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. It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wearing a consumer-centric lens, Dan Clarin of Kaufman Hall and Charlotte Brown-Zalewa of Sg2 tracked the patient-journey from lower-acuity virtual health and primary care through to imaging, specialty care, hospital outpatient and high-acuity large hospital inpatient services. sites for care are in demand.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. While the use of emergency departments fell by 1% in the past five years, the use of retail clinics expanded by 70%, Definitive Healthcare calculated.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

After December 31, 2024, when these flexibilities expire, some Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may offer telehealth services that allow primary care doctors to care for patients without an in-person visit, no matter where they live. Medicare Advantage plans may offer additional telehealth benefits.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

Virtual care or virtual health is available 24/7, so patients can get help whenever needed. For doctors, virtual or virtual primary care means more efficient chronic condition management based on the patient’s electronic health record. They can see more patients in less time to handle more cases overall.

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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.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. HD : HD stands for high definition and refers to video that is a higher resolution than standard.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies. That is not so obvious to us.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stress is integral to overall health and well-being based on consumers’ own definition of “health.” Those bearing more financial risk are seeking in-network services, easy access, drug coverage, lower out-of-pocket costs, and simpler-to-use plans.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. Critics noted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service still has a strict definition for “rural,” and it limits what telehealth services can be provided to rural sites.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

The call-out by DOGE-head Elon Musk that “Social Security is a Ponzi scheme” made some seniors’ heads go on fire and was a definitely signal that AARP is raising. health citizens gain greater clarity and insights into these much-beloved public policies. Another Ipsos poll found that older U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

. “Kennedy pledged while running for president that he would issue an executive order kicking pharmaceutical commercials off television, arguing that Americans take too many prescription medicines and suggesting that the industrys spending was influencing news coverage of the drug industry,” the Wall Street Journal explained.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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