Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. 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.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 30, 2022

This article was originally published in September 2020 but was updated in June 2022. When it comes to telehealth, interoperability has various layers. To better understand the critical role interoperability plays in telemedicine, we spoke with Tom Foley, the Vice President of Growth at AMD Global Telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. 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%).

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Both specialize in telemedicine. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends. telemedicine sector and where do they stand? Healthcare IT News sat down with the men to discuss main players in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. Glenn Hilburn, RN, vice president of information technology at Grady Health System.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We were able to roll out various digital health tools , telemedicine , and mobile health applications that not only better the lives of our patients but also our staff. Telemedicine expands access to healthcare, providing patients with convenient options for education and clinical interventions. The following is what they had to share.

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AMD Telemedicine

AUGUST 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in August 2023. Over the past decade, telehealth has become increasingly popular as a means to provide care to patients. However, the adoption of telehealth services has become more of a priority for healthcare providers since the onset of the pandemic.

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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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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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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

JUNE 24, 2021

The Commonwealth Fund released an issue brief this week reviewing state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage of telemedicine between March 2020 and March 2021. It found that 22 states changed laws or policies during that time period to require more robust insurance coverage of telemedicine.

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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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Ortholive

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

As we enter the new decade, telemedicine usage shows no signs of slowing down. In the four years spanning 2014 to 2018, telehealth usage outside the hospital setting increased by nearly 1,400%. The data predicts telemedicine will be a $13 billion market in the U.S. alone by 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Telehealth continues to be a priority for the healthcare industry. 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will it be expanded?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Data Policy in the Context of Telehealth Policy The ATA has been publishing policy statements on complex technical topics since they launched a good 30 years ago.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. Taking telehealth to the next level. Revolutionizing healthcare.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. We’re all pushing telehealth for the greater good and for better health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1% WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

A new report from CB Insights found that global telehealth investment rose for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 of 2021 – with teletherapy deals representing a substantial share. Retail giants in the United States appear to be betting big on telehealth, even amidst looming uncertainty about its regulatory future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 7, 2022

How school-based telemedicine can help the healthcare system navigate the pandemic. Telemedicine can be a significant approach to assisting those in need who can’t receive proper care in hospitals at the moment; schools, specifically, can benefit from implementing a telehealth solution that can keep kids in school and treat them in place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " Tejal A.

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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. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

An independent study commissioned by a pediatric virtual care company found that 92% of pediatricians and clinicians believe that telemedicine will remain part of health practices in the future. More than half of patients use a mobile app on their smartphone for telemedicine visits. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a new era in medicine in which telehealth appointments are a core aspect of the patient-provider relationship and provide broader access to healthcare. Q: In your experience, what was telehealth adoption like over the past 12 months? million appointments held by 60,000 providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What surprised her was that because of the pandemic, the ED could offer to connect her father to a psychiatrist via telehealth. As it happens, Erica works in telemedicine, as a clinical operations specialist at VirtualMed Staff. Had telemedicine not been available, I felt like it would have been the same routine as before.

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AMD Telemedicine

MAY 3, 2023

This blog was originally published in December 2020 and was updated in May 2023. Since COVID-19, telemedicine has continued to increase access to healthcare, as in-person visits were not an option for patients. Now that facilities are open again, telehealth implementation remains an essential undertaking for healthcare providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? 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.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. COVID-19 accelerated trends already in place by early 2020. By April 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci was the most trusted source of coronavirus information among U.S. In the U.S., Dr. Fauci, stay strong. Your brand certainly is. voters in America. voters in America.

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