Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2020

As many as 20% of primary care practices predict they could close within four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted between April 10 and April 13 by the non-profit Primary Care Collaborative. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, business at Gastro Health in Miami came to a halt.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. primary care teams may be a function of underinvestment in certain types of social services.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang describes the key capabilities of a value-based care enablement platform for providers, highlights successful platform examples and offers a framework for entrepreneurs seeking a provider partner.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. There must be dot-connecting between, for example, the potential negative impact(s) that tariffs on Canada and Mexico might have on commodities such as lumber.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, we are considering using AI to support physicians in ophthalmology , such as the prediction of retinal diseases, as well as neurology and radiology. We look forward to monitoring the progress nationally and identifying where primary care fits within this model of information sharing.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

health care, so far. Artificial intelligence, for example, outperforms physicians in many complex tasks (like reading mammograms and analyzing chest X-rays), yet AI remains woefully underused. Big Tech has had a surprisingly small impact on U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Each of these three examples of connected health at home has a unique vision for bolstering households’ health and well-being. A physician, Pak spoke about Samsung Health’s growing Home AI ecosystem for supporting consumers in their health goals.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The idea that increasing investment in primary care will reduce costs down the road makes intuitive sense, but a recent article in Health Affairs suggests that there’s “limited evidence that directly ties higher primary care spending to lower total spending.” Where does that leave us? Where does that leave us?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2021

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

The third chart presents various ranges of satisfaction for patients, primary care providers, and specialists. Milbank concluded that there is strong support for the use of eConsults to scale health care without sacrificing quality, patient, or clinician satisfaction.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. You’ll find Best Buy Health here, 1-800-Contacts, and Hims, for example. Vision care, and. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We forecast that this will expand over the near and longer term as all health consumers are seeking more convenient, accessible, value-priced health care services. Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. One example is Amazon.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

” CareMore Health has been gathering evidence of patient outcomes delivered through its model of care delivery and larger focus on the whole person vs. a patient’s condition.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Julie Frey, Head of Provider Product, Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer Health The demand for mental health services continues to put pressure on primary care providers who, despite not being formally trained mental health specialists, deliver 60% of mental health care and write nearly 80% of prescriptions for antidepressants.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

.” The H-a-H Framework is illustrated here, with the patient’s home environment is positioned at the center of the circle which identifies various care services including: Ambulatory care, covering primary care, chronic care, specialty care, mental and behavioral health, oncology-at-home, dialysis, infusion On-demand and urgent care, which (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Younger generations had larger proportions of innovators and early adopters, as did behavioral health and primary care physicians. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% were innovators, 45.0% were early adopters, 35.6% were in "the majority" and 5.6% were persistent non-adopters. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The report offers eight different cases in which the billing for telehealth services can vary based on the type of healthcare plan and care received, for example a 35-year-old man on Medi-Cal who has consented to e-consultation.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Pertinent to CTA’s larger stakeholder community, areas of the home such as connected kitchens and cooking at home, smart bathrooms, the growing sleep category, and even connected cars are all taking on health and wellness features to meet the evolving home as peoples’ personal health hubs.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

The third chart serves up examples of the manufacturers by category which IRI has divined exemplify winners in the post-COVID CPG marketplace. Wearing our health and wellness lens, IRI’s data has shown broad-based category growth for wellness supplements since 2018, with a 10% growth rate per annum.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to mitigate the supply-and-demand gap between growing health citizen needs for care as we age, and a shortage of doctors? Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

They calculated the average distance between patients' home addresses and their assigned primary care clinics, and used Oregon Department of Transportation data about how individuals run errands to estimate what percentage of in-person trips were taken by car.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

A food swamp is an area with higher density of unhealthy food offerings think fast food and convenience stores (aka C-Stores or bodegas, for example). Here there are foods to be purchases, but they ten to be over-processed and not fresh or nutritious.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One-half of people could not correctly answer simple questions about the definitions of a health premium or a deductible, for example. Thus Alegeus says that peoples’ overall health insurance fluency is low. This lack of health financial literacy leads to real hard-dollar losses impacting health consumers’ pocketbooks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2022

The most common telehealth solution involves primary care consultations that take place online (e.g., For example, Babylon Health offers a symptom checker and AI/ML driven diagnosis recommendations to patients. chat, video conferencing, etc.) via a portal or a mobile app. Other prominent solutions focus on pre-consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"Nationwide averages also obscure the variation among states and territories; for example, Arizona has only 8.5% of its psychiatric health care needs met and would need 227 psychiatrists to meet 100% of these needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One big reason for this is the availability of smart capabilities such as Bluetooth enablement (for example, Bluetooth-enabled digital scales or a digital glucometer that can measure total cholesterol, glucose and triglycerides, and transmit this information into a personal health record). Several examples come to mind here.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Clocktree

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Most people are familiar with telehealth services offered by their primary care doctor, therapist or other healthcare provider as a convenient alternative to an in-office visit. Here are a few examples from Clocktree of less obvious telehealth services that are making a difference in people’s lives and well-being.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion. HIMSS24 is scheduled to take place March 11-15 in Orlando. Learn more and register.

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Every week, a new article comes out promising disruption of medical care as we know it through personalized genetic therapy, app extensions that transform smartphones into ultrasounds or autonomous surgical robots. Yet, one of the best examples of health care technologies is also one of its oldest — instant messaging.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

We interviewed him to discuss the state of specialty care in the United States today, how virtual specialty care can help overcome specialty care challenges, and how providing specialty care to employers via virtual care is one solution. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For example, to be cleared as a medical device — which this indeed is — Omron had to use oscillometric technology. Prevention is especially powerful for heart health – the social determinants of healthy eating/nutritious food, physical activity, and access to primary care all bolster a healthy heart and resilient living.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For example, a HealthTech company might partner with a telecommunications provider to offer remote patient monitoring services, creating value for both companies and improving patient care. For example, software and hardware are often complements. Indirect Competitors: Offer alternative solutions to the same customer problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

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