Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“Furthermore, this allows CCRLC patients to connect with their primary care physician for routine office visits,” Schmitz said. “The Polycom device is similar to that of your laptop, in which it can video-conference to another device at another location,” Schmitz explained. ” USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

She contends that telehealth is far more than a pandemic trend. In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Samsung In the company’s CES 2025 opening press conference, Samsung’s Vice Chairman and CEO Jong-Hee (JH) Han presented a talk onAI for All: Everyday, Everywhere.” ” He expounded on Samsungs Home AI, integrating home appliances and devices to simplify life.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. One of our top priorities on this Committee is helping every American access health care in the community where they live, work, and raise a family,” Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) Yesterday, the U.S.

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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. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. " Of the 125 respondents asked about the telehealth projects underway at the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Collision #CollisionConf , one of the world’s largest tech conferences, wrapped up last week in Toronto, Canada. Technology + Primary Care. Marcotte and the team at Lotus are bringing a Direct Primary Care approach to Canada – creating primary care practices that emphasize patient AND physician experience.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2022

HIMSS convenes its annual conference this week in Orlando, kicking off with an Executive Summit that featured John Mackey , the CEO and Co-Founder of Whole Foods, in conversation with Cris Ross, CIO of the Mayo Clinic. As for health care? Yes, to health care access (especially primary care).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness. But what about after the public health emergency?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

B2B software comparison website Capterra has published the results of a study with over 1,000 Australians, detailing their perspectives and considerations about telehealth. Telehealth software continues to grant rural areas and large global populations access to medical services. How are consumers engaging with telemedicine currently?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This was the first image that greeted me as I entered the Orange County Convention Center to retrieve my badge for the conference. Considering the “poor health” bar in the graph, we can see the opportunity for telehealth and home visits to people who may have mobility and other challenges leaving the home space.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. Supported in large part by Optum technology, UHG facilitated more than 33 million telehealth visits in 2020, up from 1.2

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

CME conferences are great. But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. The ATA (American Telemedicine Association) conference, along with offering some qualifying CME sessions, is made up of more broad topic discussions, meant to bring value to many different industry roles and professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 12, 2019

A panel of telehealth tech experts will discuss a variety of topics, including: • Selecting a vendor or service provider. Josh Scales with Tennessee Primary Care Association Health Information Technology. . Josh Scales with Tennessee Primary Care Association Health Information Technology. Network considerations.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Conference kicks off this week, I’m focused on finding digital health innovations that engage people — consumers, caregivers, patients, health citizens all. This year’s conference will convene thought leaders across a range of themes, and as is the Health 2.0 As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0 As Health 2.0

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. When trust is low and risk is high, we need to be in the same room.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

” Further, the hospital was seeing growing demand for having primary care providers available in its clinics in smaller towns like Chappell and Potter that are up to 30 miles away. However, the costs to have local providers in these locations would have been very high. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“Video-consultations and telehealth services had not been used much and were poorly developed prior to COVID-19,” says Palsson. ” During the peak of the outbreak, IT services were used by the government and health services to contain the spread of the infection and provide telehealth services to non-COVID patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

All of these have applications in health and health care, especially accelerated in need by the COVID-19 pandemic which has influenced every aspect of CES 2021 and the companies who convene at this huge annual conference. And in 2021 at CES in the era of COVID and beyond, telehealth is now, just, part of the continuum of health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

European Digital Conference , healthcare leaders from Australia, India and the UK compared notes about their own respective experiences building digital maturity as they simultaneously responded to a global pandemic. " Telehealth, for instance, has seen huge growth in Australia, just as it has in many other countries around the world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

.” Over the past sixty days, the business rationale for “getting people the care they need” could have been written into press releases from Sam’s Club and Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy and GoodRx, all of which announced plans in the past few weeks to extend health/care services in the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Care Delivery: The shift towards value-based care and its impact on healthcare delivery. The role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in improving access to care. The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of the company’s key messages for CES 2021 was health care delivered outside of hospital settings – especially in a person’s home across the continuum-of-care — for virtual medical care, health promotion, and overall well-being. This whole telehealth option is definitely for me, even post-COVID” she says.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Abnormal results trigger telehealth RN follow-up."

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In health care, scenario planning is a must-have tool in your tool-box if you have any role in foresight in your job – whether providing a service in your community, planning the launch of a new molecular entity, or innovating a novel food product going direct-to-consumer for well-being and self-care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. Virtual care for non-COVID-19 patients. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. HIMSS21 Coverage. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and among all the many other health and tech news that will be made there, HIMSS will officially debut its newest maturity model, designed to focus on IT innovation in the non-acute spaces where most care is delivered.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Didn’t make it to the ATA conference this year? Get a recap of the most noteworthy insights from this year’s discussions and learn what telehealth industry leaders have to say about the future of digital health. Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2022, a lot of attention has been focused on devices for remote patient monitoring (RPM), but devices that enable clinicians to assess and diagnose patients at home are also needed to fully realize the promise of care-at-home. TytoCare , a virtual care company, recently launched its Home Smart Clinic that enables primary care from home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. "It's a tool. Just like the EHR is a tool.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The services address primary care, outpatient specialty consults, emergency or urgent care, hospital, and outpatient mental and behavioral health — capabilities already in place that need to scale. The momentum for the Blur is high velocity.

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