Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nearly 29 million Baby Boomers retired in 2020, three and a half million more than in 2019. Improve the Patient and Staff Relationship to Improve the Overall Experience Many healthcare systems are pursuing digital transformations, automation, and enhanced technology to provide new value to patients and reduce stressors on staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

" Zoom customers praised the tool's stability and scalability, but said patient experience can be frustrating and see the platform as "transactional." Microsoft Teams has scaled well, say customers, although the patient experience lags behind other solutions. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2020

As we start 2020, I thought it would be fun to conduct an informal poll of Health IT […]. Everyone wants to “bend the cost curve” by “breaking down silos”. We are all working towards “personalized medicine” by deploying “predictive analytics” and “big data” using “cloud computing”.

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Ortholive

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here’s what happened in the telemedicine industry in January 2020. Given these trends, what kinds of telehealth-related headlines made the news last month as we entered the New Year?

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

Parks Associates fielded this study the second half of May 2020, surveying 5,008 heads-of-broadband households balancing the sample of respondents for age, gender, income, and education. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

While consumers’ most-trusted data steward is still physicians, even willingness to share health data with physicians fell from the high of 72% of consumers in 2020 to 64% in 2023.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. early this year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2020

A Success Story in the Year of Vision For healthcare, 2020 has truly become the year of vision — exposing endless opportunities for improvement and launching enterprise-wide projects. The following is a guest article by Julie Mann, Chief Commercial Officer at Carium.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Carium’s own Lygeia Ricciardi is one of our A-List speakers at our new EXPO.health Experience Series that will join Ed Marx and other health IT leaders in an interactive discussion about digital […].

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InTouch Health

JANUARY 31, 2020

January 31, 2020 – InTouch Health , the leading virtual care platform, has been awarded the 2020 Best in KLAS distinction for Virtual Care Platforms in the “ 2020 Best in KLAS: Software & Services ” report for the third consecutive year. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., About InTouch Health. RGonzalez@InTouchHealth.com. 903) 818-2216.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. It anchors all experiences — for patients and the workforce,” the report summarizes. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

in May and June 2020. Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

fielded between September and November 2020. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

These programs are gaining traction worldwide because they offer solutions to challenges seen in traditional hospitals, such as capacity constraints, increasing expenses, and efforts to improve patient experiences and outcomes. with its introduction of the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver in 2020. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. That theme was given to us in the fourth quarter of 2019, when initial planning for ATA 2020 had begun. What a difference a few months make. and indeed, in countries already impacted by the crisis).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2024

The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical operations, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. About BirchAI BirchAI is a GenAI company founded in 2020 by Kevin Terrell, Sumant Kawale, and Yinhan Liu.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

This trend was already in motion at the start of 2020, after which the public health crisis raised patients-as-consumers’ awareness and value of hygiene, food-for-immunity, and physical distancing. New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

adults 18 years of age and older by telephone in June 2020. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the thick of the pandemic in April 2020, most U.S. Gallup and West Health polled 1,017 U.S. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. Today’s news that the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As of 2022, three in four consumers were offered online access to their medical records by a health care provider or health insurance plan, and well over one-half accessed their medical record or portal — growing by 50% over the two years, 2020 to 2022 (from 38% to 57%).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Medscape polled 12,339 physicians representing over 29 specialties between late August and early November 2020 to gauge their feelings about work and life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In the second half of 2020, about 4 in 10 U.S. Physicians in the U.S. Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. . “Improves resource allocation for staff” speaks to the crisis issue of clinician burnout. Burnout (translated through anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality) was already a challenge for U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2020

I must admit that it’s kind of crazy to look back at the first CES I attended about 15 years ago. I was a techguy that had just started in healthcare. So, I really just wanted to go to CES regardless, but I did keep my eyes open for any sort of technology that could […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now that I’ve shaken off the holiday malaise and gotten back to business, I’ve begun to wonder which areas of healthcare will become the new hotness for the coming year. After tossing off a short LinkedIn post on this subject, I decided to dig in further and share my conclusions with you. By the way, […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The telehealth service, which was developed and launched by Metro North Health during the height of the pandemic in 2020, is being made available for all Queenslanders needing urgent non-life threatening care. Patients can scan in with QR codes provided on the appointment letters that have been either posted or emailed to them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

If you’re attending #AHIP2024, pls join us at 11 am in the Musigny Room in the Wynn convention space — it’s sure to be a great conversation… I’ve covered the MMI updates every year for many years here on Health Populi.

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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. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.” In 2019, J.D.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Health Populi

JUNE 15, 2020

patients managing chronic conditions, and caregivers (whether for younger or older loved ones) — are concerned about contracting the virus. states where governors mandated shelter-at-home for much of the first half of 2020, millions of people have become conditioned to physically distance, wear face coverings, and #StayHome.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

peoples’ expectations of their health care experience is melding with their best retail experience — and that’s taken a turn toward their digital and ecommerce life-flows. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021. Emergency room experience stayed at an index of a (low) 66.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 16, 2024

Together, OSF HealthCare and BEN will develop AI assistants that provide a more dynamic, adaptive and thorough training experience for Advanced Practice Provider (APP) primary care fellowship participants. In 2020, OSF OnCall was established, a digital health operating unit, including a hospital-at-home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

The State Of Telehealth report found that much of the growth was pushed by accelerating digital transformation initiatives, as well as patient experience prioritization. At the same time, stakeholders and thought leaders voiced concerns about health inequity, and lobbyists mounted the pressure for long-term regulatory reform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2021

The study relied on interviews of medical oncology professionals at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia conducted from October 30, 2019, to March 5, 2020. At the same time, some respondents said telehealth could augment the patient experience and improve access to care. By April 2020, 52.4%

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