Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Giving HHS the authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.

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APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Best Buy Health. Bicycle Health. Hone Health. LifePoint Health. Circle Medical.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

drop from 2021, CTA expects software, gaming, video and audio streaming spending will grow by 3.5% With that macro context, CTA expects “healthy growth for health tech,” illustrated in the first chart, with over $13 bn in U.S. households will have adopted connected health monitoring devices this year (21%), CTA gauges.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. On average, consumers globally subscribe to eight online services.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. Take George and Audrey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2022

In April 2021, for example, the Mayo Clinic announced the launch of a new platform aimed at delivering advanced, AI-powered clinical decision support through remote monitoring. The push toward at-home care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for innovators to develop devices that promote more seamless delivery of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The expansion of telehealth and the offering of new telehealth services that were not previously covered really enabled physicians to care for their patients in the midst of this crisis,” said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy, during a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update. Provider Considerations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services. About 1 in 2 people said that the process of shopping for health care prompted them to change their health care provider.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2021. By Bill Siwicki | November 01, 2021. By Bill Siwicki | October 18, 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In 2021, Wellpath leveraged TSIM, the Telehealth Service Implementation Model that was developed at the Medical University of South Carolina's Center for Telehealth, an HRSA-designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. What are a couple of the challenges of developing a national telehealth service?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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Health System CIO

JANUARY 18, 2021

When it comes to telehealth is that the industry has grown by “leaps and bounds” since early 2020. Source: Telehealth Goals for 2021: Overcoming the Biggest Hurdles on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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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. Healthcare IT News sat down with Dr. Ian Tong, chief medical officer at Included Health, a telehealth technology and services company, to get his read on these questions and his predictions for telehealth in 2022 and beyond.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New, bipartisan legislation has been proposed to solidify telehealth policy based on telehealth advances and supporting research. If passed, this legislation will codify critical telehealth policies implemented during the pandemic while providing another in a series of telehealth extensions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. who have indeed built up local connections for residents — health citizens, all.

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JULY 28, 2020

The growth of virtual care and telehealth, adoption of wearable technologies ( discussed here in Health Populi in yesterday’s coverage of the Capgemini health consumer study), and growing use of the cloud were all shown off at CES 2020.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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MAY 3, 2021

While the “in-person” visit to a doctor or medical professional continues to rank first as consumers’ most-trusted information source, the virtual doc or clinician rose in trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euromonitor’s latest read on Consumer Health: Changes in Consumer Behaviour during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2020

There is desperation, and there is hope to re-imagine and re-build a health care system and, indeed, a larger ecosystem that bolsters health for all as we look beyond the pandemic and toward 2021.

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JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

But streamlining can also lower workforce costs, where labor expenses are a major part of health spending in the hospital and physician office setting. Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. health citizens. health citizens.

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