services were mostly enjoyed by patients with private insurance. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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MedTech Boston

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Telemedicine adoption is on the rise, according to an April survey conducted by Boston-based American Well. At HLTH 2019 in Las. The post Drivers of Telemedicine Adoption appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

The post A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019… and a nod to Microsoft appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. It won’t be a total solution to the significant housing/wage gap in greater Seattle, but should inspire more creative solutions to this problem which other tech-rich communities also share.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 15, 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). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – May 2019 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In this last time period, COVID and its long-tail into 2024, workers’ earnings rose much more than in the previous three time intervals, and inflation increased dramatically at 23% roughly matching premium increases in the period.

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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. of the time across the three organizations. of the time across the three organizations.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 13, 2019

Quickly scale your telemedicine business using our clinician network - announcing Enzyme On Demand ! Blog Login Sign Up 5 Niche Telemedicine Specialties That Might Surprise You Enzyme Health Team March 13, 2019 Telemedicine opportunities extend beyond just primary care and mental health. Only 20% are listed here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. For smaller practices looking to prepare for ongoing telemedicine needs, Lacktman says there are opportunities to think creatively.

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