Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2021

In an organisation-first, HIMSS has published a report exploring the maturity of Connected Health in the APAC region. In the broader scheme of things, Connected Health technologies have the power to enhance patient engagement, patient access to care, and patient empowerment. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ACCESSING THE REPORT.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. But what is telehealth?

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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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Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 29, 2021

It would also allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to completely waive restrictions on Medicare’s coverage decisions with respect to telehealth services and add ‘the home of an individual’ and, at HHS’ discretion, ‘any site at which the patient is located’ as originating sites.

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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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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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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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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Across the globe, telehealth growth has been impressive. Driven by the need to reduce contact in the early days of the pandemic, telehealth is now predicted to become a quarter trillion dollar industry. With increased access, convenience, and lower costs, telehealth growth is fueled by telecommunication speed and reliability.

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Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 29, 2021

It would also allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to completely waive restrictions on Medicare’s coverage decisions with respect to telehealth services and add ‘the home of an individual’ and, at HHS’ discretion, ‘any site at which the patient is located’ as originating sites.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telehealth is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Here are 8 steps to becoming a telehealth provider.

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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

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

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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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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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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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job. For that to happen, we need Congress to recognize the importance of digital medicine and telehealth tools, and address provisions that hinder their use. 4040, 117th, as introduced).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021. Life expectancy in the U.S. decline in life expectancy? These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

adults plan to give a health or wellness product for 2022 holiday gifting, still in post-pandemic behavior change in seeking hygienic and well-being baked into daily living. Thus, sales for air purifiers and smart/connected health monitors garner consumer interest for gifting. Nearly 1 in 2 U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Across the globe, telehealth growth has been impressive. Driven by the need to reduce contact in the early days of the pandemic, telehealth is now predicted to become a quarter trillion dollar industry. With increased access, convenience, and lower costs, telehealth growth is fueled by telecommunication speed and reliability.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

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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