Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 1, 2020

Telehealth could grow to a $250B revenue opportunity post-COVID: analysis. Mon, 06/01/2020 - 12:05.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Sonde is its second global digital health investment to date.

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MARCH 22, 2021

A recent Frost & Sullivan analysis entitled, Innovative Business Models Powering the Telehealth Market in Europe, has found that the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare sector across Europe has significantly expanded the use of telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. billion ($20.7bn) revenue from €3.69 billion ($4.41bn) in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2020

According to the analysis by Frost & Sullivan, non-contact patient monitoring technologies are gravitating toward the use of video, sound analysis and mobile-based platforms incorporating advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. WHY IT MATTERS. She cites examples such as Binah.ai

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

A new analysis suggests that downstream capture from telehealth as a "digital front door" does not suggest strong consumer loyalty. She found that, consistent with national trends, about 13% of individuals accessed telehealth within the system's market at least once in 2020. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Team members looked back at the total number of in-person and telehealth visits from 2015 through 2020.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Amazon One Medical could be the beginning of a text-based TeleHealth revolution and here's why: Focus on Messaging: Amazon One Medical emphasises text-based communication with healthcare providers, making it more accessible and convenient for patients. Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand. Subscribe Today!

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the healthcare landscape, thrusting telehealth into the mainstream as a critical means of delivering care. To facilitate this rapid shift, the federal government enacted a range of waivers and provisions, eliminating barriers that had long hindered the adoption of telehealth.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. In advance of the full report, the organization released a summary on telehealth access and satisfaction, which I’ll discuss in this post. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2019

employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustaining quality telehealth programs. "Telehealth will play a pivotal role in the healthcare delivery system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

The explosion of telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered, in turn, conversations about how to achieve seamless electronic health record integration. Some telehealth platforms offer agnostic integration with a host of EHR systems, while some EHRs offer their own in-house telehealth option. " he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

You've probably heard this one before: A major contributor to the telehealth explosion over the last year has been the decision to waive various restrictions on virtual care. But the future of those regulations remains murky – and with it, the continued widespread availability of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2021

A new report from analytics firm Trilliant Health suggested that telehealth use is starting to taper in the United States "post-peak pandemic," with use spiking in April 2020 and petering off from there. Telehealth has generated significant interest during COVID-19, but the picture of who relied on it most heavily is still emerging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. More than three-quarters of those surveyed said they would continue to use virtual care technology in the future. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

" RESULTS The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine did an interim analysis with 64 patients enrolled on RTM and 95 contemporaneous controls. And while the purpose of the interim analysis was initially to present at a scientific conference (ID Week), staff felt the results were too compelling not to be shared more broadly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

In other words, relying on telehealth to manage Type 2 diabetes and hypertension could heighten nurse workloads. " "Nurses are integral to the management and analysis of home-based technologies and patient follow-up," the study continued. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

The needle on nudging health consumers to pay subscription fees for data analysis has moved somewhat, noting, for example, the Oura ring successfully inspiring people to pay out-of-pocket for ongoing access to health insights and sometimes coaching hints to stay on-track and alter behaviors.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. million telehealth encounters occurred from January through March 2020 – what the agency calls the "early pandemic period. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Kennedy Krieger has had a small behavioral-telehealth program for military families for four years. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders program has provided limited telehealth services. We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

The analysis, based on data from over 2,100 participants and conducted by University of Michigan and Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, also revealed significant disparities in usage driven by race, income, education, and geography.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S. "With more major healthcare providers embracing telehealth services, our analysis finds annual revenue growth for top telehealth providers at 30%," Wright said. revenue by 2027.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2025

Detailed records must be maintained for in-person evaluations, telehealth prescriptions and referrals. " On another note, telehealth encounters via electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) should have clear, clinical content that develops over the treatment period for several key reasons, Cohen said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. "These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A telehealth satisfaction study released this past week from the data analytics and consumer intelligence company J.D. Power found that even as telehealth adoption has spiked, pain points exist – especially among patients with higher-risk profiles. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

Telehealth was one of the most-influenced digital health adoption category in the pandemic, noted by 97% of providers. You can see a graphic for the concept here from Avalere’s excellent analysis of the state of Hospital at Home developments. The post A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. "Telehealth has been a critical tool during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that patients continue to receive the health care they need while keeping health care providers and patients safe," read the letter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

BroadbandOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development, selected OCHIN as its statewide telehealth administrator to help expand healthcare services for Ohio’s K-12 students. WHY IT MATTERS The new initiative aims to help administrators in at least 10 districts implement school telehealth programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

Q: You talk about the long-term health equity benefits of telehealth, including reaching more patients in remote regions without travel requirements. We added a telehealth piece and with my colleague, Diana Acevdeo, treated children from many Spanish-speaking countries as well as New York and Miami. Can you elaborate?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

The owners of a national telehealth company pleaded guilty this week to charges of conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and to commit healthcare fraud. Law enforcement agencies have ramped up the pressure on telehealth fraud, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement released by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

United Methodist faced two different problems: One was falls in its skilled nursing environment and the other was effective telehealth visits for residents. The other problem it was looking to solve was inefficient telehealth visits. Skilled nursing facilities take care of the frailest of the country’s elders.

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