Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years.

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APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a doctor deems it necessary and safe for target patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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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. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Apropos to my title of this post, the survey was sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center , whose mission is to promote, cross-party affiliations, “health, security and opportunity for all Americans.”. Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Last year, Congress eliminated barriers to patient care by approving a bill called the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

between late August and early October 2020. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. The first chart from the report illustrates that by September 2020, most U.S. Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2, June 2020.

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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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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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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. In its findings, RAND points to a twentyfold increase in telehealth visits starting in March 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” How can telehealth providers prepare for the changes expected to come at the end of the public health emergency?

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2022

"In a matter of weeks, Geisinger went from 20 specialties to more than 70 specialties and from about 200 providers to more than 2,000 providers using telemedicine to see patients in their homes, neighborhood clinics or local hospitals," he continued. At its peak, the health system averaged more than 3,800 encounters per day.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.

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Health Populi

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 4, 2020

There remains a plethora of “testing deserts” throughout the U.S., “stemming from an overwhelmed supply chain and a disjointed public health system,” NPR observed. public health patchwork quilt. public health patchwork quilt. The private sector in the U.S.

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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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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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MARCH 4, 2021

A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. population).

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AUGUST 13, 2021

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

At the same time, stakeholders and thought leaders voiced concerns about health inequity, and lobbyists mounted the pressure for long-term regulatory reform. As far as segments go, telemedicine providers, platforms and marketplaces saw their first decline in six quarters, with mergers and acquisitions at a record high. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. 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. THE PROBLEM.

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JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Accenture polled 2,700 patients around the world, 450 participants each from China, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

Greg Abbott signed a bill into law this week that formally authorized dentistry via telemedicine in the state. In March 2020, the State Board of Dental Examiners issued guidance declaring that "dentists in Texas are not authorized to practice teledentistry," according to court documents. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 31, 2023

UAB partnered with our Alabama Department of Public Health to obtain funding and purchase videoconferencing equipment for each of our county health departments. We used these county health departments as a way to deliver subspecialty care across our state. Today, about 15% of total ambulatory volume remains telehealth.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

WHAT IT'S ABOUT During the groundbreaking ceremony, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung revealed that the EGH campus will be "digitally enabled from the start," particularly offering telemedicine. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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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]. The goal of identifying human factors is to optimize improved outcomes in telemedicine. “It’s a process,” Krupinski said.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For this report, Deloitte interviewed 60 health care chief financial officers to gauge their perspectives during the pandemic looking at the future of their organizations in the post-COVID environment. In July 2020, Punit Renjen. The first chart comes out of the health care report, which was published in September 2020.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports. Folks who had never accessed videoconferencing online did so, learning a new skill.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

degrees Celsius higher than the average for 1991-2020. Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. With phone calls, through an app and teleassistance or telemedicine they can check up on them and have a clinical evaluation of patients. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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