Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

We know that telehealth can be a tremendous opportunity to expand healthcare access for people who might face barriers to medical services. In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. But it also may be replicating the digital divide.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. First, connected care: one in five U.S. Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). Adoption of digital tools has grown across physicians of all ages, specialty, and gender across all technologies studied.

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MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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JULY 20, 2020

Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Virtual care bolstered ongoing clinical trials, a large focus of this study. We’re calling it Consumer Directed Virtual Care.”.

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MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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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. Otherwise telehealth won't work."

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. Supports value-based care. Supports heath equity.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

In an organisation-first, HIMSS has published a report exploring the maturity of Connected Health in the APAC region. In the broader scheme of things, Connected Health technologies have the power to enhance patient engagement, patient access to care, and patient empowerment. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ACCESSING THE REPORT.

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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

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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JUNE 13, 2023

Consumer-facing health-tech categories won’t be spared, we learn in the 2023 U.S. Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , an annual update from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). adults 18 and over in April 2023 for this study, exploring 10 technology product categories covering 80+ products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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MAY 27, 2020

The company published the COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study , a survey launched in late March. Since the first poll was conducted on March 27th, Healthgrades has conducted the study weekly among 200 patients age 18 and over to gauge peoples’ “confidence” in making typical health care decisions through the pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Beyond health, the report also addresses a landscape of sectors, including retail and eCommerce, fitness, commuting (for work), and travel, along with various lifestyle areas. The first line is the most dramatic shift, illustrating the use of telehealth or remote medical services used pre-pandemic by 10% of consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Stanford Medicine interviewed 523 physicians and 210 medical students and residents in September and October 2019 to assess clinicians’ perspectives on digital health topics for this study. Similarly, one-half of consumers expressed demand for digital health technologies in a study from GlobalWebIndex last year.

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JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

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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. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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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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JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. This study assesses two measures of U.S. Energy efficient smart homes are faster growing, and. 24% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of the key toxic side effects of the COVID-19 public health crisis has been peoples’ growing sense of isolation and feeling lonely, increasing peoples’ need for mental and behavioral health services. The home has emerged as our health hub in the pandemic, and that won’t be just a trend: that will persist.

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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. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Digital connectivity can ameliorate social isolation and anxiety, bolster mental health, and access needed medical care via telehealth channels. As a result of the pandemic, staying connected is more important than ever for older people, Best Buy Health learned in a survey of U.S.

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MAY 7, 2023

This study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Oslo, Norway, identified over 1,600 scientific papers, narrowing the most rigorous and relevant to 23 papers focusing on virtual consulting and carbon emissions. million telehealth visits. million telehealth visits. million in gas costs.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?” This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It’s a potential consumer/patient market that AmWell could serve, but not every person with access to telehealth services takes advantage of that supply side. In telehealth, even with employers covering the service as a workplace benefit, most employees still don’t “benefit from the benefit.” The Apple Heart Study used the SDK.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

health citizens’ minds, making people more aware of the value of their health data, privacy and security aspects. When we think “health care” in terms of consumer satisfaction in this study, the industry feels more akin to lower-scoring hotels, wireless phone services, and the U.S.

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MAY 12, 2020

health consumers’ feel unsafe, an increase among those who feel that way compared with SGP/Blackbook’s study from last month, a concern that ratcheted up six points for care at the doctor’s office, 4 points up for treatment at a hospital, and 2 points up for urgent care. Millions of U.S. Virtual visit (telemedicine).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. have chosen to use a non-traditional health care setting. ” For this study, Accenture polled 2,338 U.S.

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JULY 22, 2021

Key to note: the patient is at the center, receiving care at home, one of the key digital transformations of consumers during the pandemic as we morphed our homes into digital hubs for work, education, faith, cooking and baking, fitness, and of course, for health care.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Once the practitioners receive the data, they can then study and analyze it as though they were in the clinic when it was collected.

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