Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. 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. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

More enterprise applications will be underpinned by 5G communications by 2023, none more important than those for health care. These can be heavy lifts in terms of data requirements for those applications in the “Massive IoT” category.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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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

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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

the highest levels of unemployment are in places that often have the lowest access to broadband connectivity. Microsoft’s position is that the federal government broadband data estimates are doubtful, finding that rural broadband estimates calculated by the Pew Research Group are “far closer to the mark,” Smith concludes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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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. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. Advocates cheered the CONNECT for Health Act's reintroduction, calling it a major move toward expansion of access to virtual services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Congress not only has the opportunity to bring the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations. Underneath the overall statistic of 2.4

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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. The second chart sparks an important insight into therapy-seeking patients’ mindsets: 44% of therapists had fewer cancellations or no-shows.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This strategic investment enables FOLX Health to invest further in their recently launched enterprise and virtual health offerings as well as new product offerings that will further engage and support the LGBTQIA+ community across mental and behavioral health. ABOUT 7WIREVENTURES.

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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.” No surprise, then, that this group is the least-stressed of all five consumer segments, least likely to purchase hygiene and cleaning products. They are not product-hoarders and shop for people beyond their own households.

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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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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

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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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Homes-as-safe-havens will continue in Americans’ collective mindsets, according to research from Kantar published in February 2020. In America at Home , the market research group explained how people in the U.S.

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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. Make no mistake, I am a believer! Redlining is alive and well in 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Start with tracking: nearly 80% of people tracked at least one health metric in 2019, but nearly one-half of that tracking was done in an analog, not digital way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” Make sure a practice or emergency physician group is set up correctly to succeed with telehealth once the PHE has lifted.

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Health Populi

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

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2018

employers are growing activist roles as stakeholders in the healthcare system, according to the 2019 Large Employers Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). 71% of employers see AI having a significant impact on healthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. Start with connectivity to the home and elsewhere by phone. Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Payment arrangements and rates, from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, shared-savings models, and other new-fangled reimbursement regimes, and, Social determinants of health of patient populations, dealing with health equity and barriers to care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. Moving to connected health and telemedicine. This will help the health system take care of patients in their home or preferred care setting.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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