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MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. During 2020, that number dropped to 2,573 patients.

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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. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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MAY 14, 2020

In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. health care. That decline in face-to-face physician visits was supplanted, in part, by hockey-stick growth for telemedicine visits.

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MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes. Health care is omni-channel.

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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. ” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020. .”

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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. In 2020, 79% of U.S. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When it comes to policy changes that could help bridge the gap, report authors pointed to ensuring health coverage, investing in social services, reducing administrative burdens and improving service delivery – including via telemedicine and licensure modernization. ON THE RECORD. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans. For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

And Ochsner has made significant investments over the last four years in building out direct-to-consumer telemedicine care delivery. "The patient experience provides convenient access to care with products and services that empower patients to manage their own health. " Non-emergent care with near-immediate access.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. The table indicates that people managing complex chronic conditions delayed significant portions of care.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Those percentages were polled as of September 2020, about six months into the now-year+ long pandemic, Peoples’ homes became their safe havens, literally, in the public health crisis, or our “Year of COVID” as Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP has nicknamed 2020. PwC’s HRI team polled 10,003 U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

There is growth in the number of plans offering virtual care services and expansion in the varieties of services offered. Sinclair joined the company in 2020 to grow the company’s chronic care business within the Medicare Advantage line of business. What is the current state of virtual care for those 65 and older?

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. Department of Health and Human Services , telehealth visits composed a third of behavioral health total visits in 2020, compared to 8% of visits to primary care providers and 3% of visits to other specialists.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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APRIL 7, 2021

While use of telemedicine technologies has been soaring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and success stories abound, not every healthcare provider organization has been satisfied with virtual care. Did the patients who chose virtual care like it? Why did they not embrace the technology? Was telehealth operating successfully?

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JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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MAY 3, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sweeney-Platt on the subjects of telemedicine adoption, utilization, scheduling and permanence, seeking her expertise and lessons learned from athenahealth's treasure trove of telehealth data. In terms of specialties, not surprisingly we've seen mental health and primary care use telehealth the most.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

As the COVID-19 infections began to spread in the early months of 2020, New York’s Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center started to notice a sizable increase in the number of no-shows and cancellations of office appointments. Niagara Falls Memorial chose the eClinicalWorks telemedicine system to solve the problem. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

between late August and early October 2020. The first chart from the report illustrates that by September 2020, most U.S. Stress in America – COVID-19 Takes Toll on Finances, Education, Basic Needs and Parenting – Volume 1 , May 2020. You can find links to them below, just before the Hot Points.

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JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. economic outlook for 2020 to 2030 on July 1, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

According to survey data from the “2020 Cox Consumer Pulse on COVID-19 and Telehealth,” only 28% of consumers reported their primary care doctor offered remote services before coronavirus. By Elizabeth Gallagher, CRO, Lineate. But after […].

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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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APRIL 19, 2022

"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " RESULTS.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

"Reimbursement for telehealth services also was a concern, since the federal government did not issue any guidance at the beginning of the pandemic, though it has since permitted billing of primary care telehealth services," Manga said. Since April 2020, St. Once the pandemic is under control, St. " MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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JULY 23, 2020

With this alignment of virtual care supply-and-demand, it is like telehealth will see “permanent usage increases,” according to Parks Associates’ survey report, COVID-19 – Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. One-half of patients accessed a local physician’s practice service in the second quarter of 2020.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He also mentioned two valid vendor directories: Digital Health Directory (ATA) [link] and University of Arizona/SWTRC telemedicine and telehealth service provider director [link]. Dr. Roxanne Jensen followed with her presentation, “Cancer Care Deliver and Telehealth Research: Post-Pandemic Priorities.” Dr. Lori Uscher-Pines.

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