Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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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

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

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Verizon virtual care product BlueJeans Telehealth announced this past week that it had enabled integration with the Apple Health app with the aim of allowing patients to share data with clinicians during telemedicine visits. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. Aligning clinical care and social service.

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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

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

"Telemedicine has the potential to be leveraged to increase access to care among patient groups that may have traditionally faced barriers to in-person care," wrote researchers. Otherwise telehealth won't work." healthcare system and digital connectivity landscape fraught with inequity. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

Representative Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, the bill would address the so-called post-PHE telehealth cliff by removing geographic requirements and expanding originating sites for virtual care services through the end of 2024. Leaders in the House are expected to bring the bill to the floor for consideration this week. Harmon in a statement.

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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 22, 2024

PwC’s research found that many consumers would prefer a virtual care visit over an in-person doctor visit, varying by age group: More younger patients under 35 years of age prefer virtual care compared with people over 55 — but even among older people in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Burgess, R-Texas, introduced legislation aimed at increasing telehealth access, particularly for children. The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Blunt Rochester in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2022

The health system has also poured millions of dollars into hospital-at-home care through the Medically Home Group, which has also spun up a platform to allow providers to address a range of acute clinical conditions safely in a patient's home. ON THE RECORD.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

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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. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

We’ll see dozens of vendors with AI-baked into offerings that speak to population health, especially as value-based care continues to be demanded by certain payers and health plan benefit designs. How else might we leverage technology to reduce costs per patient? diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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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. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

treated more patients in the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, shifting their practices to telehealth platforms. Over one-third had more referrals for their services, and 29% of therapists served more patients: By age group, 29% of therapists saw more adult patients 18 to 64 years of age. Most psychologists in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

For hospital-at-home, 7 in 10 or more people across all age groups would be interested, for treatment equal to services provided in a traditional hospital setting but delivered in the comfort and safety of home. The category has competition including OURA, the Samsung Galaxy and Whoop, which I discussed here in Health Populi.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2021

Read about a wonderful development from Communidad Partners, working with the Veritas Impact Partners group, channeling telehealth to housing programs serving residents with lower incomes.

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Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Finally, the Indifferents , a small group of 1 in 10 consumers, live lives as “business as usual.” The uptake of telehealth to the home and smartphone are bolstering greater self-care patterns for physical and mental health — and also bringing greater health literacy and self-efficacy/competency to health consumers.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. The group includes leading experts who are on the frontlines of dealing with COVID-19, and we hope to create a blueprint that will guide the effective use of technology to combat these scenarios in the future.”.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Among nine projects I evaluated, I’ll share one with you here which is an exemplar of how a diverse group of nurses and staff from Duke University Health System came together to address, in their words, The Story of Workplace Violence. Some of these are shown on the inspiration/problems graphic here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2019

rural residents’ access to broadband at home continues to lag behind urban and suburban dwellers, the Pew Research Group noted in a May 2019 research note on Americans’ use of technology. The post The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. In the U.S.,

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JULY 29, 2019

One in three Americans does not have a broadband connection, according to a new report from the NPD Group. can’t benefit from telehealth and other digital health connections that can bolster self-care, home care, and lower cost care. This means that about 100 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Finally cast your eyes to the health/wellness/fitness line item in the chart: 4 in 10 consumers were using on-demand health services (read: telehealth, virtual care, tele-therapy) more after the pandemic. Digital therapeutics, “new ways to manage health conditions;” and, Fitness tech.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Social networks facilitate virtual cocktail hours, work groups, and religious communities to come together, bolstering one of Maslow’s key human needs: the need for connections to avert isolation and loneliness, risk factors for mental health, exacerbating dementia, and other physical health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years. He'll help lead the group as telehealth is gaining ground among U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

How to protect vulnerable groups of people? How to protect peoples’ privacy, using perhaps the GDPR or CCPA (California’s privacy protection) as models for a national approach to American health citizens’ privacy? What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

patients toward telehealth — the focus of the ATA conference all week long. wanted their health care providers to offer more virtual care services as an option to in-person office visits. So, access to telehealth in America isn’t just a “build it and they (patients) will come” scenario. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

Those most negatively affected by the pandemic tend to be younger, Gen Z age group and African-American, 63% of whom felt financial pressure directly due from the virus and the national economic lockdown. The analog here for the health consumer is that millions of U.S. Some 6 in 10 people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In fact, 60 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds admit to smartphone overuse, the highest level of any age group. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. First and foremost among these is the growth of smartphone adoption across all age groups.

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